Southeastern Community Music School benefits from First Guaranty Bank sponsorship
Tuesday, May 16, 2017 
by: Tonya Lowentritt
FIRST GUARANTY BANK LENDS A HAND – Southeastern Louisiana University Community Music School Director Jivka Duke, left, receives a donation from First Guaranty Bank representative and Southeastern graduate Jane Wear. First Guaranty Bank has helped support Southeastern’s Community Music School over the last seven years.
HAMMOND – First Guaranty Bank is once again providing support to the Southeastern
Louisiana University Community Music School.
“Over the past few years, many students from our community have benefited from
the bank’s sponsorship of the program,” said Community Music School Director Jivka
Duke. “Due to First Guaranty Bank’s generosity, during the fall 2017 and the spring
of 2018 semesters, the Community Music School will again be able to provide need based
tuition assistance to students who qualify.”
Duke said that partners like First Guaranty Bank play an important role in preserving
the quality of programs, such as the Community Music School, and in making them accessible
and affordable to everyone.
The Community Music School, located on the Southeastern campus and its two satellite
locations at the St. Tammany Center in Mandeville and the Livingston Parish Literacy
and Technology Center in Walker, offers music instruction on various instruments and
voice for children and adults of all ages.
In addition to private music lessons, Duke said, the Community Music School offers
a number of programs which allow for children and adults on the northshore and the
surrounding communities to engage in the art of music performance. Such programs include
the Middle School Band Camp, as well as guitar, orchestra and chamber music workshops
taking place during the last two weeks of June. Registration is now open, and information
about the programs is available at www.southeastern.edu/cms.
For more information about the Community Music School’s year-round program, visit
www.southeastern.edu/cms or call (985) 549-5502.
