Supporters
The Department is grateful to these individuals and businesses for their support. Gifts listed here were
received between June 24, 2007 and June 30, 2008.
$5,000 and above
John B. & Patricia P. Baillieul,
John P. Baillieul, Deborah L.
Baillieul & Thomas A. Baillieul
Estate of Susan Cunningham
Campbell
Falcetti Music, Inc.
Myron D. & Gladys A. Hager
John V. Osmun
Charles A. Powers, Jr.
University of Massachusetts
Alumni Association
Avedis Zildjian Co., Inc.
Jeff Cox & Bill Love
Richard J. Guimond
Elizabeth J. Hicks
John H. Hubbe/KPMG
Norvell Jackson
Thomas P. Lizotte
Eva B. Lohrer
Mary S. & John E. Petersen
Bernard & Ruthanne Pitkin
Janet M. & Earle R. Steeves, Jr.
Barbara Shannon Tincher
The University Club
Waters Corporation
$1,000 to $4,999
$250 to $499
One anonymous donor
Helen Grant Atwood
Clifden & Linda Banner
Paul R. Bartsch
Brooks Food Group, Inc.
Campus Center Hotel at
UMass Amherst
Coca Cola Bottling Company,
Greenfield
CopyCat Print Shop
The Davis Group, Financial
Services
Stephen P. Driscoll
Dorothy D. & Joseph Gavin
Bryan Harvey &
J. Lynn Griesemer
Thomas E. Handforth
Heavenly Chocolate/
Cornucopia Foods
Susan Glover Hitchcock
Scholarship
Albin F. Irzyk
Isenberg School of
Management
Lathrop Retirement
Communities, Inc.
The Loomis Communities, Inc.
Ernest D. May &
Mary Milkey-May
Pioneer Training
Pops Sponsors: Marilyn Billings
& Tim Coppolo, Ernest D.
May & Mary Milkey-May,
John McCarthy & Ellen
Woolford
The Presser Foundation
Salon Herdis/Linda Hannum
Paulina & Herbert Stark
Stacey M. Styles Violin
Restoration
David E. Swerdlove
Tiger Press
Frederick C. Tillis
UMass Amherst Print Services
UMass Arts Council
UMass Catering
University Store
Millicent C. Wettstein
88.5 WFCR, NPR News & Music
for Western New England
Marion & Jasper Whiting
Foundation
Kenneth F. Wolff/
Achievence LLC
Peter J. Anzalone
Marie & Paul Appleby
Horace Clarence &
Gloria B. Boyer
L Squire & Carol Bressor
Karen & Kenneth Brown
Louis A. Bruso, Jr.
Dale P. & Francine T. Buckley
Danish Inspirations, Inc.
Michael P. Devine
Bruce P. & Diane Diehl
Andrew Effrat & Nola Stephen
Jacob Epstein
Steven D. Hegarty
Stephen A. Hilt
Hope Community Church
Veronica R. & Jake Jones, Jr.
John S. & Caroline Y. Kim
John F. Kirsch
Andrew T. Malloy, III
Doris A. Marsland
Richard P. Moriarty
Laura Rexroth & Reed Perkins
David & Annemarie Seidenberg
Robert & Ann Wiles
Ann S. Willever
$500 to $999
Dr. Esther Arnette, Inc.
Freda Bagley
Kenneth J. Buck
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$100 to $249
Douglas W. Adler
Amherst Area Chamber
of Commerce
Amherst Dental Group
Bank of America
Paul M. Barboza
Susan B. Barre
Jill M. Barres
Sally R. Baybutt
Margaret J. Belton
Rich & Caroline Brignolo
John T. Cavicchia
Daniel J. & Ann E. Carlson
Robert F. Church
Priscilla Clarkson
Stephen & Moira Clingman
Rosa K. Conlon
Patricia T. Cornett
Mary Ann Cuadra
Deirdre I. Dam
Lawrence W. Danza
Ophelia Dargan
Brian J. Dawbin
Michael P. Devine
Mark N. Dooley
John F. Dubach &
Copper F. Giloth
Alicia R. & Philip S. Durand
Douglas & Pamela Dye
Laura O. Edwards
Lee R. Edwards
Robert W. Etherington III
Samuel S. Fan
Douglas O. Feinburg
Laurie Francis-Wright
Virginia Murdock Freeman
Gazette Printing Co., Inc.
Rosemarie Pellera Gentile
The Gillette Company
Richard R. Glendon
Greenfield Savings Bank
Thomas N. & Jane C. Hazen
Barton L. Heefner
Trevor V. Hodge
David & Sheila Hodgkins
Roderick & Linda Hossfeld
Judith A. Howard
John & Patricia Jean
Ralph & Jodi Jensen
John P. Kelley
Bona Fiske Kidston
Arthur F. Kinney
Charles Klem
Richard & Madeleine LaRose
Roger & Susan Lincoln
Thomas & Joan Lindeman
Stephen D. Lothrop
Joan S. & Howard Leavitt
Joann C. Lutz
Thomas & Joan MacLaughlin
Ann R. Maggs
Mass Mutual Life Insurance Co.
