ALL YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT THE AGM
BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASK

Date: May 3, 7:30 pm (Coffee and Goodies
provided by board]

Location: Emily Carr Institute

Reports:
Presidents Overview
General Manager
Treasurer
There will be @ printed synopsis and a full
accountants report available for perusal

Cammittee Head Reports
Exhibitions
Qutreach
Newslelter

Election of Officers

In next Newsletter there will be

A} A. slale of nominees for the
available positions 5]

B) A mail-in voting form for members
who cannot be at AGM

C) A proxy form for you to cast your
vote and ballot on other matters arising. You can
assign your vole to Lhe General Manager, your
regional board rep.(see last newsletter) or any
other specified member.

D) Note thal at the AGM nominations will
be called from the floor and those in attendance
will cast their ballots at this time.

3. Entertainment

There are many suggestions, ranging from
ritual flagellation of the outgoing board members
to the Dance of the Seven wedging lables, but
whal we came down to was having some sort of
riveting and memorable presentation of
astounding inlerest to those of the ceramic

Notice of Upcoming Elections

Beard elections will be hed at the next Annual General Asseribly
on May 3. A nominations committee has been famed headed by
Karen Opes and Darrel Hanceck, Guild members ara urged ta
contact either Karen (874-7124) o Darrel (S84-2681) ta subret
maminations.

The following board members have 2 years left le serve on their 3
year terms; Fay Hickey, Joon Cloutier, Gillan MeMillan, Ron
Vailis, Carol Mayer and June MacDanaid,

Pat Taddy has one year yet le conpiets

Keith Rice Jones has completed his term are wil net stand again
Linda Doherty ‘will stand for re-glection.

Karen Opas who satin for awn Monamara, has resigned to take
an posilion of NewsleBer editer.

Darrel Hanceck completed Joa Magels term and will nef stand
Tam inving wil be reiting from his peaitien on the board.

in all, here are five postions coming up for election. If you wisn
to be mominabed or would like to nominate someone ese, please
call Karen of Darre’, A list of nominees and a shert introduction
to em wil be published in the Apri newsletter.

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Paae 3

he Corner Chair

Ag the AGM is on the herizon and
are 8=—s Currently seeking
Aommnaions fer posiions on the
beard, | am reminded of the stary
of tht Little Red Han who wanted to
bake seme bread. Everyone she
asked thought it was a good idea
but declined ta help for all sorts of
raasons, so “she di¢ it hersel®, Of
course, when it was baked.
everyone wanted ta help her eat it,

Looking back, it's amazing to me
| that I've been on the board for 4 1/2

| years, taking over part way thraugh
a term and than doing an efected

stint of 3 years with the last one as
President. It has spanned a time of
necessary but difficult and
uncomfortable changes, As | leave
{ | have a self-funded leave fram
my teaching job and we plan to
travel and catch up with ourselves)
| feel that the Guild is entering a
stable phase and that the new
beard will be able ta steer the
organization across calmer waters
into feal consolidation and

of

eventually to that tropical paradise
an improved commission
structure in the Gallery.

When | retire from teaching in a
few years, | knew I'm going to miss
it and similarly, there's a lot about
being on the board that I'm going ta
miss. There's always that
umbrella, feel-good aspect
beacause you're doing your bit for
your organization, but beyond that,
there's a sense of being able to
give your persona! voice more
weight. | joined the board because
| was disgruntled about some

“aspects of the organization and |
wanted to make changes. What |

found out was that my simplistic
ideas, while being valid, had to be
part of whole layers and lavels of
considerations. [t's really quite
fascinating and often maddeningly
slow. What was an enormous,
unanticipated plus, for me, was the
sense of connectedness that | gat
fram getting involved, getting to
know people and the vary rich
camraderne that developed with the
other people that browght such a
rich diversity to the board.

In an organization for and about
Potters, & is important that
practising gatters form a strang

core to the board but! would like te
applaud theenermaus contnbution |
made by mon-potter pecple like Dr,
Carol Mayer with her vast
xnowledge af both ceramic history
and her curaterial expertise and
contacts through her position ag
Curstor of Ceramics at the
Museum of Anthrapoiogy, Also
currently on the board is Fay
Hickey whe brings highly valuable
marketing and business acumen
from her rele as manager of
Arbutus Shepping Centra.

All lhe ofher people, even me |
suppose, Bring thar own special
contribution, wisson and
cennections (sometimes ft really
helps wha you know). Nobody is
too qualified or unqualified ia make
a contribution to the Guild by being
on the board. Every yoice needs to
be heard. And the board és insured
against any financial losses by the
Guild!

As far as commitment goes, there
is @ beard meeting ance a month
(and we've just instituted a goodies |
roster) and additional involvement
in @ committee would be on a
needs basis which might be as
simple a5 finding specific
information to take back to the next
board meeting or taking a turn on
the twice yearly gallery selections
panel. At whatever level you feel
you can get involved (yeah, yeah,
| know you're Busy, so join the
club), your contribution te the guild
will be valuable to others and
enriching fer you, And a thousand
yialins begin to play,

P.S. Don't wait fer Darrel,
Rosemary of Karen (of
nominations committee farne) to
phone you. Take the initiative and
phone ther,

Dartel 588-2654

Rosemary 297-0741

Karen 874-7134