{"id":2190,"date":"2021-06-01T20:26:01","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T20:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.siuf.org\/?p=2190"},"modified":"2021-07-14T18:58:05","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T18:58:05","slug":"a-family-legacy-of-teaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.siuf.org\/?p=2190","title":{"rendered":"A family legacy of teaching"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Marilyn Black smiles as she signs her gift agreement for the Marilyn A. Black Scholarship in Elementary Education.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The legacy of teaching runs strong in Marilyn Black\u2019s family. Black, a 1960 alumna from the SIU College of Education, learned about the value of teaching from her parents, who were themselves graduates of the SIU College of Education. Black\u2019s father was a school superintendent and her mother was her high school English teacher. \u201cEducation was important to them,\u201d said Black.<\/p>\n

At SIU, Black benefitted from a scholarship that helped her reach her goal of becoming a teacher, ultimately teaching in the Carbondale elementary school district for over 20 years. Black and her late husband, Frank, had three children who all attended SIU.\u00a0 Marilyn loved teaching and inspired two of her children to become educators as well.<\/p>\n

In recognition of the importance of teachers, she recently established the Marilyn A. Black Scholarship in Elementary Education, saying simply, \u201cSomebody helped me, so I want to help now.\u201d Her scholarship will support aspiring elementary education students to reach their goals of becoming teachers, just as Black did.<\/p>\n

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The legacy of teaching runs strong in Marilyn Black\u2019s family. Black, a 1960 alumna from the SIU College of Education, learned about the value of teaching from her parents, who were themselves graduates of the SIU College of Education. Black\u2019s father was a school superintendent and her mother was her high school English teacher. \u201cEducation … Continue reading A family legacy of teaching<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3,4,11,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donor-stories","category-higher-education","category-illinois-higher-education","category-philanthropic-women","category-siu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.siuf.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.siuf.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.siuf.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.siuf.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.siuf.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.siuf.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2192,"href":"https:\/\/blog.siuf.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190\/revisions\/2192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.siuf.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.siuf.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.siuf.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}