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Monday, February 11, 2008
A good day for Stivers
The same day that the city school district celebrated the formal opening of Stivers School for the Arts students and staff were learning that the their jazz orchestra won the prestigious Berklee Jazz Festival competition in Boston.
The national competition, which Stivers won previously five years ago, is considered the Super Bowl of high school jazz competitions. Last year, Stivers’ kids never made it to the competition because they were trapped in the Charlotte airport by bad weather.
Seems things went a little better for them this year.
Stivers is on a bit of a roll lately. It’s funding support group, the Seedling Foundation, was at the open house wearing “Got Adjuncts?” T-shirts in an effort to raise money to keep adjunct arts instructors. Ajduncts were cut deeply during the budget woes of last summer but restored temorarily thanks to contributions from Seedling.
They were touting a silent auction on March 7 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Dayton Art Institute. The auction includes donated jewelry and gems from famous Daytonians including Martin Sheen, Allison Janney and Tony Hall. Later in the spring the school is planning a big 100th year celebration.
And they’ve just about said goodbye to the ever-present construction crews. After some touch up work, construction chief John Carr said he wants to close the books on Stivers by month’s end.
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