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December Meeting and Christmas Party
Monday, December 7, 2009
7:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Chamblee Community Building
3496 Keswick Drive
Chamblee, Georgia
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General Meeting
7:30 PM Monday, November , 2009
Chamblee Library
4115 Clairmont Road
Atlanta, GA 30341
(A reschedule of the September program)
Roadside Geology of Georgia
Dr. Pamela Gore, Professor of Geology at Georgia Perimeter College
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GMS
Annual Banquet
7:00 PM, October 5, 2009
Colonnade
Restaurant Inc
1879 Cheshire Bridge Road NE
Atlanta, GA 30324
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General Meeting
7:30 PM Monday, Sept 21, 2009
Chamblee Library
4115 Clairmont Road
Roadside Geology of Georgia
Dr. Pamela Gore, Professor of Geology at Georgia Perimeter College
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General Meeting
7:30 PM Monday, August 3, 2009
Chamblee Library
4115 Clairmont Road
Geology Field Camp ‘09: Getting Over the Next Hill,
When You’re Over the Hill
Presented by our long time member Bob Jarrett
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General Meeting
7:30 PM Monday, July 6, 2009
Chamblee Library
4115 Clairmont Road
The Art Of Making Jewelry: Lost Wax Casting
Jay Iacullo
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JUNE PICNIC AND
AUCTION
Jones Bridge Park Main Pavilion
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General Meeting
7:30 PM Monday, May 4, 2009
Chamblee Library
4115 Clairmont Road
Program: Getting ready for our club show
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General Meeting
7:30 PM Monday, April 6, 2009
Chamblee Library
4115 Clairmont Road
Atlanta, GA 30341
Curiouser and Curiouser: Mineral Oddities at the Tucson Show
Guest Speaker: Julian Gray, Curator
Tellus Northwest Georgia Science Museum
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General Meeting
7:30 PM Monday, March 2, 2009
Chamblee Library
4115 Clairmont Road
Atlanta, GA 30341
March Program: Speaker ANITA WESTLAKE
CABOCHONS: From Slab to Cab
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General Meeting
7:30 PM Monday, February 2, 2009
Chamblee Library
4115 Clairmont Road
Atlanta, GA 30341
Speaker for February:
Kim Cochran’s
ROCKS!
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General Meeting
7:30 PM Monday, January 5, 2009
Chamblee Library
4115 Clairmont Road
Atlanta, GA 30341
January’s Meeting:
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December Meeting and Christmas Party
Monday, December 1, 2008
7:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Chamblee Community Building
3496 Keswick Drive
Chamblee, Georgia
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General Meeting
7:30 PM Monday, November 3, 2008
Chamblee Library
4115 Clairmont Road
Atlanta, GA 30341
Medical Geology – from Global to Self
Dr. Bill Size of Emory University
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GMS
Annual Banquet
7:00 PM, October 6, 2008
Colonnade
Restaurant Inc
1879 Cheshire Bridge Road NE
Atlanta, GA 30324
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General Meeting
7:30 PM Monday, Sept 15, 2008
Chamblee Library
4115 Clairmont Road
THE INFLUENCE OF GEOLOGY ON THE ATLANTA CAMPAIGN
OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR
Speaker: Dr. Stephen W. Henderson
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General Meeting
7:30 PM Monday, August 4, 2008
Chamblee Library
4115 Clairmont Road
Amber: Ancient Myths, Modern Fakes
Guest Speaker: Anita Westlake
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General Meeting
7:30 PM Monday, July 7, 2008
Chamblee Library
4115 Clairmont Road
Kim Cochran discusses Plate Tectonics
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JUNE PICNIC AND
AUCTION
Jones Bridge Park Main Pavilion
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General Meeting
7:30 PM Monday, May 5, 2008
Chamblee Library
4115 Clairmont Road
Program: Speaker John Trimble
Collecting, Managing & Protecting Your Specimens
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General Meeting
7:30 PM Monday, April 7, 2008
Chamblee Library
4115 Clairmont Road
Atlanta, GA 30341
What is Mineral Micromounting?
