December 4, 2011
A Ballet School Adjusts Its Position After Its Major Donor Bows Out
Derek Lieu, for The Chronicle
The Kirov Academy of Ballet’s Robert E. Lucas is seeking new donors and trying to shore up the school’s finances. “We do tremendously good work here,” he says.
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Derek Lieu, for The Chronicle
The Kirov Academy of Ballet’s Robert E. Lucas is seeking new donors and trying to shore up the school’s finances. “We do tremendously good work here,” he says.
Washington
Robert E. Lucas was standing outside a Washington bar chatting with the pub’s proprietor last November when he mentioned that he had recently moved to town to take a job as a fund raiser for the Kirov Academy of Ballet of Washington, DC.
The bar owner gave him a look. “You mean you’re with that Moonie academy?” the man asked.
That was when Mr. Lucas fully understood his employer’s perception problem, which stems from the fact that until recently,
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