With Katherine, Katie as she preferred to be called, feeling all fired up about finally having some direction towards helping her community, she needed to figure out an action plan to get things rolling.
Although Katie was one smart cookie, she knew opening a new business like the one she wanted would require more brain power and helping hands than just her own. So, like the tenacious woman she was with a need to lead and support her community, she recruited the Junior League of Racine, other local industries, the labor force, and the medical community to come together as a cooperative community effort to establish the Curative Workshop of Racine, Inc., which was able to open its doors in April of 1951.
The Racine community, as well as Katie, now had the missing link they needed for seeking pain relief in the form of physical therapy and rehabilitation services without having to travel to another city to get it. Everyone was in awe of Katie's ability to turn her own issue into a solution that would help the entire community. Her hard work and efforts did not go unnoticed.
After the doors to the Curative Workshop of Racine opened in 1951, Katie was honored with the Veterans of Foreign Wars Award as Racine's top Community Worker for founding the Curative Workshop of Racine. To top it all off, Curative Workshop was the first voluntary private, non-profit rehabilitation center in the U.S. where the building and grounds were wholly owned. With Katie leading the way, as well as C. Margaret Gleave, the founding Executive Director of the Curative Workshop of Racine, this woman-powered dynamic duo's potential was limitless.
Sources: The Journal Times (newspaper clipping) from March 7, 1989 on page 15.
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Potential is Limitless
Non-FictionLCS is a non-profit organization that was founded by Katherine V. Batten in 1949 to meet a growing community need for out-patient occupational and physical therapy. This is a 1940s Humphrey Bogart-esque telling of the story of how LCS was establishe...
