Donations Spring & Summer 2023
Many, many thanks to the alumni and friends of Arrowbear who donated to our Scholarship Fund. Donations from the Spring Newsletter totaled $8,612.04. We are particularly grateful because we know these are still difficult times with costs rising weekly for food and other necessities. All of the donations will go toward scholarships for Summer 2024.
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Every donation is appreciated. We receive amounts from $10 to hundreds of dollars. It all adds up. Don’t worry about waiting until you can give more at some point in the future. Any amount makes a difference. It’s always a wonderful surprise to visit the mailbox and hear how you’re doing and what is keeping you busy. Please keep in touch and give when you can. We love to hear from you.
Teresa Marsi Bothman
Ardoth Cheadle Carr
Carolyn Kusaba Carroll
Jeffrey & Berna Cliffe
Bill & Marie Course
Ben & John Eastman
Stephanie & Karl Eggers
Amy Essington
Erin Nakagawa Felix
Mark Fronke
Lida Lockwood Gerenraich
Julie Gill
Eileen Choi Golden
Lynne Greenwood
Neil Harrington
David Harris
Brooke Hearons Hicks
Stefanie Holzman
Hugh Huynh
Marian Kent
Peter Kozik
Joan LaRue
Hayden Gerald Lawrence
David Moody
Jon Nowak
Diane Otsuki
Sean Regaldo
Steven Reynolds
Nailah Roque
Ildiko Meracz Siegrist
Bruce Sledge
Long Beach Gives 2023
Long Beach Gives is an annual event designed to encourage donations to non-profits who are based in the city. We are so grateful to the Long Beach community for supporting our scholarship program to provide private lessons to young musicians in the Long Beach Unified School District. This program provides a series of twelve thirty-minute lessons to one student at each of the district's middle, K-8, and high schools each semester. This year we raised $3,099.59. Thank you to all the donors.
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Carolyn Carroll
Amy Essington
Farmer's & Merchants Bank
Linda Fletcher
Susan Green
Stefanie Holzman
Linda Curtis Kellogg
Marcy Sudock
Sarah Solberg
Dennis Trembly

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Anonymous in memory of Carole Ohlendorf Dockstader.
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Ruth Perez Ashley in memory of Fran Harding.
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Beckie Roth Celikel in memory of Carole Ohlendorf Dockstader.
We accept donations to this scholarship program year round.
Just let us know you'd like your donation to be applied to our music lessons scholarship program.
Additional Donations
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Matching Grants
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Thank you to the nine alumni who have set up automatic monthly donations through PayPal. We receive $195 in total every month from these alumni for a yearly total of $2,340. You are all awesome!
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Thank you to Becky Boggs Othmer who set up a Facebook donation for her birthday with the donations going to our Scholarship Fund. Thank you to everyone who donated.
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Thank you to Joel Elsten who set up a Facebook donation for his birthday with the donations going to our Scholarship Fund. Thank you to everyone who donated.
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Thank you to Sarah Solberg who set up a Facebook donation for her birthday with the donations going to our Scholarship Fund. Thank you to everyone who donated.​
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Thank you to Katy Bridges who set up a Facebook donation for her birthday with the donations going to our Scholarship Fund. Thank you to everyone who donated.
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Thank you to Russell Graham for arranging for us to receive payroll withholdings from the Northrop Grumman Employees Charity Organization (ECHO) and a donation from the Charities Aid Foundation America program.
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Many thanks to Jim Garrecht who arranged for us to receive payroll deductions through the United Way and Kaiser Permanente programs.​
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Many thanks to Veronica Wilson for arranging a matching grant from BASF Charitable Giving Program.
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Thank you to AmazonSmile for a final donation of $360.18 and a total of $5,479.20 since 2014.
Facebook birthday fundraisers have raised $1,066 so far in 2023
with more donations expected in November and December.
We are so grateful to everyone who sets up a fundraiser and to those who donate.
Dedications
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​Mark Scott in memory of Jim and Jacque Scott.
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Naomi Norwick in memory of Walter and Natalie Norwick.
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Anonymous in honor of Aidan J. Sommerfield's bar mitzvah.
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Lennard & Jean Reynolds Eckhardt in memory Brian Reynolds.
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Mark Byer & Stephanie Cinereski in memory of Brian Reynolds.
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Rocky Reames in memory of Bruce Ford and his brother Michael Reaves.
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Giving Tuesday
Giving Tuesday is a national event designed to encourage donations to worthy causes. The most recent event took place on November 29, 2022. We raised $1,121 for the scholarship fund. Many thanks to the donors who contributed.
Katy Bridges
Beckie Roth Celikel
Ri-Jen Chou
Jim Garrecht
Juanita Jackson
Robert Menke
Naomi Norwick
D. Wilson Ochoa
Becky Boggs Othmer
Michaela Quinby
Rocky Reames
LIsa Moliver Sandler
Marcy Sudock
Bruce Wilkison