When: Wednesday, March 6th
6:00 pm - Reception w/ drinks and hors d'oeuvres
6:30 pm - Presentation, Questions, and Performance by Eliot Grasso, PH.D.

Where: The Commons at SCCS (810 18th Avenue, Seattle WA 98122)

Parking: Free parking is available in the school parking lot and surrounding streets.

PARENT ENRICHMENT NIGHT

Choosing a college should reflect our trust in God’s purposes for our lives. But all too often our trust in God falters in these critical decisions, and our choices align with the world rather than with the Bible. If families aren’t careful, students can lose their freedom by taking on massive college debt, enrolling in programs that overpromise and underdeliver, and parents may give their children over to college faculty who may lack the skills to mentor young minds. Dr. Eliot Grasso has nearly two decades of college teaching and administrative experience in America and Europe and currently serves as the Vice President of Gutenberg College in Eugene, Oregon. In this talk, he will give families the tools and questions they need to think clearly about the college-selection process so that college decisions can be made with confidence and understanding.

ABOUT Eliot GRASSO

Eliot Grasso, vice president and tutor at Gutenberg, grew up in Baltimore, Maryland. Eliot joined the faculty of Gutenberg College in 2012 where he teaches courses on art, music, and aesthetics.

Eliot has performed, recorded, taught, and lectured on Irish traditional music internationally. Scholars, critics, and performers have described him as “one of the finest uilleann pipers in the history of Irish music in America.” Eliot has performed for the National Endowment for the Arts Awards, the National Heritage Awards, Glasgow’s International Piping Festival, Piping Live!, Armagh’s William Kennedy International Piping Festival, and at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

Eliot holds a B.A. in music from Goucher College, a M.A. in ethnomusicology from the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at the University of Limerick, and a Ph.D. in musicology from the University of Oregon School of Music and Dance. He studies the relationship among melodic variation, cognition, and socio-cultural context. Eliot’s scholarship and teaching have been recognized with awards from the Society for Ethnomusicology and the University of Oregon.