February 2006
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Next meeting:
February 6, 2006
7:00 pm
Program:
Craig Latimer will present a program on importing and exporting shells.
Food
provided by: Humbirds and Whites, additional volunteers are welcome
Drinks
provided by: Latimers
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NOTICE-
SHELLS FOR SALE
Jean Wright is selling the remainder of her shell
collection. She needs to conclude the sale before school is out because
she and Harold are moving.
Her phone number is: 361-774-3913.
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Field Trip Report
Saturday, January 28 was a fun day at the Barziza’s
beach house. Nancy, Tina and Dean made delicious seafood gumbo and creole.
Dave was well supervised while cooking hot dogs while others took the
difficult position as fire watcher. The afternoon was spent shelling,
sewing, sleeping, reading, playing chickenfoot, and visiting with friends.
Thank you to Dave and Nancy Barziza for an enjoyable
day.
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CALL TO ORDER: The
January 3, 2006 meeting of the Sea Shell Searchers was called to order by
president Steven Coker. Members
were wished a Happy New Year. A poll was taken of those receiving shells
or shell related gifts. Many needed prompting to refresh memories. A new
member, Sherry Tesch, was introduced.
SECRETARY’S REPORT:
Minutes approved as mailed in November newsletter.
TREASURER’S REPORT:
Wayne Humbird did not report a balance.
COMMITTEE REPORTS:
- Membership: Steven
Coker – have members
- Newsletter: Patty Humbird – let her know if
not getting email
- Field Trips: Darwin
Alder – St. Joe
Island or Matagorda or Cephalopod Center
are field trip possibilities
- Hospitality/Hostess: Freida
White – need drinks for next month
- Museum Study Project: no report
- Historian: Irene Norris – Has received the
scrapbook, it is full, she will get a new one and update
- Exhibits: Dean Harris and Lori Sipple –
Quintana exhibit looks good
- Auction: Wayne Humbird is taking donations
- Program: Craig Latimer – February program is
on importing and exporting shells
- Shell Show: Wanda Coker – discussed
proposals to have the shell show every two years in May opposite
Jamboree. We will look into having the show in the museum in May and
asking other clubs to host.
OLD BUSINESS: none
NEW BUSINESS: none
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
- Nancy Barziza invited everyone to their
beach house Jan. 28. More details in newsletter.
- Wayne Humbird announced that the museum’s
annual meeting is Jan. 8 and everyone is invited
- Harold and Freida
White have been married 50 years. Congratulations
DOOR PRIZES won by Dean
Harris, Teresa Leibig, Craig Latimer, R. L. Norris, Joey Leibig
ADJOURNMENT: Motion was
made by Dennis Harris, second by Cliff Harris. Motion passed.
PROGRAM: Craig Latimer
introduced John Forsythe who gave a program on cephalopods.
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Shell Show Report
The show committee has
chosen a date of May 5 and 6. We have received permission to hold the show
in the museum. Unfortunately the end of April and the month of May are
busy at The Center and the rest of the facility is already rented. Our
awards dinner will probably have to be held away from the show. We will
make this decision at a later date.
The information letter,
rule changes and category changes are included with this newsletter.
The one family category
has been expanded to include entries for very small families – we set a
limit of 20 members, but could probably be talked into a somewhat larger
number. We are also having a category for a single specie family. Cathy
Betley has informed me that there will be such a shell available at the Houston shell club
auction on April 1. You could win it, bring it home, put it in a box with
a label and have an instant exhibit for the show.
We have also eliminated
the beanie baby and collectible categories this year. We know members had
fun with the beanie baby category and liked showing shell related items,
but we will have limited table space in the museum so eliminating these
categories should give us a couple of free tables for scientific exhibits.
If, however, we do find ourselves with a spare table we may have a last
minute surprise fun single entry category such as a snail parade or hermit
crab exodus. Keep an eye on the website for information on this category.
We have set April 19 as
the date due for entries. We will have to stick to this date to know if we
will have table space for the exhibits, have enough tables from the Center
or need to order additional tables from a rental place. The date is after
the Houston
meeting, so we will take applications there.
