Web Site for SCMM:
Jennifer Rohl is the web master for SCMM
Following is the link to the web site:
http://www.mineralsocal.org/micro/index.html
If you are receiving the e-mail version of
Micro-Bits, you should be able to click on the above url and go immediately to
the web site..
Sunshine
Corner
Juanita Curtis is doing very well these days and the lymphoma seems to
be under control. Keep her in your
prayers. Let us know of others in our
group who need our support.
.
Coming our Way sooner than you think:
Goldbug Gala
Mariposa County Fairgrounds
1 hour from Yosemite National Park
May 28-30, 2004
Sponsored by CFMS and Mariposa Gem & Mineral
Club
Contact: California State Mining and Mineral Museum, P.O. Box 1192, Mariposa, CA 95338, (209) 742-7625, Fax (209)
966-3597
E-mail: mineralmuseum@sti.net
.Dealers, Exhibits, Speakers,
Educational Activities
Reminder: 2004 Dues
If you have not paid your dues for 2004, this
may be your last issue of MicroBits.
Please mail your check to:
Bob White, Treasurer
2 Summit Avenue
Redlands, CA 92373
Don’t miss out on future issues – send in
your dues now.
Registration and Membership is requested. See the Guidelines on page 7 for details on
filling out the two forms.
Conference
Reminders
Dinners
Friday and Saturday
Many thanks to Ann Meister
for agreeing to take care of the food on these two nights. .
Volunteers are needed to assist Ann for these
two dinners. It doesn’t all come together magic-ally—it takes teamwork. The kitchen will be open for coordinating the
food preparations.
On Friday, a ham will be provided, and our
attendees will supply the rest of the meal.
Each person or family is asked to bring an appetizer (if veggies, make
sure they are fresh and crisp), a salad, a side dish or casserole, or
dessert.
Saturday evening’s dinner will be the
familiar Lasagna Buffet (including one meatless Lasagna)
with salad, rolls and margarine, and cake.
(Be sure to sign up and pay your $5.00 with the Registration form
included in this bulletin.)
Mineral
Donations
Please get your donations for the Live and Silent auctions and Sales
Table to Sugar White asap, in advance of the
Conference. Auction minerals must
be photographed prior to auction. The
win-ning bidder gets both the specimen and the slide. Mailings should go to:
Sugar White
2 Summit
Avenue
Redlands, CA 92373
If you have minerals for the giveaway table, they should be set out on
Friday afternoon during the registration and microscope setup time.
Both auctions and the Sales Table are major sources of income for the
Club to pay the
expenses of the Conference and need your
support.
Saturday
Lunch at the Museum:
Once again, lunch on Saturday will
be Subway sandwiches and is included with your Registra-tion fee. Be sure to make your sandwich selection on
the Registration form.
Member Slide Presentations or Short
Contributed
Talks:
See the Registration form for a space to list your possible
contributions in this area.
Field Trip:
At publication time, no details on the Sunday field trip were
available. This will be announced at the
Conference, or perhaps at the December 13 meeting in Los Angeles (see page 1).
December 6-7, San
Bernardino, CA
Orange Belt
Mineralogical Society
“World of Gems
2003”
503 31st
Street
Hours: Sat.
10-06, Sun. 10-5
Lyle Strayer
909-887-3394
E-mail ECHOBYRD@AOL.COM
December 13-14
Los Angeles, CA
Mineralogical
Society of Southern California
“Gem Fest”
L. A. County Natural History Museum
900
Exposition Blvd.
Hours: 10-5 both days
Admission free
with admission to the Museum
Bob Rhein
(213) 763-3538
See a show
CFMS Museum Committee at Work
The following article appeared in the December 2003
issue of CFMS Newsletter. It sounds like
a fine opportunity to publicize the Jurupa Cultural Center. (Jack Nieburger, are you paying atten-tion?)
MUSEUM COMMITTEE REQUEST
BY Debbie Bunn, Museum
Committee Chair
The
Museum Committee would like to solicit help from all the members of CFMS. We would like to compile a listing of all the
museums, parks, or special places that might e of interest to rock-hounds. We would then sort these places accord-ing to
State and make that listing available to members who were planning to travel…or
maybe just interested in taking a one-day field trip.
Maybe you are traveling to Washington next
summer. Interested in information on the
Ginkgo Petrified
Forest State Park? Or, if you come to Sacramento, don’t
miss the Sierra College Natural History Museum—Great Dinosaurs!!
