More Names of Interest

As you can see over these past few days our charity works with a good number of CPS schools.   Here are two more that we are pleased to assist.

Chopin Elementary - Is named after Frederic Chopin a Polish composer and pianist of the Romantic Age.  He made few public appearance and most of them were in the small salons of Paris.   His style was twofold; first, based on Polish folk music and of the classical in the tradition of Bach and Mozart.

Fuller Elementary - Is named after Melville Fuller who was a lawyer and for a good period of time in the late 1800's/early 1900's was the 8th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.    He believed strongly in states rights and a very limited national government.    He sided with the majority in the historic Plessy v Ferguson case of 'separate but equal.'

As I often think of schools and the names ascribed to them, whether in Chicago or elsewhere in the United States, I often wonder if the students and larger community are aware of the people who have their names on the entrance to the various schools.

Have a good day,

Dick