Laura Bush
← People of the Society · on record 1973–2009
The Society’s records
Everything the Society’s own records say of Laura Bush: the offices held, the standings conferred, and the awards won. Where the records are silent, so is this part of the page.
In memoriam · 2009-2010
A Director of the Society and a member since 1972, died at 91. Reported in the Membership section of the 2011-61st-annual-meeting-reports (minutes of the 60th Annual General Meeting, May 2010): "one of our Directors, who has been a member since 1972... passed away at 91." No more precise date given.
From 61st Annual Meeting: Reports.
Standing
Society Member 1988–1997
Branch
Belleville · recorded holding office in 1977
She made a square for the CSCL Leather Quilt.
From June 1977, page 2; and Fall 1998, page 2.
Served the Society as
- Executive Council 1973–1980
- Belleville Branch President 1977–1979
- Council 1979–1988
- Director 1981–2008
- Belleville Branch Past President 1982
- Director (Trenton) 1997
Honours
- Ontario Volunteer Service Award
Named on the Society's roll of Ontario Volunteer Service Award recipients. - Ontario Volunteer Service Award 2003
One of six named at the 53rd Annual General Meeting, MAL; biographies read by members called on by Dorothy McPherson. The date of the official presentation had not yet been announced on this page. A profile in newsletter 2003-fall pp3-4 has her, after the Belleville Branch disbanded, continuing as a Member-at-Large, attending nearly every CSCL Annual and staffing the CNE booth.
Awards
- Craftsman Ribbon 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1984, 1986
- Participation Ribbon 2009
Demonstrations given
- Flowers made with velvet ribbon (with Marilyn Harry) 1982
Belleville Branch meetings, 1981-82 seasonFrom Spring 1982, page 10.
Where this comes from
- Summer 1973
- Spring 1974
- June 1977
- Spring 1978
- Summer 1978
- Summer 1979
- Autumn 1980
- Summer 1981
- Summer 1982
- Summer 1983
- Summer 1986
- Fall 1986
- Winter 1986–87
- Summer/Fall 1987
- Winter 1987–88
- Spring 1989
- Winter 1989–90
- Summer 1991
- Fall 1991
- Summer 1992
- Fall 1994
- Summer 1995
- Summer 1996
- Summer 1997
- Fall 1998
- Spring 2003
- Spring 2005
- Spring 2006
- Summer 2007
- Spring 2008
- Spring 2009
- 47th Annual: Convention Programme and Annual Report
- 61st Annual Meeting: Reports
- 30th Annual Meeting 1980: programme, Sun Valley Motor Inn, Belleville
- 31st Annual Meeting 1981: programme, Beacon Motor Inn, Jordan Station (Vineland)
- 32nd Annual Meeting 1982: programme, Holiday Inn West, Toronto
- 35th Annual Meeting 1985: programme, The Continental Inn, Barrie
- 36th Annual Meeting 1986: programme, Beacon Motor Inn, Jordan Station (Vineland)
- 38th Annual Meeting 1988: programme, The Royal Resort, Rosedale
- 40th Annual Meeting 1990: programme, Elmhurst Inn, Ingersoll
- 43rd Annual Meeting 1993: programme, Royal Resort, Fenelon Falls
- Annual General Meeting minutes, 5 May 2007
- Executive Council 1978–79: the officers as the Society listed them
- Society membership list, 1989
- Society membership list, 1997
Life and work
From a profile of her in the Society's newsletter.
- Background
- She first tried leathercraft as a girl, in CGIT (Canadian Girls in Training).
From Autumn 2003, page 3.
- Study
- She took a five-day leather course at Georgian College with CSCL Fellow Clara Cavanaugh.
From Autumn 2003, page 4.
- Community
- Later she was a member of the Belleville Leather Guild, with Dorothy Harwood and Vera Farara.
From Autumn 2003, page 4.