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Edward LeMaire

National judge

Edward ("Eddie") LeMaire, 36, was an accomplished figure skater, speedskater and roller skater. His parents, Francois and Maud LeMaire, were skating vaudevillians. LeMaire and his younger sister, Patty, performed alongside them in ice skating shows in a variety of venues nationwide. LeMaire began speed skating at age 4 and won more than two dozen racing medals. When his parents settled in New York, he joined the Skating Club of New York and trained with Willie Boeckl. He won the U.S. junior pairs title with Dorothy Goos in 1942 and won the U.S. junior men's title the following year. He also entered a national roller skating competition on a dare and won the senior men's event. LeMaire's service in World War II as a Navy flight instructor ended his skating career. He married Muriel Gerli, a Skating Club of New York member, after the war and graduated from the Mackay School of Mines at the University of Nevada in Reno. They raised three children--Richard (b. 1947), Dorinda (b. 1950) and Diana (b. 1951)--in Rye, N.Y. When LeMaire worked as a stockbroker on Wall Street, he began judging along the Eastern seaboard. By 1960, he was a national judge. At the suggestion of U.S. Figure Skating, Eddie went to the 1961 World Championships as a prelude to his nomination as a World judge.

Bio written by Patricia Shelley Bushman, author of Indelible Tracings