Kay Beth Jibben Bane Music Scholarship

This fund was started in 1989 by the Class of 1954 in loving memory of their classmate Kay Beth Jibben. The fund was established to provide annual scholarships to qualified MHS Seniors who have exemplified outstanding leadership and overall music contribution.

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2025 Kay Beth Jibben Bane
Music Scholarship

The Kay-Beth Jibben–Bane Music Award is a scholarship, annually awarded to a qualified Senior student from Morton High School who has exemplified outstanding leadership and overall music contribution according to the recommendations of the music department faculty.  The award was established in 1989 by the Class of 1954 in loving memory of their classmate Kay-Beth Jibben.

While at MHS Kay-Beth participated in class government, clarinet in the band, chorus, piano accompaniment, school yearbook, class plays, scholastic clubs and athletics.  She was the salutatorian of the Class of 1954.

Kay-Beth received her Bachelor of Arts degree, in 1961, from Millikin University, Decatur, IL, and graduated Magna Cum Laude.  She received her Masters from Bennington College in Bennington, VT, and taught piano while in graduate school.  In 1961, she studied at the prestigious Juilliard School of Dance, Drama and Music in New York City.  Kay-Beth was a faculty member at The Brearley School for Girls and the Greenwich House of Music School… both in New York.  And the list goes on… She was married to Reverend J. Donald Bane of Beaumont, TX.  Surviving are her husband, a daughter, Christina Diane, and a son, Michael Andrew.  She died after giving birth to her last child.

Qualifications for this Scholarship:

  • Must be an MHS senior who plans to continue their music studies

  • Must have maintained a grade point of 3.0 through their first 7 semesters.

  • Must have excelled in their music studies.

  • Contact the MHS Counseling office for information on this and other MHS scholarships.

The Class of ’54 maintains a permanent plaque in the music department at MHS.

Past scholarship recipients:

2009 - Mitchell Vandiver

2010 - Ky Lusch

2011 - Megan Simpson

2012 - Jordan Sullivan

2013 - Jared Brown

2014 - Sean Testa

2015 - Adam Dierker

2016 - Kayla Smock

2017 - Micah Brown

2018 - Constantine Janello

2019 - Jacob Le

2020 - Casey Hoffmire

2021 - Abigail Hagan

2022 - Tyler Newman

2023 - Kyle Gilles

2024 - Emery Peterson

2025 - Titus Yoder

To make a tax-deductible donation to this endowment fund, you can:

  • Donate by check: Make it payable to Morton Community Foundation and mail it to 135 S First Ave, Morton, IL 61550. Please write “Kay Beth Jibben Bane” on the memo line.

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