The Society’s Records

Sadie Roebuck

← People of the Society · on record 1955–2000

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

This is the Society’s own record of Sadie Roebuck. A biography: New Life Members, 1983 →

Standing

Life Member 1989 · Honourary Life Member 1997

Branch

Toronto · recorded holding office in 1967

Certification

Associate of the CSCL 1955
Fellow of the CSCL 1962

An Associate of the Society from 1955 and a Fellow from 1962, she served for many years on its Executive Council and won prizes at the Canadian Handicrafts Guild competition through the 1950s and 1960s. Two of her pieces were chosen for “Ontario Crafts – Leather Today”, the Society’s Centennial travelling exhibition: a smoking set and a snapshot album. 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 was made a Life Member in 1983 and named to the Society's roll of Ontario Volunteer Service Award recipients.

From Spring 1967, page 12; Spring 1969, page 4; Autumn 1964, page 7; and Fall 1967, page 9.

Served the Society as

2nd Assembly Demonstrator 1955
C.N.E. Demonstrator 1962
Council 1962–1977
Executive Council 1963–1975
10th Assembly Committee - Publicity 1964
Toronto Branch Treasurer 1967
Library and Slides 1972
Library Committee 1975–1977

Honours

Ontario Volunteer Service Award
Named on the Society's roll of Ontario Volunteer Service Award recipients.
Life Membership 1983
Presented by Bea Austin at the 33rd Annual Meeting, Fenelon Falls, 29 April–1 May 1983. A member from 1951, Associate 1955, Fellow 1962.
Ontario Volunteer Service Award 2000
One of 6 CSCL members inducted as Ontario Volunteer Service Award recipients at the 50th Annual Meeting for long-time commitment to CSCL, honoured with a short biography read by Membership Chair Madeleine Mitchell.

Awards

C.N.E. Competitions 1962 - Leathercraft 1962
Canadian Handicrafts Guild Competition First Prize 1959–1963
Canadian Handicrafts Guild Competition Honourable Mention 1955–1964
Canadian National Exhibition Second Prize 1963
International Assembly Salon Exhibit 1961

Demonstrations given

Purse framing (with Reta Larmour) 1956
CSCL Exhibition, Ryerson Institute of Technology, Toronto, October 1956
From Autumn 1956, page 12.
Desk Sets (stacked sole leather) 1963
13th Annual
From Autumn 1963, page 2.
Leather 1976
26th Annual
From Annual Meeting 1976 — programme, West Plains United Church, Burlington.

Where this comes from

This name in the index of people →