PRESIDENT’S CORNER

Hello everyone! I hope you’re having an great summer and managing to stay cool! Although there’s no CAS Collectors Convention this year, we sincerely hope you’re planning to attend our Informal Dinner on Saturday evening, August 24th. The time: 6:30 pm. The place: Kavanaugh’s Esquire Club, in Madison. You’ll find complete details on the dinner elsewhere in this newsletter (although reliable rumor has it that there’ll be a terrific Door Prize!) We’ll also be holding our brief annual Membership Meeting following dinner, and Minutes of that meeting will be included in our Holiday newsletter.

Of course, during the day on the 24th you’ll want to attend the popular Wisconsin Pottery Association Show & Sale. The WPA Show will run from 9 am – 3 pm at the Alliant Energy Center, and all the info on that event is also included in this issue.  Don (Johnson) and I will again be staffing our CAS Collectors table, so please stop by and say “hi!”  The WPA Show is always a lot of fun, and chances are good that you’ll find some great ceramic and pottery treasures (including plenty of CAS)!

By the way, this is the time of year when many memberships are up for renewal, so be sure and check your newsletter envelope. If it’s getting near time (or past time) for you to renew your membership, you’ll find a “Please Renew” sticker. All you need to do is to send in the enclosed renewal form with payment at your earliest opportunity. That way, we can continue to send you our quarterly newsletters, and keep you informed of all club activities. And remember: a family membership is only $35 – the best deal around! Without a Convention and its related auction proceeds, we depend on membership renewals to keep your club humming along! (Additionally, donations from members are always welcome. Thanks in advance for your consideration!)

And as always when Madison-time rolls around, it’s my pleasure to extend deepest thanks to all our Board members (Anita Guzik-Miller, Donald-Brian Johnson, Mary Lamm-Feltman, Bunny Lenburg and Lisa Louis), for all that they do! Bunny is our club’s Vice-President, Lisa is the Treasurer, Don is the Secretary and CAS Quarterly Editor, Mary is the CAS Quarterly Publisher, and Anita handles Special Projects, such as our beautiful Door Prizes. We are lucky to have such a dedicated crew of volunteers! (As you’ve probably figured out, I’m the CAS Collectors President, and also serve as Webmaster for our online sites.)

That’s it for now! I know you’re going to enjoy our Summer issue of CAS Collectors Quarterly! And, if you are coming to Kavanaugh’s for the dinner (here’s hoping!), I look forward to seeing you! Meanwhile, try to stay cool and dodge those tornadoes! (Unless you’re like those folks in the new movie Twisters. They head right for ‘em!)

                       Hank Kuhlmann

                      President

 

P.S. If you’re planning on attending the Informal Dinner on the 24th but haven’t yet responded, I hope you’ll let me know right away!