COMMUNITY AND EVENTS
UPCOMING EVENTS
UPCOMING EVENTSGMCA activities are a function of the interests of the membership. Some events, like the annual July 4th Parade and Celebration are steeped in tradition, while others are relatively new, like food truck and karaoke nights. Join us today, and get involved! Members can also reserve space at some of our facilities for private parties and events.
Note: unless otherwise noted, clubhouse and pool activities are open to members and their guests only. The guest policy is: 8 guests per membership per month, maximum 4 per event. Greenmeadow residents may not attend as guests. We hope that residents will join as fair share members or as swim members. Learn more about membership here.
Events
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Monday, May 25th, 5:30-7:30pm at the park. Bring your dinner and enjoy the evening at the park, or better yet, bring some food or snack to be shared bu 8 […] |
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A Marlins Tradition, and open to Public. Come purchase your dinner for a flat $10...and help the Marlins fundraise through these dinners. Poolside and at the park. 5:30pm. |
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Information for connecting to online meetings can be found here.
Note: unless otherwise noted, clubhouse and pool activities are open to members and their guests only. The guest policy is: 8 guests per membership per month, maximum 4 per event. Greenmeadow residents may not attend as guests. We hope that residents will join as fair share members or as swim members. Learn more about membership here.
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CLASSES
Music Classes
Noise Lab is dedicated to helping families give their children the gift of music.
Noise lab is passionate about providing unique and innovative opportunities for learning music through creativity and improvisation. Research suggests that childhood is a key time for music learning. By providing a music rich environment, your children can improve aptitude, musicianship, and develop instrument readiness and music literacy.
Classes offered Saturday and Sunday mornings. Please check with the organisers to confirm the schedule: mynoiselab@gmail.com
Join today! www.noiselabmusic.org
Noise Lab is led by dedicated Bay Area parents, musicians, and educators with doctoral degrees in music education.
Meet the Harts
Leslie Hart is an active freelance horn player and professional educator in the San Francisco bay area. She is currently the music specialist at the Bing Nursery School at Stanford University and completed a Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in Performance and Music Education from the Eastman School of Music. Leslie has several published works on learning music with creativity and improvisation and she performs regularly as a member of Emerald Brass Quintet, Frequency 49 Woodwind Sextet and with Opera San Jose.
David Hart a native of California, leads an international music career focusing on both education and performance. Passionate about teaching and learning, he completed a Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in Music Education from the Eastman School of Music. David focuses his education research on ways to improve creativity and improvisation in the music learning process. Currently, David is director of instrumental music at the Harker Middle School and teaches jazz band, orchestra, and choir. He helped create the Harker Concert Series and is currently co-artist director. He performs as a freelance jazz trumpet player throughout the Bay Area and is on faculty at the Stanford Jazz Workshop.
PARTY AND EVENTS RENTALS
Members can rent space beside our pool for parties. Our green and shady park is also available for group gatherings and picnics, and our community room can seat up to 30 people for meetings and presentations. Our clubhouse is also available for members to rent. Contact us to inquire about availability or make a reservation.
Pool Parties
Rentals are available to GMCA members for up to three hours any day of the week, for up to 25 guests. Please note that the pool will be shared with other pool users, but there will be a reserved grass area for you and your guests, with shade, use of the barbecue and additional lifeguards. Event guests may use the bathrooms in the clubhouse, but may not gather in the main space. The host may use the kitchen area in the clubhouse. Please make sure to keep it clean.
You may bring in your own cake, food and drinks, but please no glass on the pool deck.
Pool only: $75/hour.
Please contact us to enquire about availability.
Park Rentals
Reservations are required for all GMCA members wishing to hold space in the Greenmeadow Community Park.
Up to 24 guests : $50/hour. Parties of 25 guests or more: $75.00 per hour fee. Maximum of 50 guest unless approved by club manager.
Contact us for more information.
Clubhouse Rental
Rentals are available to GMCA members. Events may not be affiliated with any business or for-profit venture.
The clubhouse can hold up to 30 people in a classroom setting, and there are tables and chairs available for use.
Price:
Clubhouse only: $100/hour. Deposit required: $200
Clubhouse with pool option: $150/hour. Deposit Required: $200
Duration:
2-4 Hours (3 hrs. max for Clubhouse+pool)
Rules for Usage:
• Allowed up to 30 guests. Additional $50 will be added for parties with over 30 guests.
Parties with over fifty guests need to make special arrangements with the manager.
• Only Greenmeadow members are allowed to reserve the space.
• Must follow the cleaning and usage policy.
• Rentals will be offered year round but will not be allowed on some Holidays
(Clubhouse will be open to all members on Holidays).
• See manager with any request that falls outside of this policy.
HOSTING A COMMUNITY EVENT? Click here for info
Contact us to reserve.
Community Room Rental
The community room (room behind preschool) is free for members to reserve and cost $50 an hour for non-members to reserve the room. Rentals are up to 8 hours. Room holds 25-30 people.
Click here to see the community room calendar, and contact us to request a rental.
