{"id":5772,"date":"2023-10-14T16:27:17","date_gmt":"2023-10-14T16:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/southern-england\/?p=5772"},"modified":"2023-10-15T11:21:32","modified_gmt":"2023-10-15T11:21:32","slug":"past-presidents-congratulate-incoming-federation-president-ruth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/southern-england\/2023\/10\/14\/past-presidents-congratulate-incoming-federation-president-ruth\/","title":{"rendered":"Past Presidents Congratulate Incoming Federation President Ruth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the annual get together of past Regional Presidents of Soroptimist International of Southern England (known as the &#8216;Has Beens&#8217;) at the weekend, members wished one of their number \u2013 Ruth Healey of SI Surrey Hills &#8211; every success for her forthcoming year as Federation President of Great Britain and Ireland. The Has Beens have been meeting together for some ten years now (lockdown years excepted) and this year they decided to mark the event with a celebratory dinner. Taken together, all their years of membership of the organisation amount to some 350 years of service \u2013 all aimed at making the world a better place for women and girls.<a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/southern-england\/files\/2023\/10\/HasBeens2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5779 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/southern-england\/files\/2023\/10\/HasBeens2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/southern-england\/files\/2023\/10\/HasBeens2.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/southern-england\/files\/2023\/10\/HasBeens2-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 437px) 100vw, 437px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They are: left to right Sue Pritt (2000-1) Liz Batten (2001-2) Alexis Neville (2004-5) Julie Blackwell (2020-2)\u00a0 Danny Sparkes (2017-18) Jackie Collins (2014-15) Ruth Healey (2015-17) Carole Atkinson (2007-8) Joyce Boorman (2006-7)\u00a0 Anne Ansell (2010-11) and Sylvia Fox (2005-6)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the annual get together of past Regional Presidents of Soroptimist International of Southern England&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":575,"featured_media":5789,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-regional-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Past Presidents Congratulate Incoming Federation President Ruth | News | Blog | Events | SI Southern England<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Southern England : Blog &amp; News : Past Presidents Congratulate Incoming Federation President Ruth : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Southern England . 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