Jun. 28 – Junior Achievement of the Eastern Shore

Junior Achievement was founded by 1919 by Theordore Vail, president of American Telephone and Telegraph; Horace Moses, president of Strathmore Paper Co.; and Senator Murray Crane of Massachusetts.

Its first program, the Company Program, was offered to high school students on an after-school basis. Locally, JA was founded in 1959. In 1975, the organization entered the classroom with the introduction of Project Business for the middle grades. In 1982 JA was brought to the Eastern Shore by the Greater Salisbury Committee.

Over the last 20 years, Junior Achievement has gradually expanded its activities and broadened its scope to encompass an ever-widening student population.