Our Junior Booth Labeling Party will be in January or
February 2010 at Greenbank Mill.
We will have a “Labeling Party” to prepare donated
materials for sale at the Junior Booth for the 2010 show. This
get-together will be scheduled by early January. Pizza and drinks will
be provided.
Help is needed with identifying specimens, making and cutting
labels, putting prices on the labels (you don't necessarily need to know
prices to label), putting specimens in soda flats (boxes), and we create smaller specimens from larger ones.
We welcome you to bring soda flats and/or donations.
If you know what you’re donating, and please provide at least one label
per type of fossil/rock. Labels can be handwritten or typed and include the
specimen name and the collection location as it was known. Donations
will also be accepted at the February meeting and can be given
to Guy or me.
Hopefully, each of you has spent some time on your
collections this winter: looking through them, organizing them and
high-grading them. Thank you in advance for your efforts and your donations--they
will be a hit!
Remember, we still can accept and store any donations you
would have over the rest of the year before our next show. As some of
us cull our collections during early Spring Cleaning, this is a great time, too.
If you have any mineral or fossil specimens, lapidary
materials such as cutting material that you would like to donate for the
club to sell at the Junior Booth, please bring them to any club meeting, or
contact any of the Show Committee Officers. Donations are tax
deductible. (We'll supply an official itemized letter for your
records.)
We would like to thank our 2009 volunteers, who
helped with the
task of sorting, identifying, labeling, and pricing specimens to be sold at
the Junior Booth during our show:
Bob Asreen
Fran Poniecki
Wayne Urion
Alex Kane
Esther Kerns
Karissa Hendershot
Eric Hottenstein
Jake Hottenstein
Bob Ehrlich
Tom Pankratz
Willard Barclough
Guy Sbriglia
Wendy Sbrilgia
Sophie Homesy
Teddi Silver
Gene Hartstein Ken Casey Vicky McFadden and her granddaughter
And all of the Members who supported us in this effort.
Please don't feel bad, if you can't make it. We
still need your help at the Show.
On behalf of the DMS, I would also like to extend a very
big THANK YOU to the folks at
of Greenbank Mill for working with us on the scheduling of this project and
allowing us to use the Mill to complete it.
DMS Members in Action at our
Scouting Educational Outreach Event at Greenbank Mill, October 7, 2006!
DMS Members in Action at our
Junior Booth Labeling Party, February 18, 2007!
DMS Members in
Action setting up our March 3-4, 2007 Show (on March 2nd)
Kudos to Bob Asreen for collecting and donating a bucket of Delaware
Belemnite fossils on behalf of the club to the
Delaware Geological Survey.
These Official State Fossils will be distributed for educational purposes.
Way to go, Bob!
For Sale
Members, if you have any hobby
related equipment, supplies, specimens, or such that you would like to
offer for sale to members or to the general public, please let us know.
Our membership year begins at the end of August. To assure continued member
benefits you should plan to send in your
renewal dues by the end of August. A
half-year membership is available, if you join during our March
7-8, 2009 Show,
(or just after
by our March 9th meeting)
Our membership year begins August 31st, so see
Bob
Ehrlich, Membership Chairman, to renew.
We welcome new members. Please do invite folks who you would think be interested.
We have a new category of Student Membership. For $10. per year, you can be a DMS
Member. If you are a college
student, please join us at our next meeting.
New Members
Welcome to our guests, visitors, and new Members at our December 5, 2009
club meeting! Welcome to our new families,
and all the new folks! We look forward to seeing you at our
January 13, 2010
meeting!.
Signup with Beth Simpkins, our new
Hospitality Chair, to sign-up for our January 13, 2009 meeting snacks.
Cell: (302) 561-0255 and E-mail:
elizasimpkins@comcast.net for snacks for our next club
meeting to
bring.
Rock and Fossil Exchange between clubs: Members, why not
share the wealth? Collectors and enthusiasts from
other clubs around
the U. S. are seeking specimen exchanges. Started by the Western
Dakota Gem & Mineral
Society, we have just joined the fun. Check out
what we got in our box at:
http://www.delminsociety.net/exchange.htm.
The idea is 'you take
one, you give one specimen'. When we get a full box, we send it on.
Come join the fun! We
just got our second exchange box!
Contact: Ken Casey
Ken is seeking your pictures of your most colorful
minerals for our Future 2010 Mineral-of-the-Month
article series. Your colorful selection could be famous on our club's
site? If you like, call me, and we
can meet up.
I'll
photograph them for you to share with folks in our article.
Thanks!
Yes, we have arrived! After consistently creating and
maintaining our club's website since 2004, you have seen our
online following grow-- to almost 6 million visitors! As we have had
enthusiasts, students, teachers, and professionals
habitually visit with us from almost every nation on Earth, I see that reporting
increasing numbers is the rule, so as of
December 2009, I will pare down my webmaster report to offer only key items of
interest to Club Members. Much of
the order of results remain virtually unchanged, such as the number one nation
of hits comes from the U. S., and the
Top 12 States usually have California lead us in visitors.
So, from now on, I will offer specialized reports, like a
year-end summary, a March Show web report, and more.
If any news about our website pops up, of course, I, your
faithful webmaster, will report to you upon it--both here and
in the Geogram.
Oh, and it is appropriate to report that our club's website
has won 2nd place in the EFMLS regional area's
1st Annual Website Contest.
Please enjoy this last detailed update, until just after
December 31, 2009, when I give my year-end summary report.
Members,
We are being Googled and Yahooed from all over the
world now. It’s pretty amazing stuff for our
club to be found and enjoyed by folks around the globe, eh?
Here’s the stats:
·
DE (60,572), MD (50,013), PA (260,609), NJ (184,321),
NY (239,957), VA (326,431),
DC (57,107),
WV (4,825) since 2-3-2005
·
Total hits from surrounding states: 1,183,835 since
2-3-2005.
·
Visits to our
Fossil Forum Page “Dinny the Dino” (since it’s inception):
9,375
·
U. S. hits: 3,850,120 up from 3,758,909 since 8-22-2009.
That’s 91,211 hits this past month!
·
Top 12 States are still: CA, VA, PA, NY, NJ, GA, CO, TX,
IL, MI, DE, DC. Washington State is 17th
and rising.
Come on, guys, you can do it.
·
World hits: 6,311,013 up from 6,132,943 (From 8-22-2009
to 9-22-2009): That’s hits 178,070
since last
month!
·
Top 12 countries are: United States, Canada, United
Kingdom, Australia, Germany, France, Spain,
Mexico,
Sweden, India, Netherlands, and Japan. We’re at 187 countries, welcome
Martinique.
·
Ontario, Alberta, and Quebec are the top 3 Canadian
Provinces (From 8-22-2009 to 9-22-2009). With
231,373 hits
since we started. BC is climbing.
·
Some top recent search phrases: “carbon cycle”,
“bismuth”, and “goethite”.
Starting with October’s Mineral of the Month we’ll
explore ‘Minerals of the 50 States’. Let’s begin with our
neighbors. First we’ll visit New Jersey with a tie in to our October 12th
meeting program, presented by author
and naturalist, Karenne Snow.
Search for Rock Clubs &
Shops in your Area (or for traveling)
Recently, our club was invited to post info about our club onto an
interactive map
of the U. S., which now has over 500 clubs posted. Potential show attendees and
new members now have one more place to find us.
For us, we can locate other clubs, rock shops, and shows to enjoy
collecting and
meeting new people.
We are looking for content for our club's webpages. If you have any
pictures, stories, articles, or ideas you would
like to offer for publication here, please
feel free to contact me at our next meeting, or at
kencasey98@yahoo.com.
