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Pat Roxborough Almost two years ago in 2001, Cecil Archibald Baugh called the Edna Manley Art School inKingston Jamaica. And years from now, if the story is told properly, that call will be remembered as one of the most important that the 92 year-old internationally- acclaimed master potter made to the institution which he co-founded in the 1950's. For Baugh will make arrangements to handover his prized book collection which includes the works of Bernard Howell Leach, the British ceramist with whom he studied in 1948 while on a British Council Scholarship in the United Kingdom; Sojhi Hamada, the celebrated Japanese potter and George Wingfield Digby. “I can think of no other reliable place with which to leave these books,” he told Sunday last week. There are lots of others of course- Baugh went worldwide in his quest for excellence - however Leach, Hamada and Digby (all deceased) stand out in the potter’s memory, which when teased delivers a number of historic gems worthy of celebration. Point an enquiring finger at a photograph of Baugh standing erect in a fabulous blue business suit - the only black among a group of equally distinguished-looking men.
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