The Alumni will return for another game after three years. At the home game on Oct. 1 the band, silks and majorettes will return to perform with the high school. 

 The game will take place at 7 p.m., and the pregame will start around 6:40 p.m. for the Alumni and high school marching band. 

“The night of the Homecoming game will be the same night of the Alumni game. So both of those will take place the same night,” band director Larry Detwiler said. 

Any Alumni that were a part of the marching band who were interested had the opportunity to return and perform during the game. 

“Invitations are sent out so that anybody who is an Alumni of the band, silks or majorettes can sign up to come back and what they do is they perform with us during pregame, and they also perform with us during halftime,” Detwiler said. 

Every three years, the Alumni get the opportunity to come and be a part of the high school’s halftime show. 

“We normally get between 100 and 150 Alumni signing up and a lot of them just find it fun to come back and perform once again on the field,” Detwiler said. 

Marching band Alumni of all ages are welcome to sign up and return and take part in some fun on the field. 

“We’ll see a big group of ones that have recently graduated. And we’ll see a big group of ones that graduated 30-40 years ago. It tends to be the ones that recently graduated or the ones that graduated a long time ago. It’s the middle group that is the smallest,” Detwiler said. 

Some Alumni have played a part of this game for multiple years and plan to keep on coming back. 

“I’m a 1989 AAHS alumni majorette. I have participated in the Alumni game for several years,” alumni Sue Blackie said. 

The Alumni and high school students will meet before the game to go over their halftime performance.

“We will practice the day of the performance with both the alumni and with the high school band,” Blackie said. 

For some of those who come back, they do it solely to relieve the memories they made while they were in high school. 

“I have such fond memories of marching down that field, that I have shared with some great friends. My favorite part of returning is having a lot of fun doing something that was such a big part of my youth,” Blackie said.