While Doris Stewart may have grown up in Toronto’s west end, she earned her Hall of Fame credentials in Scaroborugh.

Doris married Jack Stewart in 1947 and, ten years later, Doris and Jack moved to Scarborough as they purchased their first home and began Jack’s new company, Advance Engineering. Doris began helping with the Youth Program at Aprile Lanes and she also joined the April Fools League at the centre which, as well a being a social league, contained several top bowlers of the day.

With the formation of the first bowlers association, Scarborugh, in 1962, by Bert Garside, Doris was the house representative for Aprile. In all, Doris worked with five Scarborough presidents including Bert, George Smith, John Typson, Tom Craig and Jean Simpson.

Doris joined the Master Bowlers Association in its second year. Overall she won seven tournaments, and only six ladies have won more events. He first win was the 1966 Double Knockout event and she continued he success with two victories in 1967-68 and the overall aggregate championship. Doris and Bill Hoult bowled in Vancouver for the first Canadian Masters Singles Championship and both bowlers were victorious. Doris continued her success in the Masters and for three consecutive years, from 1968 to 1970. Doris won the Holiday Sweepstakes.

Doris enjoyed great success in the Open as well. In all, she qualified eighteen times in a twenty year stretch from 1965 to 1984. Along with five mixed team efforts, Doris bowled on thirteen ladies teams and was Scarborough's representative on ten occasions.

The mixed team from 1977 was most successful as they won provincial honours in Hamilton and the national championship in Niagara Falls. Earlier, the team of Doris, Neil Harrison, Hall of Famer Ron Gifford, Chuck Park, John Inglis, Sandy Barrett, Pat Lynch and coach Gene Deschenes also won gold medal honours at the Ontario Winter Games in North Bay.

While Doris starred on the lanes, she also is extremely proud of her family’s involvement in the sport. In fact, four generations are involved, Jack’s mother, Ina Crone, bowled until she was 81.

Doris and Jack were partners as they toured all-events tournaments in Kitchener, Scarborough and other locales across Ontario. Their four children, Ken Dave, Russ and Diane were all bowlers. In a moment of great pride for Doris, she and Russ bowled together on the Scarborough team in 1982. Dave is a Master Bowlers and Open participant from Port Hope and the Great Pine Ridge zone. Two grandchildren are currently YBC members from Brimley Bowl in Scarborough and by the time of this dinner Doris and Jack hope to be great-grandparents. The Stewart clan is truly one of the great bowling families of our time.