The E. L. Tunkel Band Award
 
 

 
Named after the SHS Band's most dedicated and memorable musician, the E. L. Tunkel Band Award is given to a Band member who shows all the qualities needed to win this award.  The award is given bi-weekly (mainly 'cause I'm lazy and 'cause nobody emails me), and the winner is posted here on this website, along with a short explanation for their winning the award.  The award may be given out to anybody, and the winner will be selected by a panel of judges (namely me), who will choose the winner on their own personal whim.  If you think somone deserves the E. L. Tunkel Band Award, submit their name and what they did to deserve the award.  Send all applications HERE.
 

 
THE WINNER FOR THE WEEK OF 9/21/98:
 
Mrs. GRANTER
 
This week's winner is none other than Mrs. Granter!  John Fahey sent this one in, and the story goes a little somethin' like this:  At the Friends of Music meeting a couple weeks ago, Mrs. Granter was searching for her keys.  Alas, she could not remember where she had left them.  She looked everywhere, but to no avail - she just could not remember where her keys went to.  But then she finally found them, just where she had left them - under the piano.  John thinks Mrs. Granter is a good recipient of this award, because Eric Tunkel had a tendency to lock his keys in his car.  Hey, it works for me...
 

 
THE WINNER FOR THE WEEK OF 9/7/98:
 
MATT CROSS
 
Congratulations are in order for Matt Cross, who wins the Tunkel Award for this week.  The story goes something like this:  Matt was watching TV, and allegedly witnessed a technician loading wood into a computer, telling the audience how efficient it was.  When Matt went to school the next day and told his friends, he was scoffed at.  His friends told him that perhaps the machine was a printing press, not a computer, to which Matt responded, "Maybe it was."
Now if that isn't grounds for winning the Tunkel Award, I don't know what is.