April 2015 - LGMS: Lubbock Gem and Mineral Society

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APRIL
2015
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THE OFFICAL BULLETIN FOR THE LUBBOCK GEM & MINERAL SOCIETY
MONTHLY MEETINGS:
General Meeting:
Business Meeting:
Tuesday - APRIL 7, 2015
7:00 pm
Tuesday - APRIL 14, 2015
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
2015
Shows Coming Up
2015
APRIL
11 - 12….ABILENE, TEXAS: Central Texas Gem
& Mineral Society, Abilene Civic Center; N. 6th
and Pine; adults $3, students (6-12) $1.50,
children (under 6) and Scouts in uniform free;
Contact: Kay H. McDaniel (325) 668-8558
E-mail: [email protected]
Web site: rockclub.txol.net
17 - 19….ALPINE, TEXAS: Chihuahuan Desert
Gem & Mineral Show, Alpine Civic Center
MAY
2 - 3……LUBBOCK, TEXAS: Lubbock Gem &
Mineral Show, Lubbock Civic Center, 1501 Mac
Davis Lane, Lubbock, TX.
Contact: Archie Scott (806) 894-1584
For more information on these shows and more go
to: www.rockngem.com
JALAF
April…..…….Pastel Colors
May………....Rocks from the USA only
June……...….Pet Rocks
July…………..Rocks NOT from the USA
August……...Ice Cream Social
Lapidary Arts Forum
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:
7….Don Pendley
8….Sabrina Krieger
12…Mike Lease
17….Mondae Beneze
23….Bobbie Horn
27….Bob Honn
Happy Anniversary:
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26th …….James & Janet Devine
26th ……..Tim & Diane McIntier
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A WORD FROM OUR PRESIDENT:
Walter Beneze
Greetings everyone!
Hope you had a great month and are preparing your displays for our annual show. The month of
April is a busy one and we need your help in several ways, please do all you can do to help your club
shine.
We need the display cases at the Mahon Library filled with samples of your work or collection – don’t
be shy, if you are fascinated by something you have collected, or proud of something you have made,
someone else will be too! This is a great way to get the attention of the public, some of which may decide
to come see what we are all about. Give Sharon Scott a call and let her know that you can help.
April features the Abilene and Alpine shows so plan a road trip if you have time. We will need
displays to take to Abilene as well, so put together an extra one for that and let Sharon know what you
have.
The Lubbock Arts Festival is on April 18th and 19th and we need volunteers to man our booth. We do
demonstrations on the Genie, answer questions about our hobby, and distribute flyers about our show. It
is really a fun time, so sign up for a shift when you can help, Saturday 10am - 7pm, Sunday 12pm - 5pm
Be sure to come to the meeting this month, we will be going over how to set up a show case for our show,
signing up for the many jobs that need attended to in order to run the show, pre-selling admission
tickets, handing out flyers for you to distribute, and we will have a couple of exciting announcements
about the website, LGMS merchandise, and new features at the show!
Hope to see you there,
~Walt Beneze, LGMS President 2015
MINUTES OF OUR MEETING
Lubbock Gem & Mineral Society
Forrest Heights United Methodist Church
3007 33rd Street, Lubbock, Texas
March 3, 2014
7:00 pm….Meeting called to order by Walter
Beneze, President.
The motion was made by Bobbie Horn and
seconded by ? to accept the minutes.
Michael Zink told us about t-shirts for the club
and for the show.
Guy Brown is working on a few projects for our
show.
Amber is helping Walter work on the website
for our club. She has some really great ideas.
BREAK TIME: 7:15 - 7:32 pm
Meeting resumed at 7:32 pm
Rock raffle winners: Tim McIntire, Seth
Roberts, Tommy Thompson, Zippy Deckard, and a
guest. Total for raffle - $xx.xx
JALAF: Charlie Cockrell - master & popular
Joseph Drake - popular & master.
Valerie Zinc won the door prize.
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David Swartz gave a lecture on topaz, which
comes in many different colors.
Charlie Cockrell brought a topaz display to
show the different colors, and pricing.
