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Members' Page
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Upcoming Events
May 12, 2008 Meeting
Program:
"The Physical Properties of Minerals"
See you at the meeting!
Tom
[Tom Pankratz]
April 28, 2008:
DMS Board Meeting, 7:00 PM (Postponed, to be rescheduled)
May 11, 2008: DMS Lee
Creek, Aurora, NC Fieldtrip
May 17 & 18, 2008: Bob & Nadir Jenkins'
Open House, 10AM - 6PM
May 31, 2008: DMS H&K Quarries Cornwall Materials Quarry,
Cornwall, PA Fieldtrip
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March Show 2008
Members' Show Schedule & General Info (MSWord)
(A behind-the-scenes set-up schedule)
Publicity:
Gene & Wayne have posters & show fliers for us to share.
You may also print show fliers from the
March Show page.
Click on Poster for a large, printable one!
Tell your friends! Tell everyone!
Display Cases:
Got an idea for your next year's Display
Case!
It's never too early to start.
It’s Show Time!
Show dates: March 1-2, 2008
Our annual show dates are just around the corner - now is the time to
start thinking about entering an exhibit.
There are a lot of you members out there who have interesting specimens
and collections. What better way to share your treasures than by organizing
them to exhibit in one of our showcases at the March show! If you have never
prepared an exhibit and do not know how, do not let this deter you. We have
printed guidelines and experienced exhibitors who are willing to advise you
to enable you to put your first exhibit together. There are several classes
and categories. You may choose to compete or to be non-competitive. The club
provides the exhibit cases if you need one.
Take a look at the exhibit entry form in the newsletter to obtain more
information. Fill it out and mail it in. I also have the entry form in
electronic format, if you would prefer.
Call or email me if you need more details.
Esther Kerns, Exhibits Chairperson
(302) 478-1336
ejkerns@yahoo.com
P.S. I also coordinate the DMS Club showcase. Items in this display case
always follow the show theme. It gives you, the member, an opportunity to
show off individual specimens. Please call or email me if you are interested
or need more information.
"Got Pegmatites?" Want to
share your pegs, but don't want to do a whole display case this year,
contact Ken Casey. We'll put them in our Pegmatite Display
Case! Bring 'em into the Show setup at DelTech by 5:00PM
Friday, February 29th. Thanks. :-)
Your DMS March Show
& Home Display Case Resources
See some Display Case Photos from our March 2007 Show
AFMS
Rules (Download Page in Adobe Acrobat)
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Junior Booth Prep Party 2008
Was on Sunday, January 27,
2008, 11AM-3:30PM
at Greenbank Mill
It was fun, and we got a lot
accomplished. We could still use your donated materials, please.
(Photos below)
Call for Donations
Hopefully, each of you has spent some time on your
collections this winter: looking through them, organizing them and
high-grading them. Thanks 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 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.)
Again, Thanks! :-)
We would like to thank our volunteers, who helped with the
task of sorting, identifying, labeling, and pricing specimens to be sold at
the Junior Booth during our show:
Scott Peters
Eric Hottenstein
Karissa Hendershot
Bob Asreen
Tom Pankratz
Wayne Urion
Alex Kane
Sophie Homsey
Ken Casey
Gene Hartstein
Guy & Wendy Sbriglia
Junior Members: Jake, Alex, David
& All of Us, who made this feat possible
On behalf of the DMS, I would also like to extend a very
big THANK YOU to Tony Shahan
of Greenbank Mill for working with us on the scheduling of this project and
allowing us to use the Mill to complete it.
[Bob Asreen & The Show Committee]
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Theme:
This year's
March
1-2, Show 2008
theme was: "Pegmatite
Gems and Minerals"!
Our February & March Mineral-of-the-Month
is also be "Exotic
Pegmatites" & "Local
Pegmatites"
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DMS Website Links
Download
Free Public Domain Mineralogy Books!
