3(!2% 9/52 0!33)/. ANNUAL REPORT 2012 3(!2% 9/52 0!33)/. The New and Improved www.vandercook.edu If you have recently visited vandercook.edu, you probably noticed the school’s website has undergone a facelift. As VanderCook continues to grow, the way we connect with students, alumni, and friends will continue to expand as well. The new and improved website launched in August after much input and hours of work by our faculty, staff, and dedicated student worker, Alex Fries. The site now features upcoming events, online registra- tion, the ability to download school applications, and photos, lots of them. Scan this QR Code with your smart phone to visit vandercook.edu. VanderCook has also expanded our social media presence. Our Facebook and Twitter pages have an attentive audience and we invite you to join in on the action! Facebook: Twitter: Google+: www.facebook.com/VanderCookCollege www.twitter.com/vandercook www.gplusid.com/vandercook Table of Contents A Letter from the President .........................................................4 “A Year Through My Eyes” ....................................................... 5-8 Profile: Carlos Alban ............................................................... 9-10 A Night at the Pops ...............................................................11-12 Profile: Dr. Leah Schuman .................................................... 13-14 VanderCook and Loyola Academy .............................................15 A Letter from Ron Korbitz .........................................................16 Profile: B.J. Quigley .............................................................. 18-19 Profile: Tom Drake ................................................................20-21 Profile: Sara Tischler ............................................................22-23 From Bronzeville to Brownsville .......................................24-25, 28 Profile: Stephanie Lopez ............................................................29 Profile: Rick Ueno ......................................................................30 Outreach: The Bridge Academy ........................................... 31-32 Profile: Sarah Morgan .......................................................... 33-34 Profile: Dr. Mead Killion .........................................................35-37 Statement of Financial Position ............................................ 38-39 A Letter from Dr. Lewis Schmidt ...............................................40 Inspire. Build. Sustain. Capital Campaign ..............................42-43 The Impact of Giving ........................................................... 44-45 Our Donors .......................................................................... 46-50 Governing Boards, Faculty, Staff ...............................................51 Publication Design: Contributing Please forward Grasso Graphics, Inc. Writers and Editors: address changes to: Tayiib Dauda Photography: Clarmarie Keenan, Clarmarie Keenan Alex Fries Dir. of Institutional Amy Lenting Jon Kirn Advancement Sophia Madana VanderCook Gregor Meyer College of Music Cindy Tovar 3140 South Federal St. Chicago, IL 60616 [email protected] The mission of VanderCook College of Music is to enrich the lives of present and future generations through the preparation of teachers in instrumental, choral, and general music disciplines. Our broad-based curriculum is designed to prepare teachers with strong character, skill in the process of teaching, and respect for the essential role of music in our culture. 3 A Letter from the President Dr. Charles T. Menghini Third grade. I started to play the trumpet in third phase, with secured donations and pledges totaling grade. My teacher was Mrs. Staria Drees. She was the over $2,300,000. We look to raise the remaining town music teacher in Iron Mountain, Michigan. She capital by early spring of 2013, allowing us to have the gave my brother clarinet lessons, she taught flute, initial phase completed and ready for use beginning in horn, trombone, piano, and she taught me trumpet. I the fall of 2014. progressed fairly quickly and after about six or seven months, she introduced me to Hale A. VanderCook Phase one will include a rehearsal/lobby area, one via the entry solo in his great sequential trumpet solo large classroom, three ensemble rooms, six teaching/ series, “Lyra.” I performed it for Mrs. Drees’ annual practice rooms, a piano teaching studio, four faculty/ spring student recital. staff offices, a band library, a choral-orchestra library, an audio-visual production area, an ensemble It was an introduction that changed my life. With her workroom, a performer’s “green room,” storage for the teachings and Mr. VanderCook’s music, I experienced college’s grand piano, a student lounge, a hospitality the profound joy of playing my trumpet, of making area, a new ADA-compliant elevator, bathrooms, and a music come alive through my playing. VanderCook’s reception area. solo helped me develop both the technical and musical aspects of my playing. To think that some 50-plus Phase two will include a large performance/activity years later, I would be heading up the college with his area that will accommodate an audience of 350– name on the door still amazes me. 400 people. This will provide the first dedicated performance space in VanderCook’s history. In Today, VanderCook students are learning to help future addition, phase two will provide a second large generations experience the joy of making music, much classroom, and house the percussion studies area with like the thousands a faculty office/teaching studio, additional teaching/ of our professional practice areas, student lockers, and storage for large teaching alumni who instruments and equipment. Phase two is projected to have come before them. begin in 2016. The foci of our courses “Today, VanderCook students are of study, steeped in the Once completed, The VanderCook Music Education Center (or as the center will be appropriately named) will learning to help future generations traditions and values of our founders, H. A. provide an exceptional environment for music lessons, experience the joy of making music, VanderCook and H. E. master classes, clinics, workshops, lectures, public performances, and graduation ceremonies. In addition, much like the thousands of our Nutt, are as meaningful to today’s music VanderCook will host a concert series featuring college professional teaching alumni who educators as they were ensembles and visiting school music groups, and secure over 100 years ago. sponsorship to bring special musical performances have come before them.” to the campus: chamber recitals, jazz concerts, and Our 2012 Annual Report performances of interest to its students and the Chicago will give you an inside arts community. As the first and largest center of its peek at those students, kind in the neighborhood in decades, this building alumni, and friends who will meet the needs of the college as well as provide have all been influenced by VanderCook. It also details the campus and community with a unique space for our plans to meet the needs our college is facing by educational and recreational events. expanding the educational space for our students and programs through the Inspire. Build. Sustain. capital I hope you will feel the passion, excitement, and campaign. devotion expressed throughout this publication, and I hope you share it with someone who needs to be The Inspire. Build. Sustain. capital campaign signals introduced to VanderCook College of Music. the start of VanderCook’s public efforts to renovate a second building on the IIT campus, just steps from Thanks for your continued support of our efforts. our current facility. This renovation is projected to Please know that YOU are the lifeblood of this college occur in two phases, each at an approximate cost of – its past, its present, and its future. $3,000,000. Presently the college has begun the first 4 www.vandercook.edu “A Year Through My Eyes” My name is Tayiib Dauda, and I’m a to transfer students and even the saxophone player in my fourth year at occasional graduate student. It’s VanderCook College of Music. Here’s a look always a challenge to play with a at a typical year at VanderCook from my per- new ensemble, not to mention that spective, although I’m sure a lot of my fellow at least a third of the band is play- classmates feel the same... ing secondary instruments. But by the night of the concert, we’re all AUGUST playing like a cohesive unit, and feel validated by having a success- Every school year always starts off with a ful concert. huge variety of emotions. At some point during the summer, you find yourself wanting OCTOBER school to start up again so you can see all your friends. This feeling usually lasts right As a saxophone player who loves until a couple of days before the start of jazz, I’ve been lucky enough to classes, and then (if you’re anything like me) perform in the VanderCook Jazz you suddenly dread the thoughts of having Ensemble every semester since I to wake up early or do homework or study for enrolled. Because of this, I’ve had tests. To ease the transition, VanderCook has the privilege to be a part of our a Welcome Back BBQ on the Sunday before annual Fall Tour every October. the first day of classes. It acts as an ice- This is easily one of my favorite breaker and actually feels like the first day events of the school year – not only of school, but without the class work. This is because we get to travel to high great