After business had been concluded, Robert Weghsteen presented
slides showing the high-lights of his tour through France and Spain
on a Canada Council Grant.

DANIEL RHODES, Alfred University, speaking at The Vancouver Arts
Club, March 3, 1967.

"J like speaking in a small informal hall of this sort because it's
better to have a big crowd in a small place than a small crowd in a
big place. I spoke at the University of Iowa a few years ago where
there was a little auditorium about this size. People kept coming

and coming, and finally it was packed full of people - and people
outside who couldn't even get in. So Frank Seiberling, the head of

the Department said "Well, we'll have to move to the big auditorium."
So we all trooped out to this huge auditorium that would hold a
thousand people, and there was my little audience in the first three
rows ~ my greatest triumph snatched away from me!

You'll notice I'm speaking into a tape recorder here today. I used
to be afraid of these things but I've gotten a little bit calloused about
it. However, I spoke in Brandon on my way out here, and a young
man said he had a tape recorder, and asked if I would mind being
taped. I said no, and so he taped my remarks. The next night in
Winnipeg I was horrified to see the same young man with the same
tape recorder. He's gotten me down twice, so all the contradictory
things I've said can be studied from now on.

My first lecture on this little circuit was in Charlottetown, P.E.TI.
After the lecture we had the usual question period, and a girl, who I
presume was a student at one of the colleges there, got up and said
"Vir. Rhodes, you've spoken about the wonders of ceramics and the
importance of making pots and all. How come you're out talking
about all this instead of being at home making pots?" I've been
thinking about this a good deal and haven't really come up with a
good answer, but here goes anyway...