BROOKINGS – What has become a rite of passage for Mickelson Middle School sixth-graders will be held Monday night, but note that the venue has changed.
The annual POP (People of the Past) Wax Museum is set for 6:30-7:30 p.m. Monday at Brookings High School.
Katie Burgraff, a sixth-grade reading teacher who takes the lead for the annual project, explained that because of construction at the middle school, the high school was selected as a preferred location for this year’s event.
She added that parents will be stationed throughout the school to provide attendees with maps and directions to the rooms where the students are portraying a selection of deceased historical figures of current and long-past history.
The approximately 250 students doing this year’s biographical protrayals studied their personages’ lives and legacies and prepared short sketches about them. A donation of a quarter brings the “wax figure” to life, and the student gives an autobiographical monologue of the person being portrayed.
The money collected this year is being donated to the Brookings Regional Humane Society.
Burgraff is being assisted by fellow teachers Michelle Jewett, Cheryl Meyer and Mackenzi Timmons.
