Zephyr High School class teaches leadership, life skills
Brownwood Bulletin
ZEPHYR In Jenna Marwitz’s family and consumer sciences classroom at Zephyr High School, her students were busily happy or happily busy as they worked in Marwitz’s kitchen-classroom on a recent morning.
The young chefs baked palate-pleasing cakes and cookies, and whipped up custom-made coffee drinks and other beverages.
“We’ve never made these before. These are espresso cookies,” Marwitz who is married to Zephyr school superintendent Stanton Marwitz explained as she stood near a pan of freshly baked cookies.
“We’re trying them for the first time today.”
Recorded at St Johnâs Smith Square, London, and available to stream
Madeleine Mitchellâs laudable programme marking International Womenâs Day featured committed performances in a fascinating collection of works
Madeleine Mitchell. Photograph: Daniel Ross
Madeleine Mitchell. Photograph: Daniel Ross
FloraWillson
Tue 9 Mar 2021 07.20 EST
Last modified on Tue 9 Mar 2021 07.22 EST
International Womenâs Day was first celebrated in 1911 â if celebrated is the word for an event calling for womenâs rights to vote and work, and to end discrimination. Now, 110 years later, it remains an annual fixture: a spur to debate, awareness-raising, frustration and fury. The world has changed radically since 1911. But if the ever-energetic violinist and British music advocate Madeleine Mitchell had programmed a concert simply called A Century of Music by British Composers, would you have assumed youâd find women in the lineup? (And how often are programmes of musi