March 14, 2017
Contact: Jill Drury, Communication Specialist 
jedrury@dps.k12.oh.us
For Immediate Release

Dayton Regional STEM school student project benefits Dayton Public Schools

     Charity Adams Earley was the first African-American woman to enter the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps in 1942. She served as the commanding officer of the first battalion of African-American women in World War II before dedicating herself to educational pursuits after retirement. Her world travels and studies ultimately led her to Dayton where she lived until her death in 2002. It is only fitting that an Ohio Historical Marker be dedicated at her namesake, Charity Adams Earley Girls Academy, 444 Shoup Mill Rd., Friday, March 17, at 10 a.m.
      Two students at the Dayton Regional STEM School helped make the marker a reality.  Sydney Gerdes and Dylan Flippo crafted the description and proposed the marker to the Ohio Historical Society.
      Superintendent Rhonda Corr will be joined by Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley to help dedicate the marker. Also in attendance will be Stanley Earley, son of Charity Adams Earley, and a former Dayton deputy city manager; academy principal, Peggy Burks; Debra Brathwaite, Ph.D., who was instrumental in naming the academy after Earley; Timothy Riordan, former Dayton city manager, and a representative from Sinclair Community College, who both financially supported the purchase of the marker; and Becki Trivison, who will deliver the Ohio History Connection Proclamation from the State of Ohio.
      For more information, contacts Arch Grieve, community outreach director for the Dayton Regional STEM School, at (937) 902-9333.

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