“Stony the road we trod” The inauguration of President Barak Obama

PDS marked the inauguration at its Peacemakers Assembly on Tuesday.  Entitled “Stony the road we trod” the event began with the singing of  James Weldon Johnson’s Lift Every Voice and Sing.

In the collage you can see pictures of the participants from high school to lower school. Ater lunch everyone returned to the JEJ theater to watch the inauguration.

Collage of pictures from the all-school assembly on Tuesday
Josie Holford

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