Get your membership renewal in soon if you wish to be included in the 1995 Member Directory, and to continue receiving The Granite State Geologist. At publication time, there were 65 members in good standing for 1994-95, including several new members. What about you? Check your address label (there are, or course, always a few pieces of mail that might not have been processed yet, so its possible your label says "renewal due" even though you have already sent it).
The Society's annual meeting and election of the Board of Directors is fast approaching. We need a nominating committee to call for nominations, contact the nominees, and put together the slate of candidates. This is an important job that needs several people. If you would like to volunteer to make a few phone calls, and receive and send a few FAXes, please call Joanne McLaughlin at 603-224-7979 or Greg Kirby at 603-224-3462. The Society exists only by the efforts of volunteers--YOU can help!
Carl Koteff of the U.S. Geological Survey has graciously accepted the Society's request to lead the Summer 1994 Field Trip. His topic will be: Late-Glacial Marine Invasion of Coastal Central New England: Eastern New Hampshire-Southwestern Maine. The trip will consist of four (4) stops taken from the first day of a three-day field trip hosted by the Maine Geological Survey and the USGS during the 1993 Annual Geological Society of America meeting last October. Carl will be providing us with a thought provoking tour of ice contact and post-glacial marine transgression deposits. The trip will begin at Durham, NH and end in Wells, Maine. We anticipate about 45 minutes for each stop.
The trip is scheduled for Saturday, August 6, 1994. The trip will be held rain or shine, so bring your wet weather gear. We will congregate at 8:00 am at the University of New Hampshire's main student parking lot located adjacent to the Visitor's Center. We will depart at 9:00. At that time, we will be providing a hand out of the geologic history of the area, with descriptions of the locations we will be visiting.
Pre-registration for the trip is encouraged--please use the enclosed form. We hope to carpool as much as possible in order to keep keep the number of vehicles at a minimum. Please indicate on the registration form if you are willing to drive, and how many passengers your vehicle can accommodate. A box lunch, including choice of sandwich (Ham & Cheese, Turkey & Cheese, or Tuna & Cheese), fruit, chips, and a soft drink, will be available for $6.00--please indicate on the registration form your choices. For more information, contact Greg Kirby at (603) 271-3624.
Due to safety considerations at the gravel pits, children are NOT ALLOWED. We apologize for this inconvenience to our members with families.
The New England Section of the National Association of Geology Teachers recently recognized Michele L. Wendel, earth science teacher at Rundlett Junior High School, Concord, NH, with its Outstanding Earth Science Teacher Award. Michele received BA and MEd degrees from the University of Vermont. "Science is a real and active experience in Michele's classroom," writes her principal. "Michele combines field trip excursions and in-class labs to provide her students with a variety of hands-on, real life, learning experiences." She has been instrumental in linking Rundlett with the world through telecommunications. Her students collect data on such diverse topics as local acid rain levels, ozone concentrations, and even road kills. Data is analyzed and shared with local and national agencies. Michele has presented many workshops and is the recipient of the 1993 Chubb Life America Christa McAuliffe Memorial Fellowship. Her team colleagues write that Michele's "enthusiasm for learning and innovated approaches to teaching Earth Sciences are outstanding strengths that prove inspirational to both staff and students."
The 4th annual NHGS Field Trip will be held Saturday, August 6, 1994, rain or shine, starting from the UNH campus in Durham. For more information contact Greg Kirby, 603-271-3624.
Membership Renewals are now past due. The Society's membership year runs from June 1 to May 31 (see story inside). The 1995 NHGS Membership Directory will be published this August, as incentive for you to get your membership renewal in soon.
The 1994 Annual Meeting will be October 13, at the Sheraton Tara Hotel in Bedford. The meeting will feature the elections of officers--consider volunteering yourself for the nominating committee, or as a candidate.
Future Meetings are scheduled for January 12, April 13, June 8 (tentative), and October 12, 1995, with a field trip August 5, 1995. For reference, the Society schedules its meetings for the second Thursday of the appropriate month, and its field trip for the first Satuday in August.
The deadline for publication in the next The Granite State Geologist is September 10. Of course, you don't have to wait until the deadline to submit an article! Send submissions anytime to: Tim Allen, Geology Dept., Mailstop 2001, Keene State College, Keene, NH 03435-2001, telephone: (603) 358-2571, FAX: (603) 358-2257, internet: tallen@keene.edu.
Electronic Submissions are encouraged, on either PC or Mac disks, or by e-mail. Save your file as plain ASCII TEXT, and send a hard-copy too (just in case).
The Granite State Geologist is produced on Macintosh computers using WriteNow for copy editing (submissions are encouraged in plain ASCII TEXT, but other word-processor formats may be acceptable) and Adobe Illustrator for graphics, layout and typesetting. Body type is set in Adobe Garamond, with headers set in Helvetica Bold. Final copy is printed on a PostScript Laserwriter. The membership database is stored in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. After updating the database, mailing labels are produced using the merge function in WriteNow. Then the newsletter is reproduced, collated, folded, sealed, and finally, postage and the mailing labels are affixed.
Last Modified August 22, 1995
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