Scholarships

Scholarship Program Awards Procedure

The Area V Ellen Jane Lorenz Porter Scholarship Program shall award scholarships to Area V Summer Festival/Conferences, Area V Summer Directors Seminars, and National Directors Seminars under the following procedure, excerpted here from the entire policy approved by the Area V Board of Directors:

a. Scholarship availability and application forms are to be advertised in the two issues of the Tintinnabulator that are published immediately prior to February 15 of each year. Brochures will be printed and made available at Area V events and with the Area V traveling display.

b. Completed scholarship applications shall be postmarked or received by fax no later than March 15 and are to be sent to the Chairman of the Scholarship Committee.

c. Criterion for the Scholarship Committee to use to select individuals shall include:

1. AGEHR membership within Area V of the individual or the individual's organization, which shall be a requirement;
2. Background in handbells;
3. Financial need;
4. Statement of educational goals expected to be realized;
5. National Directors Seminar recipients must be first-time attendees.

d. The Scholarship Committee will award scholarships up to the certified dollar amount at their sole discretion, and has the right to award fewer or no scholarships as they see fit. In no case will the Committee award more scholarship money than has been certified as available.

e. The maximum amount of any scholarship shall be the published base registration fee.

f. Recipients are to be notified by April 15 of their scholarship award. All other applicants are to receive a letter thanking them for their application.

g. Funds for the awards will be forwarded directly to the event on the recipient's behalf by May 1. No funds will be paid directly to the recipient.

h. Recipients are responsible for their own travel expenses; lodging, meals and incidentals not included in the published base registration fee; optional class or event expenses; single room supplements; and any other expenses not specifically covered by the base registration fee.

i. Each recipient will be asked to submit an optional follow-up report of no more than one page, which discusses specifics of how the Festival-Conference or Seminar met the needs, indicated in the application. This should be returned to the Chairman of the Scholarship Committee no later than September 1 and filed with the application.

j. A news release will be sent to Overtones announcing the recipients of the scholarships, and the recipients will be listed in the late Summer/early Fall Tintinnabulator.

Barbara (Street) Kane, past Area V Chair, passed away at home on Saturday, May 20, 2000. She was born on May 24, 1940 in Plattsburg, New York. Barbara married Roy Kane on June 7, 1962 at the U.S. Navy Academy Chapel. She and Roy have two children - Scott and Kristaan, and two grandchildren.

 

Barbara received her Bachelor of Music Education degree from Kansas State Teachers College in Emporia, Kansas, with a double major of education and performance in both voice and organ, with piano as a minor. She also had 36 hours toward Master's Degrees in Performance (voice) and Sacred Music at Kent State University. She studied with private vocal teachers and the Amato Opera Company in New York and took master classes for voice, organ, and choral.

 

Barbara started her musical career at the age of twelve, serving as organist for the First Baptist Church and as Junior Choir director at the First Methodist Church, both in Emporia, Kansas. She served as organist, choir director and handbell choir director for churches in California, Connecticut, and Ohio before coming to Southport Presbyterian Church in Indianapolis in 1975, where she served for 25 years as Director of Fine Arts Ministries. Other musical activities included serving as Director of the Eastern Connecticut Symphony Chorus and A Capella Choirs, and of the New London Chorale as well as Accompanist and Assistant Conductor for the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus. She was a vocal soloist with the Cleveland Orchestra and Chorus, Kent State University Orchestra, Eastern Connecticut Symphony, the U.S. Coast Guard Academy Choirs, Band, and Orchestra. Barbara was also the soprano soloist for several artists in residence.

 

Mrs. Kane had membership in the Choristers Guild, the American Guild of Organists, Sigma Alpha Iota, the Music Teachers Association, MENC and the American Guild of English Handbell Ringers, Inc. Barbara served AGEHR, Inc. in may capacities - as Indiana State Chair, Area V Chair, was on the National Board of Directors and various other committees. Barbara also served as clinician and/or conductor at all levels within AGEHR, Inc.

 

In honor of Barbara's service to AGEHR, Inc., Area V has established the Barbara Kane Scholarship Fund. The scholarship is established to aid Area V members who are first time attendees to an Area V Spring or Fall Festival Conference. If you would like to contribute to the fund, you may send your contributions to Please make your check out to: Area V, AGEHR, Inc. and indicate on the memo line that it is for the "Barbara Kane Scholarship Fund".

 

A special "thank you" to Barbara's family for sharing her with the AGEHR, Inc. family. Those who benefited from her teaching or conducting are better musicians because of her quest for excellence and her constant encouragement. Her efforts to promote the art of handbells/handchimes were tireless and touched many, many lives. 

 

An application for the scholarship is available as a .pdf file here.