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Joan Tozzer Cave, 90, figure skater driven to succeed

By Gloria Negri

 |  Globe Staff  

  May 21, 2012

An inductee of the US Figure Skating Hall of Fame, Joan Tozzer Cave US Ladies Figure Skating champion in 1938, 1939, and 1940, and the national pairs champion the same years. “Joan was a feisty person with a positive personality, one of the early glamorous women skaters,’’ said Benjamin Wright, board chairman and historian of The Skating Club of Boston. She set aside competitive skating at 18 to marry, raise her children, and become involved in philanthropic endeavors.

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