There are legends … and then there are living legends. On the morning of Tuesday, March 25, historical and legendary women came to life at Miller-Driscoll Elementary School, in honor of National Women’s History Month. In the 17th year of the Miller-Driscoll PTA program in conjunction with the school librarians, the Annual Women in History Day ran without a hitch to celebrate famous women of the past and present.
Dressed as a “Famous Woman,” parent volunteers visited classrooms and spent ten minutes telling the students a little bit about who “they” were and shared some of “their” remarkable life stories.
Some of the women who visited classrooms yesterday were Jane Goodall, Annie Oakley, Hillary Clinton, Rosa Parks, Sally Ride, Queen Elizabeth I, Clara Barton, Gloria Steinem, Eleanor Roosevelt, Georgia O’Keefe, Amelia Earhart, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, the Unsinkable Molly Brown, Lady Liberty, Anne Frank, Jane Austen, Joan of Arc, Aung San Suu Kyi, Emily Dickenson and Florence Nightingale, among many others.
It’s a PTA tradition that brings history to life in the class, and the kids (and volunteers) all love it!