As we near our 10-year reunion, we look forward to catching up with friends and partying--but also wanted to do something as a class to benefit current and future students in the Shaker Heights City School District. So we have established a fund to help students in the schools' music programs in the name of Tara Davis.
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On January 2, 2007, Tara Mari Davis, passed away in a car accident while driving home to Pennsylvania. Tara attended Lomond Elementary, Woodbury, the Middle School, High School, and graduated with us in May 2000.
After Shaker, she got her undergraduate degree at Northwestern University and a graduate degree at Arizona State University in 2006. She was a member of Delta Sigma Theta sorority.
Tara left behind loving parents, a fiance, and siblings, including her sister Erica, who notified people through Facebook about her funeral. People came to her funeral from around the country to honor the life she lived. She will be remembered for her consistent and genuine smile as well as for her love of music.
We, fellow graduates of Shaker, would like to honor her by creating a fund for the music department in her memory.
Donations to this music fund can be made through the Shaker Schools Foundation to provide ongoing opportunities to Shaker’s students.
To donate, you can:
1. Send a check to: Shaker
Schools Foundation, 15600 Parkland Drive, Shaker Heights, OH 44120. (Please specify Class of 2000 music fund, Tara Davis)
2. Bring a cash or check donation with you to any of our upcoming high school reunion events to be submitted.
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Tara's favorite quote, as listed on Facebook was: "You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don't make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can't take their eyes off you." -Maya Angelou
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