File f14 - Cartwright, Katherine (Cooky)

File consists of a recording of Katherine Cartwright. Topics of the conversation include athletic prowess; French degree at Queen's; homesickness following acceptance to teach in Jamaica; legal study. Subject's individualism; falseness of 'female lawyer' stereotyping. Competitiveness of today's law students. Differing skills required by law school, actual law practice. Co-practise with father; mother's ten-year stint as law librarian. Increasing number of women law students; suspected hiring discrimination against women lawyers. Kingston's social strata: erosion with city growth, advent Alcan, Dupont industries; town-university relations. Rural enrolment as a partial factor in Queen's student coolness to political issues of 1960s. Brief history of women's hockey in Canada: intercollegiate league from 1890s; mother's participation c. 1916; excellence during 1920s, 1930s; disappearance c. WWII. Need for proper written history of women's hockey. Development till resumption of intercollegiate hockey in 1960s; subject's participation as player, coach. Red Barons. Youth at present seen as organisation­spoiled: no initiative. Subject's youthful realisation that she wouldn't compete in NHL as her sole female inhibition. Kim Ferguson, classically disadvantaged female hockey star. Sue Thompson. Lawyer Geraldine Tepper. Subject's predominantly marital practice, avoidance of commercial law. Problem of specialising too early in career; belief that specialisation should occur during practice. Decision not to have children. Unawareness of discrimination against her as a female lawyer; dislike of client sexual discrimination in her favour. Tendency to hardheartedness, objective thinking; gratitude to mother as open, tolerant figure. Retrospective view of self as hyperactive, disapproval of repressive treatment of hyperactive children. Early legal environment, recollection of sitting in judge's chair. Detrimental effect of violence in hockey on public attitude to women's hockey; hockey as it should be played, according to rule. Bodychecking; prohibition of bodychecking in women's intercollegiate hockey, not in public leagues. Quebec hockey as example of good skaters resulting from strict calls; facemasks as an evasion of referee responsibility; injuries as the common result of stickwork, not bodychecking. Proven ease of adjustment to regulated hockey. WHL-NHL merger; injustice of draft conditions. Conacher's The Death of Hockey. Cartwright's Point subdivision: father's tree-cutting restrictions. Childhood relations among Army children; example of Army economic stupidity; hierarchy among Army children; Army school.