News and Events
Our Annual BBQ/Fundraiser June 22
The DMHSAEA's annual alumni barbecue/fundraiser will be held on Saturday, June 22, 2024 from 12 noon to 4 PM in the DMHS cafeteria and adjacent grounds. The cafeteria's renovation/expansion is now complete and we look forward seeing the new space. As always, admission, lunch and music are free and donations to our mission are encouraged. Alumni from all class years and their families are welcome.
NJ Symphony and DMHS Musicians Rehearse Together
The New Jersey Symphony came to the Dizzy Gillespie Auditorium at DMHS on May 2, 2024 to perform two pieces with 60 DMHS student musicians sitting among them, followed by the NJS and DMHS musicians together rehearsing pieces selected by our Music Director, Dr. Gary Hollander. The rehearsal was conducted by the NJS conducting fellow, Jessica Altarriba. The DMHSAEA supported the event with a grant from our DMHS Concert Fund, endowed by an anonymous donor in 2017. That fund has now allowed DMHS students to attend six NJS performances, of which three have been on campus, and one trip into NYC to the Metropolitan Opera.
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NJ Symphony Woodwind Quintet Performs at DMHS
A string quartet and a brass quintet have also performed at DMHS over the past two years, and DMHS has provided tickets to NJ Symphony concerts at the BergenPAC and at New Brunswick's State Theater, all courtesy of an endowment called the "DMHS Symphony Concert Fund," which was created by a generous, anonymous donor in 2017. In implementing the endowment's aims, the DMHSAEA works closely with music teacher Dr. Gary Hollander.
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Professional chamber music has returned to DMHS! On January 10, 2023 a woodwind quintet from the NJ Symphony gave a one-hour concert of classical works in the band room attended by fifty students taking music electives. Before each of the five pieces, one of the musicians gave an introduction to the music and its composer, demonstrated their instrument and discussed something of their own career path. There was time for Q&A and for informal chats with the musicians.
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Our Second Web Address
This Website is now accessible via a new URL: www.dmhsalumni.org.
The existing URL, www.dmhsaea.org, still works but we felt we needed another option that's more intuitive and easier to remember. (Careful: Another site, www.dmhsalumni.com, is operated by alumni of Daniel Murphy High School in Los Angeles.)
Our Next Board Meeting
Most of our Board meetings are held by Zoom. The next meeting will be on May 18, 2024 at 10:00 AM. Our Board reserves the first hour for administrative business and welcomes visitors at 11:00. For connection information and to confirm the scheduled date, please email DMHSAEA President Larry Golbe at golbe@rutgers.edu.
Photos from Recent In-Person DMHSAEA fundraiser/barbecues:
Photos from Recent In-Person DMHSAEA fundraiser/barbecues:
Dwight Morrow High School Alumni Educational Alliance is a 501 (c)(3) Non-Profit