strong voice • Strong mind • strong spirit CHESTER CHILDREN’s CHORUS ANNUAL REPORT 2019–2020 The CCC Music Program–Love & Practice

The CCC’s 25th Season: Our abbreviated season (July 2019–mid-March 2020) was our most productive and refined ever, with the children learning and performing a wealth of challenging, culturally significant, and stylistically diverse music. Our Best Ever... Together, we had many impressive musical triumphs and remarkable moments. ● Messiah: By March, we were ready to and then our most challenging perform eleven movements—And the Glory, O Thou, For Unto Us, Glory to God, He Shall In the nine months Feed, Behold the Lamb, Surely, Hallelujah, Since by Man, Worthy is the Lamb, and before the pandemic, Amen. Except for the Hallelujah Chorus, the our CCC children music was unfamiliar to our students, who learned more music, often asked if we could, instead, sing Mozart’s sang more beautifully Requiem. To facilitate learning Messiah, and confidently, and the Concert Choir practiced hundreds of practiced more math than sight-reading exercises in the primary keys of Messiah, and by February, many of the in any previous season. children could read most of the final Amen INSIDE: The children and staff were chorus. By early March we were aggressively thriving in a wonderful cycle polishing in rehearsals, with our students 2 Music Program of practice, success, and pointing out passages that needed more 3 Math Practice Program pride, which fueled the work and asking for ‘do-overs.’ In the final desire to practice even more. Optimism permeated the entire program. Our students sessions before the dress and concert, we 4 Summer Learning Program conquered difficult music and sang their most polished performances, and they were prepared, excited, and proud of our accomplishment. 5 Supporters learned math in leaps and bounds. Fittingly, our 25th year was our best. ● Air: Bach’s sublime Air is part of his Third During our December concerts, the children Then, with the pandemic, the killing of unarmed Black men and women, and ● Bohemian Rhapsody: We performed Queen’s Orchestral Suite. When the children first experienced their first rock concert moment as 10 Financials ensuing protests throughout the country, our anniversary year became our most Bohemian Rhapsody seven times last season, listened to an instrumental recording in the audience waved their cell phones in the followed by seven standing ovations. The challenging. All rehearsals and concerts were cancelled, and our wildly successful September, they immediately appreciated its air during the song. students spent most of the 2019 Summer beauty—Air’s long expressive melody and Math Practice Program was reduced to a few children with sporadic online ● Bennie and the Jets: The older boys looked Program fine-tuning the exotic harmonies perfectly pointed bass line. After a month at me with blank stares when I asked if they attendance. Like you, we were frightened, angry, lost. and creating the choreography. In rehearsals, of rehearsing, we sang through Air for the knew the Elton John song. I played the classic Our Virtual Summer Program (July ’20) marked a turning point for CCC, helping our advanced students took great pleasure first time... and then the children burst into live recording for them, and by the first time us discover what is possible in the face of our limitations. It was, in a sense, a long in pointing out mistakes in my transcription. spontaneous applause and cheers. Elton sings, “Bennie—Bennie, Bennie and the CCC practice session. This fall, with in-person, outdoor rehearsals resuming and fifty Sometimes they were actually right, but in their teenaged brains, they were always right. ● At Night/At Dawn: Swarthmore professor Jets,” the boys were moving their heads to the students participating in our online math program, the children are returning, and our and composer Tom Whitman ’82 wrote beat in that subtle and perfect way that only collective optimism is blossoming. At Night/At Dawn especially for our 25th beautiful Black teen boys move. anniversary. The music is filled with unfamiliar Eventually the world will heal. We will sing for you again and you will cheer ● The Love You Save: In my humble and intervals, dissonances, and rhythms. It is wildly for our beautiful Chester children. Together with you, we will continue to completely biased opinion, our cover of a difficult piece, and the students were not provide our children with a community that fosters artistry, academic achievement, this Jackson Five favorite is better than the immediately keen to learn it. By mid-fall, they and shared humanity. original. After learning and performing it, were singing it during the van rides to and our children love this song as much as their from rehearsals. parents and grandparents do. ● Let It Be: Before the middle schoolers began It was CCC’s most remarkable season of music learning Let It Be, I told them that they were making, filled with our children learning and John Alston going to learn the greatest song ever written. loving some of the best classical and popular ANNUAL REPORT CREDITS: Executive and Artistic Director They didn’t believe me. After two sessions, music ever written. Love and practice make Design: Karlyn Rosen Aires ’87 they asked to sing it at every rehearsal, and excellence—and really good singing. Photography: John F. Wehmiller ’66, now they love Let It Be as much as you do. Laurence Kesterson, and CCC Staff

2019-2020 CHESTER CHILDREN’S CHORUS ANNUAL REPORT 2 The CCC Math Practice Program LEAPS FORWARD The 2019 CCC Summer Learning Program

