May 20, 2025 • 15 mins
The Manhattan Optimist Club is launching an instrument drive to collect gently used band and orchestra instruments for students whose families can't afford them. This initiative brings together the Optimist Club, K-State's instrument repair specialist, and local school music directors to ensure every child has the opportunity to participate in music education regardless of financial circumstances.
• Instrument collection runs June 2-7 at K-State Credit Union and Landmark Bank locations
• Clyde Scott has been with the Manhattan Optimist Club since 1969
• Gary Lloyd, a retired band director, initiated the instrument drive as a new member
• K-State music department's instrument repair specialist will refurbish donated instruments
• Research shows students who participate in music programs perform better academically
• Optimist International provided a $1,000 grant matched by the local club to fund repairs
• The Manhattan Optimist Club has a foundation for tax-exempt donations
• Instruments will be distributed through school music directors to students in need
• Community members can donate instruments or contribute financially through manhattanoptimist.com
To donate instruments or learn more about joining the Manhattan Optimist Club, visit manhattanoptimist.com or drop off instruments at any of our collection sites from June 2-7.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Philanthropy Today is brought to you by the Greater
Manhattan Community Foundation.
In this episode we feature arecently broadcast segment of
the GMCF Community Hour as heardon NewsRadio KMAN.
And we are back with the GMCFCommunity Hour here on NewsRadio
KMAN, switching the schedule upa little bit here.
(00:21):
Schedule up a little bit here.
We have coming up in a littlebit.
Tara Clausen with the KonzerUnited Way will be joining us
here in our next segment.
But this particular segmentwe're going to be talking about
a group that got a little bit ofattention here at the CFAs and
we have members from theManhattan Optimist Club and gosh
(00:46):
Clyde Scott.
How long has it been since?
I've known, you Known?
Speaker 2 (00:52):
you or been an optimist.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
No, it's been a while since I've been an optimist.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Both ways.
I joined the Optimist in 1969.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
1969.
That is, that's 56 years.
Exactly Were you seven.
I'm being kind.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
I wish I'm being way, way kind aren't.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
I Right yeah, oh goodness, but boy, he's man.
Has anybody been in the clublonger than you?
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Dr Klingler and I joined the same year.
Gene unfortunately isn't asactive anymore, but he's still
in the club and we've seen a lotof changes in Manhattan and in
the Optimist Club over the years.
Well good.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Well, we're glad to have you in here.
Thank you, and we have GaryLloyd, right.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Did I get that right?
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Yes, it's the first time we met.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Yes, how long have you been an Optimist?
Well, my wife and I moved toManhattan three years ago,
almost to the day.
You're a newbie, yeah, I am,and so I am new to the Optimist
Club and I'm a retired banddirector from.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Colorado.
Are you?
What brought you to Manhattan,Kansas?
Speaker 3 (02:06):
My son's family.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
I can imagine that that was about to ask.
So you were a band director.
Do you have a specialty when itcomes to music?
Speaker 3 (02:16):
that you like.
My primary instrument istrumpet and I play and perform
here in Manhattan with theThundering Cats jazz band.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Ah, just saw them at the Habitat for Humanity event
on Valentine's Day.
Enjoyed that yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
And I've enjoyed playing in the group Uh-huh.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Well, great, had you been an optimist before you came
to Manhattan.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
No, I had some friends that were back in
Colorado where we came from, andso I was somewhat familiar.
They would do some studentrecognitions in the school that
I taught in, and so I had somefamiliarity with the Optimist
Club in that respect, but I wasnot a member.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
You know, sometimes when you're a teacher, your
schedule just does not allow fora lot of those types of things,
and you are working with youthalready, so you get the theme of
the Optimist.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Band directors are very busy people.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Yeah.
So what's your role withOptimist right now?
Gary?
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Well, right now just trying to contribute any way I
can to the Optimist YouthPrograms and helping out at
Optimist Park, and our president, who is Greg McCune.
(03:37):
He approached me about newproject ideas.
