Anjelisa Howard

After about a year of building from the ground up, the Patriot Orchestra is ready to take on the spring semester with high hopes.

“Last spring, the Patriot Orchestra was just a club,” violinist Robin Ragland, a senior math major, said. “We just started meeting once or twice a week and continued into the summer, and we had guest directors come in and work with us.”

Senior Ciera Ward, a chemistry major, planted the seed for this growing organization and serves as its current president.