It’s 12:05 p.m., and 80 energetic middle-schoolers, who just came from the cafeteria, pour into a massive band room. It is stimulation overload as kids dodge about, piecing together instruments, rearranging chairs and searching for missing reeds. With the patience of Job and a simple raise of a hand, Jake Montoya ’05 brings the room to order, and band class begins.
His assistant, Mr. Rohrer, leans over and says, “It takes a very special person to be able to do that with a room full of 80 kids.”
