Summit Scribes: January 2024

Friday, January 12, 2024

Meeting Minutes 9 Jan 24

Uncial- Kathy Sullivan

24 were present (4 guests)

Welcome & Announcements:

**We welcomed 4 guests to our meeting Leslie Boehm brought Emma Braithwalt the assistant manager of Paper Source, Karen Eiles brought Merle Dallison and Linda Johnson, and Debbie Earnshaw came on her ow after being away from the guild for many years.

**Candy will bring a ‘savings pouch’ each month f anyone would like to treat it like a Christmas Fund to save for our upcoming Retreat in Oct.

**Leslie presented several article reviews from 2 recent issues of Lettered Arts Review. One was on Stan Knight, and the other was on Maud Bekaert from Bruges. Leslie and 3 others had the chance to study in Bruges under Brody, and she had a carved letter ‘B’ from Maud to show us.

**The Winter Envelope Exchange is in full swing. Candy brought one she received with a sketch of Levi on the front!

**TJ sent around a permission slip of sorts asking for permission to send photos she takes at the meetings to Cyndi for her to post to Instagram.

**Let’s Letter Together is offering an on-line class by Susie Berringer.

**Larry and Marsha Brady’s deaths in December were announced. Cecelia asked if anyone had photos of them from our Conference in 2013. There will be a Memorial sometime in the future.

**Our annual dues of $30 are due in February. Please send your payments to Summit Scribes or thru Sherry by cash, check, and Venmo.

Show & Share:

**We went around the room and showed off the folders we made to hold all of our handouts each month. Candy had half sheets with the year’s presentations all typed up for us to keep track of our schedule.

**Tom has started another year of a quote a day shifting from Copperplate to Foundational. He plans to take 3 years to copy the whole book of Proverbs!

**TJ brought in doodling she did with the bleached letters/forms done in class in November.

**Jacqui brought watercolor envelopes.

**Cyndi was able to retrieve the Uncial piece she did for her mother and bring it in to show us her lovely work.

Evening Presentation:

**Kathy introduced us to Uncial with a brief history of how Uncial came into use, giving a good bit of credit to St. Patrick. She had a packet of examples, exemplars, and lines at each seat, along with a nice piece of Arches. She demonstrated each letter starting with the rounds, focusing on any tricky parts, including how to end our strokes by lifting the pen up and off to one side. I hope we all make an effort to work this hand into some practice work this month! (I failed to take pictures of everyone working in Uncial. Sorry! I was too caught up in my own practice of it!)