Community Room Rules/Checklist
GREENMEADOW SCHOLARSHIP FUND
The Greenmeadow Community Scholarship Fund (GMCSF) is a unique community-based scholarship program, and an example of what defines our community and makes it special. Learn more about this wonderful grass-roots program here.
Greenmeadow Community Scholarship Fund
Community Scholarship Fund (GMCSF) is a unique community-based scholarship program, and an example of what defines our community and makes it special. It seeks to acknowledge and honor graduating high school seniors who demonstrate the qualities of potential for achievement, service to the community and worthy character. Winners get scholarship awards and textbook stipends to support further education.
There are two parts to the GMSCF. The Greenmeadow Community Scholarship is for students whose families are part of the Greenmeadow community at large (members of GMCA; residents who live in Greenmeadow, but are not members of GMCA; Associate members). The George Ebey Scholarship is for Menlo-Atherton High School students and is awarded in collaboration with the Menlo-Atherton College and Career Center.
The GMCSF has been in continual operation since awarding its first scholarship in 1964. The Scholarship Board is staffed exclusively by volunteers with roots in the Greenmeadow community who believe strongly in the value of recognizing and supporting young people in our local communities. The scholarship continues to exist because of the generous contributions of Greenmeadow community members. The Scholarship Fund is non-profit and donations are tax deductible. GMCSF would like to thank its donors for their commitment to the ideals of this scholarship which remains a unique and cherished Greenmeadow tradition.
Click Here To Donate Now to the GMCSF
On Sunday, April 19th, we gathered for the 62nd annual Greenmeadow Community Scholarship Fund Awards Reception at the GM park. And what a group we had the privilege of honoring. Fifteen graduating seniors, seven from the Greenmeadow Community and eight from Menlo-Atherton High School, each one a finalist, each one remarkable in their own right. We awarded 6 scholarships this year, and every finalist received an Award of Merit. Every finalist also received a textbook stipend and a goft book of their choosing, selected during their interview.
Finalists are chosen on the basis of academic achievement, community service, work experience, and that wonderfully old-fashioned phrase, “worthy character.” What we have found year after year is that the students who rise to the top don’t just check those boxes, they embody them. Their stories stuck with us long after the interviews ended, and we are delighted to share them here.
A special recognition – Stu Greene
This year’s reception also included a surprise, one we’d been quietly looking forward to for months. Stu Greene, who served as President of the GMCSF Board for over 30 years before passing on the gavel, was presented with an Appreciation Award in recognition of his decades of service to this program and this community.
Some of you know Stu’s name. What you may not fully appreciate is just how much of what we do today exists because Stu ran it, tended it, and poured himself into it year after year. The care behind the program, the structure of the interviews, the warmth of the ceremony, the strong relationship with M-A, the simple fact that it all runs: none of it is accidental. Whoever steps into this role has the enormous benefit of inheriting something that already works. That is no accident. That is Stu. Decades of service, a lifetime of difference, and our deepest gratitude.
George Ebey Scholarship—Menlo-Atherton High School
Leslie Batres (Scholarship Winner)
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Valeria Cachay (Scholarship Winner)
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Esvin Domingo (Award of Merit)
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Mia Gomez-Morales (Award of Merit)
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Elizabeth Maldonado Solorzano (Award of Merit)
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Juritzi Rodrguez-González (Award of Merit)
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Pedro Torres Vargas (Award of Merit)
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Katherine Vera Yarleque (Scholarship Winner)
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Greenmeadow Community Scholarship
Parker Ballew (Award of Merit)
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Lukas Chen (Award of Merit)
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Tobey Chou (Award of Merit)
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Julia Kirner (Award of Merit)
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Jack Spitzer (Scholarship Winner)
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Andersen Tanriverdi (Scholarship Winner)
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Bianca Voltmer (Scholarship Winner)
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PARTNERS
Greenmeadow works with a selection of external organizations which help us to contribute to our wider community, and deliver major services and benefits to our members and to the public. We have partnered with the Greenmeadow Community Scholarship Fund and the Montessori School of Los Altos.
Montessori School of Los Altos at Greenmeadow
The Montessori School of Los Altos at Greenmeadow is located at 303 Parkside Drive, Palo Alto. The preschool was built in 1954 as part of the original Greenmeadow development, and is located next to the pool compound. The preschool is operated by the Montessori School of Los Altos.
This innovative preschool offers a 3-year Montessori Primary curriculum that explores many key areas of learning through small group and individual lessons.
In addition to the core elements of the Montessori Program like Language, Mathematics, Practical Life, Sensorial and Geography, the preschool offers Science and Music enrichment programs as well as both Mandarin and Spanish language programs.
At the Montessori School of Los Altos at Greenmeadow, a child’s development is rounded out with lessons in grace and courtesy, art appreciation and hands on projects, movement and dance, rhythm, song and an introduction to musical instruments as well as the chance to participate in many cultural activities and celebrations reflecting their diverse parent community.
Each child will thrive in this program, building strong academic skills, a cooperative approach to working with their teachers and peers and a love of learning. Please contact the preschool to join a tour; smartkids@sbcglobal.net or phone 650.493.7200
