In 2008, his award winning high school band and the SPWCCB were participants in activities associated with the 2008 XXIX Summer Olympic games in Beijing, China. They performed with other band musicians at the Olympic Stadium, the Great Wall of China, and in Tiananmen Square, the first foreign ensembles to play in that historic square.

The group was invited to participate as part of that large band, numbering 2008, following the winning of the prestigious Gold Award at the June 2008 Tumon Bay Music Festival in Guam. They were chosen as being among the best musicians from the Oceania "green zone," one of four different zones in that geographic region.

Dewitt started teaching in 1992. Since he accepted the position at SSHS in 2000, he has twice been nominated to Who's Who Among America's Teachers, in 2004-2005 and in 2005-2006. In 2006, he was selected as the Saipan Southern High School Teacher of the Year, an honor acknowledged in a February 2006 House Resolution by the Northern Marianas Commonwealth House of Representatives.

DeWitt, who completed theology and music degrees at Pacific Union College in 1992 and 1993, and his wife, Lois, have three children.

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