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[su_service title=”Tara Diel, President” icon=”icon: caret-right”]Tara joined the DSAF Board in 2013. Prior to joining the Board, she facilitated DSAF grants for her children’s teachers and school and was an active participant in the artistic process. She feels passionate about the importance of art and music in a child’s education. Her hobbies are reading, yoga, gardening and volunteering in the schools and community. She has two children in the DJUSD schools.[/su_service]
[su_service title=”Rebecca Breitbard, Vice President” icon=”icon: caret-right”]Rebecca has worked for the past 12 years as an in-house counsel for large IT services and consulting companies. Her area of expertise is government contracting. She has two children who attend Willett Elementary School. She is filling her limited free time with house projects, school volunteering, playing the fiddle and cooking.
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[su_service title=”Julie Cuetara, Treasurer” icon=”icon: caret-right”]Julie started with the DSAF in 2006 as the Treasurer because a neighbor needed help. While still serving as Treasurer today, she also serves as the senior board member and the DSAF Home for the Holidays event coordinator. Along with her DSAF accomplishments, she is proud to be a Computer Specialist, year book and web site advisers, and serving as mascots (Cody and Hootie) for Korematsu and Willett Elementary Schools. She also loves being Daisy the Davis Clown, Honey the Bunny, and Dweezel the Dragon (Formally the Valley Oak Elementary School Mascot). Additionally, she promotes animal education by bringing animals (personal and fosters) to schools and community events.[/su_service]
[su_service title=”Eva Jakab, Volunteer Coordinator” icon=”icon: caret-right”]Eva is a CPA and Enrolled Agent specializing in income taxation with more than 10 years of accounting experience in the private and government sectors. Currently, Eva works at UC Davis as the Business Office Manager for the Department of Microbiology. Eva’s daughter, Dora is in the sixth grade at Willett Elementary School, where she is now in her fourth year of singing in the chorus. In her free time, Eva goes to the gym or rides her bicycle.[/su_service]
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[su_service title=”Brian Miller, Board Member” icon=”icon: caret-right”][/su_service]
[su_box title=”How can you help?” style=”bubbles” box_color=”#c04732″]We are constantly seeking new members who are interested in working on or with the DSAF Board of Directors. Those who would like to volunteer their time are most welcome. Please contact us via email at info@DavisSchoolArtsFoundation.org or US mail at the address below.[/su_box]
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[su_tab title=”Past Board Members”]
The following members of the community have served on the board of the Davis School Arts Foundation
*Names in rose color are current board members.
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DeKristie Adams
Alan Anderson
Joanne Andresen
Doug Arnold
Barbara Ashby
Ruth Asmundson
Ann Bassi
Erin Beaumont
Heidi Bekebrede
Lou Below
Donna Billick
Christine Blanchard
Karen Block
Lucy Boland
Sunny Booher
Bob Bowen
Susie Boyd
Susan Brady
Rebecca Breitbard
Russell Bruch
Richard Brunelle
Gayle Bryner
Tessie Bynum
Vicky Carr
Barbara Carver
Robert Chason
Colleen Connolly
Diana Connolly
Gregg Cook
Ann Costello
Steve Craig
Richard Cramer
Julie Cuetara
Dawn Daro
Paul Deering
Lucy Della-Rosa
Tara Diel
Kristen Farrar
Alzada Forbes
Stan Forbes
Charlotte French
Harriet Gadisman
Mark Geiger
Bob Gonzales
Sally Gray
Don Greenbaum
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Ellen Halteman
Paul Hart
Patricia Hershberger
Julie Hochman
Sharna Hoffman
Linda Holte
Jody House
Margaret Hoyt
Joan Hullar
Susan Hulsizer
Stephanie Hunt
Betsy Hyder
Eva Jakob
Michael Jaroff
Harry Johnson
Teresa Kaneko
Karen Karnopp
Janet Kappes
Jackie Kinney
Bob & Cathy Kerr
Joy Klineberg
Elaine Last
Vic Lim
Ann Loud
Carin Loy
Jamie Madison
Mindy Manville
Bill Maul
Dave Maul
Sharon McCorkell
Karmin McCrory
Barbara McGhee
Nancy McIntyre
Foy McNaughton
Dorie Mellon
John Meyer
Libby Miller
Brian Miller
Kyle Monhollen
Ramona Morrow
Natalie Nelson
Margaret Neu
Linda Okupe
Clara Pacheco
Pete Padden
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Debbie Parrella
Tom Powers
Janice Purnell
Jane Rabin
Trent Riesner
Jean Roddy
Alison Rowe
Nancy Rowe
Jerome Rosen
Lea Rosenberg
Jesikah Maria Ross
Karen Roughton
Jenny Ruthheiser
Sally Ryen
Joan Sallee
Lisa Sawyer
Wayne Schrader
Mimi Sen
Susan Shelton
Nancy Shepard
Jeff Simons
Karena Skinner
Cliff Smith
Jean Snyder
Lois Spafford
Wendy Stoltz
Bev Sykes
Kim Tackett-Barbaria
Terry Tafoya
Kara Tolmie
Pamela Trokanski
Adrienne Van Veen
Ciana Wallace
Linda Wayne-Steele
R. Waugh
Joan Wayland
Nancy Weatherford
Leah Wilde
Bob Willett
Barbera Wochok
Nancy Woodbury
Barbara Zadra
Karl Zender
Rudy Zuidema
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[su_tab title=”Our History”]
The Davis School Arts Foundation was founded by Patricia Hershberger in 1981 in the wake of the Gann Initiative which eliminated funding for arts programs in the elementary public schools. Prior to the Gann Initiative, the Davis Joint Unified School District (DJUSD) budgeted $93,500 a year in salaries alone for art programs. This drastic cut made front page headlines, packed meetings of arts supporters, and created an atmosphere of animosity in the community towards the school administrators. The superintendent at the time, Bob Trigg, responded to community pressure by setting aside $5,000 for the 1980-1981 DJUSD budget to develop a teacher cadre through in-service art workshops. Ms. Hershberger administered the program where two teachers from each elementary school would attend workshops and then take the information back to their schools to share with their colleagues. The program lasted three years, with the budget cut in half to $2,500 per year after the first year.
