VOLUME 19-20 JULY No. 4 NO. 3 “BY AND FOR ALL ANTARCTICANS” PRESIDENT Dr. Anthony J. Gow www.antarctican.org 117 Poverty Lane www.facebook.com/antarcticansociety Lebanon, NH 03766 [email protected] Dr. Paul Clement Dalrymple............. 1 Heating the Antarctic, losing ice ...... 4 VICE PRESIDENT Board tackles Society’s old bylaws .. 2 Virus threat stalls fieldwork.............. 6 Liesl Schernthanner The survey – have your say .............. 2 The Antarctic Eye ............................. 6 P.O. Box 3307 Ketchum, ID 83340 Call for Board candidates.................. 2 Newsletter editor sought ……….....10 [email protected] Website update .................................. 3 Paul C. Dalrymple, 1923-2020 …...10 Jackie Ronne ignored ........................ 4 ACTING TREASURER Thomas Henderson 35 Cherry Street #701 Burlington, VT 05401 [email protected] DR. PAUL CLEMENT DALRYMPLE SECRETARY Joan Boothe 21 NOVEMBER 1923 – 24 APRIL 2020 2435 Divisadero Drive San Francisco, CA 94115 [email protected] DIRECTORS D. Andersen; J. Behrendt; J.S. Dibbern; V. Kurol; L. Lanzerotti; M. Leinmiller; J. Marty; R. Thoreson; L. Urasky WEBMASTER Thomas Henderson (address above) ARCHIVIST Charles Lagerbom 16 Peacedale Drive Northport, ME 04849 [email protected] SOCIAL MEDIA DIR. Lesley Urasky 1 Bennett Peak Court Saratoga, WY 82331-1098 [email protected] NEWSLETTER EDITOR Guy Guthridge 612 South Saint Asaph St. Alexandria, VA 22314 [email protected] 703-258-4320 MEMBERSHIP. See About Us on website to join, or mail check to Treasurer. $13/yr (newsletter online) $20/yr (newsletter mailed to address in USA) Paul Dalrymple nurtured the Antarctican Society for 44 years. His legacy challenges $25/yr (newsletter mailed to members to sustain the organization in the decades ahead. Read about the challenge, non-U.S. address) and about Paul, inside. Sandra Mason Dickson painted this portrait in 2013. Board of Directors tackles Society’s Society website, under Members > Society ancient bylaws Documents. by Tom Henderson The survey — have your say The Board of Directors of the by Joan N. Boothe Antarctican Society has taken an initiative to completely revise our Bylaws. Member Along with the ballot and revised participation in this process is needed. Bylaws discussed above being mailed to The document was last changed in members, we include a survey. With this one 1965: a time before computers, the internet, mailing, you can vote on the bylaws and also email, hand-held calculators, and even copy tell us how you feel about the Antarctican machines. It specified dues as $3.00 per year, Society. and most of the members lived in or near We are at the time to move the Antarc- Washington, D.C., making it easy to get to the tican Society into a new era. To do it right, we meetings, lectures, and social events that then need to know what our members think about were held several times a year in the the Society and want for the future. Washington area. The survey begins on the same page as Numerous updates are needed, and the your ballot. It opens with general questions, Board has put a big effort into developing this then asks about your experience with and new version. We want the Bylaws to reflect feelings regarding membership meetings and the world as it exists now, to recognize the gatherings, the newsletter, the website, now geographically dispersed membership, Society archives, and social media. The and to make the Society more efficient. survey concludes with questions about your Changing the Bylaws requires vision for the Society in the future. Most approval by a majority of Society members questions are multiple choice, but we want who choose to vote. Every member will you to expand on your answers, and we receive, by regular mail, a copy of the provide space to do so. proposed new Bylaws and a ballot to vote yes We will compile all answers and or no on them. If the votes support approval, comments, analyze the results, and prepare a the Board will adopt the new Bylaws report. When we publish the results of the immediately. election in the newsletter this fall, we also will We think the improvements are let you know the results of the survey. necessary and urge you to vote for them. Do This is your Society. Your opinion not hesitate to contact any of the current counts, but only if you let us know how you officers if you have questions. feel. The survey is your opportunity to express Updating the Bylaws is only one of the yourself. The Board of Directors is committed Board’s recent actions. The two articles that to listening to what you have to say, and it is follow cover a member survey and a call for committed to acting on it. Board of Directors candidates. A Society document not requiring your Call for Board candidates direct action is titled Articles of