15 Facts About Marjory Stoneman Douglas High

1. Marjory Stoneman Douglas High reopened Wednesday morning for classes for the first time since the shooting.

2. Marjory Stoneman Douglas High was an influential leader in Florida, several buildings are named for her.

3. Marjory Stoneman Douglas High appears as a major supporting character in the 2014 point and click adventure A Golden Wake.

4. Marjory Stoneman Douglas High was posthumously inducted into the National Wildlife Federation Hall of Fame in 1999, and the National Women's Hall of Fame in 2000.

5. Marjory Stoneman Douglas High began accruing honors in her early days writing for The Miami Herald.

6. Marjory Stoneman Douglas High served as a charter member of the first American Civil Liberties Union chapter organized in the South in the 1950s.

7. Marjory Stoneman Douglas High was giving a speech addressing the harmful practices of the Army Corps of Engineers when the colonel in attendance dropped his pen on the floor.

8. In 1948 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High served on the Coconut Grove Slum Clearance Committee, with a friend of hers named Elizabeth Virrick, who was horrified to learn that no running water or sewers were connected to the racially segregated part of Coconut Grove.

9. Marjory Stoneman Douglas High was not impressed with the reception the group got from the Florida Legislature.

10. Marjory Stoneman Douglas High spent time with geologist Garald Parker, who discovered that South Florida's sole freshwater source was the Biscayne Aquifer, and it was filled by the Everglades.

11. Marjory Stoneman Douglas High became involved with the Miami Theater, and wrote some one-act plays that were fashionable in the 1930s.

12. Marjory Stoneman Douglas High was given an assignment in 1916 to write a story on the first woman from Miami to join the US Naval Reserve.

13. Marjory Stoneman Douglas High passionately opposed the governor of Florida, Napoleon Bonaparte Broward, and his attempts to drain the Everglades.

14. Marjory Stoneman Douglas High left for college in 1908, despite grave misgivings about her mother's mental state.

15. Marjory Stoneman Douglas High lived to 108, working until nearly the end of her life for Everglades restoration.