Mary Upton Ferrin Award Winners

2006 Peabody women who are builders of community and dreams are the Peabody Chamber of Commerce's Mary Upton Ferrin Award Winners
Builders of Community and Dreams Project Mary Upton Ferrin 1810-1881 Peabody Chamber of Commerce Peabody, Massachusetts Women's History Month in Peabody: A Retrospective Home	On April 3, 2006, students in Mrs. Evelyn Rauseo's seventh grade English class boarded a bus to rendevous with the winners of the Peabody Chamber of Commerce's Mary Upton Ferrin Award. The students interviewed the award winners at an Afternoon Tea held at the George Peabody House Civic Center, the birthplace of the city's namesake. PHOTOS Students prepared biographical sketches on the woman she or he interviewed as an extra-credit writing project. Their work was compiled as this digital archive of the award. A hard copy of the students' work will be provided to the Peabody Chamber of Commerce and the Peabody Institute Library. Both organizations may link to the project posted on the Peabody Public Schools website.	from the National Women's History Project Higgins Middle School 2006 Student Participants N. Allen R. Belleau M. Berlangieri S.Buonopane C. Broughton J. Carenza E. Karas A.Kwmutis A. Levine H. McCarthy A.Maida K. Manozzi P. Nelson L. Piandes E. Reeves E. Rubin H. Simard D. Votto Teachers E. Rauseo S. Smoller Thanks to: Martha Holden, GPHCC Deanne Healey, Peabody Chamber of Commerce Peabody-Lynnfield Weekly News Peabody Public Schools
"Award to us our proper station in society; abolish all unjust laws in regard to us; withhold from us no longer our natural rights as human beings, children of one Parent, members of the same family... As husbands and sons, as fathers and brothers, show to the world that you are not only manly, but humane; that you know how to pity as well as to protect; which will reflect honor, not only to your head, but to your heart, and future generations will revere your memory. All that we ask, is what justly belongs to us; we ask it not only as a favor, but as a right." - Memorial of the Female Signers of the Several Petitions of Henry A. Hardy and Others, Presented March 1, 1849 to the "Gentleman of the Senate and House of Representatives" by Mary Upton Ferrin.