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Honoring and congratulating Settlement Music School on its 100th Anniversary and recognizing and commending its directors, officers, faculty, staff and students, both past and present, for making Settlement Music School an institution known world-wide for its excellence.
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WHEREAS, Settlement Music School originated in 1908 at the College Settlement House in the Southwark section of South Philadelphia where Jeanette Selig Frank and Blanche Wolf Kohn, two volunteers, offered piano lessons to the immigrant community for five cents per lesson; and
WHEREAS, The School has grown steadily and today has six branches throughout the Philadelphia region, serving 16,000 students annually and 300,000 students over its 100 years of service, through on-site and special programs; and
WHEREAS, Settlement's mission is to provide children and adults in the Philadelphia region with high-quality instruction and activity in music and the related arts, and serve the broadest possible constituency, regardless of age, gender, race, color or creed, national origin, physical disability or ability to pay; and
WHEREAS, Settlement distributes $2 million in financial aid annually to families in need; and
WHEREAS, Settlement Music School's core program provides individual and class instruction in all instruments, voice and theory, Suzuki, Music Workshop, Fundamentals of Music, and ensembles and dance; the School also offers special programs for senior adults, students with disabilities, outreach programs with area pre-schools, day-care centers, charter and independent schools, and summer programs; and
WHEREAS, The School developed the nationally recognized Kaleidoscope Preschool Arts Enrichment Program, an arts-based pre-kindergarten program for underserved, inner-city children offered virtually tuition-free, and the Teacher Training Institute for the Arts which shares Kaleidoscope's effective practices with a broader public of preschool, elementary school and arts...
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