This will be an ongoing project, but for now,
anyone who has any suggestions for this list of “places to see”, please mail me
a brochure or short write-up.
We are still considering how to make this
information available to people. Perhaps a small booklet or a cen-tral file that could be consulted
by e-mail or telephone. Here’s a
chance to let people know about that neat little museum you discovered on your
last vacation.
Please contact the Museum
Committee so we can share that knowledge with others. Contact
Debbie Bunn, Chair, Museum Committee
P.O.
Box 255702
Sacramento, CA 95865
(916)
929-6665 fossilsff@aol.com
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CFMS Dues and Insurance
Richard Pankey, CFMS
Treasurer
The dues of Membership Societies for CFMS are
$1.50 annually per individual member, regardless of membership
classification. The only exception is
for CFMS Honorary members. Some clubs
have interpreted this as meaning Club or Society honorary members, also. The intent of the Bylaws was to exclude CFMS
Honorary members only. A change to the
Bylaws has been initiated to add “CFMS” in front of Honorary in ARTICLE IV
DUES: Section 1; to clarify any
misunderstanding.
At our November 8th Directors’ Meeting the
Directors approved a $.50 increase in the insurance charge to a total of $4.50
per “active member”. As defined by our
insurance company an “active member” is any member who attends one or more
functions each year (the basis for our rate).
This includes activities such as, but not limited to, general membership
meetings, annual picnics, Christmas gathering, field trips, participation in
shop or classes, etc. Any attendance
and/or participation in a club activity creates liability exposure ad therefore
requires payment of the insurance charge.
Our insurance renewal date was October 16th and the
Federation has already paid the entire premium for this year. Dues are due and payable on January 1 based
on your membership list as of December 31.
Dues and insurance for 2004 are $6.00 for all classes of members and for
all “active members.” - Excerpted
from CFMS Newsletter 12/03
THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MICRO-MINERALOGISTS PROUDLY PRESENT
39th
PACIFIC MICROMOUNT CONFERENCE
January 30-31 – February 1, 2004
SAN
BERNARDINO COUNTY MUSEUM, 2024
ORANGETREE LANE, REDLANDS, CA
(Exit
north on California
St.
from I-10)
FRIDAY,
JANUARY 30, 2004
3:00-6:00 PM REGISTRATION,
greeting friends and microscope time.
6::00-7:00 Famous POTLUCK BUFFET Dinner.
7:00-10:00
PM “WHAT’S NEW IN
MINERALS” by Sugar White.
SHORT CONTRIBUTED TALKS AND
MEMBER SLIDES.
SATURDAY, JANUARY
31,
2004
8:00-9:00
AM DOORS
OPEN, REGISTRATION. Setting up
scopes, filling “Give-away” and "Sales" Tables, and greeting friends.
10:00 AM WELCOME, Introductions and
Special Announcements.
10:15 AM “SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW, SOMETHING BORROWED,
SOMETHING BLUE. A 30-year Adventure in
Descriptive Mineralogy” by Dr. Tony Kampf, Curator
and Department Head, Mineral Sciences, Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History
NOON LUNCH. Subway sandwiches (pre-selected). Served at Museum. (No cost)
1:30 PM VERBAL
AUCTION, followed by silent auction of member donated materials.
3:00-4:00
PM SHORT CONTRIBUTED
TALKS.
6:00 PM BUFFET
DINNER. Served at
Museum.
7:30-10:00
PM “VANADIUM
MINERALS: Part IV. U-V Deposits of the
Colorado Plateau” By Dr. Bill Wise, Professor of Geology, Emeritus, University of California at Santa
Barbara.
SHORT CONTRIBUTED TALKS AND MEMBER SLIDES.
.
SUNDAY FEBRUARY 1, 2003
FIELD TRIP: To
be announced at the Conference.
9:00 – Noon Microscope time at the Museum.
____________________________
Registration Fee is $10.00
before Conference, $15.00 at door.
Friday night Potluck – Each
family, please bring an hors d’oeuvre, salad, hot dish, dessert, etc.
Saturday lunch – Subway sandwiches – pre-selected on
Registration slip. (No cost to
attendees.)
Saturday night Buffet dinner is $5.00. Advance reservations necessary. (See Registration slip.)
