Celtic Newsletter Spring 2017

7 - ON STAGE

RCS presents all-student production of The Sound of Music The hills were alive at Roanoke Catholic School on May 24 and 25 when a cast of 50 students, from preschoolers to 11th graders, presented The Sound of Music under the direction of RCS theater arts director April Hartsook Corbett. Starring juniors Audrey Wagner as Maria and A.J. Bennett as Captain Von Trapp, the RCS production was held at the Dumas Center before two sold-out audiences.

RCS band director, music teacher Rayfus Parham retires As a grand finale for his 21 years as Roanoke Catholic School music teacher and band director, Rayfus Parham directed his final concert May 23 to a standing room only crowd. At the program, Principal and Head of School Patrick Patterson announced that in recognition of his service “and the hundreds of lives Mr. Parham has

touched with his talents through the performing arts, Roanoke Catholic School has named a new scholarship in his honor. A $1,000 annual scholarship will be awarded for the next 21 years to a student who exemplifies the qualities and values so evident in the work that Mr. Parham shared with all of us for more than two decades." Mr. Parham will be missed, but his legacy, and music, will live on.