Ellen & Daniel Melley
Melanie A. Monsour
Joy C. Mullen
J.W. & Marcia Munger
Joseph and Joan Neale
Patricia B. Park
David S. Paul
Dale & Lorna Peterson
Janet E. Polk
Marietta Pritchard
Charles A. & Nancy Reid
Michael G. Reiniger
Richard R. Rescia
Laura G. Richane
Joan T. & Edward J. Rising
Senator Stan Rosenberg
Uri and Maryjane Rovner
Doraleena A. Sammons-Posey
Christine A. Santos
Charlena & Harry Seymour
Nadine E. Shank
Joseph T. Skerrett, Jr.
Sarah L. Sligo
Elaine Pagano Sloan
Michael E. Spencer
Patricia M. Steuer
Valerie A. Stephens
Representative Ellen Story
Syrinx Flute Repair
Frank & Catherine Tallarida
Judith A. Tarr
Gregory P. Tracy
Faythe D. Turner
Thomas M. Untersee
Elizabeth W. Walsh
Stephen J. Walt
David S. Wentworth
Karen Thomas Wilcox
The Wisteria Vine,
Distinctive Floral Design
Alexandra B. Young
Up to $99
Daisy A. Aaronian
Robert & Mary Ann Adams
Aetna Foundation, Inc.
David & Carolyn Arond
Gabriel I. Auerbach
Ruth G. Auerbach
Armen Babikyan
Elizabeth Bach
Kerin A. Balkissoon
Kathleen K. Bame
Aileen Donna Barkon
Ira B. Baron
Michelle L. Fenton Begley
Ronald E. Bell
Albert E. Benjamin
Jessica & Brett Berchin
Eric M. Berlin
Ruth A. Berliner
Ruth M. Black
Leroy Blair
Stephen W. Blair
Joye L. Bowman &
John Edward Higginson
Maria N. Brazeau
Daniel J. Broad
Barry B. Brooks
Deborah F. Brown
Diana H. Brown
Karen T. Brown
Jeffrey & Barbara Browne
Kevin R. Burns
Linda S. Bush
Eleanor J. Byrnes
Lynne A. Callahan
Olivia Cardoza
Nancy L. Caufield
Deborah R. Chromow
Robert O. Clapp
Carol A. Clark
Joel R. Cohn
Eugenia & James Collins
Deborah Coon
Thomas G. Cremer
Alison Curphey
Robert & Assunta D’Ambrosio
N.J. Demerath
Delphain Demosthenes
Joseph & Norma DiPietro
Helena Donovan
David & Linda Dubois
Robert & Doreen Dunn
Alicia R. & Philip S. Durand
Barbara N. Ehrmann
Entergy Corporation
Adrienne C. Fadjo
Robert A. Fernandes
Jason K. Fettig
Jonathan J. Flood
Andrew J. Forster
Mary Jane Fowler
Laurie Francis-Wright
John & Kathleen Gagliastro
Sarah K. Gardner
Dale L. Ginder Painting
Geraldine H. Gladden
J. Timothy Gleason &
Maureen A. McDermott
Julie K. Goldberg
Sarita Shiv K. Gonzales
Goodwin Amez Choir
Theresa C. Gordon
Helen L. Greene
Arthur. D. Groves
J. Brittany Ham
E. Ruth Harms
Linda E. Harte
Mary A. Hazlett
Carol D. Hebert
Thomas & Joanna Heim
Robert & Frieda Helgerson
Frances E. Hines
Carolyn M. Holstein
Vincent Horkan
Joseph B. Howard
J. Robert & Joanne Hutchings
Richard B. Iannitelli
Elizabeth F. Irwin
Deanna M. Jackson
Miles A. Jackson
Ariel J. Jacobson
John A. & Miriam R. Jenkins
Melissa J. & Steven A. Jenkins
Alfred L. Johnson
Linda & Philip Johnson
Bernie D. Jones
E. Cassandra Jordan
Don Joyner
Lisa & Samuel Karlin
Jay V. Kast
Lawrence Katz
Seymour & Beatrice Katz
Ann Marie Keane
John E. Kenney
Betti A. Kern
Sandra L. Kerr
Russell D. Killough-Miller
Virginia & Marc Lamere
Lorna L. Lamsa
Patricia Landry-Consoletti
Ryan M. Landry
Roger W. Larocca, Jr.
