HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1978-01-26, Page 6Times-Advocate, January 26, 1978
By ELAINE TOWNSHEND Odds 'n Ends
The committee system
If you belong to any kind
of an organization, you’re
bound to find yourself on a
committee sooner or later.
A committee is a group of
persons appointed for a
special function by a larger.
group of persons.
Belonging to a committee
means attending extra
meetings besides the
regular ones. It often entails
doing research, compiling
statistics or comparing
prices. Sometimes it in
eludes doing a specific chore
within a certain length of
time. In short, it means do
ing the leg-work for the
parent organization.
Trouble can brew within a
committee, especially if the
purpose of the group is to
submit several ideas for a
project or solutions to a
problem and then to choose
the best one. Reaching a un
animous decision is often
impossible when more than
one person is involved.
Blending the best ideas
into one possible solution is
likewise difficult.
As one committee
member quips. “A com
mittee was appointed to
design the horse. What did
they come up with? The
camel!”
A cloud that always hangs
over the heads of the com
mittee members is the
knowledge they must gain
the approval of the rest of
the organization, who gave
them the honour of serving
on the committee in the first
place.
Sometimes the only way
for a few members to es
cape the problems of the
committee is by naming a
sub-committee.
For all you seasoned com
mittee members as well as
you newly-appointed ones, I
am enclosing with
‘‘Murphy’s Immutable Com
mittee Laws.”
1.
Quilters display talents
at Women Together event
The ancient art of quilting
was delved into at the
January meeting of Women
Together at the Rec Centre,
Wednesday morning.
Mrs. Margaret Strang
gave a short, interesting talk
on the history of quilting
which goes back into an
tiquity and which reached its
highest point in England
during the 17th century.
Patterns were passed down
through families and
mothers taught the craft to
their daughters. In most
homes the quilting frames
were always up, she said.
Migration brought quilting
Enjoy visit
in Barbados
Rev. George and Mrs.
Anderson have returned to
Exeter after visiting their
son and daughter-in-law, the
Rev. Kenneth and Marylou
Anderson at their home in
Barbados in the Eastern
Caribbean.
Kenneth is a professor in
Codrington College, where
their is an enrolment of 35
students for the ministry of
the Anglican Church in the
West Indies, all of them
black, full of music and the
joy of life.
It was thrilling to see the
churches there filled with
enthusiastic worshippers on
Sundays, with beautifully
robed choir of 30 to 40 voices
singing in harmony and led
by a pipe organ.
Sugar cane is the main
crop on the Island: Coconuts,
bananas, yams, passion
fruit, grapefruit, oranges,
limes and lemons and many
other fruits and vegetables
are cultivated.
A new airport, an ex
tension of the present
Grantley Adams airport is
being built by the Canadian
Government to provide
much needed work for the
Barbadian men, as apart
from harvest time in the
sugar cane fields, jobs are
very scarce.
Tourism has developed
into a thriving industry
within the past few years.
Numerous hotels line the
west coast beaches on the hot
Caribbean seaside, where
sun bathers can lie under the
shade of palm trees, growing
on the sands almost to the
waters edge.
But, the most breath
taking scenery is on the
north and eastern parts, over
the rolling hills, overlooking
the broad Atlantic Ocean,
with huge waves breaking in
salty spray on the golden
sands.
There is always a
refreshing breeze coun
teracting the warmth of the
sun.
to North America where it
became even more im
portant in the cold climate to
have sufficient warm bed
ding. Every girl was ex
pected to have a baker’s
dozen of quilts before her
marriage; the 13th was not
made until she was
betrothed and it was always
especially beautiful.
Assisting Mrs. Strang with
the program were some of
this areas finest quilters.
Mrs. Edith Love, of Exeter,
who makes up her own
quilting patterns, displayed
several of her works of art
and shared many fine points
about the craft. She
specializes in quilting in
tricate patterns on plain
material which she does on a
large round hoop in place of
a quilting frame. Mrs. Love
also had on display Triple
Irish Chain and Colonial
Lady quilts.
Mrs. Edwin Miller had an
old fashioned Crazy Quilt
made up of odd shaped
patches and put together
with the feather stitch as
well as several crib quilts.
She also brought many ideas
that could be worked by the
inexperienced or ‘starter’
quilter.
Mrs. Ila Moir, whose
Centennial quilt was on
display, gave a short
demonstration in puff
quilting and also explained
how to make quilted pictures
out of drapery material.
An explanation of how to
set up different sizes of
quilting frames was given by
Mrs. Marian Dougall. She
also had a quilt on which she
had appliqued oranges and
blossoms with the sewing
machine.
The interest in quilting
was so high that several
women in the audience
signed up for a quilting class
which will commence
shortly. Anyone interested
should phone Mrs. Judy
Dalrymple, 235-1967.
Women Together meet the
third Wednesday of every
month; baby sitting is
provided and all women of
all ages are welcome.
Nothing is as easy as it
appeared at the meeting.
Everything takes longer
than you think.
3. If anything can go wrong,
it will.
Once a project is fouled
up, anything done to cor
rect it makes it worse.
Any unlikely event which
could create maximum
confusion - will occur.
Nothing is impossible for
the member who doesn’t
have to do it herself or
himself.
It always costs more than
the budget.
A light fee increase usual
ly winds up with a bill of
$100 or so, but a major
cost cutting reduction
means $5.
When you’re on time at
the end of a perfect agen
da, the meeting probably
isn’t over yet.
10. If you leave the meeting
before it adjourns, you’ll
eventually learn you’re
chairman of the sub
committee.
11. If two members are ap
pointed to help, they
probably live out of
town.
12. Whatever you want to do,
you’ll have to do
something else first.
13. If you explain something
so clearly that no one
could possible mis
understand, someone
will.
14. It’s easier to get into
somethingthan it is to get
out of it.
15. It’s a fundamental com
mittee law that nothing
ever quite works out.
16. Left to themselves thing
will go from bad to
worse.
17. If you try to please
everyone, somebody
isn’t going to like it.
18. If everything appears to
be going well, you’ve
overlooked something.
19. If you fool around with
anything long enough, it
will inevitably break.
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