Tuesday September 26th, 2000
Gibson donates over 100 computers, equipment to Nashville Metro schools
Today Gibson Musical Instruments will continue to show its support of the Nashville Metro school system with a second major donation this year--some $20,000 worth of computers and related equipment. These Pentium-class computers have powered Gibson, America's premier guitar manufacturer, for several years and were officially "retired" when Gibson recently moved its corporate headquarters. They should provide years of good use to students at the schools.
Says Gibson Chairman and CEO, Henry Juszkiewicz, "Learning how to use a computer has become just as important to a child's education as learning the 3-R's. We at Gibson are thrilled to be able to provide these important learning tools to the metro school district, and are certain they will
be of lasting benefit to our children."
Earlier this summer, Gibson donated 50 acoustic guitars to the school system at the Grand Opening of the Gibson Bluegrass Showcase, located in the Opry Mills mall. Some 50 children were on hand for the ceremony, which was presided over by Juszkiewicz and bluegrass music legend Sam Bush.
Gibson Guitar, the 106 year-old American icon, has the distinction of contributing to the birth of every major American musical genre. From the 1890's, when former shoe clerk Orville H. Gibson began crafting world-class instruments in his Kalamazoo, Michigan workshop to the early 1900's when Gibson mandolins powered the popular orchestras of the day, to the early jazz foundations of Charlie Christian and Les Paul, bluegrass pioneers Bill Monroe and Earl Scruggs, country icons Hank Williams and Chet Atkins, Blues royalty B.B. King, rock and roll's early mavericks Elvis Presley and Scotty Moore, the British invasion of the '60s with Beatles' George Harrison and John Lennon, renowned players like Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, and Pete Townsend, hard rock trailblazer Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin, and modern rockers like Sheryl Crow.
The list is a who's who of legends. Gibson, now based in Nashville, Tennessee, still carries on the same tradition of excellence established by Orville Gibson over a century ago.
