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Tyrone “Hollywood” Brown, a former Harlem Globetrotter, used a microphone and a basketball to capture the kids’ attention.
Tyrone “Hollywood” Brown, a former Harlem Globetrotter, kicked off the event by speaking to students about responsibility.
Former Harlem Globetrotters teammates Tyrone “Hollywood” Brown and Les “Pee Wee” Harrison showed off some tricks — with a rendering of the Statue of Responsibility in the background — as they bounced the ball back and forth.
Former Harlem Globetrotter Les “Pee Wee” Harrison gets ready to choose some students to teach basketball tricks to.
Les “Pee Wee” Harrison picks a student from the crowd to teach a basketball trick to.
Les “Pee Wee” Harrison helped some of the students learn to spin the basketball on one finger.
Les “Pee Wee” Harrison reassures a student that she can perform the trick he just demonstrated.
Les “Pee Wee” Harrison helps a student roll the ball off his shoulders.
Former Harlem Globetrotter Les “Pee Wee” Harrison told the students they would get a special surprise — wristbands for everyone — if they could get up and go back to class silently.
Les “Pee Wee” Harrison and Westbrooke Elementary Principal Michelle Couret prepare to dismiss the students back to their classes.
Former Harlem Globetrotters teammates Tyrone “Hollywood” Brown and Les “Pee Wee” Harrison pose with one of the classes that had the quietest students.
Westbrooke Elementary’s physical-education staff — Robert Flynn, Bridget Stalvey and Kiara Thornton— loved meeting former Harlem Globetrotters teammates Tyrone “Hollywood” Brown and Les “Pee Wee” Harrison.
WINTER GARDEN Westbrooke Elementary students got to share their physical-education court with stars on Monday, Oct. 17 as former Harlem Globetrotters visited with a special message. Tyrone “Hollywood” Brown and teammate Les “Pee Wee” Harrison have partnered up to travel the country and teach kids the importance of responsibility and their eventual civic duty of voting. The “Drive for Responsibility Tour” introduced students to a Statue of Responsibility, which will be a sister statue to the Statue of Liberty as it represents freedom and the civic responsibility to exercise that freedom.
Brown and Harrison also treated the students to a display of some of their best basketball tricks. Westbrooke students will get to participate in their own school-wide election Nov. 1, where they will cast their own votes for President of the United States.
Contact Danielle Hendrix at dhendrix@orangeobserver.com.
