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MEMORIAL FUND ACCOMPLISHMENTS

We would like to again thank our family, friends, and the community for their overwhelming generosity in supporting the Jarret R. Feucht Memorial Fund. 

Jarret’s Memorial Fund continues to make financial contributions to the music, arts, and enrichment programs throughout the Olentangy School District. 

This school year 2009-2010, Jarret’s Memorial Fund will support the POP Arts boosters at Orange High School along with other music & art programs at the elementary school level.  We have partnered with the Ohio Hospice & Palliative Care Organization to begin to offer the Bobby’s Books program bundle and curriculum in each of the school district’s elementary schools.  This program equips each guidance counselor with books and tools designed to help elementary age children who are struggling with grief or loss due to a death in the family, divorce, a transfer to a new school, etc.  The counselors currently do not have materials specifically addressing these issues.  The Bobby’s Books program will greatly enhance the support and care that our counselors can provide our students.

We are also working on a scholarship program and will keep you updated on that.

Here is a glimpse at what the fund has been able to accomplish recently:

 

Future Eagle Scout Honors Jarret With Garden Renovation

Boy Scout Brady Jackson, age 14, renovated the Hyatts Middle School garden as part of his Eagle Scout project. Jackson spent 180 hours mulching, planting trees, installing picnic tables and benches, building a compost bin and creating an entryway. This work was largely made possible through a $1,000 donation from the Jarret R. Feucht Memorial Fund which helped kick-start the project. "That was the donation that made this all possible," Brady said. Jarret was a classmate of Brady's younder brother at Oak Creek Elementary School.

Jackson, who graduated from Hyatts in June 2011 and will attend Olentangy Orange High School, chose to renovate the garden as part of his efforts to achieve Eagle Scout status. As part of the project, Brady created a small memorial for Jarret near the gate of the garden, with a memorial plaque set on a stone, along with trees and flowers.

Brady currently is awaiting approval by scout leaders to be named an Eagle Scout.

Click Here To See Press Story.

 

This picture was taken of Ashley Feucht at the Oak Creek Evening with Music and the Arts.  It was the Jarret R. Feucht Memorial Fund table displaying a sampling of drums and books purchased through the fund.  In the background are the Outdoor Garden plans and renderings.

$3,200. Drum donation for the Oak Creek Elementary Music Program:

The donation included a variety of drums including conga, bongos, hand held drums, along with many more varieties large and small.  The students have already begun working with their new instruments and they sound great!  Clinton Wright, the music teacher at Oak Creek Elementary will also be starting an after school Drummer's Club for the students this coming fall.  We are anxious to hear their musical works of art!

Children's books for the Oak Creek Elementary Library:

Jarret's Nana, Terri Anderson, is a retired art teacher.  Terri taught and served as the Art Department Head at the Lakota Freshmen building in the Cincinnati area for many years.  Following Jarret's passing many of her teaching peers and Nana and Papa's friends from the Cincinnati community donated generously to the Memorial Fund.  The money from these teacher's and close friends was set aside to be used for children's books.  To date, Nana has been able to purchase several cases of books from Scholastic which will all be given to Oak Creek Elementary at the start of the 2008/2009 school year.  Nana was able to select a wide variety of books appealing to students ages K-5th grade.  She included subjects close to Jarret's heart such as dinosaur books, animal and nature books, sports, Dr. Seus and some selections from Marc Brown's "Arthur" series to name a few.  Ashley Feucht, Jarret's little sister, will deliver the book collection this fall when she begins kindergarten at Oak Creek Elementary.

Oak Creek Elementary Outdoor Classroom and Gardens:  

An outdoor shelter house and gardens were dedicated to the memory of Jarret on April 11, 2008.  The Oak Creek PTO has generously raised funds to begin building  an outdoor shelter house that will serve as an outdoor classroom for the students.  The Scotts Company donated $5,000. to be used towards the entire project.  The Jarret R. Feucht Memorial Fund will also contribute financially to the butterfly garden, the vegetable garden, as well as assist with ongoing fund support of the project.  The Memorial Fund will purchase two memorial park benches.  One bench in memory of Jarret.  The other bench will be dedicated to the memory of Lezlie Allen.  Lezlie, mother to Gracyn Allen, a first grader at Oak Creek, passed away this past fall.  Prior to her death, Lezlie was organizing the donation of trees to be planted on the school grounds in memory of the lives Jarret saved through his gift of organ donation.   Lezlie, a former co-worker with Eric and Jennifer Feucht at NBC 4, and beloved mother and friend will be dearly missed.  Through the generous gift from a Feucht family friend, three oak trees were donated and planted on the school grounds in the outdoor classroom area.  This area will become the Oak Creek Memorial Tree Garden.  The three trees that reside there today represent the two adults and one child that Jarret was able to provide with the gift of life.