Hobomock Elementary School Spring 2013 Concert

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Hobomock Elementary School's annual spring concert was held June 10, 2013 before a capacity audience in the Pembroke, Massachusetts high school auditorium.

This edited and audio-balanced video was made from footage shot by John McCue who is part of the all-volunteer group of moms, dads, and children called Pembroke Community Media, located right here in town.

 

School concerts, sporting events, points of interest, political forums, shows by and about older residents, current happenings, historic documentations, scouting projects, parties, and much more are captured for posterity and posted on the website pembrokecommunitymedia.com.

There is also the yourpcmc.blogspot.com site housing over a hundred descriptive production articles, features in the Patriot Ledger on-line newspaper, spotlights in the Town's Mariner/Reporter weekly paper, and e-mail notifications labeled "Pembroke News."

 

Three of McCue's children are in the Pembroke school system. "I have two boys at the high school, and a daughter at the middle school," McCue said, "So I know first-hand how important is is to make videos of children while they're young. It's now or never."

                                                                                     

McCue continued, "And with all the mobile devices people have, there are plenty of poor quality recordings. But you tell me how many of those get saved. Not many. That's why this Hobomock concert video will be appreciated even more later on."

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Hobomock Lip Sync Filmed by John O'Keefe

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The annual Hobomock Elementary School Lip Sync Concert was held Thursday evening, June 6, 2013 at the Pembroke, Massachusetts Middle School auditorium with the back partition removed to extend seating into the cafeteria area. There were 29 acts involving grades K through 6 elementary students.

The entire display was filmed by pembrokecommunitymedia.com volunteer and high school student John H. O'Keefe who thought it was "one goofy show." O'Keefe manually adjusted audio while taping, because the clapping and cheering were extra loud after each act. Good Job John!

The roaring and boisterous crowd of family and friends was egged on by back-stage emcee PJ the DJ who began with "This goes without saying, but everybody knows to clap really loud for all our participants here, right?"

PJ has a 6th grader in the school, and has been volunteering for the Lip Sync for over a decade.

He introduced each act with a "Let's-give-it-up-for," and ended with a "Wow-that-was-great!"

The Family Programs division of the Hobomock Parent-Teacher Organization (PTO) began organizing and planning well before May when acts were conceived and groups began practicing both at school and at home.

Some class performances even had teachers on stage with the students.

Parent Saheeda Kelly remarked that "It's so much fun to watch the children perform on stage.  The whole school gets involved supporting each other and that's a wonderful thing to see happening."

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Episode 3 of the World War II Series Is Here

Torpedo bomber pilot Robert Roy III invited pembrokecommunitymedia.com's cast and crew of The Robert Kopper Show into his School Street home Saturday morning, May 11, 2013 for taping of episode 3 of the 4-part World War Two series.

The resultant 33 minute video is a hit with history buffs, and just plain interesting for anyone who likes old photos.

Shown at the beginning is Roy's original combat authorization paper asking "pilot ready for combat?" To signify the affirmative, there's a little "x" typed in the box to the right of the "Yes."

Next is a photograph of the entire squadron and a list of their names.

Roy flew 390 hours practicing take-offs and landings prior to getting his flight "approval."

See the original 28 May 1944-stamped paper generated at Glenview Naval Air Station in Illinois. It says "Qualified this date in carrier landings aboard the USS SABLE in . . . .S N J . . .airplane." Another mark just below the entry is "Approved."

At the 20 min, 57 second point is an interesting photograph Roy's on-board gun camera took of another plane while both were taxiing in San Diego.

This video gives a firsthand account of WW II pilots' day to day life, and more often death.

At 24:31 is a "kind of sad letter," Roy says. "I had a pal at Mount Herman School named John Roberts." Roy continues to read a letter he wrote 69 years ago. "Dear Mother, I received a letter that I had written to John Roberts when I first arrived here. The letter was unopened. Simply stamped 'deceased.' Seems hard to believe and yet it must be true. John was the finest friend I've ever had, and we had swell times together at Mount Herman. We used to have the same jobs, the same classes, and we went out for the same sports. This is an awful way to find out. Stamped on an envelope."