Phillip E. Leavitt
Arthur & Janice LeBlanc
Kimberly A. Levine
Susan J. Lisk
Yu Liu
Mary C. Lunt
Erin M. Mack
Gayle A. MacKoul
Shifra & James MacRostie
Kathleen I. Madden
Amanda A. Maffei
Dorothy & Owen Maloney
Mzamo P. Mangaliso
Virginia L. Marchant
Skippy Mardon
William V. Mason
Margaret E. McCluskey
Jeanette K. McCormick
Jack McKimmy
Joanne Merisotis
Patricia E. Moody
Martha R. Mooke
Asaph M. Murfin
Gina M. Murphy
Lidia Murray
Carolyn E. Myrick
Jennifer N. Nailos
Nan Niederlander
Jill N. Norelli
Daniel & Elana Nouriel
Robert & Jean O’Malley
John G. Otis
Norma W. Packard
Andre V. Paquette
new scholarship funds
ALVIANI MASTERCLASS FUND
Paul & Margaret Partenheimer
Paul & Diana Peelle
Jennifer E. Perfilio
Robert Perry
Mary Catherine Phinney
Katherine & Richard H. Picard
Salvatore Piccolo
Ronald & Deborah Popp
Margaret & Brian Prindle
Darwin E. Prioleau
Douglas L. Purcell
Thomas Quarles, Sr.
Donna D. Randall
Saundra C. Randall
Beareather Reddy
Kathleen & Thomas Rice
John W. & Grace Riesen
Christopher J. Roberts
Nora M. Roche
Gilbert G. Rochon
Eric Roth & Anne Werry
Peter L. Rothbart
Barbara A. Sabol
Israel Saldana
Andrew J. Saykin
Christine & Thomas Scanlon
Eva Schiffer
Astrid C. Schween
Linda-Lee Scott
Russell E. Scott
Marc A. Seedorf
Cheryl A. & Avery G. Sharpe
Michelle J. Simone
Bruce D. Sklar
Deborah Slade & Jeffrey Pierce
Elaine P. Sloan
James P. Snedeker
Donald A. Soutar
Tracy & Cynthia Sprance
Edward J. Stanek III
Robert Stern & Judith Glaser
Paula and Ronald Stults
Rebecca H. &
Raymond P. Surprenant
Carole M. Sweeney
Linda Sweeney
Thomas D. Symancyk
Joan R. Szoke
Alexandra Utgoff Taylor
Andrea Taylor-Blenish
Thomas & Eileen Tela
Marjorie & Benjamin Terry
Stephen & Linda Tetrault
Scott L. Thomson
Kinnethia Tolson
Marlene & David Tucker
Frederick J. Von Mering
Denise L. & Glenn M. Wagner
Barbara S. Weeks
Douglas & Elizabeth Weeks
Marisa A. Weinstein
George Weremchuk
Kayla Werlin &
E. Wayne Abercrombie
Talya D. Westbrook
Kenneth P. Wheeler
Nathaniel & Shirley A. Whitaker
Beth S. Wilson
Karen & John Woolley
Anli Wu
Barbara & Eric H. Zahm
Myron Hager ‘40 and Gladys Hager ‘41, John Osmun ‘40 and Charles Powers ‘40 led a fundraising
effort over the last year to establish and endow an Alviani Masterclass Fund.
Seventeen alumni so far have given over $32,000 to this new fund which will enable the Department
of Music & Dance to present to its voice students at least one special masterclass each year. So
far, donors to the Alviani Fund are primarily from the classes of 1940 and 1943. It is hoped that
students from many other classes, perhaps by designating their annual fund donations for the Alviani
Masterclass Fund, will join in this visible, audible, and long overdue tribute to Professor Emeritus
Doric Alviani. Following his appointment in September 1938 as Massachusetts State College’s sole
Instructor of Music, Alviani created and directed an outstanding program and faculty, forming the
foundation of today’s Department. He founded the UMass Operetta Guild, which became the UMass
Theatre Guild, and remained Department Chairman until 1964, touching the lives of many students
and faculty. Dr. Alviani, an honorary member of the Class of 1940, retired in 1979 and died in 1996.
VIC FIRTH’S SPONSORSHIP
Vic Firth, Inc. supports the Minuteman Marching Band’s Percussion Section annually in two ways.
The company donates all sticks and mallets, and provides a $1,000 scholarship to a member of
the section. In addition, Vic Firth, Inc. employs Music & Dance alumni Olin Johannessen, Assistant
Director of Education, Andy Tamulynas, Josh Kiggans, and Zach Schlicher. Thanks to Thomas
Hannum, Associate Director of the Minuteman Marching Band and a Vic Firth Signature Series Artist,
who serves as the Band’s liaison with Vic Firth, Inc.
DORIS DYER STEWARD AND THE ORATORIO PERFORMANCE FUND
Doris Dyer Steward died at home on July 27, 2007 following a long illness. In 1994, she established a
Charitable Gift Annuity, which provided her with income during her life. She stipulated that after her
death, the Annuity remainder funds were to go toward the creation of the Oratorio Performance Fund.
Though Doris graduated in 1939 with a major in English and a minor in psychology, she loved music
and live performance. After graduation, she worked as a psychiatric social worker, had a family and
volunteered extensively in religious and civic organizations. Her gift was a wonderful way to guarantee
her a set amount of income and ultimately provide support for the Music and Dance Department.
thanks to our co-sponsors for their support
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