'Rosie,' others drawn to college's interactive museum project

Published 06.06.2022

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    A hands-on collaboration gets the desired result."Rosie" shows that even a near-centenarian still has what it takes!Trate poses with Inman ...... and signed an encouraging card for Penn College students.Reenactors joined the activity, as well.Penn College was busily represented at the 31st annual World War II Weekend, "A Gathering of Warbirds," held Friday through Sunday at the Mid-Atlantic Air Museum in Reading. "Visitors to the table could build a model B26 Marauder using aviation tools and materials," said Thomas D. Inman, an associate professor of aviation, who facilitated construction of about 250 replicas of the vintage bomber. Among those visitors during the event – which attracted enthusiastic and engaged children, adults and prospective aviation students – was 99-year-old Dorothy Trate. "Dottie" was an original "Rosie the Riveter," one of the thousands of women who stepped into manufacturing jobs to help the war effort.
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