First
State Geology, Summer 2007 ( a semi-annual DGS Publication)
DMS Members in Action
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DMS Members in Action at our
Scouting Educational Outreach Event at Greenbank Mill, October 7, 2006!
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For Sale
- Diverse estate mineral collection in Pennsauken N. J. Decorator
specimens, fine large (two foot) Hot Springs quartz group,
three-foot amethyst tube geode. Many other specimens, cabachons. By
the piece or entire collection. Contact Dr. Cheryl Patchin right
away if interested. (See February 2008 Geogram for contact
info)
Thanks, Peter Leavens
Professor Emeritus
Department of Geosciences
University of Delaware
Newark DE 19716
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Greenbank Mill,
our club's host, is offering for sale T-shirts and breadwarmers to
raise funds. To date, Scott Peters has collected $90. to
support our friends at the Mill. See Scott for details.
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Contact: Tom Pankratz @ 302-239-0140 (tjpankratz@comcast.net)
This machine has been used to facet about 20 gemstones.
The
Alpha Taurus has the following features and accessories:
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- Lamp
- Quick release mast height adjustment
- Splash pan
- Drip tank
- Dovetail slides for horizontal movement
- Fine angle adjustment
- Dial indicator
- Precision transfer block
- Positive dop keying system
- 64 & 96 index gears
- 45 degree table dop
- Set of 12 dops (4, 6, 8, and 10 mm)
- Reverse switch
- Right-handed
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Grinding and polishing disks are NOT included due to shipping
expense from New Zealand.
Additional information may be easily found on the internet.
Alpha Taurus
at Color-Wright.com
Alpha
Taurus at Alpha Supply, Inc. (Tuscon Show dealer)
Our friend, Kerry Matt, now has his books available to our club and
members via mail.
Kerry is a member of the Central Pennsylvania and Berks County clubs,
among others. He is a local authority on the geology and
paleontology of the PA area, and wants to share his findings with us:
Books are ready and available. It is possible to acquire them via
Kerry’s e-mail. You’ll have
to ask him about shipping costs to our area.
Pennsylvania's Rainbow Under Ground $80.00 each. It’s
chock full of color macro specimen photos; comes with CD [includes 200+
additional pages, about 440 pages in all!]Pennsylvania
Paleozoic Playground (fossils) $40.00 each. This book covers
the major fossils found in PA in a more general or basic level. (limited
Self printed spiral bound with lamin-a cover) or on CD at $16.00 each.
The Lower Cambrian Explosion of life in my back yard
(fossils) $30.00 each. This one focuses entirely on the local material
here in the Lancaster area. It is a detailed report on fossils
pre-dating the famous Burgess, all of which I document on personal level
of experience from local excavations. (self-printed spiral bound with
lamin-a cover) at $30.00 each (limited print). And CDs at $16.00 each.
He also has a few Pennsylvania Paleozoic Playground that are un-edited
at -$10.00 discount.
[Ken Casey]
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MEMBERSHIP REMINDER
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
1-2, 2008 Show, (or just after
by our March 10th meeting)
If you haven't received your November Geogram, see Bob
Ehrlich, Membership Chairman, to renew.
We welcome new members. Please do invite folks who you would think be interested.
Click here for
a printable Membership Form (Just print and bring-in or mail-in)
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 April 14, 2008
meeting! We look forward to seeing you at our
May 12, 2008 meeting!.
President's Message
See this month's Geogram.
[Scott Peters - President]
NOTICES & HELP NEEDED
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Members, do you talk Apple or Mac? Ken, Carl, and Gwen
could use your help deciphering a .pdf mystery.
Gwen is offering an expanded Geogram
to e-mail to members. It will
have color photos, live clickable web links, and more content. With this enhanced
format, Gwen and James invite us members to share a brief story or article with him and our fellow
DMS members. New Member Bonnie Neubauer has offered some creative writing support
for those of use who desire to contribute to our esteemed publication.
