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 has recently received a pace-maker, and is coming along
very well. She sends her best to
all.
.
Election of Officers for 2005
In case you didn’t notice
the front panel, the following people were elected as Officers of SCMM at the November 20 2004 meeting:
President – Paul Adams
Vice President – Ann Meister
Secretary – Beverly Moreau
Treasurer – Al Wilkins
CFMS Director – Beverly
Moreau
Directors: Anne Davila, Jack Nieberger,
Bob Housley, Alt. Bill Kent
Meetings will be held in
April, November and the Conference date.
Reminder: 2005 Dues
If you have not paid your dues for 2005, this may be your
last issue of MicroBits. 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.
If
you do not plan to attend the Conference, then please send your dues
(along with page 2 of the Registration form) to
Beverly Moreau
3113 Topaz Lane, #A
Fullerton, CA 92831-2374
Conference
Reminders
Potluck
Dinner Saturday Evening
Many thanks to Ann Meister
for agreeing to take care of the Saturday night potluck.
There will be no banquet, as in past years,
since we are cutting out the Friday night opening for the Conference
A ham will be provided (again, thanks to
Ann), 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.
Volunteers are needed to assist Ann for the
dinner, as it takes teamwork to get the meal together. The kitchen will be open all day for the
storing of your food contribution and for co-ordinating the last-minute food
preparations.
Mineral Donations
Please get your donations for the verbal auction to Sugar White before
Christmas. Bob and Sugar have
moved to Arizona, and she
no longer has access to the three-hour turnaround for developing slides as she
did while in this area. Auction
minerals must be photographed prior to auction.
(Be sure to identify your mineral.)
The winning bidder gets both the specimen and the slide. Mailings should go to:
Sugar White
9641 E.
Hickory Tree Pl.
Tucson, AZ 85749
If you have minerals for the giveaway table, they should be set out
early on Saturday morning 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 (cont’d. next page)
-Conference Reminders (Continued)
with your
Registration 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:
Weather permitting, there will be a field trip
on Sunday morning to the Bagdad Chase Mine, led by Bob Housley. (Details will be available at the
Conference.) Be sure to indicate your
interest on the Registration form. .
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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 inter-preted 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 was made in 2003 to
add “CFMS” in front of Honorary in ARTICLE IV DUES: Section 1; to clarify any
misunderstanding.
At our November 13 Directors’ Meeting the
Directors approved a $.50 increase in the insurance charge to a total of $5.00
per “active member”. As defined
by our insurance company (the basis for our rate) an “active member” is any
member who attends one or more functions each year . 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,which
should accompany the dues payment.
Dues and insurance for 2005 are $6.50 for all
classes of members and for all “active members”. The dues/insurance payment form is in this
newsletter along with the new officers form or available from your
Director. It is important to your club
that this form is completely and accurately filled out so that your club
information is up to date for inclusion in the Society Roster. This is the contact information that the
Federation uses to notify your club and your members of Federation news,
events, and happenings. The Society
Roster is your link to the Federation and its member societies.
Please send your dues payment, membership
list and officers change form to Pat LaRue before the end of January. Forms included.
CFMS
INSURANCE REPORT
Fred
Ott, CFMS Insurance Chairperson
Just A reminder: the procedures for obtaining insurance
coverage for your society’s special events (such as club shows) and certificates
of insurance (shows and field trips) have changed effective October 16, 2004.
All such requests are to now be forwarded
directly to the Federation’s insurance agent, Patt McDaniel of McDaniel
Insurance Services, Inc. An explanation
and complete step-by-step procedure for all aspects of your society’s insurance
needs can now be found on the Federation’s website, www.cfmsinc.org, by
accessing the Federation Insurance Program link found on the left-hand
column of the Federation’s home page.
Additionally, a copy of each of the pages found at this site will be
provided to each Director at the November 13th Director’s Meeting in
Fresno.
I cannot emphasize enough the importance of
following all of the procedures when submitting requests. Incomplete or inaccurate requests will be
returned and an additional processing fee will be required to resubmit the
requests. Complete all forms in full
and don’t use phrases such as “same as last year”. When in doubt, contact Patt McDaniel at Patt
McDaniel Insurance Services, P.O. Box 1294,Ojai, CA 93024, Telephone: 805-646-9948 or 800-400-7288; Fax
805-646-9976; Email: mcins@west.net.
For those societies who have previously
purchased Optional Premises Liability and/or Property Coverages, those
coverages have been automatically renewed for the 2004-2005 policy year and I
have mailed invoices to each such club for payment. Beginning in October 2005, those invoices
will be mailed to each club directly by McDaniel Insurance services Inc.
(Both articles from CFMS
Newsletter December 2004)
THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MICRO-MINERALOGISTS PROUDLY PRESENT
40th PACIFIC MICROMOUNT CONFERENCE
January 29-30 2005
SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY MUSEUM, 2024 ORANGE TREE LANE, REDLANDS, CA
(Exit north on California
St. from I-10)
PROGRAM
SATURDAY, JANUARY 29, 2005
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 “MAZZITE-Na, A New Zeolite
from Boron, California”1 – By
Dr. Bill Wise, Professor of Geology, Emeritus, University of California at Santa Barbara.
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 POTLUCK
DINNER. Served at
Museum.
7:30 PM “WHAT’S NEW IN MINERALS” – Sugar White.
8:30 PM Give-away – Free subscription to “Mineralogical
Record” (Must
be present to win.)
9:00 –
10:00 PM SHORT CONTRIBUTED TALKS
AND MEMBER SLIDES.
.
SUNDAY JANUARY 30, 2005
FIELD TRIP: Bagdad Chase Mine –morning (time
and meeting place to be announced).
9:00 – Noon Microscope time at the Museum.
____________________________
Registration Fee is $10.00
before Conference, $15.00 at door.
Saturday lunch – Subway sandwiches – pre-selected on
Registration slip. (No cost to
attendees.)
Saturday night Potluck –
Each family, please bring an hors d’oeuvre, salad, hot dish, dessert, etc.
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>
1 The finely fibrous mineral
Mazzite-Na was discovered fifteen years ago by SCMM members, Jim and Veryl
Carnahan. It has taken all this time for
the development of new techniques in order to gather the necessary data to describe
the mineral. The talk will cover the
saga of this long time unknown to final approval as a new species. A review of the associated minerals will
round out the presentation.
Advance Registration Slip
PACIFIC MICROMOUNT CONFERENCE
January 29-30, 2005 (Field Trip on Sunday, Jan. 30)
Registration $10.00 per person by mail, $15.00 at the door
(Saturday evening there will be a drawing for a free
one-year subscription to The Mineralogical Record – you must be present to
win.)
Total No.
of people ___ Registrations
amount $_______
Names _____________________________
_____________________________
_____________________________
_____________________________
Saturday Lunch (No cost to participants)
Subway sandwiches will be ordered based on your advance
selection
Turkey (__) Beef (__)
Ham (__) Veggie (__)
Saturday 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.)
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)
Scope Time on Sunday morning
Number of Participants
____
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 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 Life Member
or Friend (no dues for either category) Life/Friend
Individual –
Name_________________________________ _____/____
__________________________________ _____/____
Address: __________________________________
__________________________________
E-Mail: __________________________________
Total Amount - Individual
Memberships @ $15.00 each _________
Membership Plus -
Name:___________________________________
___________________________________
___________________________________
___________________________________
Total Amount – Plus
Memberships @ $6,00 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 2005 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 nametag waiting for
everyone. 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
$15.00/year. All other family members at
the same address are Plus members and pay
$6.00/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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