The Potters Guild of B.C.
NEWSLETTER

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Editorial Committee: Bob Kingsmill, Laurel
McGregor, Hiro Urakami, Nathan Rafla, Anne
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Board of Directors: Tam Ining—President,
D'Arcy Margesson—Vice President, Kathryn
Youngs—Treasurer, June MacDonald—Secre-
tary. Heather Chapman, Bob Kingsmill, Carol
Klasen, Elwin Lowe, Donna Nabata, Nathan Rafla,
Elsa Schamis, Laura Taylor,

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AWARDS

On Saturday, May 26, at their annual awards cere-
mony, two Capilano College students were presented
with the Potters Guild's Davis and Lambert Awards by
the Guild representative, Elsa Schamis. Jo Margaret
Jinkerson was given the David Lambert Award for
First Year Students and Teena Shaw the Olea Davis
Second Year Award. CongratulationstoJo and Teena,
as well as to Marguerite and Simon at Langara.
Similar awards are to be announced for Emily Carr
College students in the fall.

In the meantime, Jume MacDonald, Secretary and
Awards Committee Chairman on the Board, has
brought the following proposal before the Board, and
at the May meeting of the Executive, the proposal was
accepted.

Commencing in the year 1991, the amounts of schol-
arships will be increased to $500 for two scholarships
to be named the Olea Davis Memorial Award, and the
David Lambert Memorial Award. These amounts will
be awarded annually to two deserving students in
ceramics, who will be completing second year studies
at a College or Institution offering a Ceramics pro-

gram, The teaching Institutions will be given informa-
tion regarding application procedures, with submuis-
sions to be received the first year no later than March
31,1991. The awards will be presented upon the
completion of the recipients’ second year.

It was further agreed that each person submitting an
award application would be given a one year member-
ship in the Guild.

Since that May meeting, a Trust Fund has been
established for the purposes of making the funds
available for these scholarship awards.

DAVID LAMBERT: A Profile

David Lambert can be considered Vancouver's first
production potter. Forthree decades, Lambert Potter-
ies produced a variety of pottery, manufactured elec-
tric Kilns, supplied ceramic materials, employed and
trained potters, and promoted the teaching of ceram-
ics in the local school system. Above all, Lambert was
always available to help scores of people from potters
to handicapped individuals who came to him for
advice.
Lambert Potteries Ltd, was organized in 1946 along the
lines of the 17th century English pottery workshops,
with a master potter and two or three apprentices who
reproduced the larger quantities of saleable work.
Lambert's keen eye for business saw the North west-
em Indian motifs as marketable design for his ware.
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