Middle and High School Students: CCC’s Math Practice Program Impressive Progress Every CCC year begins with the Summer Learning Program, (MPP) took a giant step Thirty-four middle and high school students CCC’s 6-week comprehensive arts and academic enrichment day camp, held forward this year. The results participated in our MPP this year. Five were on the campus of Swarthmore College. eleventh and twelfth graders, who prepared have been phenomenal! for the SAT. The twenty-nine younger students The Summer Learning Program (SLP) is the After three years of developing the program each worked one-on-one with a Swarthmore entry point for new Training Chorus members as an individualized tutoring program for College student math coach. A cohort of (rising third graders). Importantly, the SLP serves middle and high school students, we began fifteen was assessed in both September and as an intensive community-building period for providing foundational group math instruction December, using ixl.com. On this assessment, the entire Chorus, as being together every day to our youngest students—our third graders. a total score of 750 indicates grade-level skills builds trust, solidifies relationships, and creates a Meanwhile, we continued to offer MPP to our appropriate for the middle of seventh grade; foundation for the coming year. middle and high schoolers, and through the hard this cohort’s average score in September was One hundred children, ages 8-18, attended work of CCC Lead Math Teacher Kevin Downs, Last fall, twelve CCC students participated in long lesson included two playful activities that only 480. In other words, our students’ math our SLP in 2019, with six of the older teens we began a more thorough documentation of our first year of math practice for third graders. provided practice as well as snapshots of the knowledge was below the fifth-grade level, employed as counselors. The heart of the MPP’s positive results. They each completed a ten-question assessment students’ progress: approximately three years behind. program revolves around Chorus rehearsal, but of their math fluency that included basic addition ● “Number of the Day” focused on place value We then individualized the curriculum our other offerings were highly diverse. Focused Third Grade: Early Intervention and subtraction, knowledge of place value, and and number sense. for each student based on their September on enrichment, 2019 SLP activities included a After witnessing how intensive support for the their number sense—that is, their understanding ● “Puzzle of the Day” included word problems, assessment results. After just three months combination of core and elective classes: older students remediates the gaps in their math of how numbers work. Of the twelve children, ten fractions, or multiplication. of twice-weekly sessions with their individual ● Chorus Rehearsal comprehension caused by years of ineffective were not able to complete more than five ques- In October, each student had earned at coaches, our older students achieved an ● Music Theory class for Concert Choir members math instruction in school, we decided to tions. Some simply did not know the answers, least one perfect score on these activities! Each average total score of 570, indicating nearly a (high school students and also middle school proactively address these crippling gaps by while others were too intimidated to persist. student’s average success with the fall curriculum year’s growth. This impressive improvement boys whose voices have changed) starting a supplementary math program for Throughout the fall, the group met with was also calculated. Over half of the group manifested across all six math content areas— ● Piano and voice lessons our youngest students. two math teachers twice weekly. Each hour- earned 85% or higher, and two more earned numbers and operations; algebra and algebraic ● Math instruction and practice 70-80%. thinking; fractions; geometry; measurement; ● Science for Kids—an inquiry-based science We gained two additional third graders in the and data, statistics and probability. program, including lab work and individual spring semester, as the group focused on fluency In the final quarter of the fiscal year, we research projects, designed and facilitated by with math facts. Students worked at their own offered MPP as a remote learning program in Swarthmore College faculty and students pace, beginning with the lowest numbers and response to COVID. A small number of students ● Horticulture moving up as they mastered each group of facts. opted to continue math practice with CCC ● Reading support—individual buddy sessions By March, when our program was suspended during this period. As staff and young people with volunteers and also discussion-based by the pandemic, five students had mastered adapted to Zoom instruction, we all began to book clubs the 7 and 8 times tables, and nine students were learn what works well for virtual teaching and ● African Dance working on the threes and fours. Students also learning. As of early Fall 2020, we are confident ● Hip Hop Dance practiced telling time and counting money, and that CCC can continue to provide meaningful ● Drama/Musical Theater all fourteen students earned at least one perfect math support to our children on a remote basis ● Visual Arts highlight was the Concert Choir’s show-stopping score on a telling time worksheet. while COVID restrictions remain in place. ● Photography performance of Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody. In summary, after just six months of meeting ● Swimming instruction Research shows that participation in arts twice weekly with CCC math teachers, our CCC ● Outdoor games and academic enrichment summer programs third graders demonstrated strong improvements ● Basketball improves school attendance and contributes to in their math fluency. We had planned a Weekly trips to the pool at the Swarthmore improved cognitive, social, and personal growth comprehensive assessment in May that would Swim Club and an outrageously fun field trip to (Stevenson, et al., 2013). These findings ring have included place value, word problems, Sahara Sam’s Waterpark supplemented our daily true at CCC, but we place equal stock in how fractions, multiplication, time, and money. While activities. the children themselves see the experience. the pandemic shutdown interfered with this formal The 2019 SLP culminated with an outburst An overwhelming majority of Chorus members assessment, it remains clear that our investment of productivity and expression: three choral reported that participation in the 2019 Summer in group math instruction for the Training Chorus concerts, three drama and dance performances, Learning Program taught them to work through represented a successful deepening of CCC’s an art exhibit, and a science fair, attended by hard challenges, prepared them for the upcoming commitment to math support. a combined total of 1,400 people. The musical school year, and helped them develop as people.

