WESTERN RESERVE LOCAL SCHOOLS ENDOWMENT FUND
ENDOWMENT FUND GRANT WINNERS
The Western Reserve Endowment Fund is pleased to be able to award six teacher grants for the 2008-2009 school year. This grant money will be used to purchase a Card Master for special needs students; auditory processing games, activity booklets and CD-ROMs for the reading program; fraction pieces, fraction equivalency charts, and algebraic thinking activity books; supplies for hands-on working with electricity, plumbing, drywall, painting, shingling, masonry, and tile work; audio/video equipment; informational books, life cycle charts, and live specimens to observe growth cycles, and a microscope and puzzles to reinforce insect/animal/plant change studies.
Jean Schuster
$300.00
Darlene Pabst
$300.00
Jennifer Cornelison
$300.00
Darnel Patrick $300.00
Chuck Malone
$300.00
Scott Emerick
$300.00
"The Western Reserve Endowment grant helped to fund the Opera Cleveland Mini-Residency for the fifth grade students in March, 2007. The students performed a mini-version of the well known opera "Carmen" with artists from Opera Cleveland filling the lead roles of Carmen, Don Jose and Escamillo. They rehearsed the songs in their weekly Music classes then spent one morning with an Opera Cleveland Artist staging the opera. On the day of the performance, the students rehearsed with all three Opera Cleveland Artists and performed "Carmen" for the student body in the afternoon. Later that evening they performed for family, friends and community. Performing with professional opera singers was an once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for our students. The study of Opera is one benchmark in Ohio's Fine Arts Content Standards for Fifth Grade Music and what better way to experience opera than to perform with true professionals! Our students were praised on their musicality, behavior and maturity by the Opera Cleveland Artists." Debra Henry
