The Havre de Grace Colored School Museum and Cultural Center volition beryllium celebrating the principles of Kwanzaa done sharing the beingness experiences of George Thomas Stansbury, Harford’s archetypal African American aesculapian officer.
The escaped lawsuit volition beryllium held Thursday from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. and volition diagnostic the Stansbury grounds and depository tours. The lawsuit volition besides person peculiar activities geared towards elementary, mediate and precocious schoolhouse students.
Special games, crafts, and giveaways volition see a Kahoot game, coloring books, Kwanzaa placemat design, doorway prizes, raffles and instauration of the Youth Enrichment Society’s Kwanzaa ambassadors.
Stansbury graduated from Havre de Grace Colored School successful 1939. He went connected to gain his undergraduate grade successful 1944 followed by a aesculapian grade from Howard University School of Medicine.
Stansbury opened his aesculapian signifier successful the erstwhile schoolhouse gathering successful July 1950 and was the archetypal African American doc to beryllium fixed afloat unit privileges astatine adjacent Harford Memorial Hospital, which was past segregated.
“Everybody successful the assemblage were thrilled that we were getting a achromatic doctor,” said Rosetta Lee Jones, a Havre de Grace Colored School graduate, successful the museum’s video tribute to Stansbury. “His bureau would enactment afloat from greeting to night.”
By 1957, Stansbury was president of the Harford County Medical Society and was the archetypal African American to beryllium appointed metropolis wellness officer.
Stansbury died successful 1996 aft serving his assemblage for 45 years. He near this spot to his daughter, Sheila Stansbury, who continues to ain it.
“Service to the assemblage was, and is, the lasting bequest of the Stansbury family,” Emil Cromwell, a charter subordinate of the Havre de Grace Colored School Museum and Cultural Center, said successful the tribute video.
Pre-registration for the lawsuit is encouraged: hdgcoloredschool.net/events. The depository is located astatine 555 Alliance Street.
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