Dorothy Muma

The Society’s records

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

In memoriam · 15 November 2008

A Charter Member of the Society and, with her late husband Robert, among its organizing members in the early 1950s. She was instrumental in writing and revising the Society's Constitution.

From Autumn 2008, page 3.

Standing

Life Member 1989 · Honourary Life Member 1997

Branch

Toronto · listed as a member in 1996

Certification

• Associate of the CSCL 1954
• Fellow of the CSCL 1955

A well-known leathercrafter. She was made a Life Member of the Society along with Jessie Little and Helen Wheaton. She wrote “Eastern Regional Meeting” for The Leather Craftsman in 1958 (see Members in print).

From Autumn 2008, page 3; and 33rd Annual Meeting 1983: programme, The Royal Resort, Fenelon Falls, page 5.

Served the Society as

• President 1965–1969
• Past President 1969–1971
• Treasurer 1953–1980
• Chairman Editorial Committee 1954
• 2nd Assembly Demonstrator 1955
• Editor 1954–1960
• Editorial Chairman 1955
• Editorial 1958
• Assistant Editor 1960
• I.A.L.C. Advisory Board Secretary-Treasurer 1963
• 10th Assembly Committee - Treasurer 1964
• Vice-President 1964
• I.A.L.C. Committee - Treasurer 1965
• Ontario Crafts Conference Delegate 1965
• Executive Council 1972–1973
• Council 1976
• Director 1983–2003
• Chairman of the Council of Fellows 1986–1991
• Council of Fellows Chair 1990–1998
• Chairman, Council of Fellows 1993
• Chairman Council of Fellows 1994–1997

Honours

• Ontario Volunteer Service Award
  Named on the Society's roll of Ontario Volunteer Service Award recipients.
• Life Membership 1982
  One of three Life Memberships presented at the 32nd Annual Meeting, Toronto, 1 May 1982.
• Ontario Volunteer Service Award 2000
  One of 6 CSCL members inducted as Ontario Volunteer Service Award recipients at the 50th Annual Meeting for long-time commitment to CSCL, honoured with a short biography read by Membership Chair Madeleine Mitchell.

Awards

• Canadian Handicrafts Guild Competition Honourable Mention 1956

Demonstrations given

• Demonstration (afternoon session) 1997
  47th Annual

  From Summer 1997, page 5.

Where this comes from

• Summer 1953
• Winter 1953–54
• Spring 1954
• Summer 1954
• Autumn 1954
• Winter 1954–55
• Summer 1955
• Autumn 1955
• Winter 1955–56
• Autumn 1956
• Winter 1956–57
• Spring 1957
• Winter 1957–58
• Summer 1958
• Winter 1958–59
• Spring 1960
• Summer 1963
• Autumn 1963
• Summer 1964
• Winter 1964–65
• Summer 1965
• Winter 1965–66
• Spring 1966
• Spring 1967
• Summer 1968
• Spring 1969
• Spring 1970
• Summer 1971
• Summer 1972
• Summer 1973
• Spring 1974
• Spring 1978
• Autumn 1980
• Summer 1982
• Summer 1983
• Summer 1986
• Fall 1986
• Winter 1986–87
• Summer/Fall 1987
• Winter 1987–88
• Spring 1988
• Spring 1989
• Winter 1989–90
• Fall 1990
• Summer 1991
• Fall 1991
• Summer 1992
• Spring/Summer 1994
• Fall 1994
• Summer 1995
• Summer 1996
• Winter 1996–97
• Summer 1997
• Summer 1998
• Spring/Summer 2000
• Spring 2001
• Summer 2002
• Autumn 2003
• Summer 2007
• Autumn 2008
• 47th Annual: Convention Programme and Annual Report
• 27th Annual Meeting 1977: programme, The Victorian Inn, Stratford
• 33rd Annual Meeting 1983: programme, The Royal Resort, Fenelon Falls
• 40th Annual Meeting 1990: programme, Elmhurst Inn, Ingersoll
• 43rd Annual Meeting 1993: programme, Royal Resort, Fenelon Falls
• Executive Council 1978–79: the officers as the Society listed them
• Society membership list, 1989
• Society membership list, 1997
• Twenty-Eighth Annual Meeting 1978: programme, hosted by Toronto Branch