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FOLMADS Grant for Fall 2007
Music Department
$7768 per year for five years (total of $38,840) for the rent-to-purchase of six tubas, six euphoniums and two baritone saxophones for use by secondary-level bands.
 
FOLMADS Grants for Spring 2007
Francesca Bini Bichisecchi (Clarke, art)
Portable drying rack ($444)
 
Anne Carey (LHS, dance)
Multimedia, dance reserve/library ($789)
 
Nick Hart (Fiske, music)
Five-pitch open-end temple blocks with stand and mallets ($172)
 
Lynne Murray (Bridge, art)
Digital Camera with case, memory card, extra battery ($400)
 
Tami O'Leary (Fiske, art)
Digital camera ($400)
 
Tami O'Leary (Fiske, art)
Kiln supplies ($438)
 
Walter Pavasaris (FPA Dept)
Dancing Masters Workshop this June for faculty, focuses on the community-building power of traditional dance, song and storytelling/literature in schools. ($400 plus funds from the LHS/PTSA)
 
Walter Pavasaris (FPA Dept)
Computer and application upgrades for FPA secretary and FOLMADS. ($1230)
 
Martha Rogers (Bowman, music)
Six hand-held tape recorders, one for each elementary school ($315)
 
Holly Stumpf (Harrington, music)
Drums ($689)

FOLMADS Grants for Spring 2006
Francesca Bini Bichisecchi (Clarke, art)

Adobe Illustrator CS2 and Comic Life ($2,925)

 
Diana Billip (Diamond, art)
Lid and mirros for kiln ($462)
 
Anne Carey (LHS, dance)
Storage for costume room ($1000)
 
Jeffrey Leonard (LHS, music)
Support for Jazz Festival trips to Monterey, CA and Essentially Ellington Festival in New York ($1200)
 
Kristine Matthews Buckridge (Estabrook, music)
Choral risers ($1882)
 
Tami O'Leary (Fiske/Hastings, art)
2DVD-R/-RW/AAM recorders ($588)
 
Walter Pavasaris (LHS, music)
Software upgrades to existing music software in Music Lab ($2,289)
 
Martha Rogers ( Bowman, music)
1 alto metallophone, 1 soprano metallophone ($612)
 
Holly Stumpf (Harrington, music)
1 alto metallophone, 1 soprano metallophone ($867)
 
Holly Stumpf and Deborah Side (Harrington, music)
Support for workshop by Andrea Ostertag from the Orff Institute in Salzburg, Austria ($1000)
 
Annie Zeybekoglu (LHS, art)
Tuition for summer drawing workshop at Bennington College (through the Mass. College of Art) ($1440)
 
Marcia Zichittella (Hastings, art)
Books and videos ($158)

FOLMADS Grants for Spring 2005
Eric Schedin (LHS, music)
New sound system for room 131 - Band and Jazz room ($800.00)
 
Deborah Side (Bridge, music)
Studio 49 Bass Metallophone
Peking Gong with stand
Chau Symphonic Gong with stand ($1285.07)
 
Marcia Zichittella (Hastings, art)
Set of videos: Michelangelo, Kandinsky, Gargoyles, Mondrian including posters and book ($152.40)
 
Annie Zeybekoglu (LHS, art)
3 felt blankets for printing press bed (press itself works)
basic tools, itemized ($1349.75)
 
Janet Haas (Diamond, music)
Conductor’s folding podium ($295.00)
 
Janet Haas (LHS, music)
PSD Dual-Well Portable CD Recorder and carrying case ($1198.00)
 
Iris Goldfarb (Bowman, art)
Ettan Printing Press MS-12 ($1465.00)
 
Lynne Murray (Bridge, art)
Part of cost of Kiln ($1166.25)
 
Sean Hagan (LHS, art)
A grant for 25 Wacom Tablets, A.T. Cross Executive PC Pens and Adobe Photo Shop Elements was fully funded through the collaboration of LEF and FOLMADS. The majority of the grant ($6271.00) was funded by LEF. The remainder ($779.85) was funded by FOLMADS and will be used to purchase 3 of the 25 Tablets requested.