Being that I was a musician, hewas looking for something in the
arts, and this is kind of howthis idea of the instrument
drive got started, inconversations with Greg and a
couple other members, that a newproject of this type, an
(04:02):
instrument drive, new project ofthis type, an instrument drive
which would collect instrumentsand we would refurbish the
instruments and then we wouldprovide them to the schools, um
to put in the hands of studentswhose families couldn't afford
to either buy or rent aninstrument.
Love this idea, and myexperience as a band director
(04:26):
back in Colorado was one that Itaught in a school where I had a
lot of families that could notafford instruments, and so I
spent a lot of time and a lot offootwork trying to find
instruments that I could putinto kids' hands and so that
they could participate in myprogram, and so I've had a
(04:49):
little experience with this inthat respect, and so we're just
looking for the greaterManhattan community to help
support this instrument drivethat we're going to have from
June 2nd to June 7th and we havefour drop-off sites the K-State
(05:11):
Credit Union at each of itssites on Anderson and McCall,
and then the Landmark Bank hereon Points and also out on West
Anderson have really kindlyjumped to the call to be drop
off sites for instrumentdonations, do you?
Speaker 1 (05:34):
have a particular type of instrument that you're
looking for.
I mean, are you?
Speaker 3 (05:40):
I mean primarily, primarily band and orchestra
instruments.
You know that have been gentlyused, so stringed instruments
are good.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Yeah, okay.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Yeah, yeah, I picked up a violin the other day and
we'll, and it's in pretty goodshape, and so our, our task will
be, you know, once we collectinstruments, is to go over them
and and I have a few friends,retired band director as well
that's going to help me do alittle instrument triage as we
(06:07):
go through the instruments anddetermine, you know, what's
going to be practicable,affordable to fix and to
refurbish, repair anyinstruments.
And we have this is the neatpart of this project we have the
um, kansas state musicdepartment instrument repairman.
(06:28):
Uh, who's going to help usrepair the instruments.
Oh, how cool and he's a greatguy and and he's excited about
the project and he has a coupleof interns that are going to
help him as well.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
And you've got an educational process lined up on
all sides of this and getexperience repairing instruments
.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
He has a couple of students that will benefit from
this.
Did you expect something likethat to pop in?
You know, it's amazing how thepieces just kind of all fell
together from a concept, an idea, and then just knowing a few
people in the area who couldconnect me, you know, with other
people, you know who'd beinterested in this project.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
So correct me if I'm wrong, but most of the students
that start getting into theinstruments start what?
Fifth grade?
Speaker 3 (07:19):
I believe it varies probably from.
You know different ruralschools in the area but I
believe in the Manhattan 383school district they would start
in sixth grade and middleschool in both band and
orchestra instrument classes andthen they progress, you know,
from middle school through thehigh school.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
What's the process going to be like for a kid and
his family, his parents, to makearrangements for one of these
instruments?
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Well, I'm working with Joel Gittle.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Manhattan.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
High School band director and once we have a
batch of instruments that areready to go, I'll let him know
that, joel, here's what we haveand can you help us, you know,
in within his context with theteachers that work with him in
(08:12):
the school district.
Can you find a home for theseor find out what families you
know could use an instrument andit's going to be, you know,
utilizing the middle schooldirectors you know that would
identify those families thatcould use an instrument, you
know, and get their kid involvedin the program.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Are some of these requests going to be based and
to fulfill these requests, willthey be built on somewhat
financial needs of the familiesor is there any qualification
process?
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Have, really don't have any.
You just want the kids to play.
We just, we just want them toget involved, to have that
opportunity to to participate ina music program.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
I love this idea.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
I'm a big fan of music, big fan of getting kids
the in on the arts, whateverthat art may be, and I think the
you know, most people know atleast I would like to think that
most people know that music isan accelerator success to
success in school.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Right as yeah, and the research shows that students
that get involved with learningto play an instrument do better
in school throughout.
You know the, just the, thepathways, the new pathways that
are created between the left andthe right brain, and just the
the kinesthetic work that'sinvolved.
