May 2014 - LGMS: Lubbock Gem and Mineral Society

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MAY
2014
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Number
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THE OFFICAL BULLETIN FOR THE LUBBOCK GEM & MINERAL SOCIETY
MONTHLY MEETINGS:
General Meeting:
Business Meeting:
Tuesday - May 6, 2014
7:00 pm
Tuesday - May 13, 2014
eat 6:00 pm - meet 7:00 pm
@ Forrest Heights United Methodist Church
3007 33rd St.
Lubbock, Texas
***** @ Red Zone Café *****
3602 Slide Rd. Unit B1
Lubbock, Texas
Everyone is welcome at either meeting
Lapidary Arts Forum
JALAF
May
'April Showers Bring May Flowers' Flowers in the form of a spray of crystals,
dendrites, plume and flower garden agates,
carvings…..
June
Begins with 'J' (jade, jadeite, jasper, jet...)
2014
Shows Coming Up
2014
MAY 2014
11-13….Tulsa Rock & Mineral Society, American
Federation Mineralogical Society, Rocky Mountain
Federation of Mineralogical Society, Tulsa OK.
Tulsa Fairgrounds, Central Park Hall; 4800 E. 15th St.
S; Fri. 9-6, Sat. 9-6, Sun. 10-5; adults $6 (3-day pass
$10), Scouts, firemen and police in uniform free,
children (under 12) free; “Rocks and Gems of the Indian
Territory”: rocks, fossils, minerals, gems;
Contact Info: Finis Riggs, (918) 486-3788;
E-mail:
[email protected]
Web site: www.ttownrockhound.org
OCTOBER 2014….4-5 - Roswell, N.M.
NOVEMBER 2014….Midland, TX.
For more information on these shows and more go to:
www.rockngem.com
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Categories: cab, faceted, jewelry and specimen.
Feathers will be awarded for each category by 2
methods:
1. People’s Choice - This will be decided on by a vote
of the general membership & will reflect which
entries are the favorites for each category.
2. Master’s Choice - This will be determined by a
master chosen for his or her knowledge of material
& lapidary. It will reflect not only workmanship,
but also quality of the finished pieces. The master
is not allowed to enter the competition for the
month he or she is master.
Happy Birthday:
10…………………………….Dialith Urista-Goss
30…………………………………….Janet Devine
Happy Anniversary:
5……………………...….Charles & Susan Meier
9…………………….……….….Jim & Pat Harris
16……………………..Walter & Mondae Beneze
31………………………..…….Loy & Jackie Kern
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A WORD FROM OUR PRESIDENT:
Teresa Burns
Wow, another show has come and gone!
I want to thank all of the club members who worked so hard to make this such a smooth running
show. Different people, than usual, handled different duties and many members took it upon
themselves to pick up the loose ends without them having to be pointed out.
Those strong brave men who endured the dirt blasts to unload at the MEW on Sunday deserve extra
thanks. Our displays showed creativity and thought and I was so happy to see new displays from both
old and new members!
All of our new and old vendors reported, to everyone who asked, that they had a great Saturday and
an average to great Sunday. We also had great participation and representation at the Rolling Rock
Club Meeting.
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!
Teresa Burns, President of a Fantastic Club
MINUTES OF OUR MEETING
Lubbock Gem & Mineral Society
Forrest Heights United Methodist Church
3007 33rd Street, Lubbock, Texas
April 1, 2014
Meeting called to order at 7:00 pm. by President
Teresa Burns. Bobbie Horn motioned to accept
the meeting minutes and it was 2nd by Sharon
Scott.
Rhonda Taylor 2nd it to spend $xxxx on them.
Teresa Burns read the new By-Law changes to
be approved.
Proposal 1….Motion made by Sharon Scott and
2nd by Dave Swartz.
Proposal 2….Motion made by Bobbie Horn and
2nd by Archie Scott to accept.
Proposal 3….Motion made by Dave Swartz and
2nd by Charlie Cockrell to accept.
The motion was made by Scott Baxley and 2nd
by Walter Beneze to replace Bob Gingery with
William Broun on the Board of Directors.
New Business: Teresa Burns shared with the club
about the items that Ed Reis gave to her from his
personal collection for the arts festival, silent
auction and the kids spinning wheel.
We discussed the cases being put up at the
Mahon and Grove Libraries. They need to be put
in and possibly stay thru our show or even to the
end of the month.
