Donor Spotlight :: Jan & Bill Terry

The Community School of Music and Arts is honored to have the friendship and support of "Great Givers" Jan and Bill Terry. Their advocacy and support continue to inspire CSMA's efforts to ensure that people from all backgrounds have access to music and visual arts education programs.

"Bill and I are very proud to be affiliated with the Community School of Music and Arts," said Jan Terry recently. "We feel that having a permanent home for CSMA will help foster achievement of their goals on an even higher level of excellence, and provide future generations of adults and children with music and arts education otherwise unavailable to them."

Bill and Jan are involved with CSMA in numerous ways. They are generous donors to CSMA's capital campaign as Cornerstone Program members. Jan recently began private lessons with CSMA's Music School Director Dr. Nicholas Isaacs. Bill also donated his company furniture for the office of CSMA's Executive Director. In October 2002, the couple opened up their beautiful Palo Alto home for a student recital event to introduce CSMA to new friends.

As a member of the Silicon Valley League of the San Francisco Symphony, Jan is helping to establish a new collaboration with CSMA by bringing low-income Music in Action students from Mountain View elementary schools to the Symphony's Concerts for Kids program at Davies Symphony Hall. For many children, this will be their first opportunity to hear a performance by a world-class symphony orchestra.