Meeting adjourned 8:15 pm by Walter Beneze.
~Sabrina Krieger, secretary
LGMS BUSINESS/BOARD MEETING
Red Zone Café
3602 Slide Road Unit B1
Lubbock, TX. 79414
March 10, 2014
Meeting called to order at 7:00 pm by Walter
Beneze, President.
The motion to accept the Board Minutes was
made by Greg Roberts and seconded by Sabrina
Krieger.
Old business was about getting the trailer fixed
and sold. It has been cold, so it hasn’t been
worked on yet.
Show reports: Advertising - Sharon Scott
finally got ahold of channel 11 about their
~ Board Minutes continued on page 3
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>>>Board Minutes continued from page 2 >>>>
Noon Notebook, and it is all full. Janine Deckard
is helping with advertising also, she had some
postcards made at Vista print.
It was suggested that we draw attention to the
kid friendly tables at the annual show. By
balloons, signs or even both. It will help the
parents with kids, and it should make the show
more enjoyable for all.
We talked about the Science Spectrum and
giving them tickets for the kids to get in free with
a parent for our show.
Guy Brown was talking about maybe having the
Lubbock Lankmark people do a flint knapping
show for one display at the show.
We talked about wrist bands for admission,
stamps, and presale tickets for the show.
We will have tickets for sale at the April
meetings.
We discussed advertising in our newsletter,
different items for the silent auction, like gift
cards.
If we get t-shirts we might have to pre-sale
them.
Field trips for the summer could be to Roswell,
N.M. for Pecos diamonds, and Artesia, N.M.
Archie Scott told about the up coming needs for
displays:
Abilene - 5 cases and displays
Arts Festival - Workers and 1 display of various
different items of our craft.
Mayhon library - 10 displays
Groves library - 2 displays
Went over the cost of the show:
Civic Center - $xxxxx,
Policeman - $xxxxx
Friday night dinner - $xxxxx
If we wanted more feet in the room for our show it
would cost about $xxxxx for 40 more feet.
We want to continue having sandwich fixings
for the members and dealers. May ask for
donations to help keep cost down.
Danny’s Fins & Hens will be catering our set up
meal again this year. Cost per meal is $xxxx a
plate.
Guy Brown brought some coffee mugs with our
logo on it, Rhonda Taylor made motion to sell for
$10.00, seconded by ?, passed.
8:10 pm meeting adjourned by Walter B.
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DUES ARE DUE
It’s that time again. Your yearly dues need to be
paid.
Paying your dues help the club by:
Besides all the previously mentioned things, our
dues help educate our youth. We have several
men and women who visit our schools in the area
and give rock demonstrations, talks about the
different kinds of rocks, where and how to find
them.
We also have scholarship funds for our college
age people. We pay insurance so we can get
together at different places and hunt, talk ….etc.
Anyway our dues are important and it helps us
with every day expenses.
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Adults
Students - 15 & up
Students - 6 to 15
Children under 6
$22.50
$10.00
$5.00
free
Thank you for being a member to our
wonderful club.
~Rhonda Taylor, editor
MEMBER NEWS
On March 30, 2015 our dear friend and fellow
club member Ivan Imel passed away. I could not
find any details at this time about his funeral.
He has been in the Lubbock AJ for his flint
knapping. He was at Roaring Springs, TX. for the
knapping group this year and last year. He
always had a rock or two for anyone, especially
the kids.
He was a very kind and gentle spirited man.
Very soft spoken.
I will surly miss him.
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~Sabrina Krieger, secretary
~Rhonda Taylor, editor
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BLOODSTONE
SAGE’S PAGE
AQUAMARINE
(a lovely soft aqua color) is a “Stone of
Determination and Protection”
Aquamarine helps with releasing old patterns
of behavior that no longer serve, and that actually
inhibit your growth. It can bring peace and calm
to the overactive mind. It allows you to look at
challenging situations from all perspectives. It
can help overcome the judgment of others and
encourage tolerance. It's very good for calming
fear and worry, helping your mind understand the
challenges and changes within your personal
world.
