Drewicz holds 14th MLK assembly

LYNN – Students at the Drewicz Elementary School held its annual Martin Luther King Day School Assembly Tuesday, Jan. 15, the date that would have been Dr. King’s 79th birthday.Librarian Thomas H. Furey began holding assemblies to celebrate the civil rights leader’s birthday in the 1980s when the date became an official holiday, and the school has been holding full-school assemblies for the last 14 years.At the assembly, fourth-grade classes led by teachers David Mooney and Terry Fogarty read poems titled “How I Can Make a Difference,” and music teacher Scott Sandvick led the fourth- and fifth-grade chorus in renditions of “Turn, Turn, Turn,” “We Shall Overcome” and the “Star Spangled Banner.”Students in all grades completed assignments about their dreams and how they could make a difference in their homes, at school, in the neighborhood, in Lynn and for their country.Fury says he once had the privilege of meeting King’s wife, Coretta Scott King, and her family at past functions, but was never able to meet Dr. King.”We should not forget what he did,” he said. “Many would like to see this a national day of service, a living memorial, so I have kept it that theme of ‘How I can Make a Difference.'”