Abilene show….5 cases and displays will be taken
down by Bruce Cammack and picked up by Leland
and Rhonda Taylor.
Danny’s Fins & Hens will be catering our set-up
dinner again this year. We will feed the dealers
and the visiting club members who come to set up
cases.
Greg Green was our visitor tonight. There were
28 members present and 9 guests tonight.
The sign-up sheets were set out for us to sign
up to work the Silent Auction, Ticket Table and
the Kids Spinning Wheel.
Advertising is all in place. Sharon will do the
Noon Notebook again this year on Friday, the day
we set up for the show. Thrifty Nickel and The
Gazette have advertising for our show. We also
still have a few yard signs left. Many are missing.
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Plaques for the 3 winning show cases need to be
made. Charlie Cockrell made the motion and
BREAK……..7:37 to 7:52 pm.
Rock Raffle….Bobbie Horn said we made $xxxx
off of the tickets. Winners were - Gwynyth Pass,
Susan Meier, Sam Wall-twice, Maria Wilson,
Charlie Meier.
JALAF results are….
Cab…Loy Kern - master & popular
Faceted...Jewelry...
Specimen…Andy Broun - master & popular
Fossils...Ivan Imel - master & popular
Bruce Cammack - master & popular - ?
Dave Swartz won master & popular with a clear
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amethyst, not sure which category, and Pat
Anderson was in the beginner's category.
Show talk…for the Rollin’ Rock Club, Bobbie
Horn will supply the donuts and orange juice for
the meeting.
For our program tonight Archie Scott and
Bobbie Horn demonstrated how to set up our show
cases. If you are helping load show cases meet at
the MEW at 9:00 Friday morning on the 25th.
To help cover tables be at the Civic Center at
9:00 am.
The door prizes were won by Walter Beneze,
Greg Green, Pat Anderson and Bobbie Horn.
Guests were Jim Harris and Greg Green.
The meeting was adjourned at 8:32 pm by Teresa
Burns.
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SCOTT’S JALAF CHALLENGE
Scotty challenges people to come up with
creative and thoughtful pieces to show off to the
club. If you have never entered before,
'JUST DO IT'.
June - Begins with 'J' (jade, jadeite, jasper, jet...)
July - Hidden Treasures - Geodes and Druzy…
August - Ice Cream Social
September - 'Back to School Blues' (please, no
turquoise this time around)
October - "I'm Petrified" - Wood
November - 'Turkeys' - The work must be good, but
the finished product turned out ugly! The ugliest
finished piece in each category wins the feather.
December - Christmas Dinner, no JALAF
~Secretary - Sabrina Marett
LGMS BUSINESS/BOARD MEETING
Red Zone Café
3602 Slide Road Unit B1
Lubbock, TX. 79414
April 8, 2014
Meeting….called to order by President Teresa
Burns at 7:00 pm.
Officers Reports….nothing new.
Show Report….18 dealers for our annual show.
To help set-up for the show be at the Civic Center
by 9:00 am on Friday the 25th to set up tables and
cover them.
A motion was made by Sharon Scott and 2nd by
Sabrina Marett, that Greg Roberts could spend
$xxxx on sandwich fixings and things to help feed
the vendors for both Saturday and Sunday.
Danny’s Hens & Fens is costing $xxxx a plate for
the club members. We will just charge $10.00 a
person. Dealers and guest clubs that are showing
cases at our club can eat for free.
Sharon Scott and Teresa Burns will meet at 11:00
am at the Civic Center Thursday the 10th to set
up for the Arts Festival.
We discussed about adding a coupon for the show
to our web-site, it is getting about 250 hits a
month.
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Board Minutes continued…….
Discussed about family membership dues for next
year, a few will be looking into this.
Gwen Housour will still be making our club vests.
Emerson Tucker will get name tags.
New Business….the oil in the big and little saw
has been changed. Archie Scott would like the old
oil. The small saw has a hole in the oil pan. Need
more transformer oil for the saws at the MEW.
Emerson Tucker will check about getting some.
The Petroleum Museum in Midland, TX has a
specimen exhibit with about 105 specimens.
Meeting was adjourned at 8:07 pm.
~Sabrina Marett, LGMS Secretary
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RAY’S WORDS………....
