SOUNDS OF SUPPORT STUDENTS' CD TO HELP COUNTERPARTS IN N.Y.Byline: Karen Maeshiro Staff Writer LANCASTER - After the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, students at El Dorado El Dorado, legendary country of South America El Dorado (ĕl`dərä`dō, –rā`–) [Span.,=the gilded man], legendary country of the Golden Man sought by adventurers in South America. School wanted to do something to help children in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. . Not being a rich school, the students found a way to raise money using what resources and talents they do have - making music. Under the guidance of award-winning music teacher Debbie Hanson, the students have recorded and are selling a CD of patriotic tunes and songs they learned about values. Proceeds will go to Roberto Clemente Elementary School elementary school: see school. , located about two miles from ground zero in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . ``It started two months ago, right after the disaster, when the kids talked about what they could do,'' Hanson said. ``We are not a wealthy school. What do we know how to do, we can sing.'' The 875 students and school staffers hope to sell 300 CDs at $10 each. El Dorado Principal Melinda Keenan said she talked with Roberto Clemente's principal, Barbara Bankowski, who said students and staffers are still in shock and are finding it difficult to concentrate. Roberto Clemente students saw the second airliner hit the World Trade Center tower from the fifth floor of their six-story school, school officials said. ``She said many of the students were first-hand witnesses to death and destruction,'' Keenan said. Bankowski said the students, mostly from poor families, have been getting books and teddy bears teddy bear cuddly commodity named after President Theodore Roosevelt. [Am. Hist.: Frank, 46] See : Cuteness , but said she would like to take the whole school to a Broadway show to help cheer them up and was searching for special deal on discount passes. The money raised from CD sales will go toward helping buy the show tickets. ``It's a neat way to have our kids who are so much into music and performing arts and who are also low-income on the whole to connect with other kids who are going through a difficult time and to do it in a way that supports what we are doing at school,'' Keenan said. The CD has nine songs and a recitation rec·i·ta·tion n. 1. a. The act of reciting memorized materials in a public performance. b. The material so presented. 2. a. Oral delivery of prepared lessons by a pupil. b. of the Pledge of Allegiance Pledge of Allegiance, in full, Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, oath that proclaims loyalty to the United States. and its national symbol. . Songs include ``God Bless the USA,'' ``God Bless America'' and ``Grand Old Flag.'' Hanson's friend, Raymy Krumrei, recorded the performances and soloists with a mobile digital recording studio. The whole project cost $1,100, Hanson said. Parents and students were working on the project, taking CD cases apart, printing labels and putting the cases back together, Hanson said. The cover shows a picture of El Dorado students in an assembly. Hanson's son, an art major at California State University Enrollment  , Long Beach, did the graphics and artwork design. Students plan to write holiday cards and notes to send with the money, Hanson said. At this year's Music Center Bravo Award
Hanson used her $1,500 prize money to buy an electric drum set for the school's music lab. CAPTION(S): 5 photos Photo: (1 -- color) El Dorado kindergartners De Janae Hall, left, and Arianna Anderson Anderson, river, Canada Anderson, river, c.465 mi (750 km) long, rising in several lakes in N central Northwest Territories, Canada. It meanders north and west before receiving the Carnwath River and flowing north to Liverpool Bay, an arm of the Arctic , both 5, sing during an assembly. (2 -- 3 -- color) Above, El Dorado students sing patriotic songs recorded on a CD, below, to be sold to benefit students close to ground zero. (4) El Dorado third-grader Sadie Kelly, 8, salutes students in New York during a a patriotic performance. (5) Deonte Harris, 8, a third-grader at El Dorado, sings as part of a CD recorded to raise funds for students in New York. Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer |
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