After the first year of workshops, Ms. Hershberger had the idea to restore arts funding to the public schools by raising money through a matching funds foundation. The foundation would donate money to the district as long as the district matched that money with funds of its own. In the summer of 1981, this unique community-district partnership was formed. Ms. Hershberger assembled seven other like-minded people, and the Davis School Arts Foundation was born.
Bylaws and Incorporation
In the fall of 1981, bylaws and articles of incorporation were filed with the state. The bylaws reflected first the founders’ determination that community support must be met in kind by the district and that the responsibility of returning arts to the schools remained with the district. Second, only programs that were curricular based and in school were funded. Enrichment, tours, and extracurricular activities were not funded. An endowment fund was established to take care of funds raised that the district could not match and proposed, although did not mandate, would grow until the interest from it would support the programs started. After this time, the DSAF could cease to exist except to administer the interest, or could go on growing.
Fund Raising Efforts
The first fund drive showed tremendous community support and raised $10,000 through private donations alone. That first year, the district was only able to match $2,500 of the $10,000, so $7,500 was placed in an endowment fund. The first program funded by DSAF was a district-wide recorder program.
The DSAF has steadily increased its yearly contribution to the DJUSD. In 1983, the foundation’s contribution was $2,460. In 1984, that contribution was increased to $8150, and then in 1985 it was raised again to $10,000. DSAF’s annual contribution to the district remained at $10,000 until 1990 when it reached $13,000. By 2000, DSAF had raised its contribution to $18,000 in cash, with $16,000 matched in cash by the district and $2000 matched in in-kind services.
The DSAF also began serving as administrators of several grant programs including the Harmony Grant program, funded by the West Valley Chorle’s annual Harmony in our Lives benefit concert; the Watermelon Music “Gumball Grant” funded by Watermelon Music; the Clella Maul Fund Grant; Site Grants; and Hershberger Grants.
In all, the DSAF has raised or administered more than $600,000 for the DJUSD arts programs since its inception in 1981.
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In the past, the DSAF has funded:
- A visual arts program coordinator who worked with elementary school teachers and classrooms in the district;
- A yearly grant program for certified teachers at all school levels;
- A district-wide recorder program for all fourth graders;
- A dramatic arts cadre that has written an articulated drama curriculum for use throughout the district;
- Badly needed repairs and replacement of musical instruments;
- Purchase and maintenance of school art print collections;
- Start up money for arts and music programs at newly built elementary schools and junior high schools;
- Teacher training and workshops in developing and integrating arts into all aspects of the curriculum;
- Theatre sets and wardrobes;
- Vocal libraries, sound equipment, and performance risers for school choruses and choirs;
- Yearly site grants for each elementary school that fill art boxes with tangibles such as paint, brushes, paper and clay.
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[su_box title=”How can you help?” style=”bubbles” box_color=”#c04732″]DSAF has set a goal of $500,000.00 to ensure its annual commitment to the Davis school district. A $100.00 tax-deductable donation from you would get us well on the way to that goal, but any amount you are able to send is also greatly appreciated.
You may donate to DSAF in one of two ways:
(1) ONLINE Please visit our DONATION page to submit your secure donation online.
(2) DOWNLOAD & PRINT our donation form and mail with your payment made out to “DSAF” to the following address:
DSAF
P.O. Box 4203
Davis, CA 95617
If you have any questions about donating, please contact us via email at info@DavisSchoolArtsFoundation.org or via US mail at the address above. THANK YOU![/su_box]
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