A big thank you to all who donated to the Elliot Ruchowitz-Roberts Monterey County High School Poetry Awards through Monterey County Gives! Your generous donations will help hundreds of area high school students participate in this year’s Poet-in-Schools program led by Patrice Vecchione.

The awards ceremony will be held at the Cherry on Saturday, May 20th at 2:00PM. The event is free and open to the public. For more information about the awards or the Poet-in-Schools program, please contact our office at (831) 624-7491.

Tracey and John Adams
Mary Aiu
Robert Armstrong
Laura Arnow
Arts Council for Monterey County
Kimm Barnes and Ryotaro Umegaki
Joan Beller
Lorna Claerbout
Michael Clark
Edward Corpus
Dion and Judy Dow
Nancy Farrell and Kent Marshall
Jennifer and Oliver Fellguth
Hugo and Karen Ferlito

Alisa Fineman and Kimball Hurd
Darcie Fohrman and Donald Hughes
Barbara Furbush
Frances Gaver
Priscilla Gilbertson
Alice Ann Glenn
Anne Gosch and Joseph Braun
Marie Hardy and Sam Buttrey
Leni Hazlett and Tim Bresnahan
Mary Hill
Michael and Lorena Houston
Patricia Jacobs
Karin Strasser Kauffman

Marion Keyworth
Dennis King and Lee Ure
Susan Kingsley
Francyne Laney
Laela Leavy
David Ligare and Gary Smith
Marsha Lubow
Chris Mack
Cece McCoy
Nicki and Mick McMahan
Barbara Moore
Constance Murray and David Buckingham
Elizabeth Murray
Linda-Lee Myers