I wonder how "Mother" would have felt if she knew then, what she now knows?
"Believe in each other and embrace change by blending old and new traditions."
A slightly edited biographical excerpt of the Lady,
"Dr Norge Jerome is an international health and nutrition specialist. During her doctrinal studies at the University of Wisconsin, she developed the discipline of nutritional anthropology, which has since become recognised internationally. She was the founder and first president of the Committee on Nutritional Anthropology (now Council on Nutritional Anthropology) and spent four decades at the University of Kansas School of Medicine as a professional nutritionist, educator and consultant.
Norge Jerome was born in St. John, Grenada ..... At that time, few children were able to attend secondary school but she was an excellent student who successfully secured a place at St. Joseph’s Convent in St. George’s. She completed her Senior Cambridge Examinations at the age of 16. After this, she spent three years teaching at her alma mater. When she was 19, she was sent on a Leadership Training course at The University of the West Indies (UWI) in Mona, Jamaica where she got a “taste for UWI life”. Immediately, Jerome recognised that her career goal was to live “with ideas within her head, 24 hours a day.”......
And it went on to list other accomplishments too numerous to mention.
We are indeed lucky to have a Sister of the soil like this living up to her motto and sharing it with us on an international platform. I could have immagined the behavior of the two Convent girls if only the other was at my friend's house last summer.