Ken is seeking your pictures of
Delaware minerals for our 2008 "Delaware Minerals" Mineral-of-the-Month
article series. Delaware Biotite and Hornblende next. If you like, call me, and we
can meet up. I'll
photograph them for you to share with folks in our article.
Thanks!
Online Searchable Database Listing Has
Advanced
Yes, we have a live DMS website Search Engine! You can find it on our Home Page!
Soon, I'll be adding it to other website pages,
for your convenience to search our site.
For example, if you wanted to search for all pages
about "fluorite", just type the word "fluorite" into the text box,
click on the button below it, and instantly, you will have a page full of our club's
website pages to view. Cool, huh?
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We are in the doing stages of creating an online searchable database of
all the printed offerings from the
DMS Library. I have
a database model, though I have to revise code to make it operational on our current
webhost.
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Carl has kept a handwritten inventory over time. I have Carl's
list, and have created a complete listings page for Phase 2.
Phase 1: Our first goal is to post at least some
prime listings to this webpage, for immediate listing. (Timeframe: 1-2 days after
receiving list) COMPLETED!
Phase 2: Our next goal is to post a full listing,
so that we may request from Carl to borrow.
COMPLETED!
Carl is always ready to share materials upon our asking. I will
print out a typed list for Carl to circulate.
Phase 3: Our ultimate goal is to have our online
database operational in 2008. My database model
needs a little more work, as I am writing custom code for our club. IN PROGRESS
[Ken Casey]
Other Business
Board Meeting Minutes, December 14, 2005 (on file)
Board Meeting Minutes, February 7,
2005
General Meeting Minutes,
February 14, 2005
For future General Meeting Minutes and Board Meeting Minutes, please check
the Geogram.
DMS Website Update
Members,
With less than a month to our
March 1-2, 2008 Show, there
have been 135 printouts of our show flier and 112 printouts of
show flier with map, Total: 247 printouts.
Here’s the stats:
DE (34,426), MD (22,169), PA (148,036), NJ (106,508), NY (117,357),
VA (141,208),
DC (25,813), since 2-3-2005
Total hits from surrounding states: 595,517. (Anomaly from
backup)
Visits to our
sample Geogram
(since 2-3-2005): 2,489
Visits to our
Juniors page (since
2-3-2005): 5,239
Visits to our
Field Trips Page
(since 2-3-2005): 5,464
Visits to our
March Show Page
(since 2-3-2005): 6,179
Visits to our
Fossil Forum Page “Dinny
the Dino” (since it’s inception): 2,572
U. S. hits: 1,942,508 up from 1,801,607 since 1-22-2008. That’s
140,901 more hits!
Top 12 States are: CA, PA, VA, NY, NJ, GA, CO, TX, IL, DE, MI, DC
A lot of nice folks from Michigan and Georgia have visited us lately.
Welcome!
World hits: 2,775,689 up from 2,555,096 (From 1-22-2008 to
2-22-2008): That’s 220,593 hits
since last month!
Top 12 countries are: United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany,
Australia, Mexico,
Spain, France, Netherlands, Sweden, India, and Ireland!
Total countries (170 total), welcome British Virgin Islands!
Number 1 page visited since 1-22-2008 remains:
March 2006 Mineral of the Month:
Petrified Wood, Part II.
Number 2 page visited since 1-22-2008:
March 2007 Mineral of the Month:
The Colors of Fluorite.
Number 3 page visited since 1-22-2008:
Our March 1-2, 2008 Show Page
Some top recent search phrases: "delaware mineral show”, “lee creek”,
and “quarry”.
Thanks, everyone, for making our Show and our website a success!
Our MOTM for March is "Local Pegmatites", again, based on our show theme.
[Ken Casey]
kencasey@delminsociety.net
Collecting
Adventure Stories:
"Sunny Brook Crick Goethite" by Joe Dunleavy
Members,
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.
--Ken
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