Orchestra News Beachwood City Schools are pleased to recognize the following students who were accepted into the Northeast Ohio Regional Honors Orchestra and the All-State Ohio Honors Orchestra. The Northeast Ohio honors orchestra is a full symphony orchestra consisting of the best players in NE Ohio and includes string, woodwind, brass, and percussion sections. Membership is a highly selective audition process. The top-seated string players qualify as members of the All-State Orchestra, who perform at the Ohio Music Education Association’s professional conference in the winter. Congratulations go to the following BHS orchestra members: Pauline Keselman, Senior, All State and NE Ohio Regional Honors Orchestra Jaeho Kim, Sophomore, All State and NE Ohio Regional Honors Orchestra Jaqueline (Jackie) Joo, Sophomore, NE Ohio Regional Honors Orchestra Jaqueline (Jackie) Joo and Jaeho Kim Pauline Keselman Elderclass Lunch & Program: “Surviving the Drought” December 3, 2015 How unique are Cleveland sports fans? Well, answer this question: how exceptional is the fact that a city with three major league franchises has not won a championship since 1964? And, how distinctive is it that when the Browns, Indians, or Cavs came close to winning it all, victories were snatched away in the most improbable ways? For Cleveland sports fans, the last 51 (and counting) years has been a long odyssey through the desert in search of a championship. Since the clock ticked off the unlikely Browns’ victory in the 1964 NFL Championship against the mighty Johnny Unitas and the Baltimore Colts, who could have known that Cleveland teams would suit up for more than 10,000 games and not come away with the title of “champion”? Surviving the Drought tells the story of what it’s like to be a Cleveland sports fan through the voices of those who have lived and died with their favorite teams. Sponsored by the Beachwood Board of Education, Elderclass affords residents an opportunity for learning and entertainment in a high school environment. Excellent lunches, catered by the vocational culinary arts class, are $5 for Beachwood residents and $8 for non-residents, if space is available. Programs are free and open to the public. Lunch will be served in the Beachwood Bistro at noon with the program to follow at 1 pm. A bus will begin pickups going from the northeast corner of the parking lot to the front entrance, beginning at 11:15 am and ending at noon. The bus will return you to your car following the program. Please register for the lunch by using the flyer you will receive in the mail. If you are not registered to receive Elderclass monthly program flyers, please contact Marlene Dunger at the Beachwood Board of Education, 216.464.2600. Reservations will be accepted by mail only. Checks can be mailed to or dropped off at the Beachwood Board of Education, 24601 Fairmount Blvd., Beachwood, Ohio 44122. No walk-ins for lunch. Visit us at www.beachwoodschools.org December 2015 n Beachwood Buzz www.facebook.com/BeachwoodBison @beachwoodbison 37