{"id":6042,"date":"2021-10-27T11:45:16","date_gmt":"2021-10-27T10:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/epsom-and-district\/?p=6042"},"modified":"2021-10-27T19:44:14","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T18:44:14","slug":"how-have-we-been-celebrating-black-history-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/epsom-and-district\/2021\/10\/27\/how-have-we-been-celebrating-black-history-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Black History Month!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">We celebrated Black History Month (October) with mother, Norma, and daughter, Helen, over the past few days. Norma is a member of our Club and invited members and prospective members to her house for <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">a special Ben Johnson Day meal. Participants were asked to bring along an ingredient to prepare a meal together. A very tasty soup made from lentils and vegetables was followed by spicy fried chicken with wild rice mixed with vegetables. The accompanying caper sauce had a very generous helping of white wine!\u00a0 A dessert of apple crumble was then served up to complete the meal.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Norma (below left) <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">is from Jamaica where the tradition of cooking whatever there was available in the house on a Thursday night was handed down through the generations. This was known as Ben Johnson Day. If you would like to find out about the origins of this day, click on this link: <a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/epsom-and-district\/files\/2021\/10\/Ben-Johnson-Day-1.pdf\">Ben Johnson Day<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/epsom-and-district\/files\/2021\/10\/20211023_143718.jpg\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/epsom-and-district\/files\/2021\/10\/20211023_142950.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6060\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/epsom-and-district\/files\/2021\/10\/20211023_142950-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/epsom-and-district\/files\/2021\/10\/20211023_142950-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/epsom-and-district\/files\/2021\/10\/20211023_142950.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/epsom-and-district\/files\/2021\/10\/20211023_143718.jpg\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/epsom-and-district\/files\/2021\/10\/20211023_152707.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6047\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/epsom-and-district\/files\/2021\/10\/20211023_152707-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"279\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/epsom-and-district\/files\/2021\/10\/20211023_152707-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/epsom-and-district\/files\/2021\/10\/20211023_152707.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 279px) 100vw, 279px\" \/> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/mail.google.com\/mail\/u\/0?ui=2&amp;ik=3d2600161f&amp;attid=0.1&amp;permmsgid=msg-a:r-3763507185923244029&amp;th=17cc13f53e2c1530&amp;view=fimg&amp;fur=ip&amp;sz=s0-l75-ft&amp;attbid=ANGjdJ_IoLQc31l62U9PT_TiqvKk8zu5xWT13MlyNM_l-ZnfiA_EHhQZe7v7YWU9PJvTvACfJpgt9mjaFqDPoVnylWL1O8kLHpi5fMpUnfC6DrDvmZwzbi_0qu2bdoA&amp;disp=emb&amp;realattid=ii_kv9cyobm0\" alt=\"image.png\" width=\"123\" height=\"123\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">At the following Club meeting, we invited Helen (<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">above right) to talk to us about her career and achievements. Helen became interested in mathematics from a young age, very much encouraged by Norma to play games and have fun with everyday mathematical skills. Helen referred to this as a\u00a0 &#8216;trick&#8217; i.e. she was unaware that it was actually mathematics she was being taught and therefore became confident in the subject . At Edinburgh University, Helen studied Mathematics and Music.\u00a0 The two are quite compatible subjects and Norma played a variety of music at home for Helen to listen to. Helen went on to become a mathematics teacher and then head of department in a secondary school. She is now involved in designing software content for a company using a form of artificial intelligence. This involves diagnosing young people&#8217;s skills in a particular subject area and providing episodes of online tuition to extend their learning. There are wide range of subjects covered as well as Mathematics, such as Science and English up to A&#8217; level. The programme of learning has not just been used in the UK but abroad in countries such as Pakistan. It is clear that <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Helen is an inspirational young woman and encourages those around her to be confident and work towards their full potential.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We celebrated Black History Month (October) with mother, Norma, and daughter, Helen, over the past&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":771,"featured_media":6046,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-club-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Celebrating Black History Month! | News | Blog | Events | Women inspiring action, transforming lives<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Women inspiring action, transforming lives : Blog &amp; News : Celebrating Black History Month! : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of Women inspiring action, transforming lives . 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