Proceeds from this year’s DBMB will be used to establish a music scholarship at Austin High School as music has played a vital role in the Bissen family.

 

The scholarship fund is currently at $4,500.  When it totals $10,000, we will establish an endowed music scholarship at Austin High School.  The first $1,000 annual scholarship will be dispersed in the spring of 2011.

 

It was through music that Margo met Dan in 1980, when she was the organist and he was the cutest tenor in Queen of Angels church choir.  Margo, Dan and Meigan were part of the music ministry at Queens for many years. Dan and Margo were privileged to sing at many community events, concerts,  weddings, funerals, and family celebrations.  And of course, over the years we continued to add to the Bissen Family Singers!

 

Our children have been blessed with the best music teachers in the world...right here in Austin!

And Margo has taught music in almost every school in Austin.

 

But perhaps the main inspiration for this scholarship comes from the original Bissen Bash, held in honor of Dan and orchestrated by the music department of Austin Public Schools.  The music staff, along with colleagues from Sumner, Woodson, Ellis and many Austin Area musicians gifted our family with a most uplifting, loving and compassionate concert on a cold day in January, 2006.  Memories of this event compel us to continue the concert as a memorial to Dan and a tribute to music ~ and in the process we are drawn closer to God and all the Heavenly Hosts! 

 

We welcome you to be a part of this scholarship endeavor.  All donations are tax deductible and can be given in memory or in honor of a loved one, an event, in gratitude for the gift of music, in appreciation for music education in our community...the possibilities are endless!

 

Please make donations payable to DBMB Scholarship Fund and send them to:

 

Music Boosters of Austin

P.O. Box 32

Austin, MN 55912

 

Thank you for your generosity!

 

Gratefully,

Margo and Family