BOBBIE’S CORNER
Ray Tyler LUBBOCK-Ray Tyler was born in
1925 in Winters, Texas, to Willie Mae Stracener
Tyler and D. A. Tyler. He grew up in Rogers,
where he was the high school football team's
quarterback. He was a 16-year old junior in high
school when Pearl Harbor was bombed, but his
mom told him he couldn't enlist until after he
graduated. He enlisted in July 1943, where he was
assigned to radio and gunnery school and then was
sent to Hawai'i, where he served in the Pacific on
the USS Wasp, Torpedo Squadron 86, flying in the
Grumman TBM plane as a radioman. Honorably
discharged in 1946, he was a proud veteran who
never went anywhere without one of his World
War II caps on. At 21, after the war, he came to
the Levelland area, where he worked briefly in an
oil refinery, farmed for seven years during the
1950s droughts, sold sewing machines, drove a
taxi, then returned to the refinery, retiring from
Amoco in 1984 after 28 years.
He loved his family and spent many hours going
to school and church programs, dance
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recitals, and basketball games. He had many
other interests in his life, but his favorite was
being a rockhound. He joined the Lubbock Gem
and Mineral Society in 1966 and served in every
position numerous times. He always had rocks in
his pockets which he handed out to everyone he
met. He was also active for many years in the
Lubbock Area Square and Round Dance
Federation, volunteered with and served as
president of the UMC Auxiliary for years as the
popcorn man, and loved oil painting, camping,
playing the guitar, and trying to teach himself to
play the fiddle with limited success.
While recovering from cardiac surgery in 1998,
he decided to try his hand at writing stories and
poetry, recounting memories of his life which will
be cherished by his family. He is survived by his
daughters, Dellinda Ebeling and husband Bobby,
and Cheryl Tyler; his grandchildren, Alayna
Ebeling Abbe and husband Aaron, Ashley Ebeling,
Lauren Tyler-Smith, Callene Jung Tyler, and
Elijah Jung Tyler; his three triplet
great-granddaughters, Alexa, Aubrey, and
Addison Abbe; his sister, Ruth Nelson; nieces,
nephews, and in his words, a ton of friends. He
never met a stranger and never failed to see
someone he knew wherever he went. He was much
loved and will be greatly missed.
Ray Tyler
September 23, 1925 - April 12, 2014
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EARTH’S OLDEST, BIGGEST IMPACT CRATER
YEILDS NEW SECRETS
Geologists say they've discovered rocks long
thought vanished, the youngest remains of the
oldest and biggest impact crater on Earth.
In the abraded heart of South Africa's Vredefort
impact crater lurk striking green-black rocks,
some of the only remnants of a magma sea that
once filled the gaping crater, according to a study
to be published this May in the journal Geology.
Until now, geologists thought nearly all of these
"impact melt" rocks were lost to time. Some 6
miles (10 kilometers) of Vredefort crater has worn
away since it was whacked open 2.02 billion years
ago.
"It's like discovering a new rock type in the
Grand Canyon," said study co-author Desmond
Moser, a geochronologist at Western University in
Ontario, Canada. "Vredefort has been walked over
for 100 years."
A separate study in the same issue of Geology
reports the best evidence yet for possible Vredefort
impact ejecta. The vaporized beads of rock were
blasted into the atmosphere and rained down
1,550 miles (2,500 km) away, on a proto-continent
that became northwest Russia and Scandinavia,
the researchers said. [Crash! 10 Biggest Impact
Craters on Earth]
"I think this is a definite step forward in trying
to understand the top of the Vredefort structure,"
said Matthew Huber, lead author of the second
study and a planetary geologist at the University
of Brussels in Belgium.
OFF WITH ITS HEAD
The ancient Vredefort impact structure was
once a much bigger crater, about 185 miles (300
km) across, scientists estimate. The asteroid or
meteor that hit proto-Africa was 6 miles (10 km)
wide and excavated a hole 10 times deeper than
the Grand Canyon, Moser said. The impact's
tremendous heat melted the Earth's crust,
creating a magma lake. Moser and his co-author
Lisa Cupelli have also explored the remains of a
similar molten sea at Ontario's Sudbury crater,
which is just slightly smaller and younger than
Vredefort. At Vredefort, little of this impact melt
lake remains. There are messy impact-related
breccias, formed as slices of crust slumped
into the crater just after impact. The slices
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slid so fast that the resulting friction melted rock
into glass called pseudotachylite. There are also
lava-filled fractures called dikes, stuffed with a
rock known as granophyre, forged from fingers of
the impact melt that penetrated the local rock.
