The 85th reunion for the WPHS Band is fast approaching!

We are celebrating 85 consecutive years of Winter Park High School Band this fall during homecoming week, October 17-18, and we need your presence and support! Click on the Homecoming Details tab above for all the information for this year.  Please take a moment now if you need to update your contact info by clicking on the Become a Member tab. Please encourage your band classmates to register as well. We will post information regarding events there as well as on our Facebook group page: Winter Park High School Alumni Band. Please join that FB group now if you haven’t already.

Reunion Concert:   As we have done in the past, the WPHS Band will honor all visiting band alumni and past band directors and allow some of the actively playing alumni to sign up, rehearse and join the Jazz Ensemble I and/or Wind Symphony on the stage to perform in the concert on Thursday, 10/17. The concert starts at 7:00 PM.  For the Wind Symphony, you must come ready to rehearse in the WPHS auditorium at 6:00 PM before the concert. Please email janeclaus@live.com with your instrument, name and phone number and which band you would like to join.  Before the concert and during the reception afterwards, you can pick up your pre-ordered T-Shirts. A limited number of extra T-Shirts will be available for sale for just $16 each. All proceeds will help fund the band.  Use the T-Shirt tab a the top of this page to order your shirts. It will be first come first serve on the extra shirts we have ordered. 

Purpose:   For the 2024-25 school year, the fundraising purpose will be to help purchase new front ensemble equipment for the Sound of the Wildcats. Budgets have been cut, yet again, and two marimbas and a vibraphone are badly in need of replacement, costing approximately $30,000.  The financial needs of the band never cease, so please donate any amount today by clicking on Donate Now orange buttons at the bottom of every page on our website. 

History:   The WPHSBAA has donated over $60,500 to the band since it was founded in 2009. It was created to help offset the rising costs for a band program of this caliber, including purchasing/repairing instruments, ordering music, maintaining the trailers and uniforms for the Sound of the Wildcats Marching Band, and financing trips to showcase the ensembles’ extensive talent at festivals across the nation. Mike Clemente is now beginning his 6th year as Director of Bands after 6 years as the Associate Director. His 12 years of experience will ensure that the traditions we cherish will be continued, especially our reunions and the annual homecoming events with the Alumni Band. We hope you can join us for the reunion on October 17-18 to celebrate the 85th Anniversary.!  

From all the board members of the WPHSBAA, we hope to see you this fall, and we thank you again for your generous support.  

Jane Claus – President   

Glen Waters – Vice President and Alumni Band Coordinator 

Michelle Tribble – Secretary  

Mary Eichin – Treasurer 

Jamie Jones – Membership Coordinator 

Joseph Wise – Past Band Director