The Society’s Records

Betsy Rennie

← People of the Society · on record 1985–2007

Everything the Society’s own records say of Betsy Rennie — the offices held, the standings conferred, and the awards won — gathered on one page. Where the records are silent, so is this one.

Also recorded as Betsy Rennis, Betsy Ronnie, Elisabeth Slappendel

Standing

Society Member 1988–1997

Branch

Hamilton · recorded holding office in 2002

Certification

Associate of the CSCL 1988
Made an Associate, with a pin, at the 38th Annual Meeting; her four entries all marked over 80%. Two years before the Fellowship the register already carried from the Spring 1990 newsletter.
Fellow of the CSCL 1990
“Dorothy Muma, F.C.S.C.L., chairman of the Council of Fellows awarded the designation of Fellows to Betsy Rennie, of the Hamilton Branch”, at the meeting of 28 April 1990. The register had held her only from the Fellows reports of 2021–2024, undated.

A Hamilton Branch member, she was made a Fellow in 1990 by Dorothy Muma, chairman of the Council of Fellows. She made a square for the CSCL Leather Quilt. She edited the newsletter through the early 1990s, showed four pieces in the Society's exhibition at the Etobicoke Art Gallery, 4-29 September 1992, and served three terms as the Society's President, 1995–97. She showed one piece at Leather 2000: Fifty Years of Leather Art, the Society’s exhibition in the Grand Hall Gallery of the Woodstock Museum, 466 Dundas St., 20 May to 17 June 2000 (Leather Pouch - Waist Bag). She wrote two projects for The Leather Craftsman, “Christmas Pins” (1987) and “Double Picture Frame” (1988) (see Members in print on the Links page). The Society's last newsletter dates her membership to 1983, the year she joined: Charter Members were still at the workshops then, and she recalls their attention to fine tooling.

From Fall 1991; Summer 1995; Fall 1998, page 2; Etobicoke Art Gallery exhibition 1992 — catalogue, page 14; Leather 2000: Fifty Years of Leather Art — Exhibition Programme, Woodstock Museum, page 3; and Fall 2026, page 5.

Served the Society as

President 1995–; 1995–1997
Past President 1997–1998
2nd Vice-President 1993–1995
Corresponding Secretary 1987–1989
Corresponding Sec 1990–1991
Editor 1990–95; 1990–1995
Co-Editor 1991–1993
Correspondence 1991
Hamilton Branch President 1991–1998
Director 2000–2007
Director (Hamilton) 2002

Honours

Ontario Volunteer Service Award
Named on the Society's roll of Ontario Volunteer Service Award recipients.
Zalitis Pin 1988
Awarded with her Associate standing at the 38th Annual General Meeting, 6-8 May 1988, for the highest average mark (over 80%) on her four submitted articles. Karla Van Horne gave the background to the award before presenting it.
Past President Pin 1997
Presented at the 47th Annual General Meeting, Beacon Motor Inn, Jordan Station (Vineland), hosted by the Mississauga Branch.
Ontario Volunteer Service Award 2003
One of six named at the 53rd Annual General Meeting, FCSCL, Hamilton Branch; biographies read by members called on by Dorothy McPherson. The date of the official presentation had not yet been announced on this page.

Awards

1992 Biennial Exhibition — Moore-Pearsall Award for Best Tooled Piece 1992
40th Anniversary Special Award 1990
Craftsman Ribbon 1986–2001
International Federation of Leather Guilds Show, 1st Prize 1990
International Federation of Leather Guilds Show, 2nd Prize 1990
International Federation of Leather Guilds Show, 3rd Prize 1990
Judges Special Choice Award 1990
Michigan Leather Artisans Award 1990
Salon Award 1992
Salon Ribbon 1987–1991
Special Table 1985
Zalitis Pin 1988

Demonstrations given

Pastels on Leather 1991
41st Annual
From Summer 1991, page 2.
One-piece wallet (with lining) 1996
Workshop, 1996
From Summer 1996, page 6.
Use of arrowhead basketweave stamp 1996
46th Annual
From Summer 1996, page 2.

Where this comes from

This name in the index of people →