Personal Narrative: Lessons Learned In The Montour Spartan Marching Band

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In the words of John F. Kennedy, “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” As my final days of high school are coming to a close, I’ve come to recognize, like President Kennedy, that leadership and learning go hand in hand. Learning shapes how you lead as a person, and I can attest to that through my senior year in the Montour Spartan Marching Band. This marching band season, I applied and became the section leader for the flutes and piccolos.
Like section leaders before me, I learned through their experience within the marching band to be outgoing and responsible. Roll-stepping, marking time, and guiding are all techniques I learned as a freshman that I was able to pass down to the freshman this year. The underclassmen

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