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President's Message
December,
2004
Greetings All,
I hope you all are having a happy, hectic, holiday season! I know I am. I'm taking a quick break from marinating the leg of lamb. Turkey giblets are simmering on the stove, filling the house with the smell of clove and allspice and turkey. They go into the stuffing tomorrow. Our tree is decorated with my naughty ornaments, angels and critters, naked and looking like Pam Anderson. I am trying to clear my desk and the top of my file cabinets (a job for a dedicated archeologist), I'm finding things that i thought were long gone. My wife is working endless hours in her Benetton store with the help of a ditsy college student. My son has to sing in the Christmas pageant at church tonight. Tomorrow we have the whole crew in, family and a couple of strays, we party, and try to make sure that my mother-in-law doesn't throw the silverware away in her half-baked attempt to "help out". We wash dishes 'til 2am and then we collapse.
If this sounds like your holiday then you're doing it right. If your holiday is totally different then you are also doing it right. Either way, I hope you are happy and well.
The
Guild has had a Ways and
Means meeting and an Excom
meeting since our Annual
Meeting.
Committees
have been formed to deal
with issues brought up in
Vegas and hopefully we can
move ahead quickly with burning
issues, and deliberate on
issues less pressing but
no less important. The '02,
'03 Audit is complete and
delivered, and we look healthy.
The Guild News is in production
and will be out soon. Chapter
moneys will be coming soon.
I have contacted a couple of other graphic art organizations and we have agreed to talk and look for ways to attack common problems in the coming year.
If you're interested, go to this link: http://nwrain.net/~monlux/jp.html and you will find the art from my Christmas card, jpeg #1 is my son's work (thankfully he is not interested in making art, and jpeg#2 is my painting. Celebrate now, we have work to do in the new year.
J
P Schmelzer
Guild
Artist Guild President
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