Place: Pleasant Plains Elementary School
8300 Pleasant Plains Road
Baltimore, MD 21286

Date: June 16, 2004

Contact: Dara Williams
410-887-3549

Penny Johnson Jerald, who plays Sherry Palmer on the FOX television network show “24,” spoke at the closing assembly for Pleasant Plains Elementary fifth graders. Jerald is the aunt of 5th grader Destiny Johnson who is completing her elementary school experience at Pleasant Plains.

Jerald, a Baltimore native, addressed the students on the importance of setting goals and never giving up on a dream, much as she did when she started her formal training at the age of 14 in Center Stage workshops. She later attended the famed Julliard School in New York.