Gendler Grants Recipients

2022-2023:

 

Melanie Gunn

Music Teacher, Whitman Middle School

Seattle School District

Grant: $15,000

One-year grant to fund Wenger Instrument storage lockers.

Erynne Johns Smith

Music Teacher, Christa McAuliffe Elementary

Lake Washington School District

Grant: $5,000

One-year grant to purchase a drumming set and handheld percussion instruments.

Kathleen Raschko

Music Teacher, Kimball Elementary

Seattle School District

Grant: $20,000

One-year grant to purchase a set of Yamaha keyboards with accessories, and 24 concert ukuleles.

Kylene Ries

Music Teacher, Oak Heights Elementary

Edmonds School District

Grant: $8,583

One-year grant to purchase a set of six Wenger FlipFORMS risers.

 

2021-2022:

 

Hilary Eldridge

Music Teacher, Olympic Hills Elementary

Seattle School District

Grant: $19,732

One-year grant to purchase 8 sets of Jumbi Jam steel drums,1 set of Sonor Global Beat GBWEST-15 Classroom Bundle, and 10 Sonor Global Beat soprano xylophones.

Catherine Feller

Music Teacher, Lynndale Elementary

Edmonds School District

Grant: $15,000

One-year grant to purchase of four tenor pans, a double second pan, and the purchase of stands and cases for these new instruments, and three existing pans.

Brian Woolford

Music Teacher, Westgate Elementary

Edmonds School District

Grant: $19,475

One-year grant for the purchase of twelve marimbas.

 

2020-2021:

 

Mark Edgbert

Music Teacher, Rising Star Elementary, @African American Academy

Seattle School District

Grant: $15,620

One-year grant for an instrument upgrade project based on the purchase of drums and barred instruments.

Katherine Lenoue

Music Teacher, Rainier Beach High School

Seattle School District

Grant: $20,000

One-year grant for the purchase of a suite of marimbas

Robert Morgan

Music Advisor, Secondary Academy for Success [SAS]

Northshore School District

Grant: $20,000

Three-year grant for coaching services, repairing and replacement of instruments, and purchase and maintenance of a Pro Tools software package.

 

2019-2020:

 

Amy Stevenson

Chair, Music Department, Lynnwood HS

Edmonds School District

Grant: $20,000

Two-year grant to upgrade the music library repertoire and to fund coaching.