{"id":794,"date":"2018-11-11T14:41:22","date_gmt":"2018-11-11T13:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/beverley-and-district\/?p=794"},"modified":"2020-11-26T11:36:51","modified_gmt":"2020-11-26T10:36:51","slug":"in-memory-of-those-who-went-before-and-paved-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/beverley-and-district\/2018\/11\/11\/in-memory-of-those-who-went-before-and-paved-the-way\/","title":{"rendered":"In memory of those who went before and paved the way."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/beverley-and-district\/files\/2018\/11\/20181110_120229.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-795\" src=\"\/beverley-and-district\/files\/2018\/11\/20181110_120229-300x162.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/beverley-and-district\/files\/2018\/11\/20181110_120229-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/beverley-and-district\/files\/2018\/11\/20181110_120229-768x415.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/beverley-and-district\/files\/2018\/11\/20181110_120229-1024x553.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/beverley-and-district\/files\/2018\/11\/20181110_120229.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Members of SI Beverley and District met at the Memorial Gardens in Beverley. Berna Moody spoke on our behalf in recognising the journey of women&#8217;s emancipation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/beverley-and-district\/files\/2018\/11\/20181110_120611.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-798 alignleft\" src=\"\/beverley-and-district\/files\/2018\/11\/20181110_120611-146x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/beverley-and-district\/files\/2018\/11\/20181110_120611-146x300.jpg 146w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/beverley-and-district\/files\/2018\/11\/20181110_120611-768x1579.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/beverley-and-district\/files\/2018\/11\/20181110_120611-498x1024.jpg 498w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/beverley-and-district\/files\/2018\/11\/20181110_120611.jpg 996w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We<span style=\"font-size: 14.4px\">\u00a0are here to commemorate over 50 year of the Soroptimist International being in Beverley, but primarily\u00a0 we are here to commemorate the 100 years since women got <\/span>the<span style=\"font-size: 14.4px\">\u00a0vote. We remember the suffragettes as our forerunners. We remember them with great reverence because it&#8217;s thanks to them that we can stand here as independent women who can choose what to do with their lives, who can choose to own property, whi can choose to run our own financial affairs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I think back to when I was newly married and I went to the Electricity Board to buy an electric fire, and the gentleman said, &#8216;I&#8217;ll need your husbands signature. I said, &#8216;Well I&#8217;m paying for it!&#8217; and he said, &#8216;Yes I know but we have this rule&#8217; !!!!\u00a0 So I do feel we&#8217;ve come a long way.<\/p>\n<p>On a more serious note we remember people who were sent to prison, one of whom actually died, and there are still parts of the world where there are women who can&#8217;t do the things that we can do.\u00a0 We take our freedoms for granted now, but there are places in the world where women really can&#8217;t leave their home without a male accompanying them. Its only recently that women in Saudi Arabia have been allowed to drive, in some parts of the world they are not even allowed to show their faces.<\/p>\n<p>So we are going to plant a Soroptimist rose to mark the anniversary and we are going to put a time capsule in the ground in the hope that in the future, when someone digs it up &#8211; there&#8217;s a list of all our names and other information &#8211; they will reflect on the journey we have taken.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 0.9em\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/beverley-and-district\/files\/2018\/11\/20181110_120406.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-796\" src=\"\/beverley-and-district\/files\/2018\/11\/20181110_120406-163x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"258\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/beverley-and-district\/files\/2018\/11\/20181110_120406-163x300.jpg 163w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/beverley-and-district\/files\/2018\/11\/20181110_120406-768x1412.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/beverley-and-district\/files\/2018\/11\/20181110_120406-557x1024.jpg 557w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/beverley-and-district\/files\/2018\/11\/20181110_120406.jpg 1114w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 258px) 100vw, 258px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"\/beverley-and-district\/files\/2018\/11\/20181110_121622.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-797\" src=\"\/beverley-and-district\/files\/2018\/11\/20181110_121622-146x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"229\" height=\"471\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/beverley-and-district\/files\/2018\/11\/20181110_121622-146x300.jpg 146w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/beverley-and-district\/files\/2018\/11\/20181110_121622-768x1579.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/beverley-and-district\/files\/2018\/11\/20181110_121622-498x1024.jpg 498w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/beverley-and-district\/files\/2018\/11\/20181110_121622.jpg 996w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 229px) 100vw, 229px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Members of SI Beverley and District met at the Memorial Gardens in Beverley. 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