Beula Reynolds

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Beula Reynolds

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This is the Society’s own record of Beula Reynolds. A biography: Meet Our New President, 1978 →

The Society’s records

Everything the Society’s own records say of Beula Reynolds: the offices held, the standings conferred, and the awards won. Where the records are silent, so is this part of the page.

In memoriam · 26 November 2019

In her 98th year. First president of the Woodstock Branch on its founding in 1968. Recorded from her published obituary (Brock and Visser Funeral Home, Woodstock, 28 November 2019).

From Summer/Fall 2019, page 5.

Also recorded as B. Reynolds, Beulah Reynolds, Buela Reynolds, Re. Beula Reynolds

Standing

Life Member 1989 · Honourary Life Member 1997

Branch

Woodstock · first recorded holding office in 1968

Certification

Associate of the CSCL 1970
Associate awards were presented to Dorothy Harwood, Carol McLean and Beula Reynolds by Clara Cavanagh, Chairman of the Council of Fellows. The register had held her only from the undated c. 1985 list.

She was Vice-President in 1974 and 1977, the 1974 list printing her as Mrs. B. Reynolds. The minutes of the 37th Annual Meeting print her name as Beulah Reynolds. She showed one piece in the Society's exhibition at the Craft Gallery and Resource Centre of the Ontario Crafts Council, 346 Dundas Street West, Toronto, 2-28 March 1976; two pieces at Leather '78, the Society's exhibition at the Etobicoke Civic Centre, 550 Burnhamthorpe Road, November 1978; and four pieces in the Society's exhibition at the Etobicoke Art Gallery, 4-29 September 1992. She made a square for the CSCL Leather Quilt. She showed three pieces 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 (Brown Leaf Tray; Pencil Holder - Black & Red; Card Box - Block).

From Spring 1969; Spring 1978; Fall 1974, page 1; Winter 1976–77; Minutes of the 70th and 71st Annual General Meeting, 8 May 2021 (another copy), page 4; 42nd Annual Meeting 1992: programme, Beacon Motor Inn, Jordan Station (Vineland), page 5; 43rd Annual Meeting 1993: programme, Royal Resort, Fenelon Falls, page 9; Exhibition catalogue 1976: Craft Gallery of the Ontario Crafts Council, Toronto, page 6; Leather ’78: exhibition catalogue, Etobicoke Civic Centre, page 6; Etobicoke Art Gallery exhibition 1992: catalogue, page 14; Fall 1998, page 2; 38th Annual Meeting 1988: programme, The Royal Resort, Rosedale, page 5; and Leather 2000: Fifty Years of Leather Art, Exhibition Programme, Woodstock Museum, page 5.

Served the Society as

President 1978–1980
Past President 1980–1981
1st Vice-President 1975–1977
2nd Vice-President 1972–1974
Woodstock Branch President 1968–1987
Corresponding Secretary 1970–1971
Midwest Federation of Leather Guilds Show attendee 1970
Woodstock Branch Past President 1971
Woodstock Branch Program Chairman 1971
Woodstock Branch Vice-President 1972
Vice-President 1973–1977
Woodstock Branch Exhibitions 1974
Director 1982–1983
Nominating Chairman 1986
Council 1988
Woodstock Branch Secretary 1989–1993

Honours

Ontario Volunteer Service Award
Named on the Society's roll of Ontario Volunteer Service Award recipients.
Life Membership 1987
Presented at the 37th Annual Meeting by Hilda Chynoweth, Membership Chairman. A full profile in the same year's Summer/Fall newsletter (by Madeleine Mitchell) calls the honour "1987 Honorary Life Member" rather than Life Membership, and adds: joined C.S.C.L. in the mid-1960s and chaired the 1987 Nominating Committee.
Ontario Volunteer Service Award 2002
Announced by Dorothy McPherson and Kevin Armstrong at the 52nd Annual Meeting, ACSCL, Woodstock. The Official Awards were to be presented at a ceremony not yet announced on this page.

Awards

Craftsman Ribbon 1969, 1970, 1978, 1979, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002
Leather '76 Craftsman Award 1976
Salon Award 1970
Salon Ribbon 1978
Weston Trophy Winning Piece 2002

Demonstrations given

Woodstock Branch workshops 1974-75 (instructor) 1975
Workshop, 1975
From Annual Meeting 1975: programme, Geneva Park, Lake Couchiching.
Moccasins in Leather 1978
28th Annual
From Twenty-Eighth Annual Meeting 1978: programme, hosted by Toronto Branch, page 1.
Sandal workshop, with Carol McLean 1978
Woodstock Branch, April 1978
From Leathercraft skilled art.
Moulded Leather Wall Decoration 1985
35th Annual
From 35th Annual Meeting 1985: programme, The Continental Inn, Barrie.

Where this comes from

Life and work

From the newsletter article by Carol McLean and Helen Wheaton that introduced her as the Society's new President.

Study: She had been doing leatherwork since 1952, and studied under Irva Ford, Clara Cavanagh, Anne Hook and Olivia Smith.

From the biography “Meet Our New President, 1978”.

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