(09:39):
You know there's there's somany multiple levels involved in
so much brain work involved inlearning to play an instrument
and reading music that that, um,the research has shown that
that students that participatein in a music program do better
in school.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Now it's going to cost some money to repair these
instruments.
Yes, what's your resourcesituation?
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Well, we just received a grant from Optimist
International for $1,000.
And the club local ManhattanOptimist Club has pledged to
match that grant.
So we have a start here.
We have a fund that willkickstart this program, since it
is a brand new program, butwe're open to any other
(10:25):
donations that we could receiveand people could reach out to us
through our website, optimistmanhattanoptimistcom.
They can reach out to us andthere's a donation link on the
Optimist website and we wouldwelcome.
Even if you don't have aninstrument to donate, we would
(10:45):
welcome those types of donationsto help pay for more repairs.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Gary, this is amazing .
Thanks for sharing the story.
And, Clyde, this is just reallyobviously another aspect of
Optimist working with kids, andOptimist here locally have been
known for maybe what t-ball,baseball, softball and those
types of things, but this is awhole new addition for you.
I just think this is amazing.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Well, Gary is a prime example of how we get into
programs.
Somebody becomes a member, hasan idea, presents it to the
board and we run with it,presents it to the board and we
run with it.
This program reminds me of onewe did years ago when Ben hadn't
put in an ice skating rink.
We did the same thing,collecting old ice skates.
(11:32):
They would bring them in to meand I'd get them to the repair
shop if they needed repair andwe'd tune them up and get them
to the rink, Because you're anold shoe guy, aren't you?
Yeah, I am.
Okay, you're an old shoe guy,aren't you?
Yeah, I am.
Can I say you're a shoe guy?
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Yeah, Brown shoe fit.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Brown shoe fit For forever yeah that's when I came
to town 69.
But we also on the financialend of it.
Our club is set up with afoundation so that it is tax
exempt money.
If people wanted to donate theycan officially get a tax
(12:11):
receipt if that means anythingto them.
Excuse me, what Gary wastalking about?
The location spots.
I took it on my own to presentthis program at the Senior
Center last week and they werereceptive to it and I told the
lady down there if anybodywanted to bring them in to her
(12:34):
she could call me and I'll pickthem up.
So that's another place theycan drop them off if that's more
convenient or whatever.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
We have just a couple minutes left before we need to
move on to to Tara's interview,but but let's talk a little bit
about Optimus.
You know your friend of youth,that's your, that's your slogan,
you have your creed and and itis just it's.
It's a wonderful testament toliving your life, making
improvements, making impact onon young people and everybody.
(13:05):
I do know that every civic clubhas challenges in this day and
age with membership, and you'rein the midst of a membership
drive and I see it on socialmedia.
I see you guys pop up.
I don't know if that's targetedadvertising toward me or not,
but it sure seems like it.
But you are utilizing socialmedia a lot in order to recruit
(13:28):
new members and you know thiseffort here that Gary's been
talking about, that's going tobe one that I think really
entices a lot of people to say,hey, I like what they're doing
and I want to be a part of it.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Yeah, people need to look into the Optimist Club in
ways that they can give back totheir community and so many
times I'll ask somebody youngerage about Optimist and they
don't even know we exist.
But it is very good to do a lotof things for children and like
(14:04):
the cost thing with theseinstruments.
Is very good to do a lot ofthings for children and like the
cost thing and with theseinstruments.
If a family can't afford aninstrument but the child maybe
wants to get into something,this is a way that they can try
it out without any expense foran instrument and hopefully
we'll get a wide range of themand they'll have a selection to
(14:27):
choose from.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
ManhattanOptimistcom is the website and you have a
place on the site where you candonate.
Yes, we sure do, and there'sall kinds of membership
information on there as well.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Membership information on the website as
well.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Gary Lloyd, you're making a heck of an impact in
your third year as an optimistin Manhattan.
That's awesome.
