InCider Press, November 2003, page3

The Little Apple Barbershop Chorus has provided, this Fall, music grants totaling $2,348 to eleven elementary and high school music teachers. These grants will allow the teachers to upgrade and enrich their curriculum material and in some cases increase the meager budgets by as much as 45 percent. We were able to fund nearly 25 percent of the dollar requests from 26 applications submitted this past summer by attendees to the K-State music symposium. From the good and hard work in Singing Valentines and the Spring Show, the chapter has the means to support music in the local and Kansas schools.

We were very pleased to fund the following requests -

Connie Baer - McCarter Elementary, Topeka; $210 for "Get American Singing" student books, teacher books and recording to promote the music of our American heritage.

Heather Augustine - Hugoton Elementary, Hugoton; $218 for "Music Memory" to build listening skills and music appreciation.

Shelly Todd - Lincoln Elementary, Ottawa; $200 for John Jacobson's "Music Express" magazine that has a teacher edition and 30 student books containing a variety of songs to sing and listen to as well as providing articles about many aspects of music.

Sue Yocum - Alma Grade School, Alma; $150 for boomwackers for her three schools to increase student note reading ability and have fun playing the pitched tubes (somewhat like people playing handbells) that are assigned a pitch to play during the song.

Jerrilee Shuman - Oakley Elementary, Oakley; $195 for John Jacobson's "Music Express" magazine with attractive artwork as a way to put a variety of new music styles in young singers' hands.

Jean Malone - Council Grove Elementary, Council Grove; $90 for "Music Memory" bulletin/CD package and teacher's resource game binder. This project is similar to quiz bowl.

Miriam Zeibert Kindle - Marlatt Elementary, Manhattan; $105 for "Music Memory" to encourage interest in listening to music by involving students who are not natural singers or are not able to own a musical instrument.

Pam McDaniel - Altoona Midway High, Buffalo; $175 for Finale Print Music Software to enable students to get immediate feedback on what their compositions and arrangement sound like and to transpose instrumental parts quicker, and for "Music Memory" allowing students to listen and study a piece of music relating it to the lives of the composer, the arts and current events of that time.

Amelia Hancock - USD 243 Lebo School, Lebo; $105 for the "Music Memory" program to allow the students to have a wonderful experience in music.

Amy Diediker - Sherridan & Franklin Elementary Schools, Junction City; $450 for three drums (10", 12", 14") to introduce the world drumming to teach rhythm, steady beat, improvisation, composition, etc. This can be used to teach history, geography, spelling and math rhythmic lessons through the world of drums.

Christine Day - Eisenhower Elementary; Junction City; $450 for 10", 12" and 14" tubano drums to implement in the 21st century after-school program. This program would introduce a new method to encourage student participation in music.