But Moser made a lucky find in the 1990s in the
center of the crater. He was trying to pin down
Vredefort's age when he accidently discovered
pristine, 2.02-billion-year-old zircons - tiny
minerals with no signs of violent shocks. The
zircons were stuck in rare, magma-filled dikes.
The dikes burrow through ancient crust once
buried 12 miles (20 km) deep in the Earth. Moser
thinks partially cooled magma leaked into crustal
rocks that oozed in like toothpaste to plug the
crater, creating the layered foliation. (The crust
rose up like a dome - picture the slow-motion
videos of a raindrop hitting a bowl of water.)
A RARE FIND
Moser published his discovery in Geology in
1997, and immediately sparked a battle over
whether the dikes, filled with a rock called
gabbronorite, were truly remains of Vredefort's
impact melt. That battle continues today. Some
researchers objected because the magma had an
unusual layered appearance called foliation,
common in altered rocks. Perhaps it was simply
another pseudotachylite, or part of the Earth's
original crust, the critics said. Others suggested
the young zircons could have crystallized in
pre-existing rocks from the impact's heat. So
Moser and Cupelli recently returned to South
Africa and searched for definitive evidence that
the magma dikes were as young as the crater
itself.
"I wanted to put away all the doubts that this
was impact-related," Cupelli said. Now Cupelli,
who led the new study, thinks the team can prove
the magmas were born in Vredefort's impact melt.
The zircons are randomly distributed and
interlaced with their surrounding minerals - they
couldn't have grown from the heat of impact later
than their neighbors, she said. The zircons also
crystallized between 1,337 to 1,702 degrees
Fahrenheit (725 to 928 degrees Celsius), hotter
than normal on Earth, but the same temperature
as in Sudbury's impact melt.
Finally, levels of the element hafnium suggest
that the magma melted from the 3-billion-year-old
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rocks originally overlying the crater (the same
sedimentary and volcanic rocks in nearby
Witwatersrand Basin), not from the very deep
crust now exposed by 2 billion years of erosion.
RACE FOR NEW ROCKS
The new study has already kicked off a search
for Moser's rocks by other Vredefort researchers,
who hope to confirm or deny the results.
"I think the final solution to this dilemma is still
out there," said Uwe Reimold, a professor at
Humboldt University in Berlin and director of the
Museum für Naturkunde. Reimold is firmly in the
anti-impact-melt camp, though he praised the
study's zircon chemical techniques. "I still think
this is consistent with an interpretation as a
pseudotachylytic breccia," Reimold said. "I have
not changed my mind."
But Moser thinks the unusual appearance of
Vredefort's impact melt could also help
researchers search for older impact craters, which
have been confirmed only through discovery of
impact ejecta. Impact beds go back to 3.5 billion
years, but confirmed craters end with Vredefort.
Yet there are very old rocks with similar
compositions and textures, such as the distinctive
layering of Vredefort's impact melt, scattered
across the Earth, the researchers said.
"What Vredefort teaches us is that we haven't
been looking with the right set of eyes at some of
these ancient rocks," Moser said.
LOOKING RIGHT ROUND
The right set of eyes was key in finding
Vredefort's impact ejecta in Karelia, Russia. The
vaporized rock had originally been identified as
ooids, which are tiny spheres of calcium carbonate
that usually form in shallow tropical seas, such as
the Bahama Banks.
But Huber noticed a resemblance to round
impact glass (called spherules) and asked for
permission to examine the rock samples: two drill
cores acquired during the Fennoscandian Arctic
Russia–Drilling Early Earth Project (FARDEEP).
"We quickly found evidence that these were
impact spherules," Huber said. "We started
finding some dumbbells, and some that were
completely pulled apart into a teardrop shape,
which is completely impossible for ooids."
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The impact glass is completely replaced by
minerals such as calcite and pyrite, but rare,
space-linked elements such as platinum and
ruthenium remain. The glass is scattered in rock
whose age ranges from 2.05 billion to 1.98 billion
years. That span means there's a chance a
different impact could have blasted the spherules
into the sky, but they do match the expected
characteristics of a Vredefort-like event, Huber
said.
"We're hoping to do more geochemistry on these
particular rocks to try and nail down even further
what the source would have been," Huber said.