Dave Babulski, Chair of the Georgia Mineral Society’s Micromount Section,
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General Meeting
7:30 PM Monday, March 3, 2008
Chamblee Library
4115 Clairmont Road
Atlanta, GA 30341
March Program: Speaker Julian Gray
American Mineral Treasures:
A Report on the Tucson 2008 Show
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General Meeting
7:30 PM Monday, February 4, 2008
Chamblee Library
4115 Clairmont Road
Atlanta, GA 30341
Speaker for February:
Kim Cochran’s
Fossil Quiz!
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General Meeting
7:30 PM Monday, January 7, 2008
Chamblee Library
4115 Clairmont Road
Atlanta, GA 30341
January’s Meeting: METEORITES!
Dave Gheesling
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December Meeting and Christmas Party
Monday, December 3rd, 2007
7:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Chamblee Community Building
3496 Keswick Drive
Chamblee, Georgia
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General Meeting
7:30 PM Monday, November 5th, 2007
Chamblee Library
4115 Clairmont Road
Atlanta, GA 30341
Geology of Georgia Learning Stations
GMS member Olga Jarrett,
associate professor at Georgia State University,
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GMS
Annual Banquet
7:00 PM, October 1, 2007
Colonnade
Restaurant Inc
1879 Cheshire Bridge Road NE
Atlanta, GA 30324
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General Meeting
7:30 PM Monday, Sept 17, 2007
Chamblee Library
4115 Clairmont Road
“The Volunteer Spirit: Sharing our Hobby with
Schools and Fernbank”
JAY GORDAY
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General Meeting
7:30 PM Monday, August 6, 2007
Chamblee Library
4115 Clairmont Road
"Fossils in Georgia"
Tom Batcha
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General Meeting
7:30 PM Monday, July 2, 2007
Chamblee Library
4115 Clairmont Road
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JUNE PICNIC AND
AUCTION
Jones Bridge Park Main Pavilion
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General Meeting
7:30 PM Monday, May 7, 2007
Chamblee Library
4115 Clairmont Road
It’s Not Just for Show Business Anymore!
John Iacullo AND Anita D. Westlake
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General Meeting
7:30 PM Monday, April 2, 2007
Chamblee Library
“THAR’S GOLD IN DEM DARE HILLS!”
KIM COCHRAN
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General Meeting
7:30 PM Monday, March 5, 2007
Chamblee Library
A New Museum in the Neighborhood
Jose Santamaria
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7:30 PM Monday, February 5, 2007
Chamblee Library
4114 Clairmont Road
Patrick Perus,
President of POLYCOR US and owner of Georgia Marble,
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7:30 PM, Monday, January 8, 2007
Chamblee Library
4114 Clairmont Road
Tom Robinson from the Elberton Granite Company.
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Holiday
Party
7:30
PM
Monday, December , 2006
Chamblee
Library
4114
Clairmont
Road
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7:30 PM Monday, November 6, 2006
Chamblee Library
4114 Clairmont Road
“On Frozen Ground: Polar Dinosaurs and Other
Critters in the Cretaceous of Australia”
Dr. Tony Martin from Emory University
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GMS
Annual Banquet
7:00 PM, October 2, 2006
Colonnade
Restaurant Inc
1879 Cheshire Bridge Road NE
Atlanta, GA 30324
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7:30
P.M., Monday, September 18, 2006
Chamblee Library
4114 Clairmont Road
Dinosaurs in our Backyard
By Bill Montante
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7:30 P.M., Monday, August 7, 2006
Chamblee Library
4114 Clairmont Road
Dinosaurs in our Backyard
By Bill Montante
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7:30 P.M., Monday, July 17, 2006
Chamblee Library
4114 Clairmont Road
Geology and Mineralogy of Graves Mountain,
Lincoln County, Georgia
by Julian Grey
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JUNE PICNIC AND
AUCTION
Jones Bridge Park Main Pavilion
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7:30
P.M., Monday, May 1, 2006
Chamblee Library
4114 Clairmont Road
General & Show Meeting
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7:30 P.M., MONDAY, April 3, 2006
Chamblee Library
4114 Clairmont Road
Specimens Under Storage
by Jose Santamaria
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7:30 P.M., MONDAY, March 6, 2006
Chamblee Library
4114 Clairmont Road
Gem Identification
by Kim Cochran
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7:30
PM, Monday, Febuary 6, 2006
Chamblee
Library
Dr. Tim Chowns
His recent research on Geodes &
Agates
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7:30
PM, Monday, January 9, 2006
Chamblee
Library
The Effects of Some
Medicinal Plants on Cancer Cells
by Amber Daniels
GMS Member
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Holiday
Party
7:30 PM
Monday, December 5, 2005
Chamblee
Library
4114 Clairmont
Road
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7:30 PM, Monday,
November 7, 2005
Chamblee
Library
"Georgiaites"-
Georgia
Tektites
Hal Povenmire
Author
of the book, Fireballs,
Meteors and Meteorites
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GMS
Annual Banquet
7:00
PM, October 3, 2005
Fire
Mountain Grill
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Monday,
September 12,
2005
Chamblee
Library
Meeting: 7:30 pm,
Ages of Fossils By Kim Cochran
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Monday,
August 1, 2005
Chamblee
Library meeting location
Causes
of Color in Minerals,
Doug
Daniels, GMS Pres.