FOLMADS Grants for Spring 2004
Holly Stumpf (Harrington School) - Music
Registration, travel and lodging expenses to attend the national Amerian Orff-Schulwerk Association Conference (no more than $700)
 
Tami O'Leary, Iris Goldfarb, Marcia Zichittella, Lynne Murray - Elementary Visual Arts
Registration fees for the Art Conferences and Workshops in Boston ($500)
 
Tami O'Leary, Iris Goldfarb, Marcia Zichittella - Elementary Visual Arts
Three enclosed display bulletin boards for Bridge School ($1608)
 
Tami O'Leary - Elementary Visual Arts
Two external DVD RW Burner’s (Lacie D2 4X DVD -/+RW CDRW) -($567)
 
Margaret Keeping (Diamond) - Music
Two CD/cassette players, four music workstations, including four Alesis keyboard, 4 Midi Interface, and four headphones ($3,036)
 
Francesca Bini Bichisecchi - Middle School Visual Arts
Two permanent Infocus Projectors, one for each school, along with replacement bulbs for each ($2,656.)
 
Elaine Celi, Fine and Perfrming Arts Secretary
Dahle high speed letter folder and a Martin Yale collator costing $455.
 
LHS Drama Program
To help fund the August 2004 trip of drama students, teachers and chaperones to the Edinburgh, Scotland Fringe Festival ($2000)

FOLMADS Grants for Spring 2003
Irene Gilbride (Bridge School) and
Susan London (Hastings School) - Music
Portable digital recording system ($1160)
 
Martha Rogers - Bowman School - Music
Recording Equipment ($157)
 
MiYoung Lee - Diamond Middle School - Visual Arts
Digital camera and equipment ($562)
 
Brian O'Connell - Lexington High School - Music
Eight Legacy acoustical shells ($13,488)
 
Gloria Fox and Annie Zeybekoglu - Lexington High School - Visual Arts
Glass display tower and divider display screens for new visual arts gallery ( $1263)

FOLMADS Grants for Spring 2002
Steve Bogart - Lexington High School - Drama
Speakers and a disc player for the drama sound cart. These items will be used extensively in the drama classes. ($500)
 
Irina Chelnokova - Fiske School - Music
Two sets of choral risers for Fiske Elementary School, given in conjunction with two sets from the Fiske PTA. ($594 for each riser).
 
Tami O'Leary ­ Fiske School ­ Visual Arts
Bulletin boards for Art display ($776)
Art Cart ($243)
Videos and posters ($300)
 
Holly Stumpf - Harrington School - Music
Orff instruments: two alto zylophones, two alto metallophones, one soprano metallophone. ($1993)
 
Jack Zichittella - Lexington High School - Visual Arts
One Nikon FM10 camera kit ($270)
 
Marcia Zichittella - Hastings School - Visual Arts
A radius reversible easel for presentations to students. ($231) Also a mobile storage cart to support the Hastings interdisciplinary Global Shelters and Colonial Dye Plants projects. ($340)

FOLMADS Grants for Spring 2001
LHS Music Department
A new Boston grand piano from M. Steinert & Sons in the amount of $16,952--our biggest single grant award ever­­and a new upright rehearsal piano for $5,584.
 
Irina Chelnokova - Fiske School - Music
A series of audio CDs for elementary music instruction to support a world-view approach to music education­­one set of CDs for either the third-grade ($495) or fourth-grade ($515) level.
 
Holly Stumpf - Harrington School - Music
One bass xylophone ($958) and one alto metallophone ($376) for a total of $1,441.
 
Jack Zichittella - Lexington High School - Visual Arts
A new dry mounting press to enhance the presentation of student work for $1,251.85.
 
Marcia Zichittella - Hastings School - Visual Arts
A series of reproductions of artists' prints and multimedia material to work toward a crosscultural arts program. $353.78
 
Susan London - Hastings School - Music
Two Wenger risers to accommodate the growing student population. This request will also be matched by the PTA. $1,150.50.
 
David Samour and Dan Riley - Clarke and Diamond Bands
$1,300 towards the purchase of a refurbished baritone saxophone for the two middle school bands.
 
Steve Bogart - Lexington High School - Drama
$782 to purchase two head sets and belt packs for backstage crew use during performances.