Throughout her life, she was a historian, a teacher, an athlete, an editor and publisher, and a committed volunteer. All of her hard work was in an effort to make Windsor a better place and she succeeded.
She was a diligent student, and she became involved in all aspects of academic life. She participated on many of the school’s sports teams, including the ladies’ hockey team prior to her graduating from Windsor Academy in 1929. Along with hockey, she played baseball, tennis, curling, and golf. Plus, she was also an avid cross-country skier, and she loved to fish in the lakes along the Chester Road.
A woman of many accomplishments during her ninety-three years, Kay Anslow was a stellar Windsorian since childhood. Born in 1911, she became a local star in sport, music, education and journalism. As well as partaking in several activities, she regularly entertained the community with the excellence of her award-winning performances. Photos of Kay as a singer, dancer, skater, curler, tennis player, baseball and hockey player in youth and later as a business school director and newspaper editor, invariably found her sporting the finest in fashion of the day. In summer, she was right at home sliding bases, pitching and scoring runs in baseball, while also winning at singles and mixed doubles in tennis in daytime. Evenings usually found her golfing at the small 9-hole course or playing tennis on the clay courts at Fort Edward. Her family owned a summer cottage at nearby Aberdeen Beach and Kay and her friends congregated there regularly to swim at high tide in the salt water of the Avon River.
In 1931, she became the first Miss Windsor, by popular vote. She had a keen sense of community and took part in numerous fund-raising concerts. During the mid-late 1930s she was director of the Elmcroft Playgrounds for children and choir director and soloist at the Windsor Baptist Church. In the 1930s, she became secretary to Headmaster Gerald White at King’s
College School and established a School of business there which included girls, thus introducing co-education to KCS. She founded the Windsor School of Business in 1942, which was responsible for the education of countless young regional women and men who then held major positions in business locally and elsewhere. During the Second World War, she organized the Windsor Concert Party, made up entirely of talented Windsorians, that entertained members of the armed forces locally and around Nova Scotia.
A charter member of the Windsor Curling Club, Kay competed locally, provincially and nationally. As a member of the National Curling Association, she travelled across the nation setting up new curling clubs.