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Rocky Mountain Federation News, Vol 50, Issue 6

Rocky Mountain Federation News

The official publication of the Rocky Mountain Federation of Mineralogical Societies, Inc. The RMFMS is a regional member of the American Federation of Mineralogical Societies, Inc. and is issued monthly (except June and July). It is a privilege of membership of the RMFMS and cannot be exchanged by the editor for individual club newsletters from other regional federations. www.rmfms.org

September/October 2019 Volume 50, Issue 6


Contents

From the Editor ................................................. 1

Affiliations ......................................................... 2

Letter from the President ................................. 3

Treasurer’s Report ............................................ 4

2019 RMFMS Website Contest Results ............ 5

AFMS Club Rockhounds of the Year (ACROY) ... 6

Parisite: Cerium Rare Earth Mineral ............... 10

Upcoming Shows and Events .......................... 12

2019 RMFMS Board and Committees............. 17

Cover photo courtesy and copyright of Erin Delventhal of the San Juan County Gem and Mineral Society. “Stan the T-Rex on display at the Farmington Museum, Farmington, New Mexico”.

From the Editor I failed at a September issue, so please accept my apologies…AGAIN. I also failed the Payson Rimstone Rock Club by not including their show in the last edition.

Please submit your contributions for the next issue by November 5th to [email protected].

Heather Woods, PG

Affiliations

The Rocky Mountain Federation of Mineralogical Societies (RMFMS) is a member of the American Federation of Mineralogical Societies (AFMS).

mailto:[email protected]


Letter from the President By Liz Thomas, RMFMS President

I don’t think I have ever seen mid-September with temperatures up in the 90’s but here it is. I do so look forward to the cool weather when you can go outside and not melt down. This has been a very hot year for all of us. I hope you found a way to stay out of the heat and enjoy yourselves. We have gone to a few rock shows and that helps but it is not like getting out and rockhounding for yourself.

I know a few of you received an email saying something to the affect that I was camping or that I needed your help to go purchase some gift cards. First and foremost, the officers of the Rocky Mountain would not ask anyone to do this. Second, I camp at a hotel, so my camping days are over. This is called phishing. When you received an email like this, please so not answer it and do not open it. There is no need to tell me about it.

I get emails about it all the time. Just delete it. It is someone trying to get money out of us. RMFMS is not the only ones this is affecting. It affects all the federations and the American Federation as well. So, just delete.

Clubs the American Federation for 2020 will be in Knoxville, Tennessee October 16, 17 and 18. This is to make sure you get it on your calendar. Get all your entries in all the contest in and make sure your clubs are submitting a scrapbook. For the past two years there has only been one club out of Kansas that enters in the scrapbook. I want to see a lot more of you get some of these in. We need articles, poetry, art and all the other categories that is available to you. Your editor should be doing this for your members and the club. I know you have a lot to offer. Please let’s get these entered this year.

It’s time for the new president, when he takes office November 1 to put together his committees. It takes a lot of people to make this organization work. We have had the same people in these positions, and we need new blood. So, if you are interested please contact Robert Regner at [email protected]. If you have questions about a position before you make your mind up, then just shoot him an email and he will get right back with you. If you want to speak to me then by all means send me an email and I will get with you at [email protected]. The work is not at all hard and it is very fun learning and working with some really great people.

It’s also time to get your “Rockhound of the Year” and “Jr. Rockhound of the Year’ name sent into Sheri Johnson. Send them to [email protected]. We want to make sure they get the recognition they duly deserve. Thank you so much.

Well till next time, find your beauties and share them with your friends. It makes fun out of a dull day.

Liz Thomas RMFMS President





Treasurer’s Report By Gene Maggard, RMFMS Treasurer

TREASURER UPDATES – If you were the treasurer for your organization but are no longer, could you please forward this newsletter to the new treasurer and ask them to contact me with updated treasurer contact information?

DUES DUES DUES

Yes, it is that time, again. Dues from each club/society are due by December 15. December 15 is the magic date because we need to get your club report that accompanies the dues payment by that date in order to include your club information in the RMFMS 20/19-20 Directory. If you are having officer elections in Jan., as some clubs do, please call or email me and we will see what we can do to get your new officer information into the directory.

