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By the fall of the 2013-14 school year,
the Lincoln County R-III Education Foundation
had made some major strides. They had received
$175,000 in pledges and awarded more than $30,000
in the form of two grants.
The first grant, in the amount of $5,000, awarded the Choral Department a new Krong
keyboard. Prior to the grant, Choral Director Andrew Drinkall would provide Compact Discs
(CDs) of music for students to practice for competitions.
“I would hand a student a CD of their music to practice and many students didn’t have any
place to play it unless they had a CD player in their car,” the TBHS teacher said. Commercially
available first in 1982, CDs have become passé and been increasingly replaced by digital
storage of music on flash drives and Mp3 players.
With the new keyboar