Members of the University of Notre Dame's marching band will be visiting NDPMA October 17.
According to a spokesperson for the university band, the trips are designed to help the band bond through service and to create fellowship with communities other than their own in South Bend, Indiana.
According to Notre Dame Prep band director Joe Martin, the university band members will have dinner in the cafeteria and then will sleep in the main gym tomorrow night. “The next morning, there will be a meet and greet in the band room with the NDP band students,” he said.
“In past service trips, we have stayed at local Catholic high schools, and it often produces overwhelmingly positive results,” the UND band spokeman said. “We usually talk to the high school band about what it is like to be in a college band and the drum line sometimes performs with the students there.”
He said the university band usually leaves to go back to South Bend before school starts the next morning.
“Our band students will really enjoy the opportunity to meet and interact with the UND band members,” said Fr. Joe Hindelang, s.m., Notre Dame Prep’s principal.
Last year, the Notre Dame Prep band posed for a photo with the University of Notre Dame band.
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About Notre Dame Preparatory School and Marist Academy
Notre Dame Preparatory School and Marist Academy is a private, Catholic, independent, coeducational day school located in Oakland County. The school's upper division enrolls students in grades nine through twelve and has been named one of the nation's best 50 Catholic high schools (Acton Institute) four times since 2005. Notre Dame's middle and lower divisions enroll students in jr. kindergarten through grade eight. All three divisions are International Baccalaureate "World Schools." NDPMA is conducted by the Marist Fathers and Brothers and is accredited by the Independent Schools Association of the Central States and the North Central Association Commission on Accreditation and School Improvement. For more on Notre Dame Preparatory School and Marist Academy, visit the school's home page at www.ndpma.org.