Members' Day: Tania Shamy

This year's Members' Day talk was given by Tania Shamy to a crowded lecture hall. Beginning with Frederick the Great's gift of a 1000+ piece porcelain service to Catherine the Great, Dr. Shamy led us through the ins and outs of history and porcelain's place in it. Her slides, taken during research trips to Russia, showed us porcelain figurines, table decorations, plans for elaborate banquet settings, rooms whose every surface were covered with porcelain plates, the renowned cabinets de curiositiés, and more.

After the talk, new members were welcomed and had a chance to introduce themselves and then everyone got down to the serious business of coffee and cookies and enjoyable conversation.

Annette Wolfstein-Joseph and Tania Shamy

Shirley Cohen busy with tickets for the Holiday Luncheon

Carol Donoghue at the Reception desk

Photos: Judith Pickard


More photos (of Dr. Shamy's slides) from Jackie Wloski:

Meet-and-Greet for the New Members

Yesterday was Members' Day for WASM and a chance to be introduced to this year's new members and for them to get to know old members. After Tania Shamy's fascinating art historical talk on Porcelain and Diplomacy (that will be another blog post), new members came forward to tell something about themselves, President Leslie Cohen presented each new member with a gift bag from David's Teas, and then all enjoyed coffee and irresitible sweets prepared by Hospitality Chair Shirley Cohen. Always an enjoyable event!

(You can see the photo below in a larger version by clicking on it.)

President Leslie Cohen

 

Shirley Cohen, on the right, preparing the table

 

Photos - Judith Pickard

Members' Day: Tex Dawson

The Members' Day lecture and meet-and-greet was on October 18th, apologies for posting this with some delay. Here are Jackie Wloski's wonderful photographs and notes from the occasion:

Tex amused us all not only with his artworks but with his amusing stories of his travels and experiences. He spent about 20 minutes explaining his technique and who he did these drawings for (himself while on his travels, and for the Gazette when he was employed to do drawings of buildings etc.). He started out professionally as an architect, hence the great interest in buildings.

The largest part of the meeting was handing around a huge quantity of his drawings on paper and answering questions, so we all got a close look at his works.

The last part of the meeting was reserved for new members, who stood up and talked briefly about themselves, and then we all enjoyed coffee with delicious baked goodies by Shirley Cohen.