Dues notices and forms will be sent to each club by email in mid-October where there is an email address available. Notices to other clubs will be by US mail. If you receive the dues notice but are no longer the treasurer or other officer, please forward it to your treasurer as requested in the notice. As explained on the form, we are requesting that you send in the annual reports using email and Word if possible. Otherwise, use USPS. Just follow the directions on the form.

If your club does not receive the dues notice either by email or USPS, please contact me ASAP at 316-742-3746 or [email protected] so that we can arrange to get your club information to me by the December 15 deadline. You can also access the dues form on the RMF website.

Dues from each club are determined by multiplying $1.50 times each dues paying member age 12 or older in your club as of October 31, 2018. Clubs having family memberships should count each family member age 12 or older.

Clubs wishing to be covered by the RMFMS arranged liability insurance should include payment as directed on the report form. This insurance is for club general liability coverage. Show, meeting place and field trip activities are covered. If you have a landlord that is wanting an “Additional Insured certificate,” one can be provided at no additional charge. Email me to get a copy of the Additional Insured certificate request form.

Please feel free to contact me at the above addresses if you have any questions.

Gene Maggard Treasurer


2019 RMFMS Website Contest Results By Jennifer Gerring, RMFMS Website Contest Chair

The winners of the RMFMS Website Contest for 2019 are:

1st Place:

Topeka Gem and Mineral Society, Topeka, KS http://TopekaGMS.org

Jason A. Schultz, webmaster

Also: 2019 AFMS Website Contest: Honorable Mention

2018 AFMS Website Contest: 2nd Place

2017 AFMS Website Contest: 7th Place

2nd Place:

Daisy Mountain Rock and Mineral Club, Phoenix, AZ www.dmrmc.com

Nancy Gallagher, webmaster

Also: 2019 AFMS Website Contest: Honorable Mention

I would like to congratulate these excellent websites and thank them for entering the website contest! I would like to encourage all RMFMS webmasters to enter the 2020 contest. Website guidelines and entry forms will be placed on the AFMS and RMFMS websites as well as sent out to club webmasters in November. Please note, if you are a new club, or new webmaster, I may not have your contact information. You can send it to the email listed below.

Jennifer Gerring RMFMS Website Contest Chair [email protected]

http://topekagms.org/

http://www.dmrmc.com/



AFMS Club Rockhounds of the Year (ACROY)

Grand Junction Gem & Mineral Club (GJGMC), Colorado : ACROY

The GJGMC is proud to recognize Mel and Pam Bersch as its 2019 Rockhounds of the Year. Mel and Pam have been GJGMC members for over 30 years, achieving Lifetime Membership status. During their first date, Mel casually asked Pam if she would you like to see his rock collection. No stranger to the rockhound hobby (Pam’s grandfather was Club president in the 1940s-50s) Pam agreed and the rest is history. Mel and Pam represent

the heart and soul of our Club. Their enthusiasm for the rockhounding hobby, leadership in our Club, care for our clubhouse, participation in our annual rock shows and service to our members helps make the GJGMC a vibrant and very active organization. Both have served as Club officers (Mel-president; Pam-Secretary and Treasurer) and they assist the Junior Science Rock Club in the classroom and on field trips. Pam teaches classes (lapidary and filigree), Mel is an infinite resource on mineral identification, collecting sites and rock polishing, and both lead groups on field trips. They host a monthly Mineral Night at their home where members enjoy a potluck, viewing their vast private mineral collection, and detailed examination of mineral specimens. Their devotion of time, energy and expertise to the GJGMC cannot be overstated and this recognition as Rockhounds of the Year is just one way we say, “Thank You!!”

Colorado Springs Mineralogical Society (CSMS), Colorado : ACROY

Kevin Witte, longtime leader of the CSMS Crystal Group, is selected as the 2018 recipient of the CSMS Rock Hound of the Year award.