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Monday, July 18, 2005
Dunwoody
Library,
Meeting: 7:30 pm,
Speakers: Jay Gorday, Olin Banks
– Faceting
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JUNE PICNIC AND
AUCTION
Jones
Bridge Park Main Pavilion
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Monday, May 2, 2005
Chamblee Library
7:30 PM
Traditionally, we discuss
the Mother's Day Gem and Mineral Show for our May Meeting.
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Monday, April 4, 2005
Chamblee Library
7:30 PM
NaCl Sodium Chloride:
The Importance of Salt in the History of Mankind
By Jim Haege
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Monday, March 7, 2005
Chamblee Library
7:30 PM
"Geo-hazards: Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and Tsunamis"
Julian Grey, PG
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Monday, February
7, 2005
Chamblee Library
7:30 PM
"Fossils and Fossil Formations of the
Southeast"
Dr. Pamela Gore
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Monday, January 10, 2005
7:30 PM,
Chamblee
Library
"
Introduction to
Mineral
Art"
Dr. Dave
Babulski
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Monday, December 6, 2004
7:30 PM,
Chamblee
Library
HOLIDAY PARTY
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7:30 P.M., Monday, November 1, 2004
Chamblee Library
"Caves and Caving"
This month’s speaker will be Terry
Everett Program Coordinator
for the Weinman Mineral Museum.
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Monday, October 4, 2004
6:45 P.M.
57th
Fighter Group Restaurant
ANNUAL BANQUET
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SEPTEMBER
GENERAL MEETING
7:30 PM,
Monday, September 13th, 2004
Chamblee Library
"HOW TO
PUT TOGETHER A COMPETITIVE"
or
"NON-COMPETITIVE
DISPLAY CASE"
Jay Gorday
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7:30 PM, Monday, August
2nd, 2004
Chamblee Library
THE
FORMATION AND INCLUSIONS IN
AUSTRALIAN
AND NEW ZEALAND AGATES
Sir Paul
Howard
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7:30
PM, Monday, July 19, 2004
Chamblee Library
"THE HISTORY
OF GEOLOGY"
Kim
Cochran, GMS member
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JUNE PICNIC AND
AUCTION
Jones
Bridge Park Main Pavilion
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7:30 PM, Monday, May
3, 2004
Chamblee Library
MAY SHOW
Traditionally, we discuss
the Mother's Day Gem and Mineral Show for our May Meeting.
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7:30 PM, Monday, April
5, 2004
Chamblee Library
"MINERAL HISTORY OF GRAVES
MOUNTAIN"
Jose Santamaria, Director
and Curator of the Weinman Mineral Museum,
and GMS member will be
our speaker.
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7:30 PM, Monday, March
1, 2004
Chamblee Library
Crystal Symmetry
- Bad Habits or Good Form
This month, Dr. William
Size,
Geology Professor at
Emory University and GMS member will be our speaker.
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7:30 PM, Monday, February
2, 2004
COLLECTING ROCKS,
MINERALS and FOSSILS
This month Kim Cochran
wil give a talk on collecting all over the Southeast.
