Jean Newton

The Society’s records

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

In memoriam · Christmas Eve, 24 December (the newsletter gives no year; the notice appears in the Winter 1985 issue, which follows Fall 1985 in the same volume, so most probably 1985)

One of the Toronto Branch’s original members and, over the years, a presenter at Annual Meetings of some of its senior honours, including Reta Larmour’s Honorary Life Fellow Membership in 1965 and Bea Austin’s Life Membership. The Winter 1985 In Memoriam notice (p. 4) is hand-written and hard to read ("memhenrns" for members, "Baanch" for Branch), but the name itself is clear. The same short notice extends sympathy, not a further death, to May Corbett on the loss of her husband and to Gladys Riddell on the death of her aunt, Dorenda Durey (bereavements, not members).

From Winter 1985–86, page 4.

Branch

Toronto · first recorded holding office in 1952

Certification

• Associate of the CSCL 1954
• Fellow of the CSCL 1957
  The election notice prints the town as “Toronto”.

Two of her pieces were chosen for “Ontario Crafts – Leather Today”, the Society’s Centennial travelling exhibition: a shoe horn and a carved belt; the Canadian Guild of Crafts (Ontario) selected the articles, and the exhibition opened at the Guild Shop on 2 October 1967 and was to travel across Canada during 1968. She presented Bea Austin's Life Membership in 1983.

From Winter 1985–86, page 4; and Fall 1967, page 9.

Held the Society's professional stamp No. V, issued in 1956.

From Register of professional stamps, May 2012.

Served the Society as

• President 1956–1957
• Past President 1957–1960
• Toronto Branch Vice-President 1952
• Executive Council 1955–1967
• Council 1961
• C.N.E. Demonstrator 1962
• Toronto Branch Chairman 1962
• Programme Convener 1963
• Toronto Branch President 1963–1964
• 10th Assembly Committee - General Chairman 1964
• 15th Assembly Demonstrator 1969

Honours

• Honourary Life Membership 1979
  Announced for the 1979 Annual Meeting, continuing the same notice begun on p4. A member from the Society's formative years; Toronto Branch Vice-President at its 1952 founding and its third President from 1956.

Awards

• C.N.E. Class 223, Non-tooled leather article: 3rd 1961
• Canadian Handicrafts Guild Competition First Prize 1959, 1960
• Canadian Handicrafts Guild Competition Honourable Mention 1956, 1959, 1963
• Canadian National Exhibition Third Prize 1963, 1964
• Craftsman Ribbon 1970
• International Assembly Salon Exhibit 1961
• International Assembly Salon Ribbon 1966
• Pacific National Exhibition Third Prize 1964

Demonstrations given

• Spatter dyeing and the technique of masking 1956
  Peterboro group meeting, 1956

  From Autumn 1956, page 11.

• Covering a Shoe Horn 1961
  11th Annual

  From Spring 1961, page 3.

• Bottle Covering 1964
  14th Annual

  From Spring 1964, page 2.

• Shoe horns (Hamilton Branch, October) 1964
  Branch meetings, autumn 1964

  From Autumn 1964.

• Belts and buckles, and fasteners for purses 1965
  Toronto Branch meetings, 1964-65 season

  From Spring 1965, page 4.

• Bottle covering 1965
  Barrie Branch meetings, 1964-65 season

  From Spring 1965, page 3.

• Round Braiding 1971
  21st Annual

  From Summer 1971, page 2.

Where this comes from

• Fall 1952
• Summer 1954
• Autumn 1955
• Spring 1956
• Autumn 1956
• Winter 1956–57
• Spring 1957
• Winter 1957–58
• Winter 1958–59
• Autumn 1959
• Spring 1960
• Autumn 1960
• Spring 1961
• Summer 1961
• Spring 1962
• Autumn 1962
• Winter 1962–63
• Summer 1963
• Autumn 1963
• Spring 1964
• Summer 1964
• Autumn 1964
• Summer 1965
• Summer 1966
• Spring 1967
• Fall 1967
• Summer 1969
• Spring 1970
• January 1980
• Winter 1985–86
• Winter 1996–97
• Register of professional stamps, May 2012