I am sorry that Ruth was deterred by the paper work involved in the current convention because I would like to meet her. But now, I am even more eager to see how this convention turns out. As workshop chairman of a local group for many years I had ample opportunity to observe how a gifted and talented teacher could give a class that was a total disaster by the simple expedient of refusing to provide a detailed class description or timely materials list. The presence in the class of people who wouldn't have taken the class if they had known what it really was and the experience of fighting the wrong materials invariably resulted in calls to string up the workshop organizer, myself. In my time, I have run down the hall of the national convention pleading with a teacher to give me a materials list for a class due to start 2 days after the convention, only to be treated as an annoying pest. I have actually settled myself in a chair in a teacher's home and refused to leave until she produced a class description. I have had all the materials for an entire class fed exed to myself when the materials list was given out 3 days in advance of a class and required a very unusual thread carried by only one dealer and she on the west coast. There wasn't time to call everyone in the class to tell them the materials, let alone have them each order them. Perhaps the requirements to produce so much paper were designed to weed out those people who will not produce paper! Part of this dialogue, unfortunately, is that the teachers aren't paid enough to make them care whether they are not asked to teach and the students don't want to pay more when they calculate that half the classes they take are a complete waste of time and money to to some avoidable oversight. Devon
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