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| APAL Board Member Brad Griffith, Ceylan Yagmur, Police Chief Mike McQuiston, Board Member Chuck Rose |
The Albany Police Activities
League (APAL) is proud to award Ceylan Yagmur their 2010 scholarship. Ms. Yagmur will be attending UCLA
in the fall with a double major in music and physics. She is a 2009 graduate of Albany High School
where she was a National Merit Program Commended Student and received Superior/Command Performance Ratings at the California
Music Educators Association Solo/Ensemble Festival. Ceylan also received a Bank of America Music Award
as well as receiving Highest Honor in Jazz Band and Concert Band for four years. She has been taking classes at several local
community colleges during this past year.
She began her music studies as a third
clarinet in the fourth grade band and worked her way up to concertmaster of the AHS Wind Ensemble for three consecutive years.
Ceylan was a member of the California All-State Honor Band during her junior and senior years and also joined the Oakland
Youth Orchestra during her senior year. She currently holds the principal chair in the Young People’s Symphony Orchestra.
Her clarinet teacher wrote, “… (Ceylan) has shown a maturity of understanding that indicates the possibility
for development into a first – rate musician.” He continues, “Ceylan is an intelligent,
sensitive person. It has been a pleasure to work with her. Her achievements originate
in her own drive and passion for music: she practices and performs because she is excited about it.”
Through performing for her grandmother, Ceylon began to realize the power of music to help
people find their own happiness. In her own words, “music has the potential to touch one’s heart in a way modern
medicine cannot.” “I am hoping to take my music to a level where I can reach out to others
and help them through their struggles.
Historically, the APAL scholarship
award is $500.00 but this year we were very fortunate to receive an anonymous matching donation which doubled the amount of
our scholarship.
The Albany Police Activities League Scholarship Committee and the Board of Directors are honored to have Ceylan Yagmur
as our scholarship winner and wish her the best in her future endeavors.
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