South
Country Education Foundation Website
Board of Directors:
Mary Mojallali, President
Jackie Kendrick, Vice President, Recording Secretary
Lori Klamut, Vice President
Louise Miller, Vice President
Diane Zanazzi, Corresponding Secretary
Leigh R. Powell, Treasurer
Lilliam Villafane Di Giacomo
Donna Esp
Barbara D. Knowles
Frank Lento
Geoffrey Marschall
Nicole May
Stewart Molloy
Robin Young Roe
Dava Stravinsky
Joseph L. Cipp, Jr. Interim Superintendent of Schools, Ex
Officio
Community Advisory Council:
| Chantal Berman | Greg Pilger |
| Richard Berman, MD | John J. Roe III |
| Arthur Cooley | Karen Rowley |
| Kathleen Dallin | Ken Searles |
| Bill Griffith | Wesley F. Springhorn, Jr. |
| Mary P. Haines | Cheryl Steinhauer |
| Wil Jansen | Jill Stewart |
| Daryl Jordan | Sheldon Stiefeld |
| Elena Brodie-Kusa | William Struyk |
| Pamela Lerner | Fran Tabone |
| Eleanor Mahoney | Ceci Tripp |
| Nancy Marr | Terry Tuthill |
| Carolyn MacLellan | Thomas Williams |
| Michael Mullaney | Kerry Young |
| Joann Neal | |
The South Country Education Foundation is a nonprofit organization
committed to improving educational opportunities for all students in the
South Country School District. The mission of the Foundation is to
promote and enhance educational initiatives by providing supplemental
financial support for projects and programs that are outside the South
Country School budget. The Foundation seeks to forge a cooperative
effort among the members of the community to help expand educational
opportunities and to capitalize on the special resources we have
available in our district.
The Becker/Gambles Music Fund
The Becker/Gambles
Music Fund is a subcommittee of the South Country Education Foundation,
Inc. and was formed to support music education in the South Country
School district. The fund presents concerts through out the year to
bring great music to our community, arranges master classes and assembly
programs that bring gifted musicians into our schools, provides
scholarships for summer music study to deserving students from 4th
grade through 11th grade and runs a music instrument donation
program that helps provide instruments to our music students.
If
you have a clarinet, flute or violin lying unused in a basement, closet
or attic in your home, please consider donating it to the music program
in our schools. We will arrange to pick it up and get it to the music
department. Karen Rowley coordinates this drive and would love to hear
from you, give her a call at 286 – 0975.
The music fund is guided by a hard working committee dedicated to
bringing the joy of music to our students and community. They are
Chantal Berman, Tim Hogan, Daryl Jordan, Nancy Marr, Karen Rowley, Dava
Stravinsky, Will Struyk, and Gene Westhoff.
We
wish to thank those who responded to our recent letter asking for
donations. The generosity of our community was awesome, over $ 4,000
was raised. These funds will go directly to students in the form of
scholarships for this summer. If you wish to support the fund, please
send your donation made out to the South Country Education Foundation
with Becker/Gambles Music Fund in the memo line and send it to SCEF,
Inc., P.O. Box 512, Bellport, NY 11713. Thank you for your support!
Upcoming Concerts
Date: New Date! Thursday, April 29th
Time: 7:30pm
Location: Bellport High School Walter Ebersole
Auditorium, 205 Beaver Dam Road, Brookhaven
The Becker/Gambles Music Fund, in cooperation with
the Bellport High School Music Department, is hosting a day of master
classes with award winning electric violinist and composer Mark Wood and
vocalist Laura Kaye. The musicians will be in residence on Thursday,
April 29th working with over 100 Bellport High School concert orchestra
and jazz choir members culminating in a concert that evening at 7:30pm
at the Walter Ebersole auditorium at Bellport High School.
Partial funding for the classes and concert is through the
Becker/Gambles Music Fund. A subsequent grant from the South Country
Education Foundation, Inc. was given this past fall to James Uzzi
orchestra teacher at BHS for the purchase of two electric violins to
enhance the experience of orchestra students at the high school taking
part in this exciting program and in their ongoing curriculum.
Please come support this event and the summer music scholarship program
of the Becker/Gambles Music Fund. It should be a great evening!
Click here for a flyer
for the concert.