Being with Rob Roy II in person and through viewing on video, is a rare treat not only because of his pleasant personality and quick wit, but because of a willingness to share memories of experiences that few can imagine.

 Remember as you watch, that many pilots did not go home after the war; and of those who did return, most are deceased.

Bryantville Elementary School Bands and Orchestras, June 4, 2013

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High School Freshman, John Henry O'Keefe filmed the June 4, 2013 band and orchestra portion of the Bryantville Elementary School annual Spring Concert in Pembroke, Massachusetts using a full high definition Panasonic video camera and fluid head tripod borrowed from Pembroke Community Media.

 

The event was held in the high school auditorium.

O'Keefe has been a videographer and editor with the all-volunteer group Pembroke Community Media since the dissolution of the Town's TV studio one year ago.

"Being at the concert brought back so many memories," O'Keefe said. "I started playing an instrument 4 years ago in the 5th grade, so listening to these bands made me realize just how much my group has progressed."

The 5th Grade Cadets start with "When the Saints Go Marching In," followed by "Theme from Beethoven's 9th Symphony" and "Jasper's Jump" which is a song by Director Dan Hawes.

Next up is is the 6th grade Concert Band with G M Cohan's "Yankee Doodle Dandy March" and Cold Play's "Paradise," both arranged and directed by Dan Hawes. "Paradise," one of the longer pieces at 2 minutes 25 seconds long, is especially well received by the applauding crowd of family and friends.

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Part 2 of The Robert Kopper WW II Series with Aviator Rob Roy Is Here

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On May 6, 2013, Part 2 of The Robert Kopper Show's 4-part World War Two series was filmed by volunteers of pembrokecommunitymedia.com in the Pembroke, Massachusetts home of torpedo bomber and fighter pilot Rob Roy III.

The show is playing in the "Community" section of the Robert Kopper Show category.

Kopper reintroduces and interviews Roy who talks about flight training, and personally reads war-time letters written to his mother over sixty years ago.

"She saved everything I sent her," Roy said. "But I didn't find that out until after her death.  Some of these letters recount events that even I didn't remember until I read them again on this show."

Young recruits were encouraged to write home, prompting Roy to admit that "I would never probably have written."

Rob Roy III is one of the more seasoned Pembroke Community Media volunteers. Before featuring himself in this 4-part series, Roy was active in many of the 15 Inspirational shows made this past year at and for The First Church in Pembroke.

In the 1920s the Roy family settled in Wellsboro Pennsylvania where Rob Roy II ran the weekly "Wellsboro agitator" which had the motto "The agitation of thought is the beginning of wisdom."

Lydia and Rob II had two daughters, Constance and Anne, in addition to Rob III. The elder Roy died when young Rob was only 5, forcing the budding family to move back east to live with Lydia's parents in Quincy.

Roy started college at Harvard University the summer following high school graduation and then interrupted those studies to join the military and take college classes at The University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia.

Go to the 14 minute, 15 second point in the video to see a hand-drawn map of the "navy part of the campus" reorganized to accommodate training for military personnel.  You'll be amazed to see how the entire University layout was changed to help train pilots for the war effort.

"The campus of The University of Georgia is on two huge hills," he writes, "and three round trips a day means six climbs."   He continues, "At least two and sometimes three times a day we had to negotiate the Burma Road which is well named."

Roy passed those aviation-related college classes with "flying colors," and quickly qualified to be a pilot.

After the war, Roy was able to resume studies at Harvard to earn a bachelor's degree.

The video is 24 minutes, 10 seconds long, and shares plenty of intriguing, black-and-white period pictures lined up and photographed for you by volunteer Janet Callaghan. Shots are from Mr. Roy's personal, one-of-a kind collection of memorabilia.

Go to www.pembrokecommunitymedia.com for easy viewing.

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