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Jonathan W. Stewart ’67 and Jeffrey and Wendy Lott Mary Ann Banerji William N. Turpin and Ellen Magenheim On behalf of our children at the Chester Children’s Chorus…Thank you! Mary Tillman Steven and Charlotte Mark We celebrate the generosity of our donors who contributed $1,113,380 in charitable gifts to the Chester Children’s Sonia Triester Christine Marque Unitarian Universalist Church of Carolyn Marzo Chorus between July 1, 2019 and June 30, 2020. Gifts made in support of our children have a profound impact and Delaware County Stephen B. Maurer ’67 and Frances R. Stier bring the mission of our program to life. Please know how grateful we are for your support, big hearts, and applause— Herbert and Sheila Weiner Linda McDougall and for helping our children become the people the world needs them to be. Richard S. Wilson ’73 and Andrew Merz and Anne Broussard Emily Howe Wilson ’72 Ken Moskowitz ’76 and Yoko Shoji Anthony and Marsha Wirtel Seth Mrozek $100,000+ Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot ’66 Frank and Charlene Millheim Dolfinger-McMahon Foundation Catharine Davies Newberry ’73 Richard and Elizabeth Mentzinger Reformation Lutheran Church Norman and Margaret Edmonson Jyothi Nambiar Das ’92 and Jai Das - Jennifer Nikolich The William Penn Foundation Scholler Foundation Maurice G. Eldridge ’61 and The Kunhiraman Nair Endowment Fund $250-$499 Thomas and Janet Olshewsky Stephen B. L. Penrose III ’66 Schwab Charitable Fund Patricia Brooks Eldridge ’60 Eric S. Adler ’86 and Jeannine and Chenoa Osayande $50,000 - $99,999 St Peter’s Church in the Great Valley Danielle Scott James and Wendy Emrich Suzanne Myers Adler ’97 William and Roberta Potsic Al and Ellen Pierce Ingrid Serrell Richard and Isabella Englebach Adler Foundation Inc. Judith Mebane Ray ’68 and William Ray Katharine D. Myers (dec’d) Rosenlund Family Foundation Valerie Ann Smith David and Amber Flynn Ann M. Ainsworth Juliet B. Reiter ’87 and Joseph Gill Joseph Leon Turner ’73 and Lana Elizabeth and Bruce Rubin Claire E Thurman Heidi Foggo and Larry Bruck American Endowment Foundation Willard Richan and Ann Barrett Hubben Everett Turner ’74 Ethel Sargeant Clark Smith Memorial William Webb The Foundation for Delaware County Valerie Lowe Amerkhail ’64 Leonard Rico Foundation Julia and Guy Welbon Sharon Friedler and Jon Sherman Robert and Jeannine Anckaitis Carol Samuelson $25,000 - $49,999 Nathan Speare Foundation Peter and Martha Wilcockson Linda Frommer ’71 Allyn Daniel Taliferro Bacchus Ross and Kim Schmucki Anonymous (2) Robert and Virginia Speare Ian Wilcox and Melisande Simmering G Guy Smith - Harris and Smith Sheila La Verne Baisden Charles and Maria Schweizer Carole Haas Gravagno Connelly Foundation Gregory Brown and Linton Stables Jeff and Karen Wolters Robert and Carole Morgan Darlin Family Fund of Timothy Barnard and Meredyth Patterson Dana and Demetri Semos Edward and Virginia Gunst Cordelia and Donald Delson Peter Thompson Susanna and Dennis Morikawa The Philadelphia Foundation Jan Burgess Bays ’66 and Laren Bays Rhea Sujin Seo ’98 Gunst Family Foundation Hamilton Family Charitable Trust Frances Vilella-Velez ’74 and James Petrucci and Jeanne Villano Petrucci Jon Jay DeTemple and Margaret Wallace Margaret Slocum Bearn ’45 J. Lawrence Shane ’56 and $1,000 - $2,499 Wendy Hibberd Eugene M. Lang Foundation Jeffrey W. Golan Petrucci Family Foundation Inc. Richard T. Eldridge and Joan Vandegrift Peter and Marcia Bloom Martha Porter Shane ’57 Anonymous (4) Barbara and John Hirshfeld Jane Lang ’67 and Robert Kapp Suzanne and Robert Welsh Lori Poliski and Paul Gross Arthur and Judith Goodkind Cheryle Oshman Blunt ’94 and Ben Yagoda and Gigi Simeone John Alston H’15 and Sara Posey ’04 Peter Hoffenberg and Saundra Schwartz Pam and Rich Merriman Leslie and Andrew Price Steve and Marilyn Henkelman Elson Oshman Blunt Alan Levi and Amy Sisson Estate of Katharine Baker James and Maureen Holman Pincus Family Foundation Laura Rogers Pyle ’00 and Daniel Wright Mitchell and Cristy Hollin L. Clarke Blynn Kathleen and Robert Siwicki $2,500 - $4,999 Elizabeth Susan Bolton and Rosemary and Robert Hughes Thomas Irving Whitman ’82 and Mira Rabin Thomas and Robin Queenan Della W. Holtzapple Lisa O’Mahoney