The B. C. Potters' Guild can be the voice of interested potters and
muralists. Comments and letters to the editor are invited. If desired,

letters will be published when possible.
Editor.

Note re Cur President

Our President, Mr. Robert Weghsteen, is about to embark on a year's
tour of the Continent. He expects to spend a lot of time in France, and
tour extensively in Spain and Portugal and England. He intends to do
further study of Moorish pottery in Spain and Portugal, and of Early
Chinese pottery at the British Museum in England. -- Good Luck,
Fobert! We shall miss you.

Canadian Ceramics '65

Some 527 pots were submitted to Ceramics 'G5 in Toronto of which
about 40% were rejected. Pots sent from B.C. were of a high standard,
and Marjorie Mackay of Vancouver won the $100.00 T. Eaton Co. prize
for outstanding stoneware. The travelling show (some 60 pieces) will
be in Western Canada between September 1965 and June 1966.

The following comments on jurying appeared in the Canadian Guild of
Potters' newsletter of March 16/65, and are so interesting that we
quote them herewith, verbatim, for the benefit of those members who
do not receive the Canadian Guild newsletter:

"The jury was impressed by the range of the ceramics sub-
mitted to the Canadian Ceramics Exhibition and commends the
potters for their inventiveness and obvious devotion which make
this exhibition so interesting a manifestation of Canadian crafts-
manship. At the same time, less commendable was the range
in quality which extended all the way from the highly competent
to the merely amateurish, Similarly the jury looked, often in