Incorporation, also adopted around 1965. It includes a list of by Liesl Schernthanner the twelve purposes for which the Society was organized, and you may find it helpful as you Our dear friend, Paul Dalrymple, go over the proposed revisions to the Bylaws. possessed a great enthusiasm for the This document, along with the 1965 version of Antarctican Society, and his passing is a sad the Bylaws, is in the members-only part of the loss. We are grateful for the many memories The Antarctican Society July 2020 of Port Clyde gatherings, stimulating tell-it-as- Zoom or other meeting software as well as a it-is newsletter entries, Society leadership, and telephone call-in option). Infrequent special friendship. It has been said that the Society is board meetings may be called at other times to his legacy, and in keeping with his heartfelt address urgent issues. passion for Antarctica and this organization Potential near-term goals are to re- we are pressing ahead with optimism. To establish our non-profit status, organize future quote our acting Treasurer and valued member gatherings, memorialize our recently Webmaster, Tom Henderson: “He and Ruth dearly departed, update the Newsletter, and Siple took it upon themselves to carry the continue to build on Paul’s legacy. You have Society through difficult times and they an opportunity to participate in moving the succeeded, leaving us in good financial shape Society into a new era. Please consider and with a stable membership. Now it is up to submitting your candidacy for any of the us to honor them and move the Society positions. We need you! forward.” As part of this effort, we call for Website update candidate nominations for the Antarctican Society Board of Directors, Officers, and Ex- by Tom Henderson Officio Officers. Any current Society member interested in serving should send a short It has become apparent to me over the biographical sketch to our Secretary, Joan N. past few months that a number of members Boothe, at [email protected] or 2435 still do not realize that most of our website Divisadero Street, San Francisco, California (www.antarctican.org) does not require a login 94115. Deadline for submissions is 29 and password to view the contents. Again, August 2020. only certain areas of the Members category All positions are open for new are password protected. For example, if you candidates. New board members will begin want to pay your dues you can just navigate to their terms at the time of the annual Board Members > Dues Payment without ever meeting in September 2020. having to login. You will know if a page is If members approve the new Bylaws protected if, when you click on it, the login this summer (please look for the revision and sub-window appears. In the event of a your ballot in the mail), the Antarctican forgotten login username or password, just Society Board of Directors will have as many send me an email at as 16 members. Of the 16, two officers (Presi- [email protected]. dent, Vice President) will serve 3-year terms, By the way, if you are not sure when with a two-term limit. As many as eight your membership expires, you can check that directors will serve 6-year terms. Secretary, easily by logging in and going to Members > Treasurer, and four ex-officio officers Members List. At the top of this page you will (Webmaster, Editor, Social Media Director, find a link to a document which shows you and Archivist) will serve terms of indefinite how to view your profile information, duration. All 16 will be voting members of including the date of your membership the board. The Society Board will elect no expiration. more than eight directors and four officers by I recommend that you check the plurality vote in each election. website frequently as we add new content on a Responsibilities of officers and regular basis. directors are described in the proposed As always, if you have any questions amended Bylaws being mailed to all members. or difficulty in using the website, please They include participation in one annual contact me at the email above. meeting conducted remotely (online using 3 The Antarctican Society July 2020 Jackie Ronne ignored Ronne who drew up a document putting her in charge should anything happen to him. She by Joanna Kafarowski conducted scientific work assisting the geophysicist Andrew Thompson. I was interested to read Kelly K. I took over the operation of both the Falkner’s article in the January 2020 issue tidal gauge and the seismographic work. I about women who conduct and support made daily trips to the tidal shack, checked to science and to listen to her related talk at the see that the tide changes were being auto- “Women in Antarctica Celebrating 50 Years matically recorded, and then wound the of Exploration” conference hosted in October clocks.