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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”4820″ img_size=”large”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Soroptimist International of Harrogate and District \u2013 Celebrates \u2018Forgotten Women\u2019 on International Women\u2019s Day 8th<\/sup>March 2021<\/h3>\n

Seventy Soroptimists and guests Zoomed in from all over the Yorkshire, the UK and the World to celebrate the unveiling of a Harrogate Civic Society Plaque, \u00a0in recognition of Dr Kathleen Rutherford on International Women\u2019s Day.\u00a0 A woman, described as a legend in her own life time in a 1970\u2019s Yorkshire Television Calendar News Special about her life, now all but forgotten. Dr Kathleen was a founder member and first Club President of Soroptimist International of Harrogate in 1933.\u00a0 The Club was also delighted to welcome award winning journalist Nicky Harley, whose \u2018Forgotten Women\u2019 campaign kicked off our quest to find out more about our founder President.<\/p>\n

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The Club always knew of Dr Kathleen but in 2019 Nicky contacted the Club as part of her\u00a0 campaign to get more women recognised as part of the Blue Plaque scheme. In her research, and, in her opinion, Dr Kathleen was worthy of consideration for a Blue Plaque. Club member and archivist Rachel Richardson started her research that was to reveal so much more about Dr Kathleen.\u00a0 Conversations began with local historian Malcolm Neesam and the Harrogate Civic Society.\u00a0 We are pleased that the evidence provided \u00a0demonstrated that Dr Kathleen was indeed worthy of a Civic Society Brown Plaque.<\/p>\n

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What Dr Kathleen achieved<\/h3>\n

Dr Kathleen\u2019s work touched many lives during her life and after. She was a Quaker and committed pacifist.\u00a0 She was bold and wrote to Hitler about letting German Soroptimists attend an International Conference in the UK –\u00a0 this resulted in her being invited to the 1938 Nuremberg Congress.\u00a0 A grateful patient left a very sizable legacy that she used almost entirely for charitable purposes in the UK and abroad. Using her medical knowledge in countries as diverse as Naples Slums to Ugandan Leper treatment centres and humanitarian \u00a0and often heart breaking work during the Biafran famine in Nigeria.<\/p>\n

Locally she was a supporter of Harry Styan\u2019s Boys Club.\u00a0 In 1970 she received the MBE from the Queen and made a Freeman of the Borough of Harrogate in 1973.\u00a0 She died in 1975 aged 78.\u00a0 She left the majority of her estate to charity.\u00a0Listening to Dr Kathleen talk about her life in the showing of the original Yorkshire TV programme when Michael Partington interviewed her really confirmed what a wonderful and dynamic woman she was.<\/p>\n

Unveiling of the Plaque<\/h3>\n

President Sandra Frier unveiled the Civic Society plaque on 1st<\/sup> March. It is now in place on the gate post of\u00a0 Saint Mungo, 10 York Road, Harrogate courtesy of the house\u2019s current owners Richard and Lynn Wriglesworth. \u00a0\u00a0As President Sandra said about the plaque, \u2018It is\u00a0 a very appropriate way to recognise and remember a lady who was an impenitent idealist, internationalist and committed Quaker, who strove to make a difference through raising awareness, advocacy and action.\u201d<\/p>\n

International Women’s Day Guests and Speakers<\/h3>\n

We were delighted to be joined by Soroptimists from Yorkshire Clubs and our Friendship links from Paisely, Milford Haven, Middlesborough, Willimantic, USA and Pretoria-Tshwane, South Africa as well as Federation Friendship co-ordinatorBhaswati Biswas and Fedaration Director of PR and Marketing Nisha Ghosh from India<\/p>\n

Our honoured speakers included the Deputy Mayor of Harrogate, Cllr Zoe Metcalfe, Soroptimist International \u00a0of Great Britain and Ireland (SIGBI) President Joanna Raffan, SI Yorkshire President\u00a0 Linda Davis and SI President Elect Maureen Maguire. \u00a0All spoke about International Women\u2019s Day, its history and the challenges facing women across the world. Many of whom have been adversely affected by the Covid Pandemic –\u00a0 economically, socially and with regard to equality. We heard how Clubs in Yorkshire are responding to this challenge.<\/p>\n

Memories of Dr Kathleen<\/h3>\n

Hugo Wharton, Dr Kathleen\u2019s great nephew who has proved a great help in Rachel’s research spoke of his Great Aunt and how he and his cousins used to stay with her as children.\u00a0 He had very fond memories of her. Edward Kemp, Programme Director at RADA, also spoke about his \u00a0father Eric, the former Bishop of Chichester who Dr Kathleen treated in the 1920s\u00a0 for shyness. Something the Bishop mentioned in his memoirs –\u00a0 Shy, but not Retiring. Dr Kathleen, one of only a few women Doctors in the 1920s had an interest in psychotherapy.<\/p>\n

Stuart Holland, Co-Chair of Harrogate Civic Society spoke about its work including the Heritage Trail\u00a0 that provides a history of Harrogate through the Brown Plaques.<\/p>\n

It was a very informative evening. A fantastic way to celebrate the life of a lady who really does deserve to be remembered and emulated.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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