'Rosie,' others drawn to college's interactive museum project
Monday, June 6, 2022
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. Photos provided