Dinner & Movie
Saturday, October 15, 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
International House, 2810 N Calvert St
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Something the Lord Made is based on a true story.
Alfred Blalock (1899-1964), a cardiologist, came to Johns Hopkins University taking with him his lab technician, Vivien Thomas (1910-1985). Thomas, an African-American without a college degree, was a gifted mechanic and tool-maker with hands splendidly adept at surgery. Thomas was originally hired as a janitor. In 1941, Blalock and Thomas took on the challenge of Blue Baby Syndrome and invented bypass surgery, and in so doing they opened the field of heart surgery. Blalock praised Thomas' surgical skill as being "like something the Lord made." Outside the lab, they were separated by the prevailing racism of the time.
After Blalock's death, Thomas continued his work at Johns Hopkins training surgeons. At the end of the film, in a formal ceremony in 1976, Johns Hopkins recognized Thomas' work and awarded him an honorary doctorate. A portrait of Thomas was placed on the walls of Johns Hopkins next to Blalock's portrait, which had been hung there years earlier.
Dinner at 6:00 PM, then movie Something the Lord Made from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
Dinner is provided and you are also welcomed to bring food to share :)
Please sign up below, so we can prepare enough food.
Alfred Blalock (1899-1964), a cardiologist, came to Johns Hopkins University taking with him his lab technician, Vivien Thomas (1910-1985). Thomas, an African-American without a college degree, was a gifted mechanic and tool-maker with hands splendidly adept at surgery. Thomas was originally hired as a janitor. In 1941, Blalock and Thomas took on the challenge of Blue Baby Syndrome and invented bypass surgery, and in so doing they opened the field of heart surgery. Blalock praised Thomas' surgical skill as being "like something the Lord made." Outside the lab, they were separated by the prevailing racism of the time.
After Blalock's death, Thomas continued his work at Johns Hopkins training surgeons. At the end of the film, in a formal ceremony in 1976, Johns Hopkins recognized Thomas' work and awarded him an honorary doctorate. A portrait of Thomas was placed on the walls of Johns Hopkins next to Blalock's portrait, which had been hung there years earlier.
Dinner at 6:00 PM, then movie Something the Lord Made from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
Dinner is provided and you are also welcomed to bring food to share :)
Please sign up below, so we can prepare enough food.