Physically, it helps to heal ailments of the
throat, including the thyroid and pituitary, and
can help with diseases of the liver. It can help
with allergies by calming your overactive immune
system, as well as balancing and healing other
autoimmune disorders.
AVENTURINE
Defuses negative situations and turns them
around. It is very useful in Feng Shui as it grids
against geopathic stress in your home, office, or
garden. It diffuses bad situations and turns them
around, reinforcing your thought and leadership
abilities, allowing you to see both sides of a
situation and then help find the answers. It calms
anger and irritation with others. It stimulates
emotional recovery and enables living within ones
own heart.
Physically, it relieves migraine headaches as an
anti inflammatory and heals skin eruptions and
allergy/sinus symptoms. It helps the nervous
system, the thymus gland, balances blood
pressure and lowers cholesterol, it soothes the
eyes, and heals the adrenals, lungs, sinuses,
heart, muscular and urogenital systems.
Aquamarine
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Is an excellent grounding, protecting, and
healing stone. It heightens your intuition and
increases creativity while at night, it stimulates
dreaming. If you place it by your bedside in a
shallow dish filled with pure water, it will help
with restful dream filled sleep. It calms the mind
when needed, clears confusion, and helps with
decision making. It can revitalize a tired mind
and body if you work too hard, and can reduce
irritability, aggressive behavior and impatience
with others and yourself.
Physically; this stone stimulates the immune
system to fight infection, helps with the flow of
lymph and re-energizes the body and mind when
exhausted. It purifies the blood, detoxifies the
liver, intestines, kidneys, spleen, and bladder,
improves blood circulation, and reduces
infection. It has been helpful when used for
leukemia, it works to clean the blood and blood
organs by removing toxins. Ancient Egyptians
used it to shrink tumors.
~from Sage Chapman, Chrystal Path Stones
http://www.chrystalpaths.com/
whatstonesdolist.htm
I am in no way saying this is fact, I just find it
very interesting and would like to share it with
you. Nothing is impossible.
~Rhonda Taylor, editor
Aventurine
Bloodstone
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REQUEST FROM OUR SHOW CHAIRMAN
As show chairman I would like to challenge
every member to put together a NEW display for
our show in May.
We need fresh displays.
New members who have never displayed before:
just look around at your most prized pieces that
you have collected over the years. You probably
have them proudly displayed in your home. There
is your show display.
Seasoned members: what I would like to see is
some new work, some old work displayed
differently, or put together in different
combinations. I know you can do this. If you only
have one display, try to change the look of it.
For the traveling displays I would like for 10
members to create a good display each to leave in
the trailer all year and then in January next year
we can replace them with 10 other displays. That
way what we are taking to the other shows is not
the same as what we have brought for the last few
years.
This means everyone needs to get busy in their
shops or at the MEW. We need displays for Big
Springs, Abilene, Plainview, Arts Festival, Mahon
Library, and our show.
I need help to pull this off again this year.
Archie and I are working together but there is
much to do.
~Sharon Scott, Show Chairman
MAHON LIBRARY DISPLAYS
Every year, Lubbock Gem & Mineral Society
has the display cases at Mahon Library reserved
for the month of April. We are to fill these cases on
April 1 and remove the items on April 31.
We have 3 display cases at the front of the
library. These are divided in the middle and have
adjustable glass shelves inside which can be
moved up or down. The display spaces measure
32" wide x 33" tall x 22" deep. The tall measurement may be divided into two by using the glass
shelf. That would make 12 display spaces
measuring 32" wide x 15 1/2" tall x 22" deep. We
also have two wall display units further back on
each side of the library. These measure 40" wide x
56" tall x 14 1/2 " deep. These cases have two
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adjustable glass shelves which would make 6
display spaces.
All together we need 10-14 people to take their
prized possessions over to the library on April 1
and find a space that is suitable for them to be
displayed.
You need to ask for a key and be sure that it is
locked when you leave and leave the key with
Angela Kernell. Don't worry, you can get your
display on the 31st in time for our show, and it is
important that you pick up your items on time so
that whoever has that space reserved for May will
not have to wait for you to move your stuff.
