Watch: Student in Wheelchair Fulfills Dream with Marching Band Thanks to Director
They are making dreams come true at Southmore High School in Moore, Oklahoma. And that’s worth striking up the band!
Casey Hubbard, a junior at the high school, has always dreamed of playing his trumpet in the marching band. Since seventh grade, reports KOCO, he’s played in concert band but marching band was his big dream.
He’s a talented musician and once he joined marching band, he knew he’d “found his purpose.”
But, it wasn’t easy to experience what he’d imagined — performing on the field with his bandmates while the crowd in the stands cheered them on.
“I didn’t know what would happen,” said Hubbard, who uses a wheelchair. “Like, I didn’t know if I was going to be able to get on the field and actually march or if I was just going to be in front playing my trumpet or playing a different instrument.”
“But Southmoore Band Director Adam Mewhorter says music is for everyone. ‘At the end of the day, all the trumpet players are on the field. Casey plays trumpet. He needs to be on the field,’ Mewhorter said.”
Then, Mewhorter made it happen.
“In the 23 years that I’ve taught, this will rank up as the highlight of my career,” Band Director Adam Mewhorter said.
Hubbard said he just wanted to be included and be like all the other band members. And he is. He plays his trumpet and marches with the director.
They’ve been together three years now, enjoying music, doing what they love, and realizing dreams as if that’s what’s supposed to happen.
Mewhorter’s humility is evident on and off the field.
“‘There are all kinds of teachers who do great things. Mine just happens to be on the football field,’ Mewhorter said. ‘It’s just being a normal operation of the band. It’s not extraordinary. It’s just what we do.'”
One Facebook commenter summed it up for everyone writing, “I’m not crying! You’re crying! That is what it’s all about!!”
