The Society’s Records

Cecil Roebuck

← People of the Society · on record 1954–1973

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

In memoriam · reported Fall 1973

Of Toronto. Made an Honourary Associate of the Society in 1962 — "while Cecil is not a craftsman, he has" served it long — and remembered again in the Spring 1975 newsletter's account of the Society's honours. The Fall 1973 newsletter recorded his death with that of Eleanor Coutts of Barrie: "We mourn the passing of two of our members... Our sympathies go out to their respective families." No date of death is given.

From Fall 1973, page 8.

Also recorded as Cecil J. Roebuck

Branch

Toronto · recorded holding office in 1964

Certification

Honorary Associate of the CSCL 1962

Long the Society's Treasurer and a past Chairman and later President of the Toronto Branch, he was made an Honorary Associate in 1962 in recognition of his service to the Society — the Society's own citation noting that, unlike its ordinary Associates, he was not himself a craftsman. He died in 1973, of Toronto.

From 40th Annual Meeting 1990 — programme, Elmhurst Inn, Ingersoll, page 12.

Served the Society as

1st Assembly Committee - Chairman 1954
Chairman Advertising Committee c. early 1950s; 1954
Advertising Chairman 1955
Executive Council 1956–1973
Executive Council Member 1956–1957
Council 1960–1961
Treasurer 1962–1969
10th Assembly Committee - Publicity 1964
Toronto Branch Treasurer 1964
Toronto Branch President 1967–1970

Honours

Honorary Associate 1962
Announced by the Board of Selection alongside the year's new Fellows and Associates. The citation says plainly that he is not a craftsman: "he has given many long years of service to our Society" — a past Chairman of Toronto Branch and at that time its Treasurer as well as Treasurer of the C.S.C.L., Chairman of the Second International Assembly held in Toronto, and long a member of the Executive. "Honorary Associates are awarded very sparingly and we are happy to bestow this on Cecil as a token of our appreciation of his service to us." His wife Sadie Roebuck was raised to Fellow in the same announcement. Found, not settled: the Society’s own 25th-anniversary retrospective (Spring 1975 newsletter, p7) dates this Honorary Associate membership to 1963, a year later than this contemporary announcement; the contemporary source is followed here.

Where this comes from

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