Scholarship Recipients for 2012 Announced
Ten scholarships have been awarded from the proceeds of Jam4Dan V, ranging from $200 to $300. Thanks to the generosity of our sponsors and the hundreds of people who attended Jam4Dan V, we are pleased to increase our total award funded to $2500 - 60% more than last year!. The winners were selected on submissions that included statement of need, teacher recommendation and student reflection. A bonus this year is all who applied will receive a Jam4Dan V t-shirt! Checks and will be issued to instructors and certificates issued to students & vendors by April 22.

Recipients include:
Tristan Fulzenloger, Sean Arndt, James Hensley, Nate Kloos - students of Chip Janda
David Lowry, Eric Smith - students of Forrest Evans (a former recipient himself)
Anna Newcome, Malissa Newcome, Thomas Bell - students of Chuck Higgins
Alex Pfeifer - student of Dave Schaffer

Jam4Dan is held the Martin Luther King weekend. Dates for Jam4Dan Six (J4D6) are January 19 and 20, 2013. Consideration is being given to adding Friday night, January 18, as well.

* The Dan Falley Memorial Fund & Scholarships Trustees are:
Tom Krebs
Mike Fox
Danl Blackwood
Joel Edison
J.D. Bloomar

Scholarship Guidelines for 2012
To be eligible to apply for a scholarship you must be a guitar/bass student currently taking lessons in Shawnee County or intending to take lessons if receiving financial assistance will allow them to do so. The application will consist of three parts, two filled out by the student and a third by the instructor. (Grammar, punctuation, spelling and other components of quality writing will be considered when scoring the student-written parts.) All parts need to be typed or computer generated. (Electronically submitted applications will be accepted.)

The first part of the application is a basic statement of need for a scholarship. What challenges already exist or are possibly on the horizon that might make it difficult for the student and/or his or her family to pay for lessons? The second part is a reflection by the student of the impact the instrument, the instruction/instructor or the study of music in general has positively affected his or her life. The third part, by the instructor, is an assessment of the student's commitment to his or her instruction and the instrument in general.

Send an email to scholarship@jam4dan.com to submit an application to the trustees.

2011 scholarship recipients
Fifteen scholarships derived from Jam4Dan IV proceeds were given this past year. They ranged from $175 to $75. In total, almost $1800 of scholarships were funded. Seven of the winners were awarded scholarships the previous year. The winners were selected on submissions that included statement of need, teacher recommendation and student reflection. The entries were held to high standards of writing to promote communication skills beyond the musical ones the students are developing.

Recipients include: Fallyn and Cael O’Malley; Jonathan Ostler; Tre, Elijah and Jamais Stewart; Brandon Clabaugh; Tristen Fulzenloger; Seth May; David Sutherland; Brandon Dekat; Taylor Medina; Chas Gideon; Micheal Brooks and Sean Arndt.

2010 scholarship recipients
The proceeds of Jam4Dan III, held January 2010, allowed us to distribute $3200 in scholarship awards from from the Dan Falley Memorial Fund to Sixteen area youth. Recipients each received from $100 to $300 worth of guitar and bass lessons from local instructors.

Sean Arndt, Fallyn O’Malley, Cael O’Malley, Jamias Stewart, Elijah Steward, Tre Stewart, Lucas Farmer, Seymour Farmer, Sean Donnelly, Forest Evans, John Sanchez, Natalie Haushalter, Tristan Fulzenloger, Emily Hollaway, Sierra Mason, and Samantha Crouse.

While we hope to expand the scope of students eligible for scholarships, unfortunately we don't have the funding yet to accomplish that. Maybe you can help? This year however we are expanding the eligibility to include students that have not yet started taking lessons.

2009 scholarship recipients
Dyllan Donald, Joseph Miller, and Keaton Meeks

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