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FLO CUTTING of Toronto got involved as a 5 Pin Bowling volunteer more than 50 years ago, in a league formed by the Olympia Ladies’ Softball League in Toronto. She came to bowling as a league, city and provincial champion as a softball pitcher; a creditable performer in basketball; and a bronze medal winner in both shotput and discus in the 1927 Canadian Track and Field Championships. In 1937 she became the first President of the Metro Ladies’ Major League, and for 10 years volunteered as Secretary for a senior citizens’ bowling league called the Second Mile Club. In the mid-1950s she became the founding Provincial Secretary of the former Ontario Bowlers Council, which became the Ontario Bowlers Congress, and she laboured in that post as a Provincial and National executive until she resigned in 1969. In 1973, our very first Awards Dinner saluted Flo Cutting as the “First Lady of Bowling” for her long record of volunteer service, and tonight she becomes the first lady to be inducted to the Builders Division of the 5 Pin Bowling Hall of Fame.
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