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7:30 PM, Monday, January
5, 2004
"Field Trips from
the Past"
This month Dr. Marcella
Woods will present a program using
slides and pictures from
old field trips that GMS has gone on.
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Monday, December 8, 2003
7:30 PM,
Dunwoody Library
HOLIDAY
PARTY
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NOTE
THE DIFFERENT DATE!!!
7:30 PM, Monday,
November 10, 2003
Chamblee Library
"Rocking in the
West"
by Charlie Seabelt
Charlie
Seatbelt will give us a talk on rock
collecting in the West.
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Monday, October 6, 2003
6:45 P.M.
57th
Fighter Group Restaurant
ANNUAL BANQUET
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SEPTEMBER
GENERAL MEETING
NOTE
THE DIFFERENT DATE!!!
7:30
PM, Monday, September 22, 2003
Chambre
Library
PUTTING TOGETHER A DISPLAY
CASE
This month our speaker
is our own Vice President of Programs, Jay Gorday
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7:30
PM, Monday, August 4, 2003
Chamblee
Library
"Barite from the Cartersville
Mining District, Bartow County, Georgia"
This month our speaker
is our Mineral Section Chair, Julian Gray.
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7:30
PM, Monday, July 7, 2003
Chamblee
Library
"INNOVATIVE RECLAMATION
ALTERNATIVES
for MINING OPERATIONS"
This month Karl Everett,
a GMS member,
and Senior Environmental
Manager with Oglebay Norton Company
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June - No Speaker
JUNE PICNIC AND
AUCTION
Saturday,
21 June
Jess Lucas
Y-Teen Park in downtown
Hapeville
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7:30
PM, Monday, May 5, 2003
Chamblee
Library
SPEAKERS BUREAU AND MAY
SHOW MEETING:
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7:30 PM,
Monday, April 7, 2003
Dunwoody Library
Volcanoes
of Costa Rica[Top]
Monday, February 17,
2003
7:30 PM,
Dunwoody Library
"500 MILLION YEAR OLD
SOFT-BODIED FOSSIL PRESERVATION
DISCOVERED IN NORTH GEORGIA"
by
Bill Montante
Vice President and Senior Consultant
with Marsh Risk Consulting, Marsh USA Inc.
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Monday, January 6, 2003
7:30 PM,
Dunwoody Library
"Tiniest Giants
– Discovering Dinosaur Eggs"
by
Christine Bean, GMS member
Geologist in the Education Department
Fernbank Natural History Museum
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Monday, December 2, 2002
7:30 PM,
Dunwoody Library
HOLIDAY PARTY
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Monday, November 18, 2002
7:30 PM,
Dunwoody Library
"HOW NOT TO BECOME A MINERAL DEALER"
by
Jim Haege, GMS member
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Monday, October 7, 2002
6:30 P.M.
Colonnade Restaurant
ANNUAL BANQUET
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Monday, September 2, 2002 (Labor Day)
7:30 PM,
Atlanta Humane Society
"Mini-Auction."
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Monday,
August 5, 2002
7:30 PM
Dunwoody
Library
NEW
CATALOGING SOFTWARE
by
Glenn
Whitehead and Lori Carter
The
Fredrick Group, Inc.
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Monday,
July 1, 2002
7:30 PM
Dunwoody
Library
"REMOVING
IRON STAINS WITH OXALIC ACID."
by
Charles
Carter,
GMS member
and
Vice
President of the Cobb County Gem
and Mineral Club
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JUNE PICNIC AND
AUCTION
Saturday,
8 June, 2002, 11:00 AM
Jones
Bridge Park Main Pavilion
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Monday, May
6, 2002
7:30 PM
Northlake-Barbara
Loar Library
"Topic - Our
MAY SHOW"
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Monday, April
1, 2002
7:30 PM
Northlake-Barbara
Loar Library
"WERE VIKINGS
ROCKHOUNDS?"
A GEOLOGIC EXCURSIONS
IN NORWAY
by
Dr. William Size
Geology Professor at Emory University
GMS Member
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Monday, March
4, 2002
7:30 PM
Northlake-Barbara
Loar Library
"Mineral
Collecting"
"Geology and
Mining in Northern Minnesota"
by
Karl Everett
GMS member, professional
geologist,
and Manager Environmental
Health and Safety
with Global Stone
Corporation)
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Monday, February
4, 2002
7:30 PM
Northlake-Barbara
Loar Library
"FUSED GLASS"
by
Anita Westlake
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Monday, January
7, 2002
7:30 PM
Northlake-Barbara
Loar Library
"Mineralogy in
South Greenland:
A Travelogue"
by
Julian C.