Kevin has served as the crystal group chair for 6 years. Under his leadership, the crystal group experienced steady growth due to several factors. Kevin reinvigorated the Crystal Group with new and varied teaching tools, from educational videos supplied by the Mineralogical Record magazine, to online crystal structure instructional videos. Kevin even created a “crystal bingo” game that made learning fun for club members of all ages.

Kevin’s field collecting has ranged from Arkansas to Utah, and New Mexico to Wyoming. He specializes in Pikes Peak batholith minerals and maintains two mineral claims near Lake George, Colorado. He prospected different areas over 30 times this past year. Kevin hosted field trips to his claim, and donated crystals to the club’s silent auction. He also gave motivational


gifts to speakers in the Junior Earth Science Scholars Program.

As an educator, Kevin has written 15 articles on local mineral finds and rock hounding best practices for his “Rock Hounding the Rockies” blog. His blog has received over 25,000 visitors this past year and provided informative and entertaining reading for followers from Brazil to Vietnam. He spoke by invitation to an audience of over 50 college students at Ft. Lewis College, Durango, CO. On more than one occasion Kevin brought in mineral finds to CSMS General Assembly meetings for all to learn from and enjoy.

In addition to Kevin Witte’s leadership and educational roles, he received recognition from the RMFMS and AFMS for his writing skills. He wrote a heartfelt reminiscence of his rock hounding mentor Ray Berry.

Kevin helped arrange for CSMS General Assembly speakers. He assisted with the silent auction by sorting, identifying and taking payment for minerals at the Club’s annual Gem and Mineral Show. He also received recognition this year from last year’s Club president, Ernie Hanlon, for his tireless efforts in supporting Ernie

and various Club activities in the prior year.

Kevin Witte is most deserving of the title Rock Hound of the Year!

Colorado Springs Mineralogical Society (CSMS), Colorado : Junior ACROY

Ben Elick a CSMS Pebble Pup and Earth Science Scholar has been selected as the CSMS Junior Rock Hound of the Year. Ben has been an active member of the Colorado Springs Mineralogical Society for over 5 years. Ben clearly demonstrates tireless dedication to the hobby as an active volunteer and club member.

Ben’s contributions to the club and the hobby are numerous and varied. He assists the adult leaders with the Pebble Pup sessions and has taught some of the sessions himself. He has demonstrated the scientific and technical aspects of our hobby to the youth of the Pikes Peak region through venues such as Family Geology Day at the Western Museum of Mining and Industry and at the Cool

Kevin Witte holding a large smoky quartz crystal from The Lake George, Colorado, vicinity.

Ben Elick CSMS Junior Rock Hound


Science programs at UCCS and Colorado College. He has assisted Steven Veatch with his annual Winter Fossil Poetry Walk at the Florissant Fossil Beds. Ben is also involved with the annual writing class at WMMI where he is a class assistant and photography instructor.

Ben is interested in repeat photography, a technique that juxtaposes historic photographs with his own modern versions taken from the same place and point of view. To further his knowledge of the process, Ben has met with the Douglas County History Director to learn about working with historic photos and research in order to prepare for the preservation and digitization of the historic photographs in the collection of the Cripple Creek District Museum. As a volunteer at WMMI, Ben has been learning archivist skills and will be working on curating historic documents. Using the above skills, Ben has developed a presentation that demonstrates the repeat photography process by featuring historic gold mining operations, the Garden of the Gods, Rainbow Falls, and other geological and cultural sites.

Ben is a published author, and he has presented on Cripple Creek Minerals at the New Mexico Mineral Symposium, on repeat photography at The Geological Society of America at Iowa State University, as well as the CSMS General Assembly and the Denver Gem and Mineral Show. He received a first place award for his article on barite for the bulletin contest from the RMFMS, and he received an award from the GSA for the excellence of his oral presentation on repeat photography on April 17, 2018.

The Colorado Springs Mineralogical Society is indeed fortunate to claim Ben Elick as our Junior Rock Hound of the Year 2018.