Please call me at 893-1454 or email me at
[email protected] and let me know if you are
taking a display. We need these cases full.
~Thanks, Sharon
REQUEST
Hi Group,
I am needing tools and stuff for the kids class
we are having at the beginning of each meeting. If
there is anything you are not using I would
appreciate your help.
-Bench Block
-Stamping tools
-Nail setting tool
-Old screwdrivers
-Stone Beads
-mismatched or old Jewelry
-Medium sized cabs to use in cold settings.
If you want anything back, make sure your
name is on it. We will try to have some things
ready for a display at the show this year.
~Thank you---------Bobbie Horn
E-MAIL TO LGMS
On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 7:51 PM, Rodney Davis
Sr. Ph.D. <[email protected]> wrote:
If you know of anyone needing some lapidary
equipment i have some listed on craigslist I am
taking offers on. I am about to move to Alabama
and do not wish to take it… My cell is 2518954235
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BENCH TIPS by Brad Smith
DIVIDERS
A set of dividers is a tool I find very useful in
laying out the geometry of a piece I'm making. It
has two needle-like tips with an adjustment to set
the spacing between them.
They can be used to transfer a measurement.
Let's say you need a 7mm wide strip of sheet
metal. Set the spacing between the divider tips to
7 mm on the ruler. Then lay the sheet on the
bench, put one tip against the edge, and run the
dividers down the edge scribing a line parallel to
the edge.
Dividers can be used to mark equal segments of
a line or arc. For instance assume a line between
A and B that might be straight or curved, and you
want to divide it into 5 equal lengths. Set the
dividers to an estimate of the distance. Starting at
Point A, use the dividers to mark off five lengths
along the line. If you end up short of Point B,
lengthen the distance on the dividers. If you end
up overshooting Point B, shorten the length of
your dividers. After a few tries, the length on
the dividers will be the exact distance you need to
mark the 5 segments.
Dividers can let you quickly find the center of a
circular disk. With one tip of the dividers at the
edge of the disk, set the other tip to an estimate of
where the center might be. Fix one tip of the
dividers at the 3 o'clock position and scribe an arc
with the other tip near the center. Do this again
from the 6 o'clock, 9 o'clock, and 12 o'clock
positions. The arcs at the center will form a small
four-sided box. The center of the box is at the
center of the disk.
PIECE OF LEATHER
Leather has a multitude of uses in the shop. I
often use a scrap of it to avoid scratching the back
of a piece of jewelry while setting stones.
It's also great for times when you need to clamp
one of your tools in a vise, for instance a
drawplate.
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More Bench Tips by Brad Smith
are at facebook.com/BenchTips/ or see
"Bench Tips for Jewelry Making" on Amazon
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BUD TRAMMELL
Another great man has passed from our Gem &
Mineral Federation...Frederick Wayne Trammell.
Services for Frederick Wayne Trammell, 90,
were held at 10 a.m. Thursday, March 19, at
Stephenville Funeral Home Chapel, with Buddy
Wells officiating, with the assistance of (Bud)
Wayne’s grandchildren. Burial was at Gardens of
Memory.
(Bud) Wayne was born in Breckenridge to
Hobson and Annie Lucile Taylor Trammell of
Stephenville. He served in the United States
Army during WWII and was with the 91st
Division, 916th Field Artillery, Battery C. He was
wounded in Sabbioni, Italy in October 1944.
Wayne and his wife Mary moved to Stephenville
in 1947. He was a member of First Baptist Church
in Stephenville and was the owner of Lawson's
Jewelry Store for 30 years. After retirement, he
became a self-taught ‘Rock Hound.’ In addition to
rock hunting, Trammell taught himself the art of
faceting precious and semi-precious stones. Later
he took up the art of knapping - making arrowheads and stone knives in the Indian tradition.