and Thurman Brendlinger Steven Smith and Jenny Shulbank Christine and Leif Beck James Peyton-Jones Constance Hungerford and Hans Oberdiek Kailey Radcliffe Dick and Kris Hughey Stuart and Mary Brooks Marc J. Sonnenfeld ’68 and Deborah Bergstrand and Bob Stanley Susan and Ben Brake Robert and Saran Hutchins Eric Rangell H W Marston and Company Byron and Dianne Chandler Ann Laupheimer Sonnenfeld $15,000 - $24,999 Jean Pierre and Elizabeth Bouvel William and Glendora Brooks Impact Assets Ann Reed Johnson & Johnson Community Foundation of New Jersey Patricia Spampinato Anonymous (1) Eleanor Wehmiller Fernald ’61 (dec’d) Bruce M. Brown John Neill Painting and Decorating LLC Thomas Ringe and Tricia McGuinn Raymond Johnston and Delma Broussard Elizabeth Maxfield Crofts ’63 and Karen Spielman Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church William and Lynn Mace Gonzalez Alpin W Cameron Memorial Fund Richard and Dixie Klingaman Diane Runyan Ward Marston and Scott Kessler Daniel W Crofts Sarah Starr Rosemary Cadigan Andrea Hoff Knox ’64 and Andrea Fleck Clardy ’65 and Thomas Kornack ’98 and Jill Foley Michael Jacob Rutberg ’03 and A. Kikuchi ’86 and Tony Teal Samantha Delson Greg Stephens and Carol Steinbrecher CHIME Jonathan Hodgson Jon Christel Clardy Eric and Jacqueline Kraeutler Pooja Chandra Rutberg ’03 Eugene Klotz and Carole Netter Dunwoody Village Residents’ Assocation Michael and Sarah Taub Helen’s Hope Foundation Carol Kroch and Geoffrey Cox Eleanor Preston Clark Mary McTernan and Thomas Lee Stephen Lehmann and Carol Sabersky Nell Lee Kruger ’64 and Gloria and Steve Ellers Radclyffe and Maria Thompson Independence Foundation Philip H. Lebowitz and Sharon Lee Bunkie Darlin and Jay Voshell Bob and Peg McCauley Sanford C. Bernstein & Co LLC Chuck Underwood Kruger Jim and Kathy Elliott Susan Thompson Dorothy Wynne Marschak ’51 Bruce and Eleanor McLear Helen A. Davis James and Linda McEntee The Savoy Company Ron and Emily Levine Rich and Renee Erickson Herman and Dana Towles Phillies Charities Inc. Robert and Jane McNeil Delaware County Community Foundation Joyce McFarland The Presser Foundation Jeffrey Scheuer ’75 Alice Long Christopher Fallon Jameson Troutman Sara Orr Sello ’66 and Thomas Sello Lucy Bunzl Mallan ’54 Mary Farrow Richard R. Truitt ’66 and Toni Avery $10,000 - $14,999 David Shawley and Danielle Reinhardt Marjorie M and Irwin Nat Pincus Fund Henry Clapp ’09 and Kathleen Feeney ’09 United Way of Greater Philadelphia Ruth Ottaway Sherer ’58 Stephen Marzo and Karen Koh Louis Friedler Helene and William Van Hoeven Anonymous (4) Laura and Ronald Siena Michael and Lise Meloy Catherine Fukushima Christa Volkmann Yang Cao and Meixia Lu David W. Singleton ’68 and William B. Carr, Jr. ’73 and Linda Gates Black Grant Grissom continued on page 7 Elaine Hughes Singleton Stephanie A Middleton David Gehrenbeck ’91 and Robert and Claire McLear Jonathan Sprogell and Kathy Taylor Mark and Lisa O’Brien Laura Nagle Gehrenbeck ’91 Benjamin Thomas ’92 Sidney Stern Memorial Trust Judy Owen Jay and Maxine Goldberg Karen Vesely and Evan Siegelman Carol Leslie Swingle ’76 and Marc Pasciucco ’98 and Sarah Pasciucco Jennifer Gould John F. Wehmiller ’66 and What does CCC mean Todd H Speece Lawrence Passmore Robert J. Gross ’62 and Paula Lawrence Wehmiller ’67 “ Nancy Wambach The Philadelphia Foundation Isabeth Rosenberg Gross to me? When I think Andrew H. Ward Helen C. Plotkin ’77 and Andrew D. Hauze ’04 and of the CCC, I think of $5,000 - $9,999 Westphal Foundation Richard Schuldenfrei Emily Shrader Hauze ’04 Anonymous (3) Vippy Yee and Peter Dijstelbloem David Richman and Janet Perry Marty Spiegel and Linda Heffernan family, MY family. There Eric and Gretchen Andersen Steven and Laurie Rosard Karen Hemenway is a unity that comes The Atlantic Philanthropies Paula and Andrew Rosen Morton Howard Peggy Brick (dec’d) and Allan Brick (dec’d) $500 - $999 Rex and Wendie Russell Kenneth and Millicent Hull with being with the

Class of 1966 Summer Internship and Anonymous (2) Aurora Camacho de Schmidt and Erik Georg Huneke ’97

