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Pine View Middle School Keeps Its Majorettes

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The Tampa Tribune

Published: February 5, 2008

LAND O' LAKES - Terri Dusek and Tina Gibbons didn't like what they heard.

The teacher who coached the majorettes at Pine View Middle School had transferred to Rushe Middle School and, unless someone stepped forward, the majorettes would be no more.

Dusek and Gibbons are active volunteers at the school, but they are mothers of boys in the band. They produced not a single majorette between them.

But the majorettes would not disappear on their watch. They stepped forward to coach the group.

"Tina and I were both majorettes growing up, and I think it's something that needs to stay around," Dusek said.

Few middle schools have majorettes. Some high schools still do, but across the country over the past couple of decades many schools have opted instead for color guards.

The eight majorettes practice twice a week in the Pine View Middle cafeteria along with the school's color guard.

Steve Herring, the Pine View Middle band director, has made room for the majorettes.

"They are sort of a dying art," Herring said.

Ronnie Blair

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