For more information and/or a Registration package
contact: Beverly Moreau, 3113 Topaz Lane, #A, Fullerton, CA 92831-2374 – (714) 577-8038, or e-mail
at <bcmoreau@adelphia.net>
Advance Registration Slip
PACIFIC MICROMOUNT CONFERENCE
January 30-31, February 1,
2004 (Field Trip on
Sunday, Feb. 1)
Registration $10.00 per person by mail, $15.00 at the door
Total No.
of people ___ Registrations
amount $_____
Names _____________________________
_____________________________
_____________________________
_____________________________
Friday Night Potluck Dinner
Bring your
appetizer, salad, main dish, or dessert for an old-fashioned Potluck
dinner. Your contribution will assure
the success of the Potluck! (We will
have the use of the kitchen facilities.)
Saturday Lunch (No cost to participants)
Subway sandwiches will be ordered based on your advance
selection
Turkey (__) Beef (__)
Ham (__) Veggie (__)
Saturday Night Lasagna Buffet Dinner
$5.00 per person – number of people attending: ____ Amount ______
Balance
Forward (to other side) $_____
(Notice: write one check only to
cover both Registrations and Memberships
Field Trip on Sunday
Are You interested in attending the
field trip? Yes ___ No ___
Number of participants ____
(must be paid-up members of SCMM)
Parking – Do you plan to park your self-contained
RV, trailer or van overnight at the Museum? Yes __
No __
********************************************************************************************************************
I plan on presenting a short
contributed talk (__)
The topic will be: _______________________________ Approximate length of time __________
I can present: Friday night __ Saturday afternoon __ Saturday evening __
********************************************************************************************************
Send to: Beverly
Moreau, Registrar
Pacific
Micromount Conference
3113 Topaz Lane, Apt. A
Fullerton, CA 92831-2374
Make check
payable to SCMM (See
other side)
Southern California
Micro-Mineralogists
Balance
forward (from Registration Slip, other side) $________
SCMM Membership Dues for 2004
Indicate
if Honorary Member or Friend (no dues for either category) Honorary/Friend
Individual – H F
Name _______________________________ ____/____
_______________________________
____/____
Address: __________________________________
__________________________________
E-Mail: __________________________________
Total Amount – Individual
Memberships @ $10 each ________
Membership
Plus -
Name: ___________________________________
___________________________________
___________________________________
___________________________________
Total Amount – Plus Memberships @
$5 each _________
Grand Total – Memberships and Conference
Registrations $________
Make
one check only for both Registrations and Memberships
Check
payable to SCMM
********************************************************************************************************
Send to: Beverly
Moreau, Registrar
Pacific
Micromount Conference
3113 Topaz Lane, Apt. A
Fullerton, CA 92831-2374
Make check
payable to SCMM (See
other side)
Conference Registration and SCMM Membership Renewal Guidelines
Now
is the time for you to make your advance registration for the 2003 Pacific
Micromount Conference as well as renewing your membership in the Southern
California Micro-Mineralogists. Page 5 and 6 of this MicroBits is a two-sided
form that lets you do both. Side one is
your advance registration slip and side two is the membership renewal form.
Registration: Please give us the names of all in your party. We really like to have a name tag waiting for
everyone. In addition to registration
fees you will be asked to make reservations for Saturday dinner and pay an
extra fee for that. For those signing up
for the Sunday Field Trip, pay extra attention to the need for membership and
dues. This year you carry over
conference fees to side two. We are
going to save you postage by requiring only mailing one check.
Membership renewal. Please indicate with a check mark if you are
a Friend, Honorary Member or Regular Member. There are no dues for Friends or
Honorary Members so your carryover fees for the Conference is
your total. We keep two rosters. The Treasurer keeps track of Honorary and
Regular Members while the Bulletin Editor adds to that list the Friends. Friends receive the December MicroBits as an
invitation to the Pacific Micromount Conference.
A
word about Plus memberships. The primary member pays
$10.00/year. All other family members at
the same address are Plus members and pay $5.00/year.
We need the first name of the Plus members.
The fee for Plus members is needed to pay dues and insurance to the
California Federation, which is the source of our Club’s liability insurance.
This is the reason that ONLY dues paying members may participate in Field
Trips.
Also,
we ask that all fill out the form which includes mailing address, phone number
and email address. You move around a lot
and area codes change frequently. Also,
you change e-mail addresses, too. This
will give us an update for our rosters. Our rosters are held PRIVATE. We share a membership list with the Field
Trip Chairman so she/he can make sure only current members participate. Otherwise only the Bulletin Editor and
Treasurer have this information.
After
you total the carryover fees from side one, add in the Regular Membership and
the Plus Membership Fees on the reverse, then send the form and your check
(made out to SCMM) to: Beverly Moreau, 3113 Topaz Lane, #A, Fullerton, CA 92831.
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