Bar Association Foundation supports Kirby Arts-in-Education programs

The Luzerne County Bar Association Charitable Foundation Inc. recently awarded $1,000 to the F.M. Kirby Center for the Performing Arts in support of the Arts-in-Education Program, which includes an annual Young People's Theater series, master classes with major touring productions, teachers' in-service initiatives and the Kirby Kidz summer theater workshop. Approximately 8,000 school-age children attended Arts-in-Education events at the F.M. Kirby Center last season. At the check presentation, from left: Joseph E. Kluger, board director, F.M. Kirby Center; Angelo C. Terrana, board director, F.M. Kirby Center; Joanie Brenton, director, membership and corporate giving, F.M. Kirby Center; Brian Gill, director of development, F.M. Kirby Center; Sheila L. Saidman, president, Luzerne County Bar Association Charitable Foundation, Inc.; Marilyn Santarelli, executive director, F.M. Kirby Center; Joseph P.J. Burke III, treasurer, Wilkes-Barre Law and Library Association.