The Society’s Records

Dorothy Stanton

← People of the Society · on record 1970–2002

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

Standing

Society Member 1988–1997

Branch

Woodstock · listed as a member in 1996

Certification

Associate of the CSCL 1976
Woodstock. Twenty-three years in leathercraft and ten a member; taught by Stan Blair and Clara Cavanagh, and exhibited at Forest Fair ’72, Leather ’74 and Leather ’76. The same page records that she took the Zalitis pin that year “for the highest standing among new Associates”. Contemporary minutes of the 26th Annual Meeting (CSCL Documents, “77 annual”, p.5) confirm the pin and give her town as Forest, Ontario.

Of Woodstock. She showed two pieces at Leather '74, the Society's exhibition at the Toronto Public Libraries' Learning Resources Centre, 666 Eglinton Avenue West, Toronto, 3-28 June 1974, and 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. An Associate of the Society from 1976, taught by Stan Blair and Clara Cavanagh, she took the Zalitis Pin that year for the highest standing among new Associates. Her work won the Leather '76 Craftsman and Salon Awards, and she was later named to the Society's roll of Ontario Volunteer Service Award recipients. She made a square for the CSCL Leather Quilt.

From Fall 1998, page 2; Annual Meeting 1976 — programme, West Plains United Church, Burlington, page 20; 42nd Annual Meeting 1992 — programme, Beacon Motor Inn, Jordan Station (Vineland), page 5; Leather ’74 — exhibition catalogue, Toronto Public Libraries, page 6; and Exhibition catalogue 1976 — Craft Gallery of the Ontario Crafts Council, Toronto, page 6.

Served the Society as

Midwest Federation of Leather Guilds Show attendee 1970

Honours

Ontario Volunteer Service Award
Named on the Society's roll of Ontario Volunteer Service Award recipients.
Zalitis Pin 1976
Awarded for the highest standing among that year’s new Associates (with Hope Drysdale). Printed "Zalitis", not "Zelaitis".
Ontario Volunteer Service Award 2002
Announced by Dorothy McPherson and Kevin Armstrong at the 52nd Annual Meeting, ACSCL, Woodstock (posthumously). The Official Awards were to be presented at a ceremony not yet announced on this page.

Awards

Leather '76 Craftsman Award 1976
Leather '76 Salon Award 1976
Zalitis Pin 1976

Demonstrations given

Woodstock Branch demonstration, 1975-76 season 1976
Workshop, 1976
From Annual Meeting 1976 — programme, West Plains United Church, Burlington.

Where this comes from

This name in the index of people →