Mentorship Fund Sallie Anderson and Evan Ernest Arthur Schmidt Douglas and Judith Jones Choir. CCC means the Elder Family Foundation Gene and Jean Bay Laurence and Ann Seidman Pieter M. Judson ’78 world to me, and there “ Friends of Chester Children’s Chorus Jean Bodine Helene Shapiro Alan T. Kessler Steven Goldfield and Ellen Meriwether Bruce Bowler Michael Shone David and Eunice King is nothing but love Edward A. Gooding ’86 and Beatrice Feron Central Baptist Church Leslie Stein and Michael Fishkow Dennis Lee and Esther Chung surrounding the CCC. Alice Humphrey William and Sandra Conwell Dylan Steinberg ’93 and Amey Hutchins ’93 Jennifer I. Lenway Dates refer to Swarthmore College Justin Rust Crosby ’04 and Phillip Scott Stern ’84 and David and Leslie Leonard A’Najah, CCC 2020 Graduate, Alumni graduation year. Njideka Akunyili Crosby ’04 Tamar Chansky Stern ’84 Bruce E. Lohman ’70 Freshman, Widener University

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Robert and Sydney Pasternack John and Gertrude Steel $250 - $499 continued Florence Brown Tom MacDonald Up to $99 Joel F. W. Price ’00 and Bruce and Carolyn Stephens Amy Vollmer and Anthony Stella Christopher James Buckley ’94 and Timothy MaClay Anonymous (8) Lela Kristin Patrik ’04 Thomas Stewart Brice and Mary Wachterhauser Lisa Roberts Rabbi Jill Maderer Amy Acquarola Lauri Perman Mary Stock Betty Ann Wilson (dec’d) Eva Burgess Bojan Madic Sandra L. Albro ’01 David and Amy Pollack Barbara Stussy John and Vera Wilson David Byler and Kathleen Schmick Marianne Wertheim Makman ’58 and Martin and Susan Altschuler Susan Posey Betty Subashi Bertram and Lorle Wolfson Thomas Callaghy and Margo Coffin Groff Maynard Makman Arthur and Elaine Anthony Pamela Prescod-Caesar Swarthmore College Math-Statistics Dept Jonathan Yardney and Carolyn Eisen David Calloway and Sandra Sborofsky Diane Mankin James and Maria Avitabile Nancy Prindle John Swartzentruber and Lauren Mckinney YourCause LLC for Boeing Norma Carbone Ida Fuller Mann Bonnie Bahel Mona Cardell and Berta Jean Britz Ralph Mariani and Leslie Pfeil Kenneth Rainey and Elizabeth Plume Bernita Clare Taylor ’80 Linda Greenfield Baldwin ’63 $100 - $249 Rebecca Lynne Carovillano Marcia Martin Devi Shivani Ramkissoon ’06 Monica Tercero Belvie Ballard Hilyard Sydney L. Carpenter and Steven Donegan Chris Martinson Kurt and Mary Ann Reiss Terry Terruso James Batchelor Anonymous (5) James Castellan and Lynn Kelley Katherine McCarthy John A. Riggs ’64 and Noel A. Theodosiou ’94 Terry and Nancy Batty Elizabeth Agnew Ronald and Donna Chadderton Colleen McCauley Judith Assmus Riggs Elia Trowbridge Cathrin Baumbach Elizabeth F. Albrecht ’81 and Stewart Lipner Betsey Chalmers Barbara Brown McClenahan Louis and Lonnie Riley Scott Turner Gabriel Quinn Bauriedel ’94 and Elizabeth Allen Joan Chaykun Julie McCormick Kay Rinko W Scott Tuttle Julie M. Shapiro ’92 Alpha Delta Kappa Upsilon Gregory Christopher and Rev. Bernice Kathleen McGrann Denise A Risoli Gregory Van Gundy Robert and Gayle Beaney Karen Bachmann Christopher Nichole Mihara Theresa D. Rodriguez Cynthia VanHefter Mark and Elizabeth Beaugard Joan L. Band Ralph and Janice Ciampa Ann Miller Richard and Rae Roeder Rogers Vaughn Paul and Patricia Beaumont Marcantonio Barone Susan and Peter Clarey Stanley Miller Thelma Rubin Judith and Don Voet Mary Ann Beckstrom Robert A. Barr Jr. ’56 and Eleanor M. Barr Virginia Clark Jane B. Miluski Kathleen E. Sacco Joan Wachlin Rebecca Lily Karpatkin Benjamin ’07 Sarah Batchelor Louise Lichtenberg Coffin ’67 and Florence Battis Mini ’68 and David Sachs and Rosalyn Ominsky Michael Tadashi Noda ’04 and and Sorelle Alaina Friedler ’04 Edward and Cathy Baum David Rush Coffin Mary French David and Barbara Hornbach James Michael Mini Jane Ann Said Jillian Goldie Waldman ’06 Colette Bennett Frances Batzer Baylson ’68 and Linda Cohen Leslie Friedman and Parker Snowe John Loren Passmore ’94 and David Patrick Mister ’04 Carol and Jefferey Savery Topsy Ward Robert Benson and Phyllis Mcintire-Benson Michael M Baylson Nancy Hall Colburn Farrell ’63 (dec’d) Ann Rubio Froines ’64 Kusia Hreshchyshyn ’93 Dale Mitchell Jim and Berenice Saxon Martin O. Warner and Paula Dale Betty Bergstrand Caroline Beasley and John P. Farrell Barb Fukushima Stephen and Nancy Imbriglia Allison Moore and Allan Ells Robert and Judith Schachner WAS Realty Inc. Barbara Bernhardt Paul and Polly Bech Blaine and Judy Coleman Dennis and Denise Fulvio Erin Inman Mary Anne Carlson Morgan Peter