Students to celebrate Constitution

By Kathy Thomson

Representatives of the Lee’s Legion Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) will be at the three local school campuses next week to help students celebrate the anniversary of the signing of the United States Constitution, according to Lisa Echols, chairman of Lee’s Legion’s constitution week committee and vice chairman Carolyn Vick Kennedy.

Dele-gates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia completed and signed the U.S. Constitution on Sept. 17, 1787, and the date is celebrated as the birthday of the U.S. government. Schools and federal agencies are required to hold educational programs about the Constitution on Constitution Day, and DAR members are joining in that effort by organizing and participating in special activities during Constitution Week.

Elementary Play

Nancy Smith Elementary School fifth graders, with assistance from members of the DAR, will present a play called Unite or Die on Monday, Sept. 16, at 2:00 p.m.

“Each of 12 student actors will play the part of one of the states that took part in the convention, and four students will read narrator parts,” said Echols. “The play will show how it took a constitution to get the states together.”

There are 12 states in the play, not 13, because one of the original states did not take part in the Constitution Convention, said Echols. 

High School Activities

Students at Albany JH/SH will gather at the flag pole at 8:45 a.m. on Friday, Sept. 20 for a program that includes raising the flag, reading the Preamble to the Constitution, and the band playing the National Anthem.

The entire Moran student body will gather at their school’s flag pole at 8:00 a.m. on Friday, Sept. 20 at 8:15 a.m. to watch the flag raised and listen to a student read the Preamble to the Constitution.

Members of the DAR will hand out a bookmarker that has the Preamble to the Constitution printed on it to each of the seniors at both Albany and Moran high schools, according to Echols.