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The power

of music

and culture.

Julia Egan ’16E, ’21E (MA)

Rosemary Utz and Douglas H. Jones Family
Endowed Ethnomusicology Scholarship

In 2019, Douglas Jones ’85M (Flw) and
Rosemary Utz ’79M (MD), ’85M (Flw)
established the Rosemary Utz and Douglas
H. Jones Family Endowed Ethnomusicology
Scholarship as part of the Wegman Family
Scholarship Challenge at Eastman School of
Music. The couple’s fund provides scholarship
and/or research stipends for graduate students
in Eastman’s ethnomusicology program, which
explores the music of other cultures, especially
non-Western ones.

J ulia Egan ’16E, ’21E (MA) was adopted from

Colombia, South America, and grew up in
Brooklyn, NY. She played the guitar, enjoyed
soccer, and loved riding skateboards. She thrived
outside of the boundaries of what a ‘typical girl’
was supposed to do. She attended LaGuardia High
School (the performing arts school that inspired
the 1980s TV show, Fame) and then found her
collegiate home at Eastman, where she would
hone her skills as a classical guitarist.

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