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NHMC Monthly Meeting
September 10 Monday 6:30 PM Brooksvale Memorial Building, Brooksvale Park, Hamden CT Speaker - Jim Pecora Mining Historian, Lapidary Artist, & the ,New Hampshire Rock Guy, New England Mineral Museum Director, and Mica Mine Schoolhouse Educator. Subject - The Secret Life of New Hampshire Beryl. NHMC 85th Anniversary Banquet
November 5 Monday 6:30PM Fantasia, 404 Washington Avenue, North Haven CT
Speaker - Dr Carl A Francis Director of The Maine and Gem Museum Bethel, Maine Subject Pegmatites of Maine Dr. Carl A. Francis retired in 2011 after thirty-four years as curator of the Harvard University Mineralogical Museum. He received his AB (geology) from Amherst College and his MS and PhD from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. His professional interests include systematic mineralogy and the geology of pegmatites. He also taught museum studies in the Harvard Extension School for twenty years. He received the Carnegie Mineralogical Award for 1992 from the Hillman Foundation of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. He is a Fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America and served as chairman of the International Mineralogical Association Commission on Museums. Dr. Francis, a consulting editor of Rocks & Minerals since 1980, has written numerous articles for the magazine. The mineral carlfrancisite was named for him. The Banquet includes a sit down Dinner. The price is 25.00 Per Person. RSVP by Oct 22 For Reservations contact Frank Karsmarski at FKARS@comcast.net |