Today was good. Today was fun. Today St. Elizabeth’s is number one.
At least in terms of Dr. Seuss hats.
Students, staff, parents and relatives converged at St. Elizabeth Catholic School Friday morning and made an attempt to break a world record by wearing more than 1,200 Dr. Seuss hats. The record won’t become official until it’s certified by Guinness, which manages these things.
A picture posted to the school’s Facebook page shows a wall of Waldos as the record breakers stood in the parking lot donning their Cat in the Hat caps.
The event had to be rescheduled due to ice (it was originally scheduled for Dr. Seuss’s birthday on March 2), but despite the delay the school’s Principal Vincent Spadoni said the students had a blast.
“It was just incredible,” Spadoni said. The principal helped organize the event after he searched for years for a world record the school could break. This record, with its ties to a children’s author, he said fit just right. “We always have a celebration of Dr. Seuss every year.”
And hopefully the students, who range from preschool to eighth grade, know, as Dr. Seuss wrote, “Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.”