Thank you for sharing the storyabout your effort here to get
instruments in kids' hands herewithin the schools.
That's a great story, clydeScott.
Always good to see you.
Sir, thank you, continued goodwork in the community and
congratulations once again onyour CFA award for your
(15:07):
organization receiving that verywell deserved, very proud of
you.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
There's a lot of things happening in Manhattan
that started with an optimistclub.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
That's true.
That's true.
Tara Clausen is going to bestepping in.
Next.
She'll be joining us via Zoomto talk about Community
Investment Day and more here onthe GMCF Community Hour.
Here on News.
Philanthropy Today is brought to you by the Greater
Manhattan Community Foundation.
In this episode we feature arecently broadcast segment of
the GMCF Community Hour as heardon NewsRadio KMAN.
And we are back with the GMCFCommunity Hour here on NewsRadio
KMAN, switching the schedule upa little bit here.
(00:21):
Schedule up a little bit here.
We have coming up in a littlebit.
Tara Clausen with the KonzerUnited Way will be joining us
here in our next segment.
But this particular segmentwe're going to be talking about
a group that got a little bit ofattention here at the CFAs and
we have members from theManhattan Optimist Club and gosh
(00:46):
Clyde Scott.
How long has it been since?
I've known, you Known?
Speaker 2 (00:52):
you or been an optimist.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
No, it's been a while since I've been an optimist.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Both ways.
I joined the Optimist in 1969.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
1969.
That is, that's 56 years.
Exactly Were you seven.
I'm being kind.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
I wish I'm being way, way kind aren't.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
I Right yeah, oh goodness, but boy, he's man.
Has anybody been in the clublonger than you?
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Dr Klingler and I joined the same year.
Gene unfortunately isn't asactive anymore, but he's still
in the club and we've seen a lotof changes in Manhattan and in
the Optimist Club over the years.
Well good.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Well, we're glad to have you in here.
Thank you, and we have GaryLloyd, right.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Did I get that right?
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Yes, it's the first time we met.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Yes, how long have you been an Optimist?
Well, my wife and I moved toManhattan three years ago,
almost to the day.
You're a newbie, yeah, I am,and so I am new to the Optimist
Club and I'm a retired banddirector from.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Colorado.
Are you?
What brought you to Manhattan,Kansas?
Speaker 3 (02:06):
My son's family.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
I can imagine that that was about to ask.
So you were a band director.
Do you have a specialty when itcomes to music?
Speaker 3 (02:16):
that you like.
My primary instrument istrumpet and I play and perform
here in Manhattan with theThundering Cats jazz band.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Ah, just saw them at the Habitat for Humanity event
on Valentine's Day.
Enjoyed that yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
And I've enjoyed playing in the group Uh-huh.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Well, great, had you been an optimist before you came
to Manhattan.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
No, I had some friends that were back in
Colorado where we came from, andso I was somewhat familiar.
They would do some studentrecognitions in the school that
I taught in, and so I had somefamiliarity with the Optimist
Club in that respect, but I wasnot a member.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
You know, sometimes when you're a teacher, your
schedule just does not allow fora lot of those types of things,
and you are working with youthalready, so you get the theme of
the Optimist.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Band directors are very busy people.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Yeah.
So what's your role withOptimist right now?
Gary?
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Well, right now just trying to contribute any way I
can to the Optimist YouthPrograms and helping out at
Optimist Park, and our president, who is Greg McCune.
(03:37):
He approached me about newproject ideas.
Being that I was a musician, hewas looking for something in the
arts, and this is kind of howthis idea of the instrument
drive got started, inconversations with Greg and a
couple other members, that a newproject of this type, an
(04:02):
instrument drive, new project ofthis type, an instrument drive
which would collect instrumentsand we would refurbish the
instruments and then we wouldprovide them to the schools, um
to put in the hands of studentswhose families couldn't afford
to either buy or rent aninstrument.
