Drivers along Marietta Avenue saw moving vans at the home of Francis Veri and Michael Jamanis, Sr., founders of the Pennsylvania Music Academy (PAM), as the artists moved before year’s end from their formerly PAM owned residence to their new home nearby in School Lane Hills.
As part of the settlement between the academy and the Ferree Foundation which is funded by Lancaster philanthropist and former PAM board chair Paul Ware, PAM deeded the house and the adjacent building immediately to the south of the Academy to the foundation.
The Jamanises are moving to a nearby School Lane Hill’s house.
Their new home had been rapidly acquired to accommodate the piano artists’ space requirements for dual pianos and subsequently leased to the couple.
NewsLanc interprets the response by an Academy supporter as well as the efforts of PAM’s Management Committee as appreciation for the unstinting efforts and many accomplishments of the Jamanises over the years and determination by an affluent, competent and determined cadre to overcome set backs and yet achieve the goal of making PAM an international school for talented high school musicians.
After reading your news item on the Veri/Jamanis current move, I recalled the following: When they first moved to Lancaster, several years after their studies at Juilliard, they lived in a house (perhaps owned by Frances’ father and first benefactor – Dr. Veri) for a short time but later moved into a much larger and more upscale house that would serve as a more appropriate house to host the artists who would be their guests when in Lancaster. This house, I heard or read, was deeded over to them by an admirer. I assume this house is located at 1109 Marietta … because that is the address in the 2009 – 2010 phone book.
Question: Is [this] the house they moved from this weekend?
Editor’s reply: Yes. The house belonged to the school, not to them. The house was deeded over to Paul Ware’s Ferree foundation as part of the settlement concerning Ferree’s guarantee of bank debt.