Girl in Charge

Although it has been nearly five decades since I was a school safety patroller, those days on the Hammonton Elementary School force remain one of the milestone events of my life. The year was 1971 and our elementary school population was spilling over into whatever neighborhood space was available. My fifth grade classroom was located

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Girls in Charge

What does women’s equality and empowerment have to do with the American Automobile Association’s (AAA) Safety Patrol, started a century ago as an all-boy program? In the late 1940s, the AAA opened the program to girls. Since then, for more than 70 years, the Safety Patrol program has been helping elementary and middle school girls

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