To celebrate our new Percussion facilities at the north end of Edman Chapel, our fall Percussion Ensemble concert was a Concert of Thanksgiving and Celebration, held on November 7, 2009. Alumni who joined us for the celebration were: Nancy Dunkerton Babson, 1973; Chuck Morgan, 1975; Betsy Kauffman Conroy, 1977; Ken Wolf, 1977; Wendy Liles, 1978; Reg Klopfenstein, 1980; Kristin Wills MacKay, 1986; Mike Christie, 1988; Tracy Daniels Kay, 1988; Janae Wenger Lemmert, 1995; Greg Salzman, 1995; Colin Sheehan, 1996; Andrew Sole, 1996; Brian van Kley, 1996; Dwayne Corbin, 1997; Jennifer Streeter, 1999; Greg Lyons, 2001; Jon Steinmeier, 2001; Chris Dandeles, 2002; Katie Aucremann, 2005; Bethany Lambrecht, 2005; Chris Powers, 2005; Joel Alexander, 2008; Joe Hayward, 2008; Katie Prihoda, 2009; Matthew Tanaka, 2009. Current members of the ensemble are: Nick Cherone, 2010; Jaime Moore, 2011; Colin Grandlienard, 2011; Jonathan Young, 2011; TJ Mack, 2012; Holli Wittman, 2013; Taylor Anthony, 2013; Austin Clapp, 2013; Josh Rak, 2013. I am sitting at the drumset - go figure!

The beginnings of the North Edman addition

The northwest/back hallway entrance to the new addition

The beginnings of the new Instrumental Rehearsal Room

Construction progress..

I wonder who is practicing late at night in the Percussion Studio?

Percussion practice rooms - north windows

The back sidewalk is put in...

Percussion practice room on its way..

Last rehearsal in the McAlister Studio - how did we ever do that??

Packing up: moving a Percussion Department is a big job!

Moving Day-the last big schlepp!

Let's put all the drums in here!

Our creative solution to storing our keyboard instruments when we first moved in!

Our first rehearsal in the new space - in the hallway! Our large Percussion Studio was finished a week later.

Two of our new practice rooms on the second floor, west end of north Edman