J. Schmidt and Lisa Aaron K Ann Renninger and Stephen Weimar Robert and Sarah Bernhardt Wendell Peter Benson Angela A. Moore-Colley ’69 and Herb Colley Andrew Fussner and Christine Ramsey Evelyn Rosen Isom Jane Murray Barry and Myrna Schwartz Susan Welfley Charlotte Beverly Kristine Bergstrand and Robert Susick Peter J. Collings and Diane O’Brien Collings Jill Bennett Gaieski Gudmund and Bobbie Iversen Sian Myshko Howard L. Scott Marc Joel Wertheimer ’71 and Patricia Binnion Candy Berlin and Ralph Kaufman Community Arts Center Brian and Suzanne Gallagher Jewish Communal Fund Carol Nackenoff and James Greer Patti Seymour Judith Okin-Wertheimer Richard and Verdena Block Sheldon and Susan Bishov Virginia Condo Jean Gaul Alfred Johnson, Jr. and Nancy Halli Reed and Pat Neuman Kenneth Shackman Suzanne K. West David and Ellen Bodenheimer Dave Blazek Sandra McConnell Condry ’63 John and Gail Gaustad Martha and Dodge Johnson Lisa Nicholson Robert Sharon Harold Wilkinson Ernest and Edna Bogert James Louis Bock ’90 and Congregation Rodeph Shalom Sheila Gedney Karen Jones Margaret W. Nikelly William and Brenda Shields Barbarajene Williams Robert and Tanya Booker Ruth A Heltzer Bock Don and Dianne Cooney Andrea Genetti Sheryl Jones and Haim Bau Steven and Sandra Niss Scott Sisson and Jacqlyn Kennedy Sisson Susan N. Wilson William and Diane Bricker Robert and Jean Boell Patricia Cox Kenneth Gergen and Mary Gergen (dec’d) Etheldreda M Kaminski Douglas Norton and David and Eleanor Smith Nancy Wingo Linda Bucher Edgar and Corliss Boggs Carol A Creighton Robert and Diane Gerlach Anne Ashbaugh Kamrin ’51 and Kathryn Friggle-Norton Theodore and Lois Snowe Nolan Woodland Jennifer Burgess Lesley Bollinger Elaine Cumens Eugene Gibbs Robert P. Kamrin (dec’d) Owen D. Owens Marsha Solmssen Juanita E. Wortham John and Carolyn Burrell Diane Bosak Catherine D’Ignazio and Thomas Mandel Deborah Glass Charles and Sylvia Keleman Hervey C. Parke III ’65 and Richard Sonntag YourCause for Vanguard Geraldine Burton John and Renie Boudreau Julie Dallett-Duncan and Lloyd Duncan Marilyn Tindall Glater ’63 and David Glater Deborah G. Kemler Nelson and Stephanie Cotter Parke Eva Starr Matching Gift Program Herb and Suellen Butler Yvonne Bradley Todd and Christine Darr Atiya Goldsmith Larry Nelson Philip and Linda Paseltiner Christopher Stasiunas Mary Anne Zak Kevin and Judith Cadigan Brady Foundation Inc. J. Andrew Daubenspeck ’66 and Bruce Grant Terry and Caitlyn Kennedy Hilda M. Campbell Jessamine Brandt Esme Thompson David and Gertrude Graves Jennifer N Kennedy Stephen and Heidi Carp Nancy Breitling Larry Davidson ’77 and Nancy Gray Carol J. Singley and Gordon Kinsey Anne Carter ’09 Virginia C Brookins Marian Ruth White ’75 Ernest Thomas Greene ’54 and Thaddeus and Susie Kirkland Frances M. Carter Doris Brown Joshua Davis Margaret Heaney Greene T. Kaori Kitao Phoebe Cascaden Annette Deigh Lee and Richardson Greenwood Patricia Koedding John and Nicole Cavanaugh Madeleine Delson and Kevin Towles Alma Jean Haas Donald and Vicki Kramer William Cestaro Chorus gives kids a Nancy DeLucia Anna and Nicholas Hadgis Christel Krugovoy Anne L Chambers chance“ to understand Larry and Patricia DeMooy C. Stuart and Judith Hain Irma Kubiak Patricia Chandler Lisa Dennis Nathan La Porte ’08 and Leah Handel ’08 Allen Kuharski and Richard Lowe Hollie Citerone not only about music Thomas Devlin Michael S. Hanna David Kurland and Harriet Herzberg Carl and Joy Clauss Aron Peter Dobos ’06 and Hillary Dobos Nancy Hansen Hugh and Maria Lacey Co-Ed Beauty Salon but also about their Kathleen Donahue Birgitte Haselgrove Steven Joseph Larin ’97 and Sadie Coffin community and about Linda Donnelly Nancy Smith Hayden ’46 Elizabeth Green Larin ’97 Sarah Collett Valerie Dougherty Pamela Haynes Donald and Susan Larson E.J. Avent Conner the world. It shows them David R. Dye ’72 and Karen Heller James and Ann Hazard Lynn Hollen Lees ’63 and Andrew Lees Andrea Cook that they as individuals Peter Y. Eastman ’78 William and Jane Heintzelman Colette Lefever and David Orehowsky Ruth Cook John P. Edgar ’69 and Carol Martin Edgar Walter and Marjorie Herbert Mary LeFever Stephen and Sandra Cooper can change the world, Raymond and Patricia Emplit Leal Beck Herlitz ’99 Maria Lewis Harrington E. Crissey, Jr.

