South Country Education Foundation

South Country Education Foundation

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

MusicThe 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

Mark Wood In Concert

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.