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Richmond Hill High Schools Symphonic Band performs March 9 at the Georgia Music Educators Association Performance Evaluation Festival at Armstrong Atlantic State University in Savannah. - photo by Photo provided.

The concert and symphonic bands from Richmond Hill High and Richmond Hill Middle schools spent the weekend performing at the Georgia Music Educators Association’s annual District 1 band and orchestra performance evaluations at Armstrong Atlantic State University in Savannah. Concerts were heard Saturday and Sunday from schools all over southeast Georgia.
Each concert and symphonic band received one of the following scoring rates:  superior, excellent, good, fair and poor.  Richmond Hill Middle School’s sixth-grade band received an overall “excellent” award; their concert band received an overall “superior” award and the Wildcat Wind’s (symphonic) Band received an overall “superior” rating.  The middle school’s director is Alisha Bowden.   
Richmond Hill High School’s concert and symphonic bands both received “superior” ratings.  The concert band performed “The Chimes of Liberty, Goldman/arr.Custer – Adagio – David Holsinger and Incantations – Robert Smith”.  The Symphonic Band, playing Level VI music, performed the following program:  “The Dauntless Battalion-Sousa/arr.Glover,” “Lord of the Rings, Movement 1 (Gandalf) – Johann de Meij” and “Scootin’ on Hardrock! – David Holsinger.”
“I am extremely proud of all my students and all the students of festival … the high school’s concert and symphonic bands performed extremely challenging music and did a terrific job,” said Richmond Hill High School band director Dr. Daniel Kiene.
Through evaluations, the festival promotes middle and high school music programs to develop better skills expressed in performance and to offer students and teachers the opportunity to see and hear the work of other schools throughout the area.  
The evaluations procedure is to critique both the individual student and the groups’ sight-reading abilities and provide an invaluable opportunity for students to learn from other groups and motivate beyond the ordinary classroom setting.  
The festival hosted 40 plus bands from both middle and high school level.   

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Richmond Hill High School senior Jacey Shanholtzer shows her Dawn Harrington Berry Spotlight Award, which was awarded by the Richmond Hill Community Theatre and includes a $500 scholarship. With her are Tom Harris, Ashlee Farris, Brett Berry and Kim Diebold. The award was created in memory of Dawn Harrington Berry, a long time RHCT member and president who died in 2016. - photo by Photo provided.

Three reports recently presented scholarships

Richmond Hill High School senior Jacey Shanholtzer received the Dawn Harrington Berry Spotlight Award, which was awarded by the Richmond Hill Community Theatre and includes a $500 scholarship. The award was created in memory of Dawn Harrington Berry, a long time RHCT member and president who died in 2016.

Garden Club

The Richmond Hill Garden Club recently awarded a $1,000 scholarship to Katherine Wood and a $500 scholarship to Carly Vargas, both seniors graduating from Richmond Hill High School.

The awards were presented May 8 during Honors Night at RHHS.

Wood plans to attend Green Mountain College in Vermont and major in environmental studies.

Vargas plans to attend Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville, Tennessee, to pursue a degree in either environmental studies or biology.

The garden club awards a $1,000 scholarship annually to a local high school senior who plans to major in a field related to environmental concerns, plants and/or gardening.

This year, due to having two exceptional candidates, the garden club awarded an additional $500 scholarship.

Exchange Club

The Exchange Club of Richmond Hill recently named Caroline Odom as its student of the year.

The club each month during the school year names a student of the month, and the student of the year is chosen from among those winners.

Awards are based on academic performance, community involvement and leadership.

Monthly winners receive $100, with the annual winner getting a $1,000 scholarship.

The Exchange Club has been recognizing students for more than 30 years.

Odom will go on to compete in the Georgia District Exchange Club against students from across the state.

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