Students, please use the link in the For Students section of the website. This is the Parent only login link: Schoology. This online “digital classroom” provides students and families with anytime, anywhere access to curricular materials and information on upcoming assignments/events. Schoology incorporates the best of modern interfaces so it’s easy to learn and access relevant information on any device. In order to utilize blended learning effectively, Olentangy uses as the district’s learning management system (LMS). Thank you for all the music you made.Schoology //-a learning management system (LMS) that has all the tools Olentangy uses to create engaging content, design lessons, and assess student understanding. He was posthumously inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 1993. His tombstone was inscribed with the following epitaph, comprising lyrics from Kingdom of Desire track "Wings of Time": "Our love doesn't end here it lives forever, on the Wings of Time." The proceeds of the concert were used to establish an education trust fund for Jeff's sons. A memorial concert took place at the Universal Amphitheater in Los Angeles on December 14, 1992, with an all-star line-up that included George Harrison, Boz Scaggs, Donald Fagen, Don Henley, Michael McDonald, David Crosby, Eddie Van Halen, and the members of Toto. The Jeff Porcaro Memorial Fund was established to benefit the music and art departments of Grant High School in Los Angeles, California, where he was a student in the early 1970s. Porcaro's funeral was held on August 10 in the Forest Lawn – Hollywood Hills Cemetery, where he was buried on the Lincoln Terrace, lot 120. The coroner's office listed his cause of death to be a heart attack from atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries). He had fallen ill after spraying insecticide in the yard of his Hidden Hills home and died that evening at Humana Hospital-West Hills. Jeff died on August 5, 1992, at the age of 38. Michael Jackson made a dedication to Jeff in the liner notes for his 1995 album HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I. Jeff also contributed drums to four tracks on Michael Jackson's Thriller and also played on the Dangerous album hit "Heal the World". Jeff collaborated with many of the biggest names in music, including George Benson, Larry Carlton, Eric Carmen, Eric Clapton, Joe Cocker, Christopher Cross, Miles Davis, Dire Straits, Donald Fagen, Stan Getz, David Gilmour, James Newton Howard, Al Jarreau, Elton John, Leo Sayer, Rickie Lee Jones, Paul McCartney, Michael McDonald, Sérgio Mendes, Jim Messina, Pink Floyd, Lee Ritenour, Diana Ross, Boz Scaggs, Seals and Crofts, Bruce Springsteen, Steely Dan, Barbra Streisand, Donna Summer and Joe Walsh. He toured with Boz Scaggs before co-founding Toto with his brother Steve and childhood friends Steve Lukather and David Paich.īesides his work with Toto, he was also a highly sought-after session musician. During his twenties, he played on hundreds of albums, including several for Steely Dan.
When Jeff was seventeen, he got his first professional gig playing in Sonny & Cher's touring band. AllMusic has characterized him as "arguably the most highly regarded studio drummer in rock from the mid-'70s to the early '90s", further stating that "It is no exaggeration to say that the sound of mainstream pop/rock drumming in the 1980s was, to a large extent, the sound of Jeff Porcaro.
While already an established studio player in the 1970s, he came to prominence in the United States as the drummer on the Steely Dan album Katy Lied. Porcaro is one of the most recorded session musicians in history, working on hundreds of albums and thousands of sessions.
In a career that spanned more than 20 years, Porcaro was best known for his work with the rock band Toto. Jeff was a drummer, songwriter, and record producer. If Jeff Porcaro was still with us, he would have been celebrating his 68th birthday today.