Lizabeth McClain
Executive VP/Membership

This is a reminder to check the mailing label on your last issue of the 'Tips and Trips".  The date next to your name gives the month and year through which your dues are paid.  If it is past that month and year, please renew by mailing an updated membership form and a check to the post office address.  If you are past two months of the date, please remit $25 instead of the renewal of $20, as your dues are delinquent.  We don't want to lose you from our membership, but we will have to drop you from the mailing list and the email list if your dues are not current.

If you have any questions regarding GMS membership status or have changes in mailing address, telephone number, or email address, please notify me atmembership@gamineral.org or mgm5258@netzero.net

If you do not know your membership renewal date, feel free to contact me.  Those who receive the newsletter by mail can find the renewal date printed on the mailing label. 

If your have sent in your membership renewal and your check has not cleared your bank, please read on!  I receive the applications from someone who checks the GMS mailbox for me periodically.  After I process the applications I then send a collection of checks to the GMS treasurer, who then gets them deposited.  We do all this by mail, as a rule, because we all live spread out in Atlanta.   But rest assured that if you are receiving emails from the club and are listed in the newsletter that your membership is good, your check will eventually be processed.  Sorry, but this all takes time.

I'm quite pleased to see how many applicants have asked to receive the Tips and Trips electronically. When a member receives the email version he receives his newsletter much sooner, receives it in color and saves GMS money that would be spent on printing and postage.  Everybody wins. I hope that more members will elect to go the electronic way. If you would like to make the change, you can make a notation on an application when you renew or you can simply let me know anytime by phone, mail, or email and I’ll make sure to notify Jim Flora and Joan White of the update.

There are a few members who have asked to receive the newsletter both by U.S. Mail and electronically. I encourage those of you who fall into this group to help out your Georgia Mineral Society and elect to receive only the email version.  Every dollar saved on postage and printing is freed up to go toward the building fund.

During the year, our society hosts one club show:  held on Mother's Day weeknd at the beginning of May in the Cobb Civic Center, Marietta, GA.  

In the month of October, the society holds a banquet in place of its general meeting.  June brings the annual GMS picnic and auction in place of the general meeting.

If you would like to join the Georgia Mineral Society, please download one of the following GMS membership forms and send it to the following address:

   THE GEORGIA MINERAL SOCIETY, INC. 
                        P.O. BOX 15011 
              ATLANTA, GA  30333-5011

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• GMS Membership Application - PDF fill-in format 
• MSWord DOC format

RENEWAL DUES ARE $20.00
(due 12 months from the date of joining)

REINSTATEMENT DUES for expired memberships are $25.00
($20.00 + $5.00 reinstatement fee).

FAMILY MEMBERSHIPS ARE FOR THE IMMEDIATE FAMILY INCLUDING CHILDREN RESIDING WITH PARENTS. CHILDREN 16 YEARS OF AGE AND YOUNGER ARE CONSIDERED JUNIOR MEMBERS.

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