Gray
Ph. D.
candidate in Geology, Georgia
State University
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Monday, 3 Dec. 2001, 7:00 PM
Chamblee Library
"GMS
CHRISTMAS PARTY"
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Monday, 5 Nov. 2001, 7:30 PM
Chamblee Library
"What
goes into putting on a successful
gem and mineral show"
by
Kim Cochran
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October -
No Speaker
Annual Banquet
and Awards Meeting
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SEPTEMBER
GENERAL MEETING
7:30 PM,
Monday, September 17, 2001
"Savage
Ancient Seas"
by
Christine Bean, GMS member,
and
Geologist, in the Education Department
of Fernbank Natural History Museum
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AUGUST
GENERAL MEETING
7:30 PM,
Monday, August 6, 2001
"Geo-Hazards,
or, I feel the Earth
Move Under My Feet"
by Anita
Westlake
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GENERAL MEETING
7:30 PM,
Monday, July 2, 2001
"AN
INTRODUCTION TO THE WORKSHOPS
AT WILLIAM
HOLLAND AND WILDACRES"
by Olan
Banks
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JUNE PICNIC AND
AUCTION
Saturday,
2 June, 2001, 11:00 AM
Jones
Bridge Park Main Pavilion
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MAY GENERAL MEETING
7:30 PM, Monday, May 7, 2001
"MINERAL PHOTOGRAPHY and ART"
by
Dr. Dave Babulski
GMS member, Micromount Section Chair, and Artist
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GENERAL MEETING
Monday, 02 April 2001
7:30 PM
"WORKED GOLD"
by
Jay Iacullo, GMS member
Gem Section Chair
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GENERAL MEETING
Monday, 05 March 2001
7:30 PM
"Patagonian Dinosaurs"
(and other adventures in Argentina!)
by
Christine Beam, GMS member
Geologist in the Education Department
Fernbank Natural History Museum
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GENERAL MEETING
Monday, 05 February 2001
7:30 PM
"Fossil Quiz"
by
Kim Cochran
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GENERAL MEETING
Monday, 08 January 2001
7:30 PM
"GEO-EXCURSIONS
IN NEW ZEALAND"
by
Dr. William Size
Geology Professor at Emory University
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Monday, 4 Dec. 2000, 7:30 PM
Chamblee Library
"GMS
CHRISTMAS PARTY"
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Monday, 20 Nov. 2000, 7:30 PM
Chamblee Library
"HOW
TO PUT TOGETHER A DISPLAY CASE"
by
Jay Gorday
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October - No Speaker
Annual Banquet
and Awards Meeting
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GENERAL MEETING
Monday, 11 September 2000, 7:30 PM
Chamblee Library
"The
Maine Coast in June"
by
Bill and Joan Waggener
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GENERAL MEETING
Monday, 21 August 2000, 7:30 PM
Chamblee Library
"Quartz-Tourmaline
Veins in the Lithonia
Gneiss
near
Duluth, Georgia"
A Georgia Mineral Heritage Project
by
David Babulski, ED. D.
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Monday, 3 July 2000, 7:30 PM
Chamblee Library
"A
Wonderful Trip to Tucson, Arizona"
by
Jim Flora
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JUNE PICNIC AND
AUCTION
Saturday,
3 June, 2000, 11:00 AM
Jones
Bridge Park Main Pavilion
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Monday, May 1, 2000, 7:30 P.M.
Chamblee Library
"Playing
GOD: modeling mass extinction
in the modern shelf fauna"
Dr. Burt Carter -
Paleontologist
Professor of
Geology at GA. Southwestern.
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Monday, April 3, 2000, 7:30 P.M.
Chamblee Library
"The
influence of geology on the Chattanooga
and
Atlanta
Campaigns of the American Civil
War"
by
Dr. Stephen Henderson,
geology professor at Emory at Oxford