Sheila M. Stone

Sheila M. Stone was an international figure skating champion in the 1950s, wrote for Sports Illustrated, designed practice uniforms for the 1956 Olympic team, and was one of the first active sportswear designers. After retiring to Williamstown, MA, she and her husband spearheaded the building of the new Williamstown Youth Center. She also headed the Williamstown Art Conservation Center and co-founded the Williamstown Theatre Festival Guild. She co-authored a 400-page history book with 150 letters written during WWII by her bombardier husband. The original letters were given to the Gilder Lehrman Institute in 2017 and have been made searchable and used to create books that were distributed to over 4700 teachers in Gilder Lehrman Affiliate Schools around the world and read by an estimated 680,000 students.