Wolfe, Robert Thomas Tom Saturday, February 27, 2021
Tom Wolfe
He was born on July 6, 1933, and was raised in Chattanooga. Tom attended Sunnyside School, where years later as an educator, he would serve as principal! After studying at Brainerd Junior High and Chattanooga High School, he received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Chattanooga and a master’s degree from George Peabody Teacher’s College in Nashville.
Back in Chattanooga, he taught at Hemlock School and Barger School, as well as one year teaching at the American School in Augsburg, Germany. Tom served as the first music resource teacher for the Chattanooga public schools and then became the principal of Sunnyside School. Shortly after that school’s eventual closure, he embarked on a career at St. Nicholas School in the Early Learning Center.
SOS Illinois announces its board of directors votes to recognize Juneteenth as an organization holiday
Updated 2/25/2021 8:45 AM
SOS Children s Villages Illinois, a non-profit, child-welfare agency that serves at-risk youth and children in foster care, announces its board of directors, in a unanimous decision, voted to recognize Juneteenth, celebrated on June 19, as a paid organization holiday beginning this June 2021.
As SOS Illinois honors Black History with a series of activities and events beginning this month that will extend throughout the year, this forward-looking move by the board reaffirms the organization s commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion.
Juneteenth marks the day when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, in 1865, to take control of the state and ensure that all enslaved people be freed, which came a full two and a half years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation.
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SOS Children s Villages Illinois, a non-profit, child-welfare agency that serves at-risk youth and children in foster care, announces its Board of Directors, in a unanimous decision,
voted to recognize Juneteenth,
celebrated on June 19,
as a paid organization holiday beginning this June 2021. As SOS Illinois honors Black History with a series of activities and events beginning this month that will extend throughout the year, this forward-looking move by the Board reaffirms the organization s commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Juneteenth marks the day when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas in 1865 to take control of the state and ensure that all enslaved people be freed, which came a full two and a half years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. Honoring Juneteenth is more complicated than just recognizing the emancipation of slaves in the U.S. It is a day to continue fighting to end racism in the U.S. that prevents equity, creates dis