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Putnam Valley High School Announces Members of New Music Honor Society
With the help of the recently created Putnam Valley Music Association (PVMA) and funding support from (among others) the Putnam Valley Education Foundation (PVEF), the Putnam Valley Music Department is proud to bring the Tri-M Music Honor Society to Putnam Valley High School (PVHS). The first-ever honor society induction ceremony was held on Tuesday, May 10 at 7 pm in the PVHS Performing Arts Center. Putnam Valley Board of Education Trustee Guy Cohen was the event guest speaker and Jeanne Marie Coppa was the Student Speaker. In addition, several senior musicians performed to help celebrate this inaugural event: Kara Kenny sang the Nora Jones tune, "Feelin’ the Same Way," and Lalita Wynt played a Brahms sonata on clarinet with.
The new inductees were PVHS Juniors Maggie Chesnut, Katelyn Kenny, Greg Kroohs, Cecilia Lefurgy, Alexandra Legrady, Julissa Llosa, Pamela Matuszewski, Katie McHenry, and Melinda McLaughlin. Senior inductees were Jeanne Marie Coppa, Greg Curreri, Kara Kenny, Lauren Levesque, Juliette Rapala, Francis W. Rush, IV, Christina Sillery, Christine Stoisits, and Lalita Wynt.
The Tri-M Music Honor Society, founded in 1936, is the international music honor society for high school students. It is designed to recognize students for their academic and musical achievements, reward them for their accomplishments and service activities, and to inspire other students to excel at music and leadership. Through more than 4,500 chartered chapters, Tri-M has helped thousands of young people provide years of service through music in schools throughout the world.
Tri-M shares and supports the objectives of every dedicated music educator - to increase student and school involvement with music and to make a stronger and more unified school music program. Tri-M is a program of MENC: The National Association for Music Education, the largest non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of music education.
For more information on Tri-M or any other aspect of the PVHS music program, please contact: Ryan Odell or Gerard Micera in the Putnam Valley High School Music Department at 845-526-7847 ext. 1382/3
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