November 1975

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NEWSLETTER

the potters guild of bc.

, B.C.
V6B 1E5

pe NOVEMBER MEETING OUE TO DATE CONFLICT WITH HYCROFT.

EARLY MEETING in December on the a o’ciocck a e Van Deusen Gardens
Classroom. There Roger Stribley will give an illustrated talk on the building of

a gas kiln. Afterwards Hycroft results will be given and we will get together
for a little Christmas cheer. Bring something to help celebrate.

Greetings,

Northern 8.C., Prince George was magnificent in October, and I enjoyed meeting
members in Prince George and Vanderhoof. And had my first Thanksgiving dinner
in a hotel room complete with cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie. And made a de-

tour to the Chilcotin to show slides in a ranch house for a group at Alexis
Creek. ;

Congratulations to Don and Louise Hutchinson who have announced the arrival of
Benjamin-Allan (Ben) born on October 9th.

I will take this opportunity to thank a most energetic, able and jolly group of
co-workers without whom this last two and a half years as president would have
been most difficult.

I wonder how many of you realize the number of volunteer hours which were spent
in this last calendar year in producing two exhibitions Ceramics '78 and Ceramics
'79 each with illustrated catalogues, as well as the annual Hycroft sale with its
exhaustive organization, and the regular monthly programs and newsletter, to say
nothing of the travelling workshops and well-organized in-town workshops.

This year also, for the first time the annual Clea Davis and David Lambert incen-
tive awards were presented during graduation ceremonies to the first and second
year students in eight junior colleges through out 8.C. This pleasant duty was
performed by our honorary life members where possible. This i8 also pfoving to be
a most worthwhile project. Planning for the summer raku picnic was ably engineer-
ed by Tom Dendy at his Kelowna orchard site.

I would also like to acknowledge the co-operation of the Craftsmen's Association

of 8.C. both in our travelling workshops and with Ceramics '79 exhibition. Our
programs were carried out with the additional assistance of the 8.C. Cultural
Fund and the Western Lottery Association.

We are all delighted that Hiro Urakami has agreed to take over the presidency in
January on the first. . ;

c : ’ \ ) how,.we' are try-
*fAlso because of our forthcoming 25th anniversary retrospective s ’ r
ing to locate early members' works as well as those eligible members who have had
shows nationally and internationally, and so to please contact us.

See you at the Christmas Party! Jean Fahrni

POTTERS GUILD EXECUTIVE .

Prasident: Hiro Urakami

Past President: Jean Fahrni —

First Vice-president: Laila Pettersen

Second. Vice-president: Barbara Barron (Hycroft)
Treasurer: Cory Steuart

Corresponding Secretary: Cherie Mark iewicz
Recording Secretary: Ron White

Newsletter: Cherie Markiewicz

Committee Chairman

Exhibition: Miriam McCarrell

Social Convenor: Danny Kostyshin .
In-town workshops: Frances Fraser and Ellen Zeiss
Travelling workshops: Jeanne Sarich

Mailing: Corinne Kingma