Future plans include trying to figure out what
kind of space hunk smashed into Earth, and
comparing the spherules to Vredefort's unique
mineralogy.
"I hope this inspires people to look more
carefully at their rocks," he said. "It's really
important to look for these fine details to better
understand the cratering history of the Earth."
~Email Becky Oskin or follow her @beckyoskin.
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Original article at Live Science's Our Amazing Planet.
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BENCH TIPS by Brad Smith
REVOLVING SOLDER PAD
Often when we're soldering we have multiple
pieces on the pad or a single piece and would like
to work on several sides of it during the
same heat.
One of the ways to deal with this is to put your
solder pad onto a turntable. That way you can
rotate each piece into position when you need to or
can rotate the pad to reach another side of a larger
piece.
All you need to make one of these is a piece of
aluminum sheet and an inexpensive turn table
assembly. A good hardware store will have both,
although you can usually find the aluminum in
the scrap pile of a local sheet metal shop.
In building a turntable for my 6 inch solder pad,
I used a seven inch square piece of aluminum and
cut out 1/2 inch notches from each corner. Then I
used a bench vice to bend the sides along the
dotted lines to form a tray that cradles the solder
pad. I attached the tray to the turntable assembly
with a couple small machine screws and nuts.
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QUENCHING
Some jewelers drop the hot piece from soldering
directly into the pickle. Do you hear that little
hiss? The hot piece sends small droplets of acid
into the air. This can rust nearby tools and can't
be all that good to breathe either. To avoid this I
quench in water.
A coffee cup of water at the solder station lets
me cool a soldered piece before dumping it into the
pickle. It's also useful for annealing metals and for
cooling off tweezers.
More Bench Tips by Brad Smith
are at facebook.com/BenchTips/ or see
"Bench Tips for Jewelry Making" on Amazon
AMETHYST
Amethyst, the gemstone believed by ancient
Greeks and Romans to ward off the intoxicating
powers of Bucchus, also is said to keep the wearer
clear-headed and quick-witted. Throughout
history, the gemstone has been associated with
many myths, legends, religions, and numerous
cultures. English regalia were even decorated
with amethysts during the Middle Ages to
symbolize royalty. Amethyst is purple quartz, a
beautiful blend of violet and red that can be found
in every corner of the earth. Historically, the
finest amethyst were found in Russia and were
featured in much royal European jewelry. Today,
while Brazil is the primary source of this gemstone, fine material can be found elsewhere,
especially in Zambia.
~Get all 101 of Brad's bench tips in
"Bench Tips for Jewelry Making" on Amazon
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Amethyst…..Aids in the reduction of insomnia,
arthritis, pain relief, and circulatory issues.
Amethyst is considered the gemstone of
meditation, peace, balance, courage, and inner
strength.
~from The Slate, 2/2014
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Tulsa Rock & Mineral Society Presents
APRIL - WHAT A MONTH
“ROCK AND GEMS OF THE INDIAN TERRIORTY”
April is one of our busiest months. We have
displays to put in one or two libraries. We were a
few short this year, but some good ones were
there. We had all the stuff to get ready for the
show, plus the Arts Festival. We have had jobs
for the show change hands this year, so it seemed
we were all learning something new. The tickets
and flyers were redesigned and looked great, but
will have to redo a few little things to make them
better for next year.
In with all this busy, craziness we lost an
amazing Life-Time member : Ray Tyler. To me, he
made the club worth coming to each month. He
was fun, witty, loved a good debate. He always
had my back, he loved kids and he wanted to make
sure everyone had a rock. He will be greatly
missed.
Our show was a great success. Saturday was a
busy day and every place had plenty of help.
Everyone was in a great mood, and it seemed on
my part that everything went smoothly.
When I finally finish this very late newsletter
for our wonderful club members my April will be
done. With playing catch up at work I forgot about
this until the last minute. Yes, I have done that
more than I should this year. Anyway time to
begin thinking about next years new showcases,
and ugly bolo for Leland, (trust me, he needs help
even on an ugly bolo, hahaha, I love him so much!)
Remember in October we will be carrying
displays and/or cases to Roswell, Midland and
Amarillo, so get one ready.
