The Pocono Record from Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania • Page 26

The.Pocono Record, The Stroudsburgs, Pa. Aug. 15, 1968 Preparations made Everett Sturgeon, Pittsburgh, chairman of the annual Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen's Show which started Wednesday in the old gymnasium at East Stroudsburg State College and continues through Saturday, supervises some preparations. Left to right, are Nancy Ross, Vicki Mieznikowski Lois Jenkins and Merrily Bachrnan, all of the Pittsburgh Chapter. Craftsmen present annual fair Photo-feature by George Arnold and Rod MacLeod winner Frank Ross, Pittsburgh, admires his ceramic work which took first prize in the ceramics division and outstanding award in the exhibition.

The jury Fair jurors, left to right, Harold Helwig, assistant director of creative crafts center, Stole University of New York at Buffalo; Donald Wyckoff, executive vice president of American Craftsmen's Council, and Toshiko Takaezu, weaver and potter, Clinton, N.J., examine entries in the jewelry section. Ceramists Joanne Shutt, Henryville, left, and Dr. Eden Gray, Stroudsburg, center, examine knotted handings at the craftsmen's fair in the old gym at ESSC. H. W.

Goldstein, Stroudsburg Hangings silversmith looks on. The three are members of the Pocono Chapter of the Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen. Busy beavers A demonstration of forming a bowl from a flat sheet of metal is given by the Rev. and Mrs. Philip Jurus of Sfroudsburg.

During the fair, which runs through Saturday, demonstrations will be given in Raku glass blowing and fusing and bobbin lace. Hot time Lenore Davis and Dick Ludwig, designers at Design-Technics, Snydersville, and both Stroudsburg area residents, put glazed pots into a red hot kiln in the process of Raku firing, a ceramics technique developed hundreds of years ago by Japanese potters..