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Sylvia Gerster

← People of the Society · on record 1958–1972

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

In memoriam · reported Winter 1984

Of London, Ontario — Associate of the Society from 1960, on its Executive Council in 1964 and Vice-President of the London Branch in 1969, and a prize-winner at the Western Fair of 1963 in gloves, belts and small articles, where the prize list named her as Mrs. Carl Gerster. The Winter 1984 newsletter (p. 3) reported the deaths of “two of our leathercrafters. Sylvia Gherster of London, and Emma Rothenburger of Ingersoll. They will be missed by all their friends in the Society.” No date is given. The scan of that page spells her surname Gherster; the archive keeps the Gerster of the earlier notices, which the Society printed for her four times between 1963 and 1969.

From Winter 1984–85, page 3.

Also recorded as Mrs. Carl Gerster, Mrs. S. Gerster, Mrs. Sylvia Gerster, Sylvia Gherster

Branch

London · recorded holding office in 1963

Certification

  • Associate of the CSCL 1960

Of London, Ontario, and an Associate of the Society from 1960, she served as London Branch Secretary in 1963, on the Society's Executive Council from 1963 to 1965, and as President of the London Branch in 1967 and 1971. Her work won prizes at the Western Fair through the 1960s and 1970s and Craftsman Awards in 1969 and 1970; she died in 1984.

From Spring 1963, page 6.

Served the Society as

  • London Branch President 1958–1971
  • Executive Council 1963–1965
  • London Branch Secretary 1963
  • 15th Assembly Demonstrator 1969
  • London Branch Vice-President 1969

Awards

  • Canadian National Exhibition Second Prize 1966
  • Canadian National Exhibition Third Prize 1966
  • Craftsman Ribbon 1969–1970
  • International Assembly Salon Ribbon 1963
  • Western Fair First Prize 1963–1972
  • Western Fair Second Prize 1963
  • Western Fair Third Prize 1963–1972

Demonstrations given

  • Mongol Pencil Colouring 1961
    11th Annual

    From Spring 1961, page 3.

  • Slides of the Annual Meeting and the International Assembly 1964
    London Branch meetings, 1963-64 season

    From Spring 1964, page 6.

Where this comes from

This name in the index of people →