Several members have
asked about dealers and/or sale tables. At the moment we do not plan to
have either because we will not have room if a space does not become free
in the Center.
If you have not been
able to attend meetings or have not visited the museum lately, you will
find it greatly changed. Exhibits have been rearranged, new fossil
exhibits added and next month we will open a fabulous pre-Columbian
pottery collection. So plan to come and marvel at the “new museum” and
plan to bring a box of identified shells to enter in the show.
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Sea Shell Searchers
Shell Show
Friday and Saturday
May 5, 6, 2006
Brazosport Museum
of Natural Science
Clute, Texas
Dear Sheller,
The Sea Shell Searchers announce our 2006 Shell Show. Our show
this year will be held in the Brazosport Museum of Natural Sciences, located at
400 College Drive, Clute, Texas.
The museum is part of the Center for the Arts and Sciences and is located off Oyster Creek Drive
near Brazosport College.
There will be social events to renew acquaintances and make
new shell friends. The Sea Shell Searchers Shell Show has proven to be a major
event in shelling and we invite you to come and join us.
Please read the categories and rules that are included with
this letter.
Our schedule for the show is:
1.
Send entry forms to the Sea Shell Searchers,
Brazosport Museum of Natural Science, 400
College Blvd. Clute, TX 77531,
by April 19, 2006. Space is limited this year; late applications will be
accepted only if space is available.
2.
Set up exhibits at the Museum, Thursday, May 4
beginning at 5:00 p.m. and Friday, May 5 from 8:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
3.
Judging to begin at 12:00 p.m. Friday, May 5.
Show opens to the public at 10:00.
4.
The Awards Dinner will be held Friday at 6:30
p.m. at a place and time to be announced. The menu will be determined at a
later date.
5.
Show opens to the public Saturday, May 6 from
10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Exhibit removal will begin as soon as the museum closes
at 5:00 p.m.
6.
The Show Committee is planning a social time
Saturday evening beginning at 7:30 p.m. Details will be confirmed at a later
date.
7.
Some decisions such as menus and social events
are still in planning. Keep watching the website for more information.
We look forward to your participation in the show. If you
would like to support our show, please let us know. Patron donations $25.00 and
greater will be acknowledged at the Awards Banquet.
For more information, please write to Patty Humbird, email phumbird@earthlink.net or Wanda Coker,
email shellman7000@sbcglobal.net or
check the website www.seashellsearchers.org
Sincerely,
Wanda Coker and Patty Humbird
Co-chairpersons
Sea Shell Searchers Shell
Show
Exhibit Categories
1. One Family
A.
One major family (Muricidae, Cypraeidae, Conidae, Fasciolariidae, Volutidae,
Pectinidae)
a. Regional
b. Worldwide
B. One minor
family
a.
Regional
b. Worldwide
C. One
minute family (less than 20 members)
D. One member family (single specie family)
2. One genus (if the family
consists of only one genus, it must be entered as a family)
A.
Regional
B.
Worldwide
3. One species (growth series,
color or other variations)
4. Single specimen (one shell
only)
5. Texas (up to 500 yards offshore)
6. Gulf
of Mexico
7. Regional
8. World wide
9 Texas State Shell [exhibit of lightning
whelk(s)]
10. Educational
11. Fossils (shells and/ or
marine life)
12. Land and/or Fresh Water mollusks
13. Marine Life
14. Beachcomber
15. Shell art (anything with
shell motif, must be work of the exhibitor)
a. Photography
b.
Needlework
c.
Painting
d.
Drawings or
sketches
e.
Stained glass
f.
Other
16. Shell craft (craft items
made with shells, must be the work of the exhibitor)
a.
Pictures
b.
Floral
arrangements
c.
Non-floral
arrangements
d.
Sailor's
Valentines
e.
Personal accessories
f.
Mirrors/frames
g.
Other
17. Junior (16 years and
under)
Ribbons given for 1st,
2nd, 3rd places
Best of Class ribbons given in
categories 1, 2, 15 and 16
Trophies include:
Conchologists of America,
Dupont, Mildred Tate Gulf of Mexico sponsored by the Brazosport Museum of
Natural Science, Thomas E. Pulley Award sponsored by the Houston Conchological
Society, Shell of the Show (any source), Shell of the Show (self-collected),
Best of the Caribbean, Best of Texas
Sea Shell Searcher Shell Show Rules
1.
