View Point - Letters to the Editor

Editor: When I saw that Hillsboro High School marching band come downtown along Caledonia Avenue last Friday, tears came to my eyes. It took me back a little over 60 years ago when I would do the same with my Wimbledon High School band. Later still I joined the Wimbledon Community Band and we loved to play and march too. We at the time played lots of John Philip Sousa marches. I especially liked them because I was a tuba player.
On Friday evening we also went to the football game and enjoyed the band again. Hillsboro has an unusually good tuba player in this band and the sound of the beat was nostalgic to me. The marching was well done and the music was amazingly good for such a short time of practice.
Mr. Froehlich has done an outstanding job of getting that much music and showmanship out of our youngsters in the short time he has been here.
Music is best learned while we are young and then we can enjoy and participate in it for a lifetime. We never get too old to enjoy it.
Congratulations Hillsboro High and your band.

John Knecht
Hillsboro