Southern Nevada Gem and Mineral Society, Nevada : Junior ACROY

On behalf of the Southern Nevada Gem and Mineral Society Kids Club and Rock Stars I would like to nominate Aiden Kerr as Junior Rockhound of the Year. Aiden is a 9th grader at Centennial High School. Ever since Aiden joined the Gem Club, he has been so enthusiastic that it is catching, and the other children have been infected with his love of rocks. Aiden often takes the lead and is very helpful in assisting me carry rocks and supplies, set up, and clean up at the meetings. He retains the information presented to the Kids Club and when we are reviewing, he usually has the answer. Aiden and his brother are often first to the top of the hill or first to find the specimens we went for on our field trips. He shows others where to find them or offers one of his. Aiden is respectful to older rockhounds, helping if he can. Environmental awareness is another quality he has. He has shared and continues to share his extra rocks with the Kids Club. You can always count on Aiden to assist at our annual club show manning the Kids Booth.

For these reasons, I am happy to present Aiden Kerr for Junior Rockhound of the Year.

Sincerely, Mary Beth Paladino Kids Club and Rock Star Coordinator


Tulsa Rock & Mineral Society (TRMS), Oklahoma : ACROY

The Tulsa Rock & Mineral Society would like to honor Scott Robb as our Club Rockhound of the Year. Scott serves as the Chairman of our Committee to update our club By-Laws. This was a major task and there continue to be occasional updates to be made. Scott has also served as our club Treasurer, as Co-Editor of our club Bulletin, and as a Director. He has provided materials and equipment for our Club Workshop and has helped repair equipment. Scott has also provided items and ideas to our club’s Junior Rockhound group.

Scott Robb is a hard working, conscientious member who always has the best interest of our club and hobby at heart. He is very deserving of being our AFMS Club Rockhound of the Year

Tulsa Rock & Mineral Society (TRMS), Oklahoma : Junior ACROY

What do an eighth grade student at All Saints Catholic School, a member of Boy Scouts of America for seven years, an active Pebble Pup of Tulsa Rock and Mineral Society for the last two years, an active field tripper, a Future Rockhound of America member with more than eight badges already to his name, a repeat display entrant in the Tulsa Rock and Mineral show and a competitive entrant with a trophy in the same show, and a willing volunteer and helper for the Tulsa Rock and Mineral show ALL have in common? They ALL pertain to 13-year old (14 in November) Adam Proctor, a quiet but productive young man who has participated in field trips both near and far, from Paris, Texas to Peru, Kansas, and from Ada, Oklahoma to Hot Springs, Arkansas, including some trips for the purpose of scouting a good rock hunt site. Besides entering a competitive display in the TRMS show, Adam was instrumental in set-up and tear-down operations, as well as giving his time and lending assistance to various exhibits and activities of the show. Adam was particularly drawn to fossils but then he discovered crystals, gems, and geodes! He prepared an impressive trophy-winning educational case for display and competition highlighting his finds from a club field trip. With all this said, it stands to reason we are proud to name this young and future rockhound TRMS Junior Rockhound of the year for 2019.


Parisite: Cerium Rare Earth Mineral By Mike Nelson, Colorado Springs Mineralogical Society, [email protected]

Learning is an everyday event for a slummer like me. For example, take the element cerium! Before today, what did I know about cerium? Turns out not much. I knew that: it was named after the dwarf planet Ceres; 2) cerium oxide is used in polishing high quality glass lenses, and as a final polish for some lapidary specimens; 3) it is “probably” a Rare Earth Mineral (REE); and 4) somehow it is used in gas (the lantern gas, like Coleman) mantles. Other than those factoids my knowledge about cerium was pretty sparse.

OK, Ceres is the largest dwarf planet or “object” that is positioned between Mars and Jupiter in the asteroid belt (that factoid came from my early 1960s era astronomy class). In turn, Ceres was named after the Roman Goddess of agriculture and fertility.

Cerium oxide is both unstable(Ce+++) Ce2O3 and stable (Ce++++) CeO2 and the latter is often referred to as cerium(IV) oxide and is the type used in polishing compounds.

Cerium is a lanthanide element—one of the 15 metallic elements with atomic numbers 57-71. This group also contains elements not overly familiar to non-chemists such as neodymium and europium.