Wayne moved from Lone Camp to Stephenville
in 1942 to attend Tarleton State College. On June
28, 1943 Wayne signed up for the U.S. Army in
Palo Pinto, then later was sent to Fort Sill,
Oklahoma for training. He was deployed to North
Africa then on to Italy serving in the Rome - Arno,
North Apennines Campaigns. His decorations and
citations include: American Theater, Medal,
European African Middle East Theater Medal
with Two Bronze Service Stars, Good Conduct
Medal, WWII Victory Medal and Purple Heart.
Wayne is survived by his wife of 67 years, Mary;
daughter, Freddia Gray, and her husband Stan;
son, Bill; daughter, Ann Ayers, and her husband
Jim; sister, Betty Huston; brothers, Jim Trammell
and wife Pauline, David Trammell and wife Bernice; grandchildren, Misty and husband Timothy
Rowland, Tyson and wife Christina Gray, Wendy
and husband Daron Scott, Will and wife Jordan
Trammell, Jason and wife Jodi Trammell, and
Preston Ayers; 14 great-grandchildren, Benjamin,
Madeleine, Jackson, Faith, Emma Kate, Jacob,
Jaxon, Carter, Evynn, Jenna, Boone, Grier,
Angela and Monty; several cousins, nephews and
nieces.
I was blessed to have known this man!
~Rhonda Taylor, editor
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WEBSITE REQUEST FOR HELP
Greetings Webmaster,
I was referred to the Lubbock Gem and Mineral
Society from my colleague Melanie Barns of the
Geosciences Dept. at Tech. I mentioned to her that
I have a lapis and silver earring that is missing
it’s partner. She suggested that LGMS might be
able to refer me to someone who might be able to
make a match or find a similar new pair for me.
I really appreciate your help.
Thank you,
Lucia
Lucia Barbato,GISP
Center for Geospatial Technology, Assoc. Dir.
Texas Tech
[email protected]
806-834-8999
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FOSSILIZED OR PETRIFIED?
~submitted by Kathy Koch, WSRC Member
Generally speaking there isn't really a
distinction between petrified and fossilized.
Petrification is sort of a Victorian-era garbage can
word for fossilization. Fossilization doesn't
annotate anything specific other than being
biological elements being incorporated into the
rock record.
"Fossilized" (along with "petrified") is a near
meaningless term. The term is often substituted
for "mineralized" in describing a bone or tooth.
But, fossilized doesn't always equate to
mineralized because many fossils are not
reinforced or replaced by minerals.
It can be a little confusing. A fossil is any
evidence of life that has been preserved in rock. So
fossils include not just organisms themselves, but
also the burrows, marks and footprints they left
behind. Fossilization is the name for a number of
processes that produce fossils. One of those
processes is mineral replacement. This is common
in sedimentary and some metamorphic rocks,
where a mineral grain may be replaced by
material with a different composition, but still
preserving the original shape.
When a fossil organism is subjected to mineral
replacement, it is said to be petrified. For
example, wood may be replaced with chalcedony,
or shells replaced with pyrite. This means that out
of all fossils, only the creature itself could be
fossilized by petrification. And not all fossil
organisms are petrified. Some are preserved as
carbonized films, or preserved unchanged like
recent fossil shells, or fixed in amber like fossil
insects.
Scientists don't use the word "petrified" much.
What we call petrified wood, they'd rather call
fossil wood. But "petrified" has a nice sound and I
like to hear it. It sounds right for a fossil of
something familiar that looks life like (like a tree
trunk).
~from West Seattle Petroglyphs,3/2015;
Source: A number of posts on The Fossil Forum http://www.thefossilforum.com/ color
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A LITTLE HUMOR
About growing older…….
1st…..eventually you will reach a point when you
stop lying about your age and start bragging about
it.
2nd….the older we get the fewer things seem
worth waiting in line for.
3rd…..some people try to turn back the odometers.
Not me, I want people to know “why” I look this
way. I’ve traveled a long way and some of the
roads weren't paved.
~from The Roadrunner, 2/2015
FIGHTING WOLVES
The old Cherokee chief is telling his grandson
about a fight that is going on inside himself. He
said it is between two wolves. One wolf is
Evil...filled with ANGER, ENVY, SORROW, REGRET, GREED, ARROGANCE, SELF PITY, RESENTMENT, INFERIORITY, LIES FALSE
PRIDE SUPERIORITY and EGO.
