Have you ever heard of a woman who preferred a double-bitted axe and six-foot flensing knife over a regular scalpel to dissect the whales she used for research, had two children while earning her medical degree (in the 1940s), and loved to drink bourbon even at 95 years old? If you’ve never heard of Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey, you can check out this webinar in which Dr. Cheryl Warsh discusses her book Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey, the FDA, and the Battle Against Thalidomide with Ashley Bratcher (Women Telling Stories That Matter Part 1) and Dori Zavala...
This school year, lots of teachers have helped Montrose to be a better place. To get to know them even more, we interviewed one of the teachers for 6th and 7th grade, Ms. Allienello. Q: What made you become a teacher? A: I wanted to become a teacher because when I was in middle school, my principal made a really big impact on my life. We still meet for coffee and dinner. She was a really big part of my life and taught me about my faith. We think that it’s really cool how Ms. Allienello was inspired from when she was a student to become...
From inspiring Claude Monet’s Water Lilies to serving as the site of the D-Day landings in 1944, Normandy, France has played a significant role in modern history. This year, the region is also represented at Montrose through our new upper school French teacher, Madame Browne, who grew up there. Although born and raised in Normandy, Madame Browne has lived in the United States for twenty years. Ever since middle school, she had always wanted to be a foreign language teacher, more specifically, an English teacher in France. However, after...