Love this idea, and myexperience as a band director
(04:26):
back in Colorado was one that Itaught in a school where I had a
lot of families that could notafford instruments, and so I
spent a lot of time and a lot offootwork trying to find
instruments that I could putinto kids' hands and so that
they could participate in myprogram, and so I've had a
(04:49):
little experience with this inthat respect, and so we're just
looking for the greaterManhattan community to help
support this instrument drivethat we're going to have from
June 2nd to June 7th and we havefour drop-off sites the K-State
(05:11):
Credit Union at each of itssites on Anderson and McCall,
and then the Landmark Bank hereon Points and also out on West
Anderson have really kindlyjumped to the call to be drop
off sites for instrumentdonations, do you?
Speaker 1 (05:34):
have a particular type of instrument that you're
looking for.
I mean, are you?
Speaker 3 (05:40):
I mean primarily, primarily band and orchestra
instruments.
You know that have been gentlyused, so stringed instruments
are good.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Yeah, okay.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Yeah, yeah, I picked up a violin the other day and
we'll, and it's in pretty goodshape, and so our, our task will
be, you know, once we collectinstruments, is to go over them
and and I have a few friends,retired band director as well
that's going to help me do alittle instrument triage as we
(06:07):
go through the instruments anddetermine, you know, what's
going to be practicable,affordable to fix and to
refurbish, repair anyinstruments.
And we have this is the neatpart of this project we have the
um, kansas state musicdepartment instrument repairman.
(06:28):
Uh, who's going to help usrepair the instruments.
Oh, how cool and he's a greatguy and and he's excited about
the project and he has a coupleof interns that are going to
help him as well.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
And you've got an educational process lined up on
all sides of this and getexperience repairing instruments
.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
He has a couple of students that will benefit from
this.
Did you expect something likethat to pop in?
You know, it's amazing how thepieces just kind of all fell
together from a concept, an idea, and then just knowing a few
people in the area who couldconnect me, you know, with other
people, you know who'd beinterested in this project.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
So correct me if I'm wrong, but most of the students
that start getting into theinstruments start what?
Fifth grade?
Speaker 3 (07:19):
I believe it varies probably from.
You know different ruralschools in the area but I
believe in the Manhattan 383school district they would start
in sixth grade and middleschool in both band and
orchestra instrument classes andthen they progress, you know,
from middle school through thehigh school.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
What's the process going to be like for a kid and
his family, his parents, to makearrangements for one of these
instruments?
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Well, I'm working with Joel Gittle.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Manhattan.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
High School band director and once we have a
batch of instruments that areready to go, I'll let him know
that, joel, here's what we haveand can you help us, you know,
in within his context with theteachers that work with him in
(08:12):
the school district.
Can you find a home for theseor find out what families you
know could use an instrument andit's going to be, you know,
utilizing the middle schooldirectors you know that would
identify those families thatcould use an instrument, you
know, and get their kid involvedin the program.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Are some of these requests going to be based and
to fulfill these requests, willthey be built on somewhat
financial needs of the familiesor is there any qualification
process?
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Have, really don't have any.
You just want the kids to play.
We just, we just want them toget involved, to have that
opportunity to to participate ina music program.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
I love this idea.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
I'm a big fan of music, big fan of getting kids
the in on the arts, whateverthat art may be, and I think the
you know, most people know atleast I would like to think that
most people know that music isan accelerator success to
success in school.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Right as yeah, and the research shows that students
that get involved with learningto play an instrument do better
in school throughout.
You know the, just the, thepathways, the new pathways that
are created between the left andthe right brain, and just the
the kinesthetic work that'sinvolved.
(09:39):
You know there's there's somany multiple levels involved in
so much brain work involved inlearning to play an instrument
and reading music that that, um,the research has shown that
that students that participatein in a music program do better
in school.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Now it's going to cost some money to repair these
instruments.
Yes, what's your resourcesituation?
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Well, we just received a grant from Optimist
International for $1,000.
And the club local ManhattanOptimist Club has pledged to
match that grant.
So we have a start here.
