{"id":61736,"date":"2009-12-03T16:13:10","date_gmt":"2009-12-03T21:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.menc.org\/news\/view\/tom-batiuk-offers-an-early-holiday-gift-for-menc-members-a-new-halle-dinkle-strip"},"modified":"2009-12-03T16:13:10","modified_gmt":"2009-12-03T21:13:10","slug":"tom-batiuk-offers-an-early-holiday-gift-for-menc-members-a-new-halle-dinkle-strip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/61736","title":{"rendered":"Tom Batiuk Offers an Early Holiday Gift for MENC Members: A New Halle Dinkle Strip"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For December, cartoonist Tom Batiuk,<\/b> a friend of music educators, presents a new Halle Dinkle<\/i> cartoon for MENC members (above). A Lowell Mason Fellow, Batiuk was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for his comic strip, Funky Winkerbean<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Batiuk was a big part of Music Education Week in Washington<\/a> in June, 2009, drawing a strip for U.S. Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan on behalf of MENC.<\/p>\n

A former middle school teacher, Batiuk took the stage with Duncan for the presentation<\/a> of the cartoon during a rally at the U. S Department of Education.<\/p>\n

Halle Dinkle cartoons formerly appeared in MENC’s Teaching Music<\/i>, then moved to the MENC Web site <\/a>in 2009. In a series of interviews with MENC the cartoonist discussed his working process, and his interest in music education. <\/p>\n

Batiuk’s themes are timely, as this cartoon from earlier in 2009<\/a> demonstrates. Is your program facing possible budget cuts? Looking for ways to advocate for your music program? MENC’s Advocacy Web site<\/a> offers research, anecdotes, quotes and other material, through the SupportMusic "Make Your Case" database<\/a>, which offers compelling reasons for strong support of school music programs.<\/p>\n

Or log on as a member and visit MENC’s forums<\/a> to discuss concerns with other music educators.<\/p>\n

Look for new Batiuk cartoons on the MENC Web site<\/a> in 2010.<\/p>\n

 —Roz Fehr<\/a>, December 3, 2009. © MENC: The National Association for Music Education<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For December, cartoonist Tom Batiuk, a friend of music educators, presents a new Halle Dinkle cartoon for MENC members (above). A Lowell Mason Fellow, Batiuk was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for his comic strip, Funky Winkerbean. Batiuk was a big part of Music Education Week in Washington in June, 2009, drawing a strip for U.S. Department […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}