Jacalyn Pinkston, a first-grade teacher at Kingsview Christian School has been teaching her students, and many others at the North Bend school, about great women in history. Using costumes and props, Pinkston managed to bring history to life for her first-grade class.

Pinkston portrayed a long line of women, including;

€ Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman physician in the world;

€ Rosa Parks, who stood up for equal rights and refused to relinquish her seat to a white man;

€ Eleanor Roosevelt, the first first lady to use her position to accomplish political change;

€ Rachel Carson, the first woman to study marine biology;

€ Harriet Tubman, a slave woman who helped others escape through the Underground Railroad;

€ Sacajawea, the native woman who traveled with Lewis and Clark through the Western United States;

€ Louisa May Alcott, author of classic 19th century novels;

€ Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, the current president of Liberia and the first woman elected president of an African nation;

€ Marie Curie, a Polish-French physicist and the first two-time Nobel Prize winner in two different sciences;

v Beatrix Potter, author of well-known children's stories, such as the “Velveteen Rabbit;”

€ Sandra Day O'Connor, first woman justice on the U.S. Supreme Court;

€ Amy Tan, author of contemporary novels; and

€ Florence Griffith-Joyner, three-time Olympic gold medalist in track and field.