and that they all have Carol Erck Patricia Hillard Johnson Andrew A. Lewis ’85 and Elaine Crivelli William B. Fairley ’60 and Michele M. Fairley Gregory and Diane Hillyard Virginia Boone Lewis ’86 Patrick M. Cronin ’83 and the ability to do so. That“ Sabrina Fecher Andrew Hamilton Hirsch Warrren and Arline Lieberman Mary Woolson Cronin ’83 is so vitally needed in Barbara Feinstein Lisa Maria Hirschkop ’82 and Leigh Peake Jennifer Lin and William Stieg Frances Cylc Eric Wantuck Eisenberg ’06 and Henry and Ann Hofmann Hannibal Lokumbe Joan Dailey our world right now. Erin Marie Feltman ’06 Justin B. Holmes Joanna Rudge Long ’56 and E. Lee and Russi Dastur Fine Tree Care LTD Hannah E. Holt ’22 Norwood G. Long Joseph Davis Jesse, CCC 2020 Graduate, Roberta Fischer Karen E Holtkamp Samuel Lorber ’89 Freshman, Cairn University Francis and Carolyn Forwood Raymond and Carol Hopkins Paula Linn MacDonald continued on page 9

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Up to $99 continued Valerie J. Gilliam ’73 and Warren Scott Mary and Robert Keppel John R. McKinstry ’81 and Elizabeth Deegan The Glenmede Corporation Barbara G. Keyser Nancy Marie Crickman ’82 Michael DeMirjian Janet M. Goldstein Alicia N. Kikuchi ’91 and Terrence and Jean Michael FY 2019-2020 REVENUE Lois and Joseph Deutsch Sarah J. Gonzales ’15 Kenneth Hasbrouck Chita Middleton Rich Gorelick Virginia Knutsen Barbara A. Milewski Mike DiPaolo and Amy Fantalis INDIVIDUAL Sherry Hall Jonathan H Kochavi Mary Ellen Dougherty Elizabeth Millman CONTRIBUTIONS Mark and Carol Dresden Charlene Hanbury Dierdre Konar Lynise Mills $665,614 Marjorie Dugan Carolyn Harmon David G. Gertler ’83 and Susanne I. Kost ’83 Marjorie Mitchell Margaret Dunn Kathryn Harper James Kozub Doris Mitrani BEQUESTS Steven and Cheryl Earl Robin Harper Joel and Joanne Krackow Lianne Moccia $211,219 David and Gina Eberly Crystal Harrison Ruth Krakower Tayler Moots Thomas and Mary Anne Harrison Karen Kreeger Richard and Doris Mortimer FOUNDATION GIVING Jason W Ebersole $147,000 M. Virginia Ebert Jim and Betty Hausman Gail Kuhl Douglas and Lois Moser $1,113,380 Donna Echols Robert and Patricia Haussmann Edgar and Marilyn Kunz Sonya Mouzon CORPORATIONS & Linda Echols Mary Jo Hebling Terry LaBan Marshall Muhammad ORGANIZATIONS Muriel W. Edgerton Nicholas Hegedus and Katherine Bech Amy Lago David and Mary Mullen $46,179 David L. Eldridge ’90 and Lisa Carney David and Sally Helms Margaret Lampkin Deborah Mulligan Charles C. Ellis III ’66 and Sheila Ellis Ruth Hendry Margery Lauber Charlie Murray EARNED INCOME $24,460 Nancy Etherington Patricia Hodnett John Lea and Patricia Heather-Lea Jack H. Nagel ’66 and Barbara Nagel Sharyn Hollingsworth Lisa Lee ’81 David Bober ’09 and Karina Navarro ’09 Paul and Esther Fallon INVESTMENT INCOME Kathleen Hornberger Rebecca Lee James P. Fawcett J. Denis Newbold ’71 and Daniel C. Rothenberg ’95 and Anisa George Maryann Tallman Delayo $18,908 Lois R. Fishman ’72 and Henry David Fetter Stephan and Nancy Hornberger Deborah Lennon Gail Foster Newbold ’71 Stanley and Linda Rumbaugh Trish Tancredi Julia C. Fitzpatrick Joe Horwitz and Katherine Sibley Barry and Gail Levin Brian Nicklaus Lucille Russell Eden Tanenbaum Sheila M. Fitzpatrick ’91 Dana Houghton Lawrence and Gail Malcolm Suzanne Noble Barbara Haddad Ryan ’59 Gabriel Tarr Dorothy Flanagan Mary Houghton Debra Malinics Alicia and Lorde Nock Emily Santer Shalonda Tate Constance Spink Fleming ’43 Peter Howell Harriet Malloy David and Jeanne Nogast Stephen Arthur Laubach ’96 and Louise Todd Taylor ’61 FY 2019-2020 EXPENSES Mindy Flexer and David Thompson Harry and Barbara Hoyt Michael Mancini Clare Novak Carina Guiao Santos-Laubach ’97 Mark Samuel Taylor ’80 and Ethan and Sari Fogel Deidre Hunter (dec’d) Sandra Goadby Mannix Steve and Virginia O’Connell June Sargent Brenda Perkins ’79 MUSIC PROGRAM Durel Freeman Lenore Cericola and Gloria J Impicciatore Joel and Martha Marcus Lynn and William Oberfield Lisa Schachner Mark and Carol Testa $268,864 Bernard and Barbara Friedrich International Ballet Classique Galen Marquess Mark and Fran Ordway Arnold and Dorothy Schneider Peter Thompson Genevieve Fullard Ellen Jackson Charles and Gay Marshall Gregory Ott and Kelly Eckel Emma Aster Small Schroeder ’06 Stanford Thompson SUMMER LEARNING Paulette Fuller Henry and Irene Johnson Charlotte Martin Daryl and Helen Pack PROGRAM Frank Sciecinski Charlotte Triefus $114,928 Jerome Fung ’06 and Jennifer Dodwell James Johnson Doris Martin Sarah Palmer J. B-C Seaver Judith Trustone Marian Fuson Margaret Johnson Marja Mattila-Evenden and John Evenden Paul and Myrna Paluba Amy Sepinwall Cynthia Un MATH PRACTICE Ernest Galaz and Elizabeth Campbell Ramona Jones James Maule William Paul Parker ’76 and Sidney and Gloria Shanken Mary Elizabeth Unterkoefler PROGRAM Julia Gaskins Donald and Ivy Jost Joan May Salis Cosford Parker Nancy Shapiro Anne Van Arkel $927,053 $91,748 Joyce Gay Karen Juday George and Judy McCarthy Reine Patterson Patricia H. Shawe Elizabeth Vogdes and Frank and Lynn Giammattei Hedy Karbiner Elizabeth A. McDonald ’05 and