What started as a request from a handful of female students for equal time with their teacher at a single Richmond County school in the 1960s has grown to impact thousands of young women directly and innumerable people tangentially.
When Rosa T. Beard created the Rocket Club for the boys she taught at AR Johnson, the girls wanted a club of their own, so she formed the Rosa T. Beard Debutante Club.
Decades later, her daughter, The Rev. Cheryl Beard carries on her mother’s legacy by heading the nonprofit which brings teenage girls together for community service, professional development, spiritual enrichment and relationship building and culminates in a formal spring cotillion…