Fersonnel is the second big probiem. Iam inclined to doubt
whether it can be done efficiently with entirely volunteer workers.

I would propose hiring a full-time manager and having each member
put in a certain number of hours at selling, pricing, arranging and
all the other work that goes with a retail store.

Did I say our second problem? It looks to me as though this
will be our big problem. Can we make enough money to pay a full-time
manager - and how much time can each of us give to man the store ?

Charmian has tossed the ball. Can we catch it? Who will step
forward now and organize a meeting where the whole idea can be
discussed ?

Yours hopefully,

... Ruth Meechan

from: Centro internazionale di ceramica,
Fiazza San Salvatore, Lauro, 15.

An International Center of Ceramics has been established for all
those who are already acquainted with this art and who wish to improve
and perfect their technical knowledge.

It is open to both Italian and foreign students; several kinds of
courses are held throughout the year, thus making the Center
accessible also to those who are only free during their holidays.

It is a new type of Center by reason of its fusion of specifically
technical teaching and artistic research and its aims to make the use
of those active factors resulting from the exchange of varied
experiences between students and highly qualified teachers of
different nationality, studies and orientation that experiments with the
art of ceramics in its widest fields of application.

Members of the steering committee:

Nino Caruso (Director), Italy
Edouard Chapallaz, Switzerland
Stig Limberg, Sweden

Faul Soldner, U.S.A.

Robert Sperry, U.5.A.

Olivier Strebelle, Belgium
Tapio Virkkala, Finland.