Supporting the Eastman Community Music School
Committed to enriching the cultural life of the Rochester region, the Eastman Community Music School provides music instruction and performance opportunities to 1,300 students of all ages. Thanks to the generosity of parents, current and former students, and friends, the Eastman Community Music School benefits from revenue and earnings from 36 gift funds that were established to provide and support student scholarships, faculty development, academic programs and partnerships, building renovations, and unrestricted funding that enhances and sustains the School's operations and activities.
- Eastman Community Music School Funds
- Friends of the Eastman Community Music School
- Eastman Pathways Challenge Grant Update
- Make a Gift
Eastman Community Music School Funds
New named endowments may be established at the Eastman Community Music School at a minimum level of $10,000, and gifts are most welcomed in any amount to the following, established funds:
Alexander Leventon Scholarship
Alice Mary Schwab Voice Scholarship
Alvera Barbor Martin Scholarship
Anna Louise Baker Scholarship
Anthony Cometa Scholarship
Anthony V. Bruno Scholarship in Clarinet
Charles M. and Helen D. Thoms Scholarship
Clase Voice Scholarship in Honor of Rene Fleming
Eastman Community Music School Fund
Eastman Pathways Endowed Fund
Elaine P. Wilson Eastman Pathways Scholarship
Florence Alexander Schoenegge Scholarship
Fred V. Alati Endowed Jazz Scholarship
Fred V. Alati Jazz Scholarship
Harold Schwab Scholarship
Harry and Mary Banahan Gregory Scholarship
Jack L. Frank Fund
Jacqueline D. Cullen Scholarship
Jocelyn Panepento Scholarship
Katherine Danforth Fisher King Scholarship
Linda and Harry Messina, Jr. Scholarship
Margaret Kershner Weber Memorial Scholarship
Marie Erhart Pearson Scholarship
Mary Durand Mulligan Scholarship
Mary Krusenstjerna Scholarship
Messinger Hall Renovation Fund
Molly Mulligan Scholarship
Nancie Roop Kennedy Vocal Scholarship
Philip J. SanFillipo Adult Education Endowment Fund
Raymond Wilson Scholarship
Robert G. Boehmler Scholarship
Thomas Donohue Memorial Scholarship
Victor and Anna Lenti Scholarship
Friends of the Eastman Community Music School
Gifts made last year to the Eastman Community Music School supported pre-collegiate scholarships, the Eastman International Young Artists Piano Competition, and Eastman Pathways, a partnership program with the Rochester City School District that offers music lessons and classes, mentoring support, and advisement to talented city students. Over 70 individual donors and nine local and national foundations directed their gifts last year to Eastman Pathways.
We are grateful to the following parents, students and friends who made gifts that supported the Eastman Community Music School in Fiscal Year 2005 (July 1, 2004-June 30, 2005):
George N. Abraham
Joseph Alati
Amerimail
Joanne C. Anderson
Bruce and Jennifer Bennett
Gary S. and Melody L. Bricault
Alan L. and Nancy S. Cameros
Catherine B. Carlson
Jane H. Chronis
Blair P. Cosman
Daniel A. and Debra F. Cottone
Elizabeth M. Coughlin
Kevin M. and Kathleen M. Coughlin
Donald E. Cullen
Joan B. Dollinger
Mary H. Donohue*
Charles A. Dye and Elizabeth Hallman-Dye
Virginia Edman
Richard P. and Martha J. Kirchenbauer Ellison
George D. and Susan D. Fee
Dave Fergusson and Joyce K. Nakada
Doris Gallemore
Joanne A. Gaylord
Adeane Giagios
George H. and Helen M. Greer
Thomas P. Gregory
Mary Ann Hargrave
The Hatch Fund
Melissa L. Head
Marcia C. Karch
Nancie Kennedy
Barbara King
Robert F. and Cornelia Klein
Austin R. and Doris Leve
Ruth Little BM
James Littwitz
Cricket Luellen
Wayne Luong
Deborah Lydick +
Roberta D. MacLean
Barbara L. Marino
Julie Markant
Anne B. Mayer
Mitchell W. Miller
Karl C. and Michele B. Minster
James J. Montesinos
Amy Nathan
James H. and Joan A. Nenno
John J. and Martha M. Osowski
Bernard J. and Molly S. Panner
Steven M. Parsons
Marcia Peatross
David F. and C. Shirley Petherbridge
Elliott H. Press*
Brian F. Prince
Ramon L. and Judith S. Ricker
Daniel H. and Nancy Robbins
David A. Sanders
Margaret B. Schneider
Fay A. Sebaly
Janet B. Smith
Egon and Flora Stark
Amy J. Steinberg
Anthony J. Stortini
Suzanne Stover
Betty Strasenburgh
Deborah Sullivan
Nancy S. Summers
W. Craig and Jennifer Sutherland
Roberta Thornbury
Jeffrey J. and Jill A. Tyzik
Robert C. Umiker
Joyce Underberg
Laura J. Von Doenhoff
Ruth T. Watanabe*
Sterling L. and Jean C. Weaver
Thomas K. and Charmaine R. Weber
Wegmans Industries/Food Markets
Doris J. Wheaton
Anne G. Whitman
Lois E. Will
Gabriele E. Wohlauer
Robert B. and Mary Alice Wolf
Zhao-Zhi Yu
* Deceased
+ Gift was matched by donor's employer
Eastman Pathways Challenge Grant Update
In fiscal year 2005, the Eastman School of Music raised more than $257,000 in matching funds for the Eastman Pathways Endowed Fund, meeting its goal in the second year of a three-year $1 million challenge grant awarded under the Talented Students in the Arts Initiative, a collaboration of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Surdna Foundation. Special thanks go to the following foundations that supported this program with grants last year:
Max A. Adler Charitable Foundation
The ASCAP Foundation, Irving Caesar Fund
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
The Bay and Paul Foundation
Ronald McDonald House Charities
Surdna Foundation, Inc.
Fred & Floy Willmott Foundation
Elaine P. & Richard U. Wilson Foundation
Marie C. & Joseph C. Wilson Foundation
Now in the final year of this three-year challenge, the Eastman School of Music invites the Rochester community to help us meet our final goal of $255,000 by making a generous gift to the Eastman Pathways Endowed Fund by June 2006. The impact this program is making on the lives of talented youth is attested to in the following statement written by a graduate of the first Pathways class in 1998, as a freshman music education major at Cedarville College in Ohio:
"... You may not realize the impact you are having on the students in this partnership. You are making a difference... and there is a music ed major in the middle of the Ohio cornfield who wishes to say thank you and ask you to continue what you started. Give these kids the best you have to offer them, and they will give it back tenfold."
Make Your Contibution to the Community Music School
Eastman School of Music
Office of Development
26 Gibbs Street
Rochester, NY 14604-2599
585.274.1040
866.345.2111 (toll-free, outside the 585 area code)