Our Annual General Meeting will take place at the Textile Museum of Canada. The agenda includes reports by the President and the Treasurer, to be followed by the election of Board members for the coming year. WMSC Board Pat Govaerts is not returning to the Board in 2010-2011. We thank Pat for her help and service while a member of the Board.

Standing for election for the 2010-2011 term are Marilyn Stix, Karen Stanley, Susan Pekilis, Elaine Parks, Dale Moore, David Latham, Jean Johnson, Doug Brown and Richard Bishop. Anyone else interested in running for the board should contact Dale Moore, WMSC Secretary at moorecat@sympatico.ca or 416 233 7686 by 14 September 2010.We are always eager to welcome new members to our Board and benefit from their interesting ideas, abilities, and experiences. New members have a lot to contribute. If you can consider joining this dynamic and enthusiastic group, please chat about it with either Susan Pekilis 416-406-3091 or Richard Bishop 416-967-0529

A Lecture by Trevor Lloyd
following the AGM

William Morris devoted six years to advancing the cause of socialism and one result was News From Nowhere(1890-2), a wonderfully attractive depiction of the way London and the Thames Valley might be under a decentralized and deindustrialized type of socialism. Other English writers of the day used the portrayal of imaginary societies to satirize their own society or to play with ideas, but Morris used utopian writing to press forward ideas to which he was deeply committed and which he hoped might become ‘a vision rather than a dream.’ 

One would have to be hard-hearted indeed not to respond to the appeal of Morris’s writing but it must be added that News from Nowhere also serves as a testing ground for readers’ (or listeners’) response to some problems of the present day. Trevor Lloyd, a long-standing member of the William Morris Society, has retired from teaching at the University of Toronto. He had written several articles about Morris and his political involvement. He has cast his interests further afield: he is about to leave for a few weeks in Australia where he will ‘compare and contrast’ a Welsh and a Scottish cattle-thief from earlier centuries.

How to get there:

Textile Museum of Canada

55 Centre Avenue, Toronto