Pretty amazing to me is that cerium is much more abundant in the earth’s crust than lead or tin and despite the REE moniker is not very rare. As for lantern mantles, I fail to understand the chemistry but mixing thorium oxide with cerium oxide and coating the silk mantles produces a very white light. I suppose today very few “younger persons” know how to properly install a mantle in a “gas lantern!” Of course, as a kid I knew next to nothing about burning whale blubber oil but did know how to “trim a wick” in a kerosene lamp!

I have learned that in nature cerium seems to never occur as a stand- alone element and that most cerium is produced from mining and refining the Rare Earth Minerals monazite (cerium + lanthanum + REE + thorium + PO4) and bastnäsite (REE + cerium carbonate fluoride). I have a couple of specimens of the above minerals but was surprised to see a specimen of the REM parisite offered for two bucks at a mineral store in Tucson. I did not have the slightest idea what parisite was when I found the specimen in an isolated drawer of thumbnails. But due to what Phillip Caputo (2013) calls the MD (Magic Droid), I soon learned much and for that low price will pick up most anything that is not in my collection!

So, parisite is a calcium rare-earth carbonate with fluorine or Ca(REE)2(CO3)3F2. Well, that last statement is sort of a generality because mineralogists “in the know,” and with an XRD or some other gizmo providing analytical information, use parisite as a general term and designate the minerals parisite-(Ce), parisite-(Nd) and parisite-(La) depending on the “domination” of these REE (cerium, neodymium, or lanthanum). And then it becomes quite easy to confuse parisite (any type) with lanthanum-dominant specimens of bastnäsite, synchysite, and röntgenite, And, so its goes.



Therefore, the question then becomes, what is the correct name for my purchased specimen. I am going to settle on parisite-(Ce) [CaCe2(CO3)3F2], not because I have a XRD in my back pocket, but because MinDat has stated the cerium variety is the mineral species found at the Snowbird Mine in Montana, the home of my small collected crystal.

Parisite is not what one would call a spectacular mineral, nor a museum piece, but one that is mainly of interest to rockhounds. It seems only to occur as definite crystals and not as massive or encrusting forms. Parisite belongs to the Hexagonal Crystal System and commonly occurs as double hexagonal pyramids that at times appear to be prismatic. However, the crystals are not prime

specimens and often are striated and very “rough” looking. Crystals are often brown or amber in color but at times range down to

brownish-yellow to yellow. Specimens are very brittle, are transparent to translucent with a yellow-white streak, and have a sub-vitreous to greasy luster. Hardness has been measured as ~4.5 (Mohs). Almost all crystals are small in size and I suppose 3 cm. would represent a very large specimen.

Metz and others (1985) described the Snowbird Mine as occurring in “a lenticular, rare earth- and fluorite-rich quartz-carbonate body with a pegmatitic texture, which intrudes Belt Supergroup metasediments [late Precambrian] at the Idaho-Montana state line west of Missoula, Montana…the U-Th-Pb parisite ages (71.1 + or - 1.0 m.y.) indicate emplacement during the Late Cretaceous, probably associated with the intrusion of the nearby Idaho batholith.”

References Cited

Metz, M.C., D.G. Brookins, P.E. Rosenberg and R.E. Zartman, 1985, Geology and geochemistry of the Snowbird Deposit, Mineral County, Montana: Economic Geology, vol. 80 no. 2.

Caputo, P., 2013, The longest road: overland in search of America from Key West to the Arctic Ocean: Henry Holt and Company, New York.

I had only one hard-and-fast rule: avoid interstates. They are predictable and boring and their uniformity somehow erases changes in landscape; you can drive six hundred miles, from forests into deserts, and feel that you haven’t gone anywhere. In a sense, you haven’t. You have no idea about the lives of the people in the towns and cities you’ve bypassed at seventy miles an hour. Phillip Caputo

Photomicrograph of a banged-up and chipped parisite crystal. Note partial hexagonal faces at arrow. Height of crystal ~1.3 cm

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Upcoming Shows and Events

September 21 – 22, 2019; Grand Junction Gem & Mineral Club’s 73rd Annual Show; (See flyer page 13); Saturday and Sunday 10am-4pm; Admission $5 adults, Seniors and Military $4, children 12 and under Free; Mesa County Fairgrounds, 2785 Highway 50, Grand Junction, Colorado. Jewelry, beads, fossils, rock & mineral specimens, tools & equipment, kids’ activities, interactive exhibits, and displays. For more information: grandjunctionrockclub.org.