Exhibitors may enter no more than 6 scientific exhibits (categories 1 -
14).
2.
Exhibitors may enter more than one category, but only one entry per
category, except for categories 1, 2, 15, and 16 in which 1 exhibit may be
entered in each sub-category.
3.
Any exhibit that won a blue ribbon in the 2005 Sea Shell Searchers
Shell Show is ineligible for competition unless a 50% visible change is made in
the exhibit.
4.
In order for a self-collected shell to be considered for Shell of the
Show self-collected, a small red star should be placed or printed on the label
of self-collected shells. If the entire exhibit is self-collected a statement
to that effect will take the place of individual labels.
5.
Contents of exhibits must belong to the exhibitor.
6.
Exhibitors must pre-register before April 19 to reserve a place. Late
entries will be accepted if space allows.
7.
Exhibitors must check in and set up exhibit between 5:00 p.m. and 10:00
p.m. Thursday, May 4 and 8:00 to 11:00 a.m. Friday, May 5. All exhibitors must
leave the exhibit room at 11:00 a.m.
8.
Exhibits must remain for the duration of the show. No part of any
exhibit may be removed for any reason.
9.
Exhibits must be removed between 5:00 and 7:00 p.m. Saturday, May 6.
Show committee will remove any exhibits not removed by 7:00 p.m. and exhibitor
is responsible for retrieving his/her exhibit from the committee.
10.
As judging is to be done anonymously, no name or identifying
information is to be put with the exhibit. After judging, cards will be placed
with exhibits identifying exhibitor.
11.
Judging will be based on attractiveness of arrangement, quality and
choice of shells, accuracy of labeling, apparent amount of work on the exhibit
and educational value. Decisions of the judges are final. Awards will be given
if judges determine exhibits are of sufficient merit.
12.
The committee may add or subdivide categories if deemed necessary.
13.
No live exhibits.
14.
Tables are 30" wide x 6' long. Long exhibits may be exhibited in 2
parts depending on available running length.
15.
The height of an exhibit (including backboard) may not exceed
24" from tabletop and the backside of any exhibit must be plain and
finished so as not to detract from exhibit on other side of back-to-back
tables.
16.
Beachcomber collections must be exhibited in natural state, as found on
beach.
17.
All exhibits except for
Categories 15 and 16 must be enclosed in cases, which should be secured during
the show. Exhibitors must provide their own cases. It is recommended that
exhibits in categories 15 and 16 be enclosed if possible.
18.
In artistic exhibits, categories 15 and 16, entries must be the work of
the exhibitor.
19.
Exhibitors in categories 15 and 16 must provide any needed easel,
stand, etc. for display.
20.
The Shell Show committee, Sea Shell Searchers, the Brazosport Museum of
Natural Science and the Center for the Arts and Sciences will not be
responsible for exhibits; however, security will be provided.
Did you know that the Brazosport Museum was featured in Jordan Star’s
shell related web picks? He complained that some images were a bit dark and we
needed more specific images. Steven has spoken to the museum webmaster about
getting this problem corrected.
Did you know that you can
buy, sell and trade shells over the internet? Craig Latimer will tell you all
you need to know to get started at the February meeting.
Did you know that the shell
show is just around the corner? Time to get your shells identified, labeled and
put in boxes.
Did you know that Dave Green
has taken a job in Houston?
We look forward to seeing Dave and Lucille at our meetings.
Did you know that we have two
couples in our club who have been married over 50 years?
Did you know that the COA
convention is in Mobile, Alabama this summer? Some members are
planning to drive over for the weekend to meet shelling friends from all over
the world and take advantage of the borse.
Do you know that the borse is
a great way to shop for new additions to your shell collection?
If you could not answer all
these questions, you should be attending more shell club meetings. Hope to see
everyone in February. Sea Shell Searcher
Do you know this person?
It could be you at one of the club field trips.
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Sea Shell Searchers of Brazoria County
400 College Dr
Clute, Tx 77531
