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Marjorie Parker Smith Personal information Country represented United States Born c. 1917 Died January 17, 2009 Former partner Howard Meredith
Joseph Savage
George BoltresMedal recordCompetitor for United States Fours' Figure skating North American Championships Bronze 1939 Toronto Fours Marjorie Parker Smith (c. 1917 – January 17, 2009) was an American figure skater who competed in ice dancing, pair skating , single skating, and fours in the latter part of the 1930s.
Nearly fifty years later, she again gained championship status in running the 300-yard and the 600-yard dashes.
Parker Smith was a member of the first official United States Ice Dancing Championship team and an inductee in the United States Figure Skating Hall of Fame, Class of 2009. She also was on the Board of Directors of the Society of Old Brooklynites where she was a life member. Parker Smith devoted many hours of volunteer service to NYC-based WABC Radio's 'Call For Action' program.
She died at age of 92 on January 17, 2009 at her home in Brooklyn, New York. She was survived by five children and three grandchildren.
Parker Smith was inducted into United States Figure Skating Hall of Fame January 23, 2009 in the “Golden” category at the 2009 United States Figure Skating Championships in Cleveland.
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Figure skating results
Pairs
(with Howard Meredith)
Event 1936 U.S. Championships 3rd Ice dance
(with Joseph Savage)
Event 1936 1937 1943 U.S. Championships 1st 2nd 2nd (with George Boltres)
Event 1938 1939 U.S. Championships 4th 3rd Fours
(with Nettie Prantel, Joseph Savage, and George Boltres)
Event 1939 North American Championships 3rd Other medals
- Gold: 1936 U.S. National Dance Champion
- Gold: 1939 Dance Fours (Skating Club of New York)
- Bronze: National Novice Single
- Bronze: National Senior Pair
Master track & field - World records
- 1984 600 yard dash (2.23.5 minutes)
- 1985 300 yard dash (71.50 seconds)
External links
- It All Started With a Pair of Borrowed Skates: Park Sloper Marjorie Parker Smith Was a Star on the Ice
- Five To Be Inducted into U.S. Figure Skating Hall of Fame
- U.S. Figure Skating Mourns Passing of Marjorie Parker Smith
- Parker Smith to be inducted into HOF posthumously. Bright spirit carried winner of first U.S. ice dance title.
- World Figure Skating Museum and Hall of Fame
- Hall of Fame skater dies - Marjorie Parker Smith skated on Olympic world stage.
- Marjorie Parker Smith's obituary
- Marjorie Parker Smith's obituary
United States national champions in figure skating – Ice Dancing 1936: Marjorie Parker & Joseph Savage • 1937–38: Nettie Prantell & Harold Hartshorne • 1939–41: Sandy MacDonald & Harold Hartshorne • 1942: Edith Whetstone & A.L. Richards • 1943–44: Marcella May & James Lochead • 1945: Kathe Mehl Williams & Robert Swenning • 1946: Anne Davies & Carleton Hoffner • 1947–49: Lois Waring & Walter Bainbridge • 1950: Lois Waring & Michael McGean • 1951: Carmel Bodel & Edward Bodel • 1952: Lois Waring & Michael McGean • 1953: Carol Ann Peters & Daniel Ryan • 1954–55: Carmel Bodel & Edward Bodel • 1956: Joan Zamboni & Roland Junso • 1957: Sharon McKenzie & Bert Wright • 1958–59: Andree Anderson & Donald Jacoby • 1960: Margie Ackles & Charles Phillips • 1961: Diane Sherbloom & Larry Pierce • 1962: Yvonne Littlefield & Peter Betts • 1963: Sally Schantz & Stanley Urban • 1964: Darleen Streich & Charles Fetter • 1965–66: Kristin Fortune & Dennis Sveum • 1967: Lorna Dyer & John Carrell • 1968–72: Judy Schwomeyer & James Sladky • 1973: Mary Campbell & Johnny Johns • 1974–76: Colleen O'Connor & Jim Millns • 1977: Judi Genovesi & Kent Weigle • 1978–80: Stacey Smith & John Summers • 1981–85: Judy Blumberg & Michael Seibert • 1986: Renée Roca & Donald Adair • 1987–88: Suzanne Semanick & Scott Gregory • 1989–90: Susan Wynne & Joseph Druar • 1991: Elizabeth Punsalan & Jerod Swallow • 1992: April Sargent Thomas & Russ Witherby • 1993: Renée Roca & Gorsha Sur • 1994: Elizabeth Punsalan & Jerod Swallow • 1995: Renée Roca & Gorsha Sur • 1996–98: Elizabeth Punsalan & Jerod Swallow • 1999–2003: Naomi Lang & Peter Tchernyshev • 2004–08: Tanith Belbin & Benjamin Agosto • 2009-11: Meryl Davis & Charlie White
Categories:- 1910s births
- 2009 deaths
- American ballroom dancers
- American ice dancers
- American pair skaters
- Sprinters
- American track and field athletics biography stubs
- Dance biographical stubs
- American middle distance runner stubs
- American sprinter stubs
- American figure skating biography stubs
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