September 27 – 29, 2019; Toole Gem & Mineral “Artistry in Gems” Rock & Gem Show; Friday and Saturday 10am-7pm, Sunday 10am-5pm; Admission Free; Dow James Building, 400 North 400 West, Toole, Utah. Rocks & gems, fossils, door prizes, displays, demonstrations, jewelry, silent auction. For more info: Robert Vigil (801) 205-0385 and on Facebook.

September 20 – 22, 2019; Payson Rimstones Annual Gem & Mineral Show; (See flyer page 14); Friday 4pm-8pm, Saturday 9am-5pm, Sunday 10am-4pm; Admission $3 adults, children under 12 free; Mazatzal Hotel & Casino Event Center, Highway 87 at mile marker 251, Payson, AZ. Gems, minerals, fossils, lapidary equipment, jewelry & findings, slabs, rough, and more. For more info: Becky Bagshaw (928) 476-34195, [email protected] or [email protected].

October 4 – 5, 2019; Central Dakota Gem & Mineral Society’s 46th Annual Show; Friday and Saturday 9am-5pm; Admission Free; AMVETS Club Post #9, 2402 Railroad Avenue, Bismark, ND. School field trips welcome, free door prizes on Saturday, exhibits, grab bags, activity corner, lapidary, rock tumbler, fluorescent rocks show. For more info: Kevin Vetter (701) 258-9488.

October 11 – 13, 2019; Mineral Collectors of Utah’s Annual Show; Friday 12pm-9pm, Saturday 10am-9pm, and Sunday 10am-5pm; Admission Free; Trolley Square, 600 South (Entrance) & 700 East, Salt Lake City, UT. Dealers, exhibit showcases, Wheel of Fortune, hourly drawings, great family fun and educational in the Earth Sciences. For more info: Curt Forrester (801) 368-4103, [email protected].

October 11 – 13, 2019; West Valley Rock & Mineral Club’s 6th Annual HelzaRockin’ Gem & Mineral Show; Friday and Saturday 9am-5pm, Sunday 9am-2pm; Admission $3 adult, children under 12 free with adult; Buckeye Arena, 802 North 1st Street (Miller Road), Buckeye, AZ. Rocks, gems, jewelry, minerals, fossils, beads, slabs, cabs, gold panning, scavenger hunt and more. For more info: [email protected] or (602) 405-2826.

October 12 – 13, 2019; Topeka Gem & Mineral Society’s 63rd Annual Show; Saturday 10am-6pm and Sunday 10am-5pm; Admission $5 adults, $1 students, children under 13 free with adult; Kansas Expocentre Agricultural Hall, 17th & Topeka, Topeka, Kansas. For more info: [email protected].

October 12 – 13, 2019; Huachuca Mineral and Gem Club’s 45th Annual Show; (See flyer page 15); Saturday 9am-5pm and Sunday 10am-4pm; Admission $6 adults, children under 12 free; The Modern Living Building, 608 Kiamichi Place, Oklahoma State Fair Park, Oklahoma City, OK. Artisan jewelry, tools, gemstones, fossils, rough rock, crystals, exhibits, demos, education, children’s area. For more info: omgs-minerals.org.







October 26 – 27, 2019; Oklahoma Mineral and Gem Society’s Annual Show; (See flyer page 16); Saturday 9am-6pm and Sunday 10am-5pm; Admission Free; AMVETS Club Post #9, 2402 Railroad Avenue, Bismark, ND. School field trips welcome, free door prizes on Saturday, exhibits, grab bags, activity corner, lapidary, rock tumbler, fluorescent rocks show. For more info: Kevin Vetter (701) 258-9488.