~Rhonda Taylor
2014 AFMS/RMFMS CONVENTION & SHOW
Central Park Hall - July 11-13, 2014
Tulsa Expo Square – 21st & Yale
National Dealers * Competitive & Special Exhibits
* Door Prizes * Silent Auction Spin Wheel & Grab
Bags * Speakers * Demonstrations *
*Kids Activities* Field Trips*
ROCKS * JEWELRY * GEMS * FOSSILS *
CRYSTALS
Hours: Friday & Saturday 9 – 6 * Sunday 10 – 5
Admission: $6.00 1 day pass * $ 10.00 2 or 3 day pass
per Adult
Children 12 and under Free *
Police & Fire in Uniform Free
Military * Boy and Girl Scouts in Uniform Free
Special Speakers:
Mike Everhart – Author of Oceans of Kansas
Marv Damon – Tri State Minerals
Steve Arnold – Meteorite Man
Bob Jones – Chief Editor of Rock and Gem
Stan Krukowski – Oklahoma Geological Survey
Finis Riggs [email protected]
Ben Thomas 918-486-3788
[email protected]
American Federation Website: amfed.org
Tulsa Rock and Mineral Society
Website: ttownrockhound.org
Rocky Mountain Federation Website: rmfms.org
Speakers Schedule for the Tulsa Rock and
Mineral show July 2014
“ROCKS AND GEMS OF THE
INDIAN TERRITORY”
Mike Everhart……..Oceans of Kansas
Steve Arnold…..…...Meteorite Man
Stan Krukowski…...Industrial Minerals of OK.
Marv Dahman….….Mining in the Tri-State Area
Bob Jones…………..Editor Rock & Gem Magazine
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Beneze
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Phyllis
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Charles &
Susan Meier
Dialith
Urista-Goss
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Janet
Devine
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Loy & Jackie
Kern
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Rhonda
Taylor
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Emerson
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Tucker
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Julie Chisum
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Sam Wall
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Kathryn
Hamilton
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Molly Broun
Birthday’s
Meetings
Anniversaries
Gem Shows
Laird Fowler
Gwen
Housour
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Sundown, TX. 79372
Email - [email protected]
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THE ROCKYTIER is the official Bulletin of the Lubbock Gem and Mineral Society, Box 6371, Lubbock, TX. 79493.
Meetings are held the first Tuesday of each month @ Forrest Heights United Methodist Church - 3007 33rd St. Lubbock, TX.
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The purpose of the Lubbock Gem and Mineral Society shall be:
(1) to bring about a closer association of those persons interested in the Earth Sciences and Lapidary Arts;
(2) to increase and disseminated knowledge about rocks, minerals, fossils and other geological materials;
(3) to encourage the study of rocks, minerals, fossils, artifacts, collecting and lapidary work and
(4) to conduct meetings, lectures, displays and field trips.
APPOINTED VOTING BOARD MEMBER POSITIONS
Editor……………………………………...…….…..Rhonda Taylor
Education Chairperson………….………...………...Scott Baxley
Show Chairperson…………………………...…..…...Archie Scott
Field Trip Chairperson……………..………............Teresa Burns
(806) 891-5200
(806) 786-7556
(806) 894-1584
(806) 773-8265
NON-VOTING APPOINTED POSITIONS
Greeter………………………………………….……Teresa Burns
Benevolence……………………..……….………….Sharon Scott
Web Master…….…………..……………………...Walter Beneze
Club Vests……………….……………...………....Gwen Housour
Photographer/Historian………………………………….Ray Tyler
(806) 773-8265
(806) 894-1584
(806) 797-5832
(806) 744-8579
(806) 781-9716
www.lubbockgemandmineral.org
(806) 773-8265
(806) 786-9362
(806) 785-4455
(806) 891-8037
(806) 745-4888
(806) 317-2015
(806) 771-0753
(806) 894-1584
(806) 781-9716
web-site
Lubbock Gem & Mineral Society’s
web-site
www.lubbockgemandmineral.org
President………………………………….………….Teresa Burns
Past President…………………………….…….……Bobbie Horn
VP and Program ………………………….….…Charles Cockrell
Secretary………………………………….………..Sabrina Marett
Treasurer…………………...…...………..………….......Jann Hon
Director (second year)………………………..……William Broun
Director (second year)…………...…….….………..Greg Roberts
Director (first year)……..…………….……………....Archie Scott
Director (first year)……………………………...…Walter Beneze
Lubbock Gem & Mineral Society’s
ELECTED OFFICERS & DIRECTORS WHO ARE VOTING MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS