Just recently Claude A. Jones, Sr. Vice Commander, Harold Daley VFW Post 1333 along with Walter Drummond Senior came to Asbury Park High School to participate in a Ghana session with Mr. David Wronko’s social studies class.
The students at the Solid Rock Foundation School in Ghana gave the veteran guests a presentation about the continent of Africa and the culture and history of Ghana. The students that did the presentation were new and younger students who did an outstanding job as they were building their skills with public speaking.
VFW Veterans Claude A. Jones and Walter Drummond Senior
Once their presentation was finished both Claude A. Jones and Walter Drummond Senior gave all students a lecture about their career in the military. During their discussion about their careers, they went into the places they traveled to, education, and their work currently with the VFW. The goal was they want to establish right now was to develop a partnership with the VFW and Asbury Park High School with Project Ghana. The partnership was established immediately after recommending it. After the veterans were finished with their presentation, students from both ends asked questions relating to their careers in the military. Questions ranged from the challenges they faced, to their training, education, and involvement with other organizations.
Mr. Gould’s engineering class
After the Ghana session, like the veterans from the previous weeks, Mr. Jones and Mr. Drummond Senior visited Mr. Gould’s engineering class to see the Tuskegee Airmen project the students were working on. Mr. Jones and Mr. Drummond Senior would be the fourth guest to visit this class as Wilbur V. Martin was the first, Keith Roberson being the second, and Veronica Miller being the third. During their visit, Mr. Gould not only showed the veterans the project involving the Tuskegee Airmen but also the different activities the students work on such as developing blueprints for their projects, using math to figure how things would be put together, and using different engineering tools to make the projects in the class happen.
Once their visit was complete, the veterans look forward to visiting Asbury Park High School again in the near future.
