Here are some of the pictures that we've collected. Credit for these go to Julia Caswell Daitch, John Kaluta, Bill Kerwan, Dave Ottalini, the Montgomery Blair Players, the MBHS Stage Crew, and others.
On Saturday, September 29, 2007, Blair seniors Andrew Joseph and Eric Merchant presented "Rock for Renovation", a benefit concert to help renovate the Old Blair Auditorium. The concert was part of their Communications Arts Program senior project.
The show featured Derek James (from NYC), The Fighting Janes, Neil Foley (Irish Fiddle), and Blair High School's InToneNation (a cappella singing).
The concert raised $2,000 for the auditorium project!
We'd like to thank Andrew and Eric, the bands, the volunteers, Montgomery Blair High School, and the community for making this a great success. We'd also like to thank Councilmembers Valerie Ervin and George Leventhal for coming out to the show.
Bill Kerwan's pictures of Stevie Wonder from his 1981 visit to the auditorium
(Click to enlarge)
You can read about auditorium tech Bill Judd's story about Stevie's surprise visit to the auditorium on the Your Stories page.
The Old Blair Auditorium was raised as a top priority by citizen's attending Councilmember Tom Perez's Silver Spring Community Meeting on May 3, 2006. (Click on picture to view larger size)
Three students from Montgomery Blair High School (Class of 2005) prepared a short video on the Old Blair Auditorium as a project for the Communications Arts Program. Watch it here (Apple Quicktime format).
See how the community helped fix up the auditorium entrance as part of Comcast Cares Day.
Just two pictures of our booth at the Magical Montgomery arts and humanities festival.
We have posted the song lyrics for "Somewhere", which we sang to the Maryland State Senate and House.
Pictures from our February 14th auditorium tour are available!
Watch a Quicktime movie of Julia Caswell Daitch'simpassioned speech about her experiences in the Old Blair Auditorium and why we should re-open the facility. The movie was taken by Mark Cohen at the Town Meeting in October 2004.
See three posters by Stephanie Nguyen (Blair Class of '05), made as part of a school project. Click on the picture below to view the Really Big full size image (~1.1 MB).
Here are some pictures of our successful trip to Annapolis to testify
for the state bond bills (click on the photos to view a larger image).
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Can you name the actors?
This picture graced the cover of the Silver Chips newspaper on March 19, 1968. It is from "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying."
On Saturday, September 29, 2007, Blair seniors Andrew Joseph and Eric Merchant presented "Rock for Renovation", a benefit concert to help renovate the Old Blair Auditorium. The concert was part of their Communications Arts Program senior project.
