Welcome to the Kick-Off of the 2022 NAAcSCPA Membership Drive!

Welcome to the Kick-Off of the
2022 NAAcSCPA Membership Drive!

Fellow SCPA Alumni,

Whenever a new school year approaches, I tend to think of the etched-in memories of my Falls at SCPA…the smell of warm tar in the school parking lot as I walked to the front door on Sycamore, the wide open windows of the dance studios and the sounds of instruments getting warmed up in the distance, the nerdy joy of fresh notebooks and the ubiquitous blue multi-color pen. It is amazing how indelible those and endless other memories are to so many of us!

New students will be launching into their own memory making soon, and those that have recently graduated are diving into the adult world to build on all they learned and experienced in their time at SCPA. Remember how exciting and yet scary that all was? Maybe you had an SCPA alumnus at your new college to help give you a hand and show you the stage. Perhaps you kept some SCPA friends who were important touchstones while you navigated the larger spaces outside of our school.

How can we make sure that is available to ALL alumni?

As alumni, we have a unique ability to be there for others now that we have gained our own experience and post-SCPA lives while holding the SCPA time in our heads and hearts. How better to be an active supporter of these new and future alums than by being a member of the National Alumni Association of the Cincinnati School for Creative & Performing Arts (NAAcSCPA)?

The NAAcSCPA exists entirely to help bring support to all alumni in myriad ways and maintain connections between those of us with this shared experience no matter where in the world we landed, what we are doing professionally, personally or academically, or where the “road rose to meet us”.

We are a school family that is 50 years in the making – will you help us be as strong for each other now and for another 50 by being an official Alumni member?

Your membership supports:

• Our ability to offer scholarships to graduating seniors pursuing the arts and non-arts focused higher education.

• Our ability to provide mentorship opportunities to students and new graduates

• Networking activities for alumni that help us stay connected and give each other a leg up

• Alumni Activities to support SCPA and its current students

• The acknowledgement of alumni and their wide range of achievements!

I firmly believe that our Alumni Association can be a powerful instrument for all of us – whether you just graduated in May 2022 or were graduates of that first class in 1979! However, we need YOU as a Member to reach all of our goals together. I hope you will use the link below to become a member or to renew a membership that has lapsed. Thank you in advance!

In Solidarity,
Lynn Frederick Hawley (nee Frederick)
Class of 1989
Co-Chair, Development Committee.