The other wolf is good…..JOY, PEACE, LOVE
HOPE, SERENITY, HUMILITY, KINDNESS, BENEVOLENCE, EMPATHY, GENEROSITY,
TRUTH, COMPASSION and FAITH.
The grandson thought about it for a minute,
and then asked his grandfather, “Which one
wins?”
The old Cherokee simply replies, “The one I
feed.”
~from The Roadrunner, 2/2015;
via NW Newsletter, 9/02;
via Mountain Gem, 4/03
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A COMETARY MINERAL
How can you catch a comet? And if you could
catch a comet, what minerals would you find in it?
As a comet approaches the Sun, solar radiation
spalls off particles of ice and dust. These dust
particles fall behind the comet and get strung out
all along the path of the comet’s orbit. Comets
orbit the Sun in highly elliptical orbits that cross
the orbits of planets like the Earth. When the
Earth crosses the orbit of a comet, the Earth’s
gravity field sweeps cometary particles. Larger
particles burn up in the Earth’s uppermost
atmosphere as meteors, but smaller particles
slowly filter downward into the stratosphere.
Dust particles found in the stratosphere are
usually more likely to be filtering down from
comets and disintegrating meteoroids than rising
up from volcanoes and dust storms (the effects of
which are usually confined to the troposphere).
In 2003, as the Earth crossed the orbital path of
the comet “26P/Grigg-Skjellerup,” NASA sent up a
high flying research plane equipped with dust
collectors. Much of the dust collected on these
flights is assumed to have come from the comet.
Analysis of the dust led to the discovery of a new
mineral, brownleeite.
Brownleeite (MnSi, cubic) has a unique
chemical composition: manganese silicide. The
fact that this mineral has not yet been found on
the Earth (or for that matter, on the Moon) is
evidence that the mineral formation environment
of comets is drastically different than terrestrial
environments. Brownleeite is named for Donald
Brownlee, a University of Washington astronomer
who is best known for his book Rare Earth: Why
complex life is uncommon in the universe.
Brownlee has been a pioneer in the study of
cometary dust, so the naming of a new cometary
mineral after him is quite appropriate.
~from West Seattle Petroglyphs,3/2015;
(Via Rock Trails, 1/15; ©2010, Andrew A. Sicree, Ph.D.)
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P.O. Box 429
Sundown, TX. 79372
Email - [email protected]
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Meetings are held the first Tuesday of each month @ Forrest Heights United Methodist Church - 3007 33rd St. Lubbock, TX.
at 7:00 p.m. unless announced otherwise.
Annual dues are: $22.50 for adults, $10.00 for students 15 & up, $5.00 for students 6-15 and free for children under 6.
Exchange editors are free to copy anything of interest from THE ROCKYTIER provided credit is given to the author of the
article and THE ROCKYTIER.
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…………………………...…..….Sharon 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………………………………….
Club Library is located at Dave Swartz home……………………
(806) 773-8265
(806) 894-1584
(806) 797-5832
(806) 744-8579
(806) 793-8045
www.lubbockgemandmineral.org
(806) 797-9716
(806) 786-9362
(806) 785-4455
(806) 891-8037
(806) 745-4888
(806) 317-2015
(806) 746-5969
(806) 894-1584
(806) 392-5000
web-site
Lubbock Gem & Mineral Society’s
web-site
www.lubbockgemandmineral.org
President………………….…………….………….Walter Beneze
Past President…………………………….…….……Bobbie Horn
VP and Program ………………………….….…Charles Cockrell
Secretary………………………………….……….Sabrina Krieger
Treasurer…………………...…...………..………….......Jann Hon
Director (first year)…...………………………..……William Broun
Director (first year)…………...…….….………....Bobby Housour
Director (second year)……..…………...…………....Archie Scott
Director (second year)……………………..……Bruce Cammack
Lubbock Gem & Mineral Society’s
ELECTED OFFICERS & DIRECTORS WHO ARE VOTING MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS