Our Approach
Who We Are
Music Mentors is a group of volunteer parents from the Mentor School District who work behind the scenes acting as chaperones, uniform handlers, fund raisers and band boosters.
Executive Board
President
Vice President
Secretary
Treasurer
Our Story
How You Can Get Involved
Interested in volunteering? Many positions require lots of helping hands. Find out about each position to see how you can help and what volunteer opportunity is right for you, and click on the links below to email the band directors, executive board, or committee chairs for more information.
Directors
Band Committees
Your help is needed! It takes many hands to keep our Band programs running smoothly. Please consider joining in the fun! If you’d like more info about a committee or want to join, simply click the link to email the Committee Chair. Thank you in advance!
Committee Chair – Matt Armstrong
Our 50/50 team is responsible for selling 50/50 raffle tickets at all of our home football games. We make someone very happy at all of the home games, and get a little exercise, too! We always need a lot of help, as we like to have 10-12 sellers at each game, so the more, the merrier! We also help with selling tickets for the FCMB Banquet and the Pasta Dinner.
Committee Chair – Britney Elliott
Chaperones take care of our kids at both home and away games. We make sure they are all present and accounted for at away games, check them on and off and accompany them on the buses and even make sure they have all of their uniform parts with them. We make sure they are hydrated and healthy and accompany them on bio breaks as needed. We take care of all of the kids as if they were our own!
The largest and “most loved” Committee is Hospitality – that’s because our main job is to feed the kids during half time! Hospitality parents generously donate snacks of all kinds – baked goods, fruit, cheese snacks – you name it – all so that we can provide the kids something to munch on at half time. Our fabulous Hospitality crew also provides baked goods for the Pasta Dinner and we set up and take care of the food for the FCMB BBQ. Anything food related, that’s us!
Committee Chair – Debbie Tellep
Each year, Music Mentors awards numerous scholarships to our well-deserving seniors. We do this by gathering donations from area businesses as well as national franchises. All donations are beautifully packaged up and raffled off via online auction. Through our committee’s hard work, we’ve been able to award over several thousands in scholarships each year!
Scholarship committee is a great way to get involved with our band programs when you can’t commit to time frames such as being present for a marching band competition, but can help from home by making calls and sending emails.
The Service Committee is the “operations” team for our band. We are responsible for getting all the equipment to and from the field for all performances, which includes loading and unloading our FCMB Semi truck, maintenance of all equipment, and especially building all props.
Outside of FCMB season, service crew also sets up the stage for all band concerts throughout the year (Middle and High School), OMEA competitions and anything else “operations-related” for our Bands. If they need it, we will build it!
Committee Chair – Karen Nemelka
Our Uniform crew is responsible for keeping our kids looking great! We measure and fit all of the Marching Band uniforms, all of the tuxes and dresses for all of our Concert Band kids and keep them looking clean and sharp all year long.
Committee Co-Chairs – Dan Bingman and Peter Tellep
Our Website is taken care of by one or two helpers that keep us all updated on the events of our bands throughout the year.