2001 Sea Shell Searchers Shell Show
Sequel Synopsis
List of Award Winners
DuPont Trophy - Rose Marie Neuffer - "Trivia
Pursuit" (20 feet)
COA Award - Gene Everson - "Strombidae
Worldwide" (34 feet)
Mildred Tate Gulf of Mexico Award (sponsored
by the Brazosport Museum of Natural Science honoring the outstanding
shell or exhibit of shells collected from the Gulf of Mexico or
along the shores of the Gulf of Mexico) - Janey Nill - "Seashells
of Texas" (20 feet)
Shell of the Show (any source) - Stephanie Coker
- Haliotis pourtalesii
Shell of the Show (self-collected) - Ted &
Ellen Strasser - Drupa elegans
Best of Texas - Roe Davenport, Jr. - Cymatium
tranquebaricum
Best of the Caribbean - Rose Marie Neuffer -
Pleurotomaria gemma
Biggest Shell - Cliff & Dean Harris - Melo
broderipii
Smallest Shell - Leslie Crnkovic - Marginella
species (unnamed)
Favorite Beachcomber Item - Rusti Stover - Buffalo
Jaw
Best Under the Sea Beanie - Rusti Stover - Barataria
Bay Treaure
Junior - Stephanie Coker - Haliotis pourtalesii
Judge's Rosette - Michael Neuffer - "Ovulidae:
Egg Shells" (20 feet)
- Cliff & Dean Harris - "Shells of the Philippines"
(26 feet)
- Rusti Stover - "Beachcomber Shack" (artistic judge,
Barbara Feiner)
- Darwin Alder - "Dragon The Sea Floor" (beanie judge,
Sandra Oliver)
Category: One Family
First Place (tie) - Rose Marie Neuffer - "Trivia Pursuit"
(20 feet)
First Place (tie) - Gene Everson - "Strombidae Worldwide"
(34 feet)
Second Place - Dave & Lucille Green - "Californian &
Panamic Conidae" (28 feet)
Third Place - Wanda Coker - "Ranellidae" (18 feet)
Category: One Genus
First Place - Wayne Humbird - "Morum" (3.5 feet)
Second Place - Patty Humbird - "Homalocantha" (3 feet)
Third Place - Lucy Clampit - "Ficus: A Wallflower at the
Shell Dance" (4 feet)
Category: One Species
First Place - Leslie Crnkovic - "Calliostoma brunneum - Dispelling
the Myths" (12 feet)
Second Place - Nunnie Clements - "Haliotis pulcherrima, growth
series (1 foot)
Third Place - Lucy Clampit - "All olives do not look alike"
(2 feet)
Category: Single Specimen
First Place - Stephanie Coker - "Haliotis pourtalesii"
Second Place - Gene Everson - "Tudivasum zanzibaricum"
Third Place - Tina Petway - "Latiaxis santacruzensis"
Category: Texas (<500 yds offshore)
First Place - Janey Nill - "Sea Shells of Texas"
Second Place - Roe Davenport, Jr. - "Tritons, 2001"
Third Place - Rusti Stover - "A Texas Treasure"
Category: Gulf of Mexico
First Place - Leslie Crnkovic - "Methane Breathing Albino
Sea Mollusk from out of the Briny Deep" or "Extreme
Offshore Texas Collecting - 360 miles east then turn 1 mile towards
China"
Category: Regional
First Place - Cliff & Dean Harris - "Shells of the Philippines"
(26 feet)
Second Place - Ted & Ellen Strasser - "Shells of French
Polynesia" (4.5 feet)
Third Place - Karen Couch - "Land of Fire and Ice-Seashells
of Southern S. America" (9 feet)
Category: Educational
First Place - Karen Couch - "Cephalopods are Mollusks, too!"
(14 feet)
Second Place - Michael Neuffer - "Ovulidae: Egg Shells"
(20 feet)
Third Place - Dennis & Mary Harris - "Nautilus Exhibit"
(9 feet)
Category: Fossils
First Place - Janey Nill - "Belasaepia veatchi"
Category: Land Mollusks
First Place - Dennis & Mary Harris - "Dead Snails Leave
No Trails" (5 feet)
Second Place - Roe Davenport, Jr. - "A Collection of Land
Shells from the Beach" (2 feet)
Category: Marine Life
First Place - Stephanie Coker - "Classification of Crabs"
(2.5 feet)
Category: Beachcomber
First Place - Wanda Coker - "Back to Nature?" (12 feet)
Second Place - Rusti Stover - "Where the Buffalo Roamed"
(2 feet)
Third Place - Cathy Betley - "Princess Dolphina" (3
feet)
Category: Shell Art - Self Made
First Place - Linda Koestel - "Escaping Snails" a quilted
wall hanging
Second Place - Janey Nill - "Cross stitch of Sea Shells"
Third Place - Tina Petway - "Picture"
Category: Shell Craft - Self Made
First Place - Rusti Stover - "Beach comber Shack"
Second Place - Jo Tirrell - "Octagon Shell Picture"
Third Place - Ellen Strasser - "Shell Flower Arrangement"
Category: Shell Craft - Owned, Not Self Made
First Place - Nunnie Clements - Shells & Candle Arrangement
Category: Under The Sea Beanie, Natural State
First Place - Gene Everson - "Scuba Diving Manatee"
Second Place - Cathy Betley - "Seine Fishing"
Category: Under The Sea Beanie, Cleverly Disguised
First Place - Leslie Crnkovic - "Cool Cats Beach Party"
Second Place - Ellen Strasser - "Carrier Beanie"
Third Place - Jo Tirrell - "King Tut Fish"
Committee:
Co-Chair: Patty Humbird & Wanda Coker
Members: Wayne Humbird, Steven Coker, Sharon McKey, Freida White,
R.L. & Irene Norris, Janey Nill, Cliff & Dean Harris
Award Sponsors:
Delaware Museum of Natural History
Conchologists of America
Brazosport Museum of Natrual Science
Dave & Nancy Barziza
Harold & Freida White
Dennis & Mary Harris
Dave & Lucille Green
George & Pat Blaikie
Cliff & Dean Harris
Patty Humbird
Patron Donors:
Houston Conchology Society
Jerry & Lucy Clampit
Coastal Bend Shell Club
Shell Dealers:
Kay & Del Klaus, Divine Originals, Fredricksburg, Texas
Chris Takahashi, Hawaiian Specimen Shells, Hawaii
Al & Bev Deynzer, Showcase Shells, Sanibel, Florida
80 Exhibits
30 Exhibitors
418 feet of exhibits