for Algernon was the school's Cappies show. Cappie winners included Alex Mann and Joe Drzemiecki, who won a creativity Cappie for their original score. During the year of 2016-2017, Susan Pike retired and Rachel Harrington became the new theater teacher at Westfield. During the spring of 2017, the spring musical Legally Blonde was nominated for 14 Cappies awards. Two years later, the school put on the high school edition of the Broadway musical Rock of Ages as their Cappies show, earning a total of 24 nominations which is also the highest number of nominations earned in all of the Cappies program. At the Cappies Gala that year, they won a total of 8 awards including best musical. Band The Band program, headed by Alan P. Johnson and Bill Schnepper, is a nationally recognized program composed of ten performance groups including the Wind Symphony, the Symphonic Band, the Concert Band, the Jazz Ensemble, the after school Jazz Band, two Percussion Ensembles, the Color Guard, the Drumline, and the Marching Bulldogs. Participating in the performance groups are over 200 students and three instructors. The program is supported by the Westfield High School Band Boosters Organization. The organization helps to support the band through its website, www.westfieldband.org, volunteer support, and financial support. Westfield's band has been named a Virginia Honor Band twelve times for both its marching band and concert bands. The Westfield Percussion Ensemble has performed, by invitation, at a national festival. NSO director Leonard Slatkin has also visited Westfield in 2007 as a guest conductor. Both jazz bands have received awards at the Chantilly Invitational Jazz Festival, where several students were also named for the All-Star Band, including Chandler Comer on trombone, Nicholas Serbu on trumpet, and Joseph Beddoes on drumset. The Jazz Ensemble, led by Bill Schnepper, has won the Chantilly Jazz Festival in 2014 and 2016. The jazz band recently had the help of Alan Baylock, Chief Arranger for the United States Air Force jazz band The Airmen of Note, who composed the piece "Torque" specifically for the Westfield Jazz Band. Both the concert bands and jazz ensembles have traveled to New York City to perform at Carnegie Hall. The bands have received top awards twice at Myrtle Beach, at a Disney competition in Orlando, Florida, and at a competition in Atlanta, Georgia. Marching Band, which takes place in the summer and fall only and is not an official