May Corbett

The Society’s records

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

In memoriam · June 2004

A Past President of the Society and a longtime member of the Barrie Branch and Member-at-Large. A contemporary account (newsletter 2004-fall p2) has her President of CSCL around the time the editor joined the Society, about 1974, and an active member of the Barrie Branch.

From Autumn 2004, page 2.

Also recorded as M. Corbett, Mae Corbett, Mrs. C. Corbett, Mrs. C. E. Corbett

Standing

Life Member 1989 · Honourary Life Member 1997

Branch

Barrie

Certification

• Associate of the CSCL 1961

She joined the Society in 1958, the Barrie Branch’s first year: she attended the October meeting as a visitor and at her second, in November, was asked to become Treasurer (before she had actually paid her membership fee) and accepted. For many years her recreation room was the Barrie Branch’s home base, with the branch’s Weston Trophy plaques on its wall; she held most of the branch’s offices, was its Exhibitions Chairman in 1974, and was always willing to drive any distance to bring Barrie members to Executive Council meetings. In leather she was particularly noted for the many bottles she covered. One piece was chosen for “Ontario Crafts – Leather Today”, the Society’s Centennial travelling exhibition, listed under the name Mae Corbett: a two-tone brown and blue bottle. The Canadian Guild of Crafts (Ontario) selected the articles; the exhibition opened at the Guild Shop on 2 October 1967 and was to travel across Canada during 1968. She showed one piece at Leather '74, the Society's exhibition at the Toronto Public Libraries' Learning Resources Centre, 666 Eglinton Avenue West, Toronto, 3-28 June 1974; 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; two pieces at Leather '78, the Society's exhibition at the Etobicoke Civic Centre, 550 Burnhamthorpe Road, November 1978; and five pieces at Leather '82, the Society's exhibition at the City of Brampton Library and Art Gallery, Bramalea, 3 July to 1 August 1982. She made a square for the CSCL Leather Quilt.

From Fall 1974, page 6; Autumn 2004, page 2; Autumn 1980, page 10; Fall 1967, page 9; Leather ’74: exhibition catalogue, Toronto Public Libraries, page 5; Exhibition catalogue 1976: Craft Gallery of the Ontario Crafts Council, Toronto, page 5; Leather ’78: exhibition catalogue, Etobicoke Civic Centre, page 5; Leather ’82: exhibition catalogue, Brampton Public Library and Art Gallery, page 4; and Fall 1998, page 2.

Served the Society as

• President 1975–1978
• Past President 1978–1979
• 1st Vice-President 1974
• Barrie Branch President 1963–1964
• Executive Council 1965–1980
• Corresponding Secretary 1966–1968
• Program Convener 1966
• Chairman Exhibitions Committee 1968
• Exhibitions Chairman for C.N.E. 1968
• 15th Assembly Demonstrator 1969
• Vice-President 1969–1974
• Barrie Branch Treasurer 1979
• Director 1981–1987
• Council 1988

Honours

• Ontario Volunteer Service Award 2001
  Named on the Society's roll of Ontario Volunteer Service Award recipients. Presented at the 51st Annual (2001): Kehoe and Chynoweth in attendance; Corbett, Riddell, Kemp named among "four others" honoured the same year.
• Life Membership 1984
  Presented at the 34th Annual Meeting by Membership Chairman Hilda Chynoweth. Printed "Mae" in the Annual Meeting minutes; the register keeps May Corbett, the spelling the newsletters use six times as often (77 mentions to 12). Her own newsletter profile (Summer 1984, p4) adds that she was succeeded as President of the Society by Beulah Reynolds.

Awards

• Bramalea Ribbon, Leather '82 1982
• Canadian Handicrafts Guild Competition First Prize 1965
• Craftsman Award, 11th International Assembly 1965
• Craftsman Ribbon 1983
• Salon Award, 11th International Assembly 1965

Demonstrations given

• A purse-size notebook 1962
  Barrie Branch, guests of the Hamilton Guild, 1962

  From Winter 1962–63, page 11.

• Notebook 1962
  12th Annual

  From Spring 1962, page 2.

Where this comes from

• Spring 1961
• Summer 1963
• Spring 1964
• Summer 1964
• Summer 1965
• Autumn 1965
• Spring 1966
• Spring 1967
• Fall 1967
• Summer 1968
• Spring 1969
• Summer 1969
• Spring 1970
• Summer 1971
• Summer 1972
• Summer 1973
• Fall 1973
• Spring 1974
• Fall 1974
• Summer 1975
• Autumn 1975
• Winter 1975–76
• Winter 1976–77
• June 1977
• October 1977
• Spring 1978
• January 1980
• Autumn 1980
• Summer 1982
• Summer 1983
• Summer 1986
• Fall 1986
• Winter 1986–87
• Summer/Fall 1987
• Winter 1987–88
• Winter 1996–97
• Fall 1998
• Spring 2001
• Autumn 2004
• Woodstock branch is host to leathercraft annual meet
• 29th Annual Meeting 1979: programme, The Continental Inn, Barrie
• 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
• 38th Annual Meeting 1988: programme, The Royal Resort, Rosedale
• Exhibition catalogue 1976: Craft Gallery of the Ontario Crafts Council, Toronto
• Leather ’74: exhibition catalogue, Toronto Public Libraries
• Leather ’78: exhibition catalogue, Etobicoke Civic Centre
• Leather ’82: exhibition catalogue, Brampton Public Library and Art Gallery
• Society membership list, 1989
• Society membership list, 1997
• The History of the Canadian Society for Creative Leathercraft: its own short account