LINES FROM LINDA THE QUARTER CENTURY COLLIE GROUP INDUCTS EDITH LEVINE INTO THE HALL OF FAME AND HONORS LARRY WILLEFORD WITH THE RIGHT STUFF AWARD
LINDA AYERS TURNER KNORR
BANQUET PHOTOS BY BOB FINDLAY
F ounded in 1980, The Quarter Century Collie Group’s membership consists of individuals who have been members of the Collie Club of America for at least 25 years. Dedicated to honoring pillars of the Collie breed, the group inducts a deserving person into their Hall of Fame and honors another with their Right Stuff Award at a banquet during the week of each year’s Collie Club of America National Specialty Show. Picturesque Salt Lake City, Utah, was the location for the 2022 ceremony. Officers of the group are “cream of the crop” greats in the Collie world themselves: Tom Coen, President, Leslie Jeszewski, Vice President, Heather Newcomb, Treasurer, and Darcy Brown, Secretary.
Master of Ceremonies, Tom Coen, announced the recipient of this year’s Hall of Fame inductee, Edith Levine.
EDITH LEVINE 1912 – 1998
“Edith Levine was a woman who simply cannot be characterized in a few words or a single sentence. Born in 1912 in Cologne, Germany, she emigrated to South Africa at age twenty-two to escape the Nazis. Three years later, she sailed to the United States to marry her fiancé, Daniel Levine, whom she had met in Berlin while they were both students. While Dr. Levine was stationed in Arkansas, Edith met Florence Cummings of Arrowhill fame who became her mentor and lifelong friend. It was Florence, who, on a trip East, took Edith to visit Eliza- beth Browning’s Tokalon Kennels and the Poplar Kennels of Lloyd and Mary Beresford. On this trip, Edith fell in love with a blue merle puppy, Poplar Prepared, whom she later acquired. He became a pivotal dog in the future Glen Knolls family. “Prepared” was bred to a pure Hertzville bitch of Etta Forister’s, to produce Forister’s Black Rose, the foundation bitch for Glen Knolls. “Rose,” bred to CH Poplar Blue Moon, produced the first Glen Knolls champion, CH Glen Knolls Blue Angel. “Angel” finished before she was ten months old at a time when puppy flyers, much less blue merle puppy flyers, were rare indeed. Angel’s granddaughter, Ch. Glen Knolls Silver Star, became Edith’s second blue puppy flyer and was
Quarter Century Collie Group Hall of Fame Inductee Edith Levine
74 | SHOWSIGHT MAGAZINE, APRIL 2022
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