We have a fund that willkickstart this program, since it
is a brand new program, butwe're open to any other
(10:25):
donations that we could receiveand people could reach out to us
through our website, optimistmanhattanoptimistcom.
They can reach out to us andthere's a donation link on the
Optimist website and we wouldwelcome.
Even if you don't have aninstrument to donate, we would
(10:45):
welcome those types of donationsto help pay for more repairs.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Gary, this is amazing .
Thanks for sharing the story.
And, Clyde, this is just reallyobviously another aspect of
Optimist working with kids, andOptimist here locally have been
known for maybe what t-ball,baseball, softball and those
types of things, but this is awhole new addition for you.
I just think this is amazing.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Well, Gary is a prime example of how we get into
programs.
Somebody becomes a member, hasan idea, presents it to the
board and we run with it,presents it to the board and we
run with it.
This program reminds me of onewe did years ago when Ben hadn't
put in an ice skating rink.
We did the same thing,collecting old ice skates.
(11:32):
They would bring them in to meand I'd get them to the repair
shop if they needed repair andwe'd tune them up and get them
to the rink, Because you're anold shoe guy, aren't you?
Yeah, I am.
Okay, you're an old shoe guy,aren't you?
Yeah, I am.
Can I say you're a shoe guy?
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Yeah, Brown shoe fit.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Brown shoe fit For forever yeah that's when I came
to town 69.
But we also on the financialend of it.
Our club is set up with afoundation so that it is tax
exempt money.
If people wanted to donate theycan officially get a tax
(12:11):
receipt if that means anythingto them.
Excuse me, what Gary wastalking about?
The location spots.
I took it on my own to presentthis program at the Senior
Center last week and they werereceptive to it and I told the
lady down there if anybodywanted to bring them in to her
(12:34):
she could call me and I'll pickthem up.
So that's another place theycan drop them off if that's more
convenient or whatever.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
We have just a couple minutes left before we need to
move on to to Tara's interview,but but let's talk a little bit
about Optimus.
You know your friend of youth,that's your, that's your slogan,
you have your creed and and itis just it's.
It's a wonderful testament toliving your life, making
improvements, making impact onon young people and everybody.
(13:05):
I do know that every civic clubhas challenges in this day and
age with membership, and you'rein the midst of a membership
drive and I see it on socialmedia.
I see you guys pop up.
I don't know if that's targetedadvertising toward me or not,
but it sure seems like it.
But you are utilizing socialmedia a lot in order to recruit
(13:28):
new members and you know thiseffort here that Gary's been
talking about, that's going tobe one that I think really
entices a lot of people to say,hey, I like what they're doing
and I want to be a part of it.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Yeah, people need to look into the Optimist Club in
ways that they can give back totheir community and so many
times I'll ask somebody youngerage about Optimist and they
don't even know we exist.
But it is very good to do a lotof things for children and like
(14:04):
the cost thing with theseinstruments.
Is very good to do a lot ofthings for children and like the
cost thing and with theseinstruments.
If a family can't afford aninstrument but the child maybe
wants to get into something,this is a way that they can try
it out without any expense foran instrument and hopefully
we'll get a wide range of themand they'll have a selection to
(14:27):
choose from.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
ManhattanOptimistcom is the website and you have a
place on the site where you candonate.
Yes, we sure do, and there'sall kinds of membership
information on there as well.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Membership information on the website as
well.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Gary Lloyd, you're making a heck of an impact in
your third year as an optimistin Manhattan.
That's awesome.
Thank you for sharing the storyabout your effort here to get
instruments in kids' hands herewithin the schools.
That's a great story, clydeScott.
Always good to see you.
Sir, thank you, continued goodwork in the community and
congratulations once again onyour CFA award for your
(15:07):
organization receiving that verywell deserved, very proud of
you.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
There's a lot of things happening in Manhattan
that started with an optimistclub.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
That's true.
That's true.
Tara Clausen is going to bestepping in.
Next.
She'll be joining us via Zoomto talk about Community
Investment Day and more here onthe GMCF Community Hour.
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