F. O. Baird

The Society’s records

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

Honours

• Honorary Life Membership 1951
  The Society's first Honorary Life Membership. The Executive offered it to the author of "Leather Secrets", "Leather Carving", "Leather Art" and the Baird Home Study Course, as "one token of the admiration and gratitude shared among Canadian beginner students of leathercraft". Baird accepted by letter on 13 November 1951 ("I deeply appreciate the tribute in your offering me the Society's first Honorary Life Membership and I accept with the utmost gratitude and pride") and in the same month gave the Society's library a copy of Leather Secrets and his new portfolio of handbag and belt patterns. The Spring 1991 newsletter still recalled him as an Honorary Life Member "in recognition of his contribution to the field of Leathercraft". Dr. Ralph K. Larmour's address at the 1962 Annual Meeting repeated the fact from the platform: "In November 1951, Mr. F.O. Baird was given the Society's first Honorary Life membership in recognition of his important contributions to the advancement in decorative leathercraft."

Where this comes from

• December 1951
• Spring 1962