November 16 – 17, 2019; Apache Junction Rock and Gem Club’s Third Annual Fall Jewelry, Gem & Rock Show; Saturday 9am-5pm and Sunday 10am-4pm; Admission $3 adults, $1 students with ID, 12 and under free with adult; Skyline High School, 845 South Crismon Road, Mesa, Arizona. Jewelry, gem, bead, rock, slab & fossil dealers; lapidary equipment and supplies; gem-tree making activity for all ages; silent auction; door prizes; grand raffle; wheel of rocks; and more. For more info visit ajrockclub.com.

November 30 – December 1, 2019; Wickenburg Gem and Mineral Show; Saturday 9am-5pm and Sunday 10am-4pm; Admission Free; Hassayampa Elementary School, 251 South Tegner Street, Wickenburg, AZ. Over 40 vendors, best rock contest, raffle, door prizes, kid’s area, silent auction. For more info visit wickenburggms.org.


2019 RMFMS Board and Committees

President Liz Thomas [email protected] Vice President Bob Regner [email protected] Secretary Wayne Cox [email protected] Treasurer Gene Maggard [email protected] Historian Cinda Kunkler [email protected] Past President Diane Weir [email protected] Past President Richard Jaeger [email protected] Arizona State Director Jodi Brewster [email protected] Colorado State Director Kathy Honda [email protected] Kansas State Director Bill Smith [email protected] New Mexico/Texas State Director

Dr. Robert Carlson [email protected]

North Dakota State Director Russ Oliger [email protected] Oklahoma/Arkansas State Director

Ceclia Evans [email protected]

South Dakota/Nebraska State Director

Sony Hemscher [email protected]

Wyoming State Director Stan Strike [email protected] Utah State Director Tom Burchard [email protected] AFMS All American Club of the Year

Delane Cox [email protected]

AFMS Club Rockhound of the Year

Sheri Johnson [email protected]

Boundaries Bill Smith [email protected] Convention Management Richard Jaeger [email protected] Credentials Janet Smith [email protected] Directory Kay Waterman [email protected] Editor Heather Woods [email protected] Finance Wayne Cox [email protected] Flourescent Technical Pete Modreski [email protected] Fossil Technical Roger Burkhalter [email protected] Gold Pan Award Judy Beck [email protected] Gold Pan Award Richard Jaeger [email protected] Gold Pan Award (chair) Bob Carlson [email protected] Insurance Gene Maggard [email protected] International Relations Mike Nelson [email protected] Junior Programs Terri Harris [email protected] Lapidary Technical Bill Smith [email protected] Long-Range Planning Richard Jaeger [email protected] Long-Range Planning Bill Smith [email protected] Long-Range Planning (chair) Judy Beck [email protected] Mineralogy Technical Pete Modreski [email protected]




































Name Badges Richard Jaeger [email protected] Nominations Judy Beck [email protected] Nominations (chair) Richard Jaeger [email protected] Nominations Diane Wier Parliamentarian Gene Maggard [email protected] Program Library Gene & Peggy Maggard [email protected] Programs Contest Gene Maggard [email protected] Public Relations Delane Cox [email protected] Ribbons Peggy Sue Moore [email protected] RMFMS Show Chairman Gail Walker [email protected] Safety Scholarship Richard Jaeger [email protected] Stationary Robert Carlson [email protected] Supplies Finis Riggs [email protected] Trophies Robert Carlson [email protected] Webmaster Joel Johnstone [email protected] Webmaster Contest Jennifer Gerring [email protected] PLAC Arizona Dr. Alex Schauss [email protected] PLAC Colorado/Nebraska/ North Dakota

Mike Nelson [email protected]

PLAC Kansas Jared Kyner [email protected] PLAC New Mexico/Texas Mel Stairs [email protected] PLAC North Dakota Mike Nelson [email protected] PLAC Oklahoma/Arkansas Stan Nowak [email protected] PLAC South Dakota Brandon Nelson [email protected] PLAC Utah/Nevada Jack Johnson [email protected] PLAC Wyoming Richard Gerow [email protected] Uniform Rules Leon Reeder (chair)

Lee Whitebay Jay Bowman Roger Burkhalter Dr. Robert Carlson Paul Otto

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