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The East Texas Gem & Mineral Society Newsletter THE EAST TEXAS GEM & MINERAL SOCIETY NEWSLETTER PAGE 1 VOLUME 45 TYLER, TEXAS ISSUE 7 JULY 2019 201800000000000 Upcoming Events President’s Message AUGUST 10 – 11 Welcome to all of our new members. It is really BATON ROUGE G&MS exciting to see the activities going on in the LAMAR DIXON EXPO. CTR. groups, and members getting excited about the GONZALES, LA lapidary, mineral, fossil, and gemology groups. It is exciting to see some of the new members AUGUST 17-18 getting involved with the club activities and ARK-LA-TEX G&MS making suggestions and ideas to help make the BOSSIER CIVIC CENTER club better. We are already in mid-summer, BOSSIER CITY, LA and we will be planning activities to start preparing for our January show. We have SEPTEMBER 21 already had several members step up to volunteer to help with School Day. ETGMS ROCK SWAP & This is exciting because it takes a team effort to make it successful. We still COOKOUT have several club activities that need volunteers, such as a Field Trip 2015 DEERBROOK Chairperson to coordinate and plan activities. We have a few volunteers who TYLER, TX are willing to assist, but cannot commit to the honor of the chairperson. Don’t forget to submit your entries for the Rockhound of the Month. I would also like OCTOBER, 12-13 to thank Terry Roberts for the excellent presentation last meeting. We are trying TRI-CITY G&MS to schedule some work days to remodel the clubhouse. Please let me or any of MAYBORN CIVIL CENTER the club officers know which days you are available. We would like to schedule TEMPLE, TX work days when we can get the most support out to help make it a successful event. I look forward to seeing all of you soon. Remember, stay hydrated and OCTOBER 18-20 be safe while out in the heat. AUSTIN G&MS Fred Mahaffey PALMER EVENT CENTER AUSTIN, TX Inside This Issue 2. July Meeting Minutes 3. Calendar 3. Field Trip Schedule 4. A Look into the Past 5. Sub-Groups 5. New Webmaster 6. AMFS Video Program 6. Missouri/Michigan Field Trip 8. Lapidary Time 9 . Information Terry Robert s presenting his program on West Texas agates. PAGE 2 ROCK-N-ROSE TYLER, TEXAS JULY 2019 DE 2018 MEETING MINUTES (Thursday to Sunday) trip is being planned to the The regular meeting of the East Texas Gem and Austin area in the next two to three weeks to look Mineral Society met on July 1, 2019. President Fred for fossils. Mahaffey called the meeting to order at 6:45 pm. He • There was no report from the Gemology group. asked the two new members to introduce themselves. • The field trip for July 26th-27th is to the Oklahoma Fred then asked for a motion to approve the minutes as salt flats to collect hour-glass selenite. Rick asked they appeared in the newsletter. Kinney Polve made if we could look for fossils at Lake Texoma, but the motion, Terry Roberts seconded, and the motion the trip isn’t to that area. The flats are thirty miles carried. Treasurer Marcia Graham gave her report. south of Kansas. Announcements: • Thanks were expressed to Wayne Ward for • Margaret Kilanski has taken over the Webmaster mowing the yard. position. She asked for ideas and suggestions for • Keith Harmon is selling off everything because making the website better as they will be upgrading they are moving. Contact him if there is something to the latest software version. This is the opportunity you want. He will be available all of July. to insert some new pages. Have your suggestions to Old business: her by August 15, 2019. Her email address is • The new projector has been installed. [email protected]. All requests will be • We need to start working on the other rooms in the reviewed. Contact her if you would like to help with building. the redesign, especially a young member. New Business: • Kinney requested articles for the newsletter. The • Randy Harmon reported that the Gilmer Rock Future Rockhounds of America program isn’t Shop is going out of business and most things are something we normally take part in but if you know 75% off. of a junior member who would be interested, let us • School Chairpersons – Brad Martin and Wayne know so we can get things set up. rd Ward have offered to help. • Darby Spears announced that on August 3 , Roger Farish of the Dallas Paleontology Society has With no further business to discuss, Fred asked for invited us to join them in Justin, Texas at property a motion to adjourn the business meeting. Terry made on Oliver Creek. The club has been there in the past the motion, Gene Goar