1940′s – became involved with skating when she met Mildred Knight who was involved in a skating club at the old curling rink behind the Old Hotel Newfoundland. Here she met Tommy Winter and together they introduced the sport of figure skating to a few children in the St. John’s Figure Skating Club which ran in Feildian Gardens and St. John’s Memorial Stadium. For 3 years they taught themselves about preliminary figures, and dancing with booklets – fanning the upper corner of the pages to see the jumps and spins until certified coaches arrived.

- had someone come from the mainland for a crash course on judging.

- Became well known dance duo with Tommy and danced in Ice shows for many years

1967 - escorted the Newfoundland team to first Canada Winter Games held in Quebec City

1969 -78 – low level judging – retired from judging about 1978

1772 -74 - Avalon Region Director

1973-74 - President St. John’s FSC

1973-76 - Judges Chairman – resigned 1973 to look for new Judges chair

1975-95? Statistician for skaters/officials

1975-79 - Section Vice Chairman

1977-79 - Bursary Chairman

1990 - Volunteer certificate presented at AGM in Gander

1993 (Oct) - Presented with a plaque for 50+ years of dedicated volunteerism to Figure Skating in Newfoundland and Labrador

2001 attended a Section Board reunion of past members

2006 Died October 29 at the age of 88 of Alzheimers

Compiled by Marion Jeans