Similar to the past four years, volunteer
students, parents, and advisors of the various THS competitive academic teams/groups
joined together to help make Trumbull's annual Summer Concert a success. Despite
an evening of some very unusual weather that saw two rogue thunderstorms spawn
over Trumbull to drop heavy rain and hail amidst strong winds, ACE Foundation
volunteers sold lawn seating tickets and ensured orderly parking and bus loading
for concert goers taking busses from Trumbull High to Indian Ledge for the annual
family event.
This year's Summer
Concert was opened by Marc Von Em, a singer/songwriter who's been part of the
Rob Thomas Band. He was followed by REO Speedwagon, whose performance was cut
short when the concert was suspended by lightning, and Styx, who played an extended
set to entertain more than 2,000 of the estimated 5,000 concert-goers who weathered
the storms. Although challenged by the unruly weather unseen in the past, this
event built upon the successes of the past four years when Trumbull hosted the
internationally-renowned groups, The Beach Boys (2004), Creedence Clearwater Revisited/Gary
Puckett and the Union Gap (2005), Chicago (2006), and Kool & the Gang/KC &
the Sunshine Band (2007).
The
two intense storms developed quickly and dropped heavy rain and hail
before
skies cleared at 9 p.m. and the music played on.
Jessica
Nakano and Julie Kronick set up in front of Trumbull High
to sell lawn seating
tickets to concert-goers.
Among
the ACE Foundation volunteers who assisted concert-goers
parking at Trumbull
High as they prepared to board buses to Indian Ledge Park
(L-R): Samar and
Khalil Sakakini, Bethany Gilman (Advisor to the THS GlobalEd
Foreign Policy
and Model United Nations teams), Kathy Rubano (THS Debate Club Advisor),
Lauren
Dahlin, and Elise Granata.
Flanked
by bus supervisors Marj (First Student) and Dawn Perkins (Trumbull Public Schools),
volunteers Rosemary Stutz and Marilyn Lord assisted concert-goers
taking buses
to Indian Ledge Park.
Additional
volunteers included (L-R) Kathy and Ron Rubano, Dan Neumann,
Debbie Nakano,
Samar Sakakini, and Hans Drenkard
(Advisor to THS Robotics and Yale Physics
Olympiad teams) (not pictured).
