obituary
LUDLOW Carole Lanese Lud-
low, wife of George B. (Chip) Ludlow Jr., passed away on Feb. 11, 2012. She was 75. She was raised in
Shaker Heights, Ohio, and attended Westmin- ster College where she majored in music and business. She was a banker for 15 years with the old Cleveland Trust Com- pany (now Bank of America) in Cleveland, where she was a member of the Cleveland Skating Club. In 1969 she married Chip and moved to
Kent School in Kent, Conn, where she was the ideal faculty wife, entertaining other teachers and their families as well as parents visiting their sons and daughters. She served as the school’s archivist, worked in the library and assisted in running the Class A horse shows at the school as well as a figure skating program. In her spare time she became involved in the
judging of figure skating, gaining her first appoint- ment in April 1973. She quickly rose through the ranks to become a national judge in singles, pairs and dance. In 1979 she served as administrative assistant for Norton Skate, which is now known as Skate America. Te following year she served in the same capacity at the Olympic Winter Games in Lake Placid, N.Y. In that capacity, she walked through the ice rinks with the guards and their
dogs each morning. In 1981 she was the protocol chairman of the World Championships in Hart- ford, Conn. She served as registration chairman for Skate America from 1980‒1984. In 1986 and 1987, Carole was assistant com- missioner of the U.S. Olympic Festival. In 1986 she was appointed vice chairman of the dance committee of U.S. Figure Skating. She served in that role through 1992. In 1989 she was assistant team leader with the U.S. World Team in Paris. Te next year she was co-chairman of the Good- will Games and team leader for the World Cham- pionships in Halifax, Canada. At the 1992 Olympics in Albertville, France,
she served as assistant team leader for the U.S. Team. She was team leader for the Sports Festival in St. Louis and technical representative for the Ultimate Four event. Te following year she and Chip retired to
Venice, Fla., where they became honorary mem- bers of the Tampa Bay Skating Club. She never missed a beat in judging, ultimately serving at 12 sectionals, 30 regionals, four nationals as a judge and two nationals as a judges education and train- ing committee member. She judged five national collegiate competitions, 10 adult nationals from 1995 to 2009. She judged Special Olympics World competitions in Reno, Nev., in 1989, Sal- zburg, Aus., in 1993, Toronto in 1997, Anchor- age, Alaska, in 2001, Nagano, Japan, in 2005 and Boise, Idaho, in 2009 plus five U.S. Teatre on Ice events and three International and Nations Cup
Teatre on Ice events. She judged eight National Showcase events. Always the perfect hostess, she volunteered at many competitions to work on registration and serve as hospitality chairman.
Although she was not a judge of synchro-
nized skating, she regularly attended those compe- titions, serving as assistant trial judge chairman of the World Synchronized Skating Championships in 2002 and as hospitality chairman of the U.S. Synchronized Championships in Tampa, Fla., in 2003. In 2000 she and Chip received the F. Ritter
Shumway Award from the Professional Skaters Guild (now PSA).
Te couple touched the lives of countless
youngsters who continued to stay in touch long after their own student or skating days were com- pleted. She worked tirelessly to help train other judges, parents and skaters, serving on panels at judging schools and also leading seminars for par- ents at many skating clubs. She was a member of the Skating Club of
Boston. In addition to her husband of 43 years, she
is survived by a sister, Vilma Buell, of Venice, two nieces, a nephew and a cousin, Charles DeMore, of Cleveland, former president of U.S. Figure Skating. Donations may be made to the U.S. Figure
Skating Memorial Fund, 20 First St., Colorado Springs, CO 80906 or to St. Francis Animal Shel- ter, P.O. Box 563, Nokomis, FL 34273-0563.
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