Pura Belpré was the first Puerto Rican librarian in the New York Public 图书馆, and is responsible for bringing Spanish language stories and books to the New York Public 图书馆.  Belpré was one of the women celebrated in 较低的学校’s Women’s 历史 Month live-streamed assembly on March 26.

Women Who Inspired 较低的学校 教师 and Staff

Assistant 低年级校长 艾莉森·弗兰纳里，31岁，33岁 introduced a website feature on 较低的学校’s Google site that Director of LS Technology 史黛西·亨特，15年级学生 创建. It highlights women, like Belpré, who have inspired our 较低的学校 faculty and staff. “选择很棒,亨特说。, “and the reasons why people were inspired by them so varied and wonderful!在谷歌网站上, 34 members of 较低的学校 faculty and staff shared a wide variety of women who inspire them including trailblazers in science, 音乐, 教育, 作家, 积极分子, 艺术家, 架构师, 运动员, 和更多的.

Other women celebrated were well-known such as Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Toni Morrison, 宇航员博士. 莎莉骑, environmental activist Greta Thunberg, civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer, 或者戴安娜王妃, while others were a mom who inspired a teaching career, a beloved aunt whose Alzheimer’s diagnosis led to the story of  Dr. Lisa Mosconi’s research into women’s brain health, 高中美术老师, 或者建筑师扎哈·哈迪德, whose designs “combined seemingly impossible combinations of curving façades.”

Flannery said she had chosen basketball player Rebecca Lobo because she “inspired me as a female athlete. She was one of the first women basketball players in the WNBA and as a girl who loved basketball and had no professional 运动员 to look up to, Rebecca inspired me to keep up my hard work and make my dreams become a reality. If she could push boundaries for women so could I.”

Read Aloud 博彩网站排名 Mathematician Katherine Johnson

接着，弗兰纳里大声朗读 一台叫凯瑟琳的电脑, the story of an African-American woman mathematician for NASA, who was vital to the success of the early U.S. spaceflight and the journey to the moon. From the time she was a young child, Katherine loved to count everything from her steps to the stars in the sky. She loved math and after graduating from West Virginia State College earned a place at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics’ (NACA’s) Langley laboratory in 1953. She and the other women who did the mathematical work there were called “computers.” “Katherine asked lots of questions,” Flannery said. They were great questions and soon her colleagues included her in meetings and she was asked to join the team to send men into space. Her geometry skills and calculations helped to determine when the first space flight should blast off. Astronaut John Glenn famously said he wanted Katherine Johnson to confirm computer calculations before he felt safe for his Friendship 7 flight as the first American to orbit the earth in 1962.

艾瑞莎·富兰克林和《博彩网站排名》

最后，音乐老师 詹妮弗·纳尔逊 P’12, ’14, ’19 shared a brief biography of singer Aretha Franklin, who was known as the Queen of Soul, noting that Franklin had been inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame in 2020. Franklin started as a gospel singer in her father’s church and throughout her career her 音乐 had a power and honesty, 尼尔森说. Franklin also used her talent as a force for social change during the civil rights movement. She was posthumously awarded a Pulitzer Prize Special Citation for her contribution to American 音乐 and culture.

One of Franklin’s best known recordings was “RESPECT” in 1967.  Nelson shared a brief biographical video of Franklin and played her classic song “RESPECT” and then shared the children’s picture book, 尊重, with illustrations for Otis Redding’s lyrics through the eyes of a little girl.

Flannery thanked everyone for coming to the Women’s 历史 Month Assembly and asked them to check out the pictures and biographies that Pre K Head Teacher Olugbala威廉姆斯 has posted on the second floor.

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Families can see the complete list of women who have inspired Poly’s 较低的学校 faculty staff by visiting the 较低的学校 Google Site. 享受!