Hi Everyone,
I hope you are enjoying your vacation, but you should also be working on your NHD project.
There are two additional topics that I would would like to add to the list that were suggested by Sr. June Clare (Manhattan Superintendent of the Archdiocese). Both of these topics definitely describe "turning points" in history.
If you are having a problem finding primary resources for your topic or would like to change your topic, I think that both of these new topics would be worth your while to investigate.If you have any questions, you may contact Mr. Woods at school and he can contact me.
Some of you have stated that you are unsure of how to do a documentary. I spoke with Mr. Woods and he said that anyone doing an exhibit can tape two exhibit boards (like the ones used for the Science Fair) together, rather than buying the one suggested on the website. If you win the contest at OLQM, then the school will pay for the other board, if it is required. So if you are interested in doing an exhibit, go to the NHD website, and read the rules for creating one.
Good luck and enjoy the rest of your vacation!
Ms. Toscano Larios
New Topics for NHD:
1.Edward Robinson Squibb (July 4, 1819 – October 25, 1900)
was a leading American inventor and manufacturer of pharmaceutics who founded E. R. Squibb and Sons, which eventually became part of the modern pharmaceutical giant Bristol-Myers Squibb.
was a leading American inventor and manufacturer of pharmaceutics who founded E. R. Squibb and Sons, which eventually became part of the modern pharmaceutical giant Bristol-Myers Squibb.
Squibb was born in Wilmington, Delaware, on July 4, 1819. At age 26 he graduated from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He immediately became a ship's surgeon in the U.S. Navy, serving during the ongoing Mexican-American War. After the war he ran the medical station at the Brooklyn Naval Yards.
As a Navy physician, Squibb became disenchanted with the poor quality of medicines used on American military vessels and, as a result, in 1854 he invented an improved method of distilling ether, an anesthetic. He gave away his distillation method, rather than patent it for profit.
In 1858 he left the military and started his own pharmaceutics manufacturing business in Brooklyn. His laboratory burned down three times, and in one of these instances an ether explosion left Squibb badly burned.
In 1892 Squibb created a partnership with his two sons, Dr. Edward H. Squibb and Charles F. Squibb, the firm being known for generations afterwards as E. R. Squibb and Sons.
Squibb died on October 25, 1900, at his home in Brooklyn, New York, from a ruptured blood vessel.
2. Steven Smith (1823-1922)
American Surgeon and NYC Public Health Pioneer
Appalled by the unsanitary conditions common in New York City tenements, Smith led the establishment of the Board of Health in 1866, the first such public health agency in the United States; he later founded the American Public Health Association.