David and Mary Patton Susan Shennon Charles Cantor TRANSPORTATION $133,376 Karen Gibble Meghann R. Kasal ’17 Michael Rotondo Joyce and Leland Pedrick Pamela Kei Shropshire Barbara Waters Wade Scott F. Gilbert and Anne Raunio Daniel William Keleher ’93 and Elizabeth McGoldrick Ven Tenzin Pelyang Josephine Singer Robert A. Walkling ’53 and ADMINISTRATION Mary Gillane Maureen Sullivan-Keleher Thomas and Theresa McGrath Lauren Pendleton Sisters of Notre Dame Julia Robinson Walkling & MANAGEMENT Thomas Pickard Caitlin Markowitz Smith ’07 and Brian Smith Fritz and Roxanne Ward $195,661 Philip Pierangeli Lorraine Smith Richard Ward Helen and Peter Pitts Serita Spadoni Marie Wardynski DEVELOPMENT Nora Pomerantz Martha Louise Spanninger ’76 and Earl Warren & FUNDRAISING $122,476 Michael Prifti and Dale Drucker Robert Mueller ’68 Philip and Penny Weinstein Peter and Shannon Prown Renae Starker Sandra West Spencer C. Putnam ’67 and Arthur and Doris Strawbridge Leola Williams Verena Hostettler Putnam ’69 Annika Lister Stroope ’97 and Deborah Wolozin Narda Quigley Jeremy Allen West John and Barbara Woodcock Evan Radcliffe and Nancy Shaw Laura S. Struble ’87 and Jim Dana Ishan and Tamara Woods 910 DONORS •1,365 GIFTS Peter and Barbara Ramsay Margaret Suby John and Anna Yaworsky Mary Louise Raymond Martin and Lois Sulla Geraldine Young Stephen and Marcia Reed Jonathan S. Kimmel ’85 and Lauren Zalut Dorothy Reichardt Elizabeth Claypoole Swan ’86 Hamid Zangeneh and Janice Moore 2019-2020 Oversight Board Mary L. Reindorp Mary Sweeten ’76 and Kevin Bevan Alec S. Zimmer ’97 and Anna Rice William and Darcene Swineheart Elisabeth Healey Zimmer Philip H. Lebowitz, Chair Carol Kroch Robert and Jeanette Richardson Doris Szeyller Lloyd Zuckerberg Grant Grissom, Vice Chair Bob McCauley Hugh Crouch Roberts ’73 and Celeste Peterkin Sarah Hulse Roberts This Annual Report reflects giving from July 1, 2019 –June 30, 2020. Elizabeth Rubin, Secretary Mark and Karen Robinson Every effort has been made to be complete and accurate, and we apologize Karen Vesely, Finance Chair Leslie Stein Ryan Roderick ’93 for any errors or omissions. Deb Bergstrand Vippy Yee Gary Rogers Ex-officio: Greg Brown Hannelore N. Rogers If you have any questions, or would like to further discuss the ways you Lisa Dennis Helene Ross can have an incredible impact in the lives of our children, please contact Steve Goldfield Emerita: Cordelia Delson Markeisha Ross Carolyn Marzo, CCC Director of Development, at 610.328.8617 or email at Crystal Harrison Emeritus: Maurice Eldridge Phoebe Roth [email protected].

9 2019-2020 CHESTER CHILDREN’S CHORUS ANNUAL REPORT 2019-2020 CHESTER CHILDREN’S CHORUS ANNUAL REPORT 10 CCC Lives Matter ast fall, after a Saturday afternoon music theory class, four of our older girls walked over to the Swarthmore L Dunkin’ Donuts/Baskin Robbins for milkshakes. Approaching from the opposite direction were three elderly women. As they neared the girls, one woman clutched her handbag tightly to her body. Our girls are Black, and the women were White. When the girls returned with their shakes, they recounted the incident. One of the girls, M, insisted, and continued to insist for thirty minutes, that she was unfazed—even though she was clearly and justifiably upset. How is it possible that someone walking in Swarthmore could be afraid of four beautiful Black girls who had spent the afternoon singing Bach and Billy Joel, and learning to write scales and do Roman numeral analysis? George Floyd’s death and the Black Lives Matter protests have rightly brought police brutality and systemic racism to the front of the American consciousness. Breonna Taylor’s death broke our children’s hearts. I have never talked about racism on stage or written about it in CCC communications, but in rehearsals with the older children, we talk about it almost daily. We are hopeful and determined, but not naive. We know that our lives will be more difficult because we are Black, but we also know that many Americans understand that the sins of slavery have not been adequately addressed, and that systemic racism is real. America has twice failed, first with Reconstruction and then with the incomplete Civil Rights Movement, to build a just and welcoming society for its Black children. But with every rehearsal, every song, every concert, CCC children become better equipped to succeed in the world beyond Chester. Our brave and beautiful CCC children show us all what our country could be. —John Alston

Chester Children’s Chorus Staff John Alston, Executive and Artistic Director Elisa DeNofio, Program Coordinator Kevin Downs, Lead Math Teacher Carolyn Marzo, Director of Development Dana Semos, Managing and Education Director Sean Tripline, Assistant Music Director

The Chester Children’s Chorus is an affiliated program of Swarthmore College and receives generous in-kind support from the College, but raises its own funds to cover all direct expenses. Official tax receipts for charitable contributions to the Chorus come directly from the College.

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