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Thank You for Celebrating Women's History Month with Us!


On March 10, we continued our tradition of celebrating South Central Texas women whose courage, initiative, steadfastness, patience, heroism, and creativity are contributing to our community in ways that are too seldom recognized and appreciated.


This year we recognized women through the eyes of area high school students who participating in our League's first Celebrate Women: Student Writing Showcase.

Congratuations to the following young women who were selected from all entries through a blind juding process to share their essays and poems with us on this special day, and to receive a $300 honorarium for their effort.

Julianna Buehring (Moulton High School, 12th grade)
Azariah McKnight (Schulenburg High School, 9th grade)
Ella Pineda (La Grange High School, 12th grade)
Macey Pustka (Hallettsville High School, 11th grade)
Molly Rorschach (Schulenburg High School, 9th grade)
Mikhayla Stafford-Bedford (Yoakum High School, 12th grade)
Mina Tinajero (Moulton High School, 9th grade)
Student Writing Showcase Presenters

STANDING ON THE SHOULDERS
by Joyce Johnson Rouse

I am standing on the shoulders of the ones who came before me
I am stronger for their courage, I am wiser for their words
I am lifted by their longing for a fair and brighter future
I am grateful for their vision, for their toiling on this Earth

We are standing on the shoulders of the ones who came before us
They are saints and they are humans, they are angels, they are friends
We can see beyond the struggles and the troubles and the challenge
When we know that by our efforts things will be better in the end

They lift me higher than I could ever fly
Carrying my burdens away
I imagine our world if they hadn't tried
We wouldn't be here celebrating today

I am standing on the shoulders of the ones who came before me
I am honored by their passion for our liberty
I will stand a little taller, I will work a little longer
And my shoulders will be there to hold the ones who follow me

They lift me higher than I could ever fly
Carrying my burdens away
I imagine our world if they hadn't tried
We wouldn't be so very blessed today

I am standing on the shoulders of the ones who came before me
I am honored by their passion for our liberty
I will stand a little taller, I will work a little longer
And my shoulders will be there to hold the ones who follow me

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