 In 2012 the Eddie Marshall Scholarship Fund was initiated to memorialize longtime faculty member Eddie Marshall, a drummer who worked at the Keystone Korner jazz club in San Francisco's North Beach where he played behind jazz greats such as Dexter Gordon, Stan Getz and Bobby Hutcherson.Jazz poet laureate Ishmael Reed enrolled in 1998 at the age of 60 to learn jazz piano.He studied under Muscarella through 2004, and inspired a class for teaching poetry composition intended for music.