During the business part of the meeting, chores were taken on in preparation for our festival.

Norma Diaz offered to firm up details about the venue and arrangement for renting the tables. Carol Skinner, based on some designs we did for the poster/flyer and logo will make final designs and copies of the poster/flyer to be distributed at the next meeting.

Everyone is asked to explore contacts with people involved in the performing arts and keep Martha Maduro abreast of participants ( m3m3m3 @hotmail.com ) as she will coordinate the performances. Martha also suggested we all formulate e-mailing lists to be brought to the next meeting so that one master list could be compiled without repetitions.

We also discussed various methods of advertisement: La Tremenda Mañana, Debate Abierto, The Panama News, La Prensa and television interviews, which no one wants to do but there's still time.

Remember to sign up for MODEL DAY which we decided to hold weekly until further notice. It's still Wednesday 9 to 11 AM. (Janet Levi, 228-5444, email jrlevi@cwp.net.pa .)

Now to the fun part:

It was fantastic to be at LOTTY BANTHAM1S house, enjoying all her wonderful jewelry and clarifying the fact that she wasn't chosen as one of the eight best jewelry designers in the world, but only(!?) the United States. She was one of 3,000 designers from which the eight were chosen. Lotty's daughter CECILIA was also present. She's studying art in London and brought out two fantastic sculptures. Afterwards Lotty showed us a great box that Cecilia had designed, constructed and painted. We also looked at one of Lotty's masks, a beautiful one based on her daughter's face.

GISELLE DIAZ, a new member, and a very valuable one, I might add,
showed us pictures of some murals she'd done and some oil paintings. We were all very impressed with her work and glad she'll form part of the group.

NORMA DIAZ brought some her students1 work for show and tell. These kids are fantastic! Does it have anything to do with their teacher?? She also showed us an exquisite stained glass cross she'd made.

GAE SPEED shared some really good photographs she'd taken of Isla Grande. The camera was always in the same spot and the pictures taken at different times of the day. One was converted into an oil painting. Gae also read a very moving poem about missing our homelands which I think touched all of our hearts. She was kind enough to send me a copy the next day and she probably wouldn't mind if you asked her for one too.

CAROL SKINNER brought some paintings she does by smearing paint, stomping on it, blow-drying it and ironing it, then going over it to pick out designs that appear. Sounds weird, huh? But they're great. They look like batiks. All of them were matted.

LESLEY TASSELL came but sold everything, so couldn't do show and tell!

MARTHA MADURO didn't show and tell either because she had one of those days, which we all have from time to time.

BRENDA LANE dropped in after attending a Theatre Guild of Ancon meeting. Brenda's the president of our sister organization, The National League of American Pen Women. She was very impressed with our terrific group. We hope she1ll start attending regularly.

YOURS TRULY showed and told the results of our first MODEL DAY and a batea (invented) depicting a meeting of one of our splinter groups.the PANAMA CANAL QUILTERS.

Janet Levi

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