Palos Verdes Gem & Mineral Society

A non-profit California corporation whose primary objective is the promotion of the study, collecting, working, and exhibiting of gems, minerals, and fossils.

 Member of the California and American Federations of Gem and Mineral Societies.

Location:

MEETING PLACE: The Community Room of the Palos Verdes Main Library – (THIRD FLOOR)

701 Silver Spur Road, Rolling Hills Estates, CA 90274

MEETING DATE; Second Monday of each month at 7:00 p.m.

MEET AND GREET: 6:30 pm

PARKING INSTRUCTIONS

The library now closes at 8:00 pm, Monday thru Thursday.

The second floor indoor parking will also close at 8:00 pm.

 Please park on the roof of the library or public-street parking on deep valley drive.

 Please do not park on the second floor or in the surrounding shopping area parking.

Programs:

JANUARY 9, 2012 – PROGRAM – DINOSAURS – (EYEWITNESS VIDEO)

See the world as never before.  Become a paleontologist and piece together the facts behind these real-life monsters. 
Experience the process of discovery from start to finish
the excitement of digging, reconstruction, and the realization of what dinosaurs might actually have looked like.

EDUCATION REPORT – Marge Crandall, Vice President – Education, starts the first in a series of quizzes to broaden our knowledge.

Quiz #1 is “Rocks and Minerals.”  The quiz will be sent out under separate e-mail cover. 
Please print the quiz, fill in the blanks, and bring to the January meeting for discussion.

SHOW AND TELL – Art Nagy and Dale Keel –
Fossils and treasures from a Del Air Rocks field trip to Refugio/Gaviota Beach in January 2011. 
Field trip report by Art Nagy to follow.

FEBRUARY 13, 2012 – DVD PROGRAM – “AMBER - Jewel of the Earth”

Forty million years ago a diverse community of insects living at the bottom of a tree in a temperate forest chanced into a sticky pool of pine resin.
Then a mere 67 years ago a young boy named David Attenborough was given the amber stone containing the entombed bugs.
"Jewel of the Earth" explores the remarkable time capsule of ancient life preserved in this and countless other samples of fossilized tree resin, or amber.

Sir David Attenborough, now grown up and a celebrated naturalist and TV personality, hosts the program. As he makes abundantly clear in the show,
 he is still entranced with the amber specimen from his youth and the seemingly magical quality of the material to serve
as a crystal-clear window to an age before humans walked the Earth.

Coincidentally, David's brother Richard starred in the movie that made amber famous: Jurassic Park,
 in which Richard plays a billionaire entrepreneur who extracts DNA from amber-entombed mosquitoes in order to clone living replicas of their prey—dinosaurs.
While such a scenario is probably unlikely, amber can resurrect prehistoric life in a quite different way, as NOVA demonstrates by probing the
amber-encased clues that paint a fascinating picture of ancient biomes.

SHOW AND TELL – Member display of amber pieces.

Membership:

Annual Dues: Individual $25.00, Additional Family Members $15.00 each.

Initiation Fee: $12.00 per person which includes name badge.

Application for membership may be made after attendance at three Club activities.

GUESTS ARE WELCOME AT ALL MEETINGS, FIELD TRIPS, AND OTHER FUNCTIONS.

PALOS VERDES GEM AND MINERAL SOCIETY

2012 SLATE OF OFFICERS

President – Art Nagy, Margie Bohn

Vice President – Programs – Peggy Hill

Vice President – Education – Marge Crandall

Vice President – Awards – Agnes Widding

Secretary – Peggy Hill

Treasurer – Mindy Laidlaw

Federation Director – Dot Beachler

COMMITTEES

Bulletin Editor – Peggy Hill

Field Trip Director – Tom Laymon

Hospitality – Agnes Widding

Sunshine – Lynette Vandeveer

Historian – Margie Bohn

Photographer – Art Nagy

Advertising – Margie Bohn

Web Master – Dale Keel – (http://www.pvgms.org

Refreshments - Rotating