“Each one of us can make a difference. Together we make a change.” —Barbara Mikulski (born 1936) Politician and social worker
“How wonderful that no one need wait a single moment to improve the world.” — Anne Frank, diarist (1929-1945, captured August 4, 1944)
Elder Karyna reminds us of a story.
A man sees a boy on the beach throwing starfish back into the ocean, one by one. The beach is littered with thousands of them. The man says, “There are too many! You can’t possibly make a difference.” And the boy throws another one into the water and says, “I made a difference to that one.”
Barbara Mikulskyi
Elder Karyna brought us a quote by Barbara Mikulskyi, a former senator from Maryland.
[ed. note: We took an immediate liking to Barbara Mikulskyi! She has a very WLBOTT vibe, and supported, among many good causes, the New Horizons flyby of Pluto.]
Early life, education, and career Mikulski was born and raised in the Fell’s Point neighborhood of East Baltimore, the eldest of the three daughters of Christine Eleanor (née Kutz) and William Mikulski. Her parents were both of Polish descent; her immigrant great-grandparents had owned a bakery in Baltimore. During her high school years at the Institute of Notre Dame, she worked in her parents’ grocery store, delivering groceries to elderly neighbors who were unable to leave their homes.
Personal life Barbara Mikulski never married and has no children. She is only 4 ft 11 in (150 cm) tall and often jokingly said: “I may be short, but I won’t be overlooked”. She is a Roman Catholic. Raised in a Polish-American and devoutly Catholic family, Mikulski attended the Mount Saint Agnes College in Baltimore and considered joining Sisters of Mercy, but ultimately decided against it. Discussing her decision to remain a laywoman, she stated: “The vow of obedience did not have great appeal for me. Poverty was one thing, and I could go along with chastity. But it was obedience. I thought, ‘My God, all my life there could be someone telling me what to do and where to go!’ And inside me beats the heart of a protestor.”
At WLBOTT, we like to honor our special heroes by publishing their current high school cafeteria menu.
Barbara Mikulski attended the Institute of Notre Dame. Sadly,
Institute of Notre Dame The Institute of Notre Dame was a private Catholic all-girls high school located in Baltimore, Maryland. After 173 years, the school closed on June 30, 2020.
Elder G helps us envision the cafeteria at Notre Dame:
Random Misfiring of Neurons
Since we use a lot of screen shots, we were curios about text compression of the png format .vs. jpg. We used today’s screen shots from Institute of Notre Dame. All are captured at 800x in Gimp. Top to bottom: png, jpg 90%, jpg 70%, jpg 50%, jpg 20%
