Our Junior Booth Labeling Party was Sunday,
January 18, 2009, 10:00 AM at Greenbank Mill
We had a “Labeling Party” to prepare donated materials for
sale at the Junior Booth for the 2009 show. This get-together was
scheduled for Sunday, January 18 at 10 am and was at the Greenbank Mill.
Pizza and drinks were provided.
Help was ample with identifying specimens, making and cutting
labels, putting prices on the labels (you idn't necessarily need to know
prices to label), putting specimens in soda flats (boxes), and we create smaller specimens from larger ones.
We welcomed you to bring soda flats and/or donations.
As you knew what you’re donating, and you provided at least one label per type of
fossil/rock. Labels were handwritten or typed and included 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.
Glad to have seen you there!
Wendy Sbriglia
It was fun, and we got a lot
accomplished. We could still use your donated materials, please.
(2009 Photos below)
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.)
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:
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 couldn'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 June 13, 2009
Picnic meeting! Welcome to our new families,
and all the new folks! We look forward to seeing you at our
September, 2009 meeting!.
Signup with Sophie or Teddi 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 2009 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!
We are about to begin our club’s vacation time of the
year. Over the summer, many of us will be
traveling and collecting, catching up on lapidary, and learning more about
minerals and fossils.
Enjoy your summer!
Here’s the stats:
·
DE (57,849), MD (44,566), PA (243,767), NJ (169,598),
NY (222,164), VA (305,978),
DC (56,616),
WV (4,458) since 2-3-2005
·
Some top recent search phrases: “carbon cycle”, “Ramenessin
Brook”, and “Kurtz”.
Our June Mineral-of-the-Month series departs from the
norm, thus beginning our Summer Picfest. We’ll start
with a rare opalized fluorite, called Bertrandite. Two surprise gems will follow
in July/August. In September,
we’ll finish up the appreciable Delaware Minerals in on fell swooping article.
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.
