{"id":4278,"date":"2018-02-26T01:42:35","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T00:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/south-lancashire\/?p=4278"},"modified":"2023-03-28T11:16:50","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T10:16:50","slug":"peace-love-and-three-soroptimist-clubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/south-lancashire\/2018\/02\/26\/peace-love-and-three-soroptimist-clubs\/","title":{"rendered":"Peace, Love and Three Soroptimist Clubs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: medium\">\u2018If you can remember the 1960s \u2013 you weren\u2019t there\u2019. A roomful of Soroptimists from South Lancashire would totally disagree.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4281\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4281\" style=\"width: 275px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/south-lancashire\/files\/2018\/02\/three-clubs-presidents.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4281\" src=\"\/south-lancashire\/files\/2018\/02\/three-clubs-presidents-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/south-lancashire\/files\/2018\/02\/three-clubs-presidents-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/south-lancashire\/files\/2018\/02\/three-clubs-presidents.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4281\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Four Presidents (l-r) Janet Williams (SI Southport), Margaret Davies (SI South Lancashire Region), Christine Thursfield (SI Bootle), Annette Hughes (SI Crosby)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: medium\">The annual social get-together of three sister clubs \u2013 Bootle, Crosby and Southport \u2013 had a 1960s theme. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: medium\">Region President Margaret Davies (a member of SI Southport) was delighted to join the party.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: medium\">Dress-code was flamboyant; food included vol-au-vents, cheese\/pineapple on sticks and trifle; and music was suitably foot-tapping. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: medium\">This year\u2019s hosts \u2013 SI Southport \u2013 festooned the hall with psychedelic and flower-power decorations. It was a riot of colour.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4282\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4282\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"\/south-lancashire\/files\/2018\/02\/three-clubs-Diana-Beldam.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4282\" src=\"\/south-lancashire\/files\/2018\/02\/three-clubs-Diana-Beldam-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/south-lancashire\/files\/2018\/02\/three-clubs-Diana-Beldam-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/south-lancashire\/files\/2018\/02\/three-clubs-Diana-Beldam.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4282\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Diana shows her style<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: medium\">Members presented a &#8216;playlet&#8217; highlighting the main events of the decade &#8211; events that prompted many anecdotes among the guests. They also set tough quizzes to challenge the memory cells, and even organised dancing tuition \u2013 the Locomotion.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: medium\">The club\u2019s oldest member \u2013 Diana Beldam, aged 101 \u2013 modelled her original 1960s outfit and demonstrated that, if not the Locomotion, she could still step out to the music.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: medium\">Janet Williams (SI Southport\u2019s President) said, \u201cThese annual \u2018three-clubs\u2019 meetings are purely social \u2013 we hold them for fun and friendship. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: medium\">\u201cOur members thoroughly enjoyed planning and hosting the party, and were delighted that all our guests entered wholeheartedly into the spirit of the 60s.\u201d <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/south-lancashire\/files\/2018\/02\/three-clubs-group.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4280 size-full\" src=\"\/south-lancashire\/files\/2018\/02\/three-clubs-group.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/south-lancashire\/files\/2018\/02\/three-clubs-group.jpg 500w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/south-lancashire\/files\/2018\/02\/three-clubs-group-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018If you can remember the 1960s \u2013 you weren\u2019t there\u2019. 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