seconded, and the motion and the water is crystal clear with ammonites visible carried. Door prize tickets were drawn, followed by on the lakebed. Justin is twelve miles north of Fort refreshments, and the program given by Terry on Worth. agates from West Texas. • Terry reported that the Lapidary group meeting will th be informal on July 13 at 2:00 pm. Bring projects Submitted by and questions. Julia Toombs, Secretary • Charles Creekmur wasn’t present at the meeting to give a Mineral group report. • Rick Walker spoke for David Russ in the Fossil group. The last meeting was a show and tell of things found in Jacksboro, Texas, by Jerry and Shelly Sudderth and David. A three to four-day I will be offering a casting class soon. I should be announcing the date at the August 5th meeting. In this class, we will be casting in broom straw and beans. PAGE 3 ROCK-N-ROSE TYLER, TEXAS JULY 2019 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday July 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Fossil Group Gemology 6:30 pm Group 6:30 pm 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Oklahoma Field Trip 27th – 28th 28 29 30 31 August 1 2 3 Oklahoma Field Oliver Creek Trip 27th – 28th Field Trip 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Monthly Lapidary/Jewelry Meeting 6:45 pm Group 2:00 pm 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Mineral Group Gemology Meeting 6:30 pm Group 6:30 pm 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Fossil Group 6:30 pm 2019 Fieldtrip Schedule July Oklahoma July 27th - 28th Hourglass Selenite, Fossils August Northwest of Justin, Texas August 3rd Fossils September Rock Swap - Clubhouse September 21st Rock Swap, Cook Out September Duncanville, Texas September 28th Septarian, Fossils October Mt. Ida, Arkansas October 26th, 27th Quartz Crystals November TBD December Christmas Party December 2nd Note: Schedule is subject to change due unforeseen circumstances. I KNOW I’VE SAID THIS BEFORE, BUT A FIELD TRIP CHAIRPERSON NEEDED. IT’S TIME TO STEP UP AND VOLUNTEER. PAGE 4 ROCK-N-ROSE TYLER, TEXAS JULY 2019 A Look into the Past by Julia Toombs I started to rename the article for the month A Look into the Future, because I want more bios. But even the bios lead up to today, so I kept the original title. Toward the end of June, I was disappointed, because I had had no response to the request for information, so we could get to know each other and our interests better. I thought “It’s only been 2 weeks. You have to give people time.” Written information is better, because I incorrectly remembered something Terry Roberts had told me. He taught in Florida, not Galveston. Kinney Polve took pity on me and took the time to send me his information. Kinney was born in Utah but has spent most of his life in Texas. He became interested in rocks in his mid-teens while collecting them with his Dad. He was most interested in the lapidary aspect, but his Dad kept that part of the hobby to himself. He has lived in the Henderson, Texas area for more than 50 years. Most of his career time was in the automotive industry as a technician and service manager. He was able to retire at age 50. In 2008, Kinney and Vicky became full-time RVers for about four and a half years. This gave them the opportunity to visit all 50 states, (some more than once) Where they collected rocks as they went. By around 2012, they had amassed quite a large collection but, he admitted, a large percentage were “leaverites.” They started looking around for a nearby rock club, but internet searches provided no help. In 2013, he began buying a few pieces of lapidary equipment to start cutting and polishing some of the rocks found on their travels. One day in July 2013, they were driving down Broadway in Tyler and saw a bunch of rocks on a table as they passed the Discovery Science Place. After another internet search, they found ETGMS and attended the next meeting in August. He was elected president for 2014 and did such a fine job that he was re- elected for 2015 and 2016. By 2017, he wanted to do other things. He and Vicky still RVed to return to the areas that had his lapidary rocks. He became Newsletter Editor near the end of 2017 and remains so. He has been a member of the Quartzsite Roadrunners of Quartzsite, Arizona, and is a member of the Rollin’ Rock Club. We know Kinney best for his lapidary work. He really likes cutting and polishing, whether it’s cabbing, faceting, or polishing slabs. He enjoys silversmithing and teaching classes when time permits.
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