2012 RECIPIENT:
GEORGETOWN SYMPHONY SOCIETY
Georgetown Symphony Society has $10,000 to enable the continuation of the Music Enrichment Program for 4th and 5th graders.
“I want to express my personal thanks and my board’s official thanks for Seeds of Strength’s generous $10,000 grant to Georgetown Symphony Society for next year’s Music Enrichment Program for fourth and fifth graders in north‐west Williamson County.
We are honored to be a Seeds of Strength 2012 grant recipient among a host of wonderful non‐profits doing critical work for our community. Without Seeds of Strength’s remarkable success at building an organization of women dedicated to making Georgetown stronger through supporting non‐profit organizations’ missions, much of this good work would go undone. Clark has been reading a book, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960‐2012 by Charles Murray, whose author asserts that part of America’s greatness, from colonial days on, has been the impulse of citizens to form groups to solve local problems. This was not the case in Europe. Today, Murray writes, the strongest communities are those in which citizen‐formed groups are most vigorous. When Clark related this to me, I said, “That’s Georgetown.”
Seeds of Strength is one major reason that Georgetown still has a strong sense of place, that it actually feels like a community. Please relay Georgetown Symphony Society’s thanks to SOS’s Guiding Circle for all that SOS has accomplished and for letting us play a small part in that accomplishment.”
~Linda Scarbrough