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Carol J. Buckley was a member of the Ithaca High School Class of 1983 who died of Lou Gehrig’s disease in 2005. The fund was established by her family and friends to provide scholarship assistance to talented students pursuing advanced study in the arts and to support educational programs in the arts in the Ithaca City School District.
Recipients
2006 Cassandra Mazur
2007 Di (Jody) Zhao
2008 Herin Anna Kaputkin
2009 Courtney Burke
2010 Nola Caitlin Booth
2011 Elias Spector-Zabusky
2012 Ananda Brutvan
2013 Sequoya Lee
2014 Archer Cowen, Michael Stern
2015 Madelaine Vandenberg
2016 Lisa Podulka
2017 Sandra Stromswold
2018 Robin Steuteville
2019 Erin Mangus
2020 Ishan Ethrdige
2021 Leah Henseler, Donovan Redd
2022 Josie Crookston, Aubs Marohn
2023 Angie Houissa, Owoicho-Oche Onah, Joshua Rogers, Owen Miller, Robin Adams, David BarryThe Buckley Fund has supported activities in the arts in our elementary and secondary schools including the Elementary Choral Festival, technical theater workshops, a movement-based theater residency, trips to music competitions and festivals; and visual arts workshops, conferences, supplies, books, and adaptive materials. In addition, the fund supported the Arts Alive Fund in 2010.