Preparing for the Annual General Meeting
and Awards Ceremony, | have talked to
several porters whe have been members for
several years, We have chosen oo recognize
three people who have given many years of
service to the Guild. There are others whe
deserve this award, burt three stand cat.
They are Jan Kidnie, Hiro Urakami and
Don Hutchinson, The awards are being
presented by life members Stan Clarke, Jean
Fahri and Ruth Meechan. Other life
members attending are Georgina Hughes
and Johanna Polberg.

It will be a chance fer the old to meet the
new and share a little history. This
informannon will aid in writing of the history
section in the book we are publishing. The
meeting will start promptly at 7 pm, (Friday
May 2nd in room 269 at Emily Car } to
give us extra time for the awards and
refreshments atter the business is
completed.

Hope to see you there,

The Board of Directors would like to
reccumize the following members af che
Potrers Guild for being members tr good
standing since at least February of 1977;
Barbara Baanders, Trudi Bergstrom,
Marlene Bowman, Meg Buckley, Bernard
De Aguiar, Don Hutchinson, Marcha
Melling, Sally Michener, Donalda McLaren,
Darlene Nairne, Keith Rice-Jones, Rita
Rowbotham, Jeanne Sarich, Wayne Sayer,
Ron Tribe, Elsa Schamis, Maureen Wright,
Debra Sloan, Georgina Hughes, Jean
Fahmi, and Sean Clarke,

Some of these people go back further chan
1977, but none of the membership lists priar
vo February, 1977 are complete. If we have
missed anyone, please let us kerow.

Last Minute alert: Longtime member Debra

Sloane ts standing for eleceion for che board
of directors.

Linda Daherty

Book Update
As of April 20th, 1997

Thanks to everyone who got their
information in by April Lith. Thanks also
to those whe called to let me know that
they would be a litle late. If you don’t
have everything in yet, you are holding up
the producaon of the book. [ don't have
time to call all of you, so please make sure
your blurbs are in.

Blurbs —Editing is underway and you
should be receiving your first edit soon.
Instrections yall be enclosed for you te
either accepe it or revise it, please send it
back as soon as possible. Please don't
phone in pour approval, as your signanure
required. We will accepr a fax.

Black & White photos —Deadline
extended ta May 15th.

Colour Photes —If you had pour
donation pot photographed, they tured
out great. If you sent in a photo you
should have been notified if they were
accepted or net, [fF you are sending a por
to be photoyraphed, it should be ac che
Gallery now. The last photo session is

Tuesday, May éth.

Funding —Lattery for Pottery raised
$6,500 for the book fiend. Still no word
on grant applications.

Made in Clay ‘97
|

“You are invited to the 4th Annual
Pottery Sale on:

Friday, May 2nd 10 am-6 pm

‘Saturday, May 3rd 10 am-6 pm
Sunday, May 4th 10am-4pm
at Performance Works,

1218 Cartwright St, Granville tslard_

“Participants can purchase parking
for $5 per day on Saturday & Sunday
in the Emily Carr Staff Parking tot.

Piease contact Sue Griese if you are
interested at (604)731-0211 by
Wednesday, April 30,

Page 3

Letter to the Editor

The Editesr,
Newsletter, Potters Guild ot BC

The “Newsletrer Report” submitted by
Deborah Tibbel as part of the Annual
Report contains several points thar f
would like to see discussed at the Annual
General Meeting,

The style and format of the newsletoer
have improved greatly, and Karen Opas’s
farniliaricy with the clay community has
restored the warmth to the newsletter thar
was lacking for some time. This
publication fosters a sense of community
and is one of the most important aspects
of aur guild as far as many members are
Cconcermed. Thase queside the lower
Mainland (especially in isolated areas) rely
on ic to keep chem in couch with their
fellow potters and the monch by month
activities of the guild. This is information
they cannac gee anywhere else. While
there is certainly room for a wider body of
information extracted from sources which
may be unavailable co the general
membership, [ wonder at the suggestion
thar we are to “look for more changes” to
aur newslerter so that ic “reflects the
image we want to lend to our
community”.

hat alarms me, however, is that
reducing the number of issues (or
producing smaller issues) is being
considensd, There are currently no issues
being produced during the summer
months. Monthly updates from
September to May is crucial on everything
from workshops, deadlines for grant
applications or shows, to informing the
membership of important board decisions
on which chey may want input.

] hope that members atcending the AGM
will give serious thought to how important
a regular and informative newsletter is to
out organization and that there can be
some discussion on this.

Roesemary Amon.