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RokTok × May 2019 1 Club Officers for 2019 President - Jay Taylor 1st VP (Programs/Field Trips) - Dr. Sudarshan Singh 2nd VP (Shop) - Norm Cover / Joy Harrison Treasurer - Diana Case Secretary - Debi Lindsey / Joan Sheppard 6th Board Member - Mike Russell Editor (RokTok) - Joan Sheppard Webmaster/Facebook - Chrissy Prusha / John Taylor Show Chair - Lynn Couvillion / John Taylor Monthly Meetings 3rd Tuesday at 7 pm American Legion Hall 10205 Plano Rd Dallas, TX Since 1956 Our Purpose The Dallas Gem and Mineral Society is organized to promote: 1. Interest, knowledge and skill in the lapidary art and in the art of metalworking embodying the use of polished gems and minerals when appropriate. 2. Interest in the collecon and study of rocks and minerals, to increase knowledge of ge- ology and related earth sciences, and in- cluding the holding of an annual show. 3. Fellowship and cooperaon, the sharing of common interests and a beer public understanding of the acvies of the members. NEXT MEETING May 21, 2019 7:00pm PROGRAM Diane Brownlee "The New Geology Timeline” Lapidary Workshop Hours Monday 6pm - 9pm Thursday 6pm - 9pm Saturday 8am - 1pm May 2019 issue of the DGMS Newsleer, RokTok - Editor, Joan Sheppard Unless otherwise noted, permission is granted for non-commercial reproduction of articles provided they remain essentially intact and credit is given to the author and original source. What’s Inside Page Content 2 Message from the President 2 Around the Shop 3 General Notes 4-5 April Meeng Minutes & Photos 5 Bench Tips 6 Calendar, Sunshine, Rain 7 Classes 7 Upcoming Rock Swap Announcement 8 May Birthstone 9 Announcements 10 Gem & Mineral Shows 11 Local Clubs and Map to DGMS
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Club Officers for 2019
President - Jay Taylor 1st VP (Programs/Field Trips) - Dr. Sudarshan Singh 2nd VP (Shop) - Norm Cover / Joy Harrison Treasurer - Diana Case Secretary - Debi Lindsey / Joan Sheppard 6th Board Member - Mike Russell Editor (RokTok) - Joan Sheppard Webmaster/Facebook - Chrissy Prusha / John Taylor Show Chair - Lynn Couvillion / John Taylor
Monthly Meetings
3rd Tuesday at 7 pm
American Legion Hall
10205 Plano Rd
Dallas, TX
Since 1956
Our Purpose
The Dallas Gem and Mineral Society is organized to promote:
1. Interest, knowledge and skill in the lapidary art and in the art of metalworking embodying the use of polished gems and minerals when appropriate.
2. Interest in the collection and study of rocks and minerals, to increase knowledge of ge-ology and related earth sciences, and in-cluding the holding of an annual show.
3. Fellowship and cooperation, the sharing of common interests and a better public understanding of the activities of the members.
NEXT MEETING
May 21, 2019 7:00pm
PROGRAM Diane Brownlee
"The New Geology Timeline”
Lapidary Workshop Hours
Monday 6pm - 9pm
Thursday 6pm - 9pm
Saturday 8am - 1pm
May 2019 issue of the DGMS Newsletter, RokTok - Editor, Joan Sheppard Unless otherwise noted, permission is granted for non-commercial reproduction of articles provided they remain essentially intact and credit is given to the author and original source.
What’s Inside Page Content
2 Message from the President 2 Around the Shop 3 General Notes 4-5 April Meeting Minutes & Photos 5 Bench Tips 6 Calendar, Sunshine, Rain 7 Classes 7 Upcoming Rock Swap Announcement 8 May Birthstone 9 Announcements 10 Gem & Mineral Shows 11 Local Clubs and Map to DGMS
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Around the Shop
I know the Swap was in March but I didn't get a chance to say how much I enjoyed seeing all that came out...in spite of the cold blast that day.
I hope it was profitable to both buyers and sellers! We will be having another one on June 1st, so mark your calendars now and be sure to share the event on Facebook when you see it!
See you at the shop,
Jay Taylor DGMS President, 2019
The backroom is CLEAN !!
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We are on FACEBOOK! - Search and Like: Dallas Gem and Mineral Society
If you have information that would be of interest to the Club or you wish to volunteer to teach a class
or present at the Monthly Meeting, please email the DGMS Secretary at ‘[email protected]’!
Dallas Gem & Mineral Society
If you haven’t looked at our Web Page lately, you’re in for a treat! We want to thank Chrissy Prusha for donating her time to update the Web Page. She is doing a great job keeping it up to date and relevant. So please take a look and thank her next time you see her at the Shop or at one of our Meetings!
http://www.dallasgemandmineral.org/
The Lapidary Shop is to be used only by Currently Paid Members of DGMS
Shop equipment is only to be used when the Shop Supervisor is On Site
You may only use the Shop after completing the Shop Qualifying Class
Shop Rules
Share your Knowledge Write Articles Teach Classes Give Presentations
Support your Shop Cut Rocks Create Cabochons Polish Geodes
Share with DGMS
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Dallas Gem and Mineral Society General Meeting
10205 Plano Rd, Suite 104
April 16, 2019
Call to Order: 7:08 p.m. Announcements President, Jay Taylor
President called meeting to order at 7:08pm. Welcomed members and guests to the general meeting. Jay showed the water spray bottles with the DGMS logo that are for sale, $5. In the President's Message in the RokTok, Jay encouraged members to bring a show and tell. For those that did she would give them a surprise. Several members brought items for show and tell and they received a small quartz point or a rock pyramid.
Program Silent Auction was in place of a program.
Officer Reports 1st VP (Programs), Sudarshan Singh
Visits to the Arkenstone Gallery and Perot Museum are being planned. 2nd VP (Lapidary Shop), Norm Cover / Joy Harrison
The shop is back together after the big cleanup and fully functioning. Shop is very busy. We have new blades and motors. The oil filtering is under control.
Treasurer, Diana Case Vendors have been sending in money for the show. Two thousand dollars will be given to the shop for maintenance and equipment. Diana is soliciting items for the display cases at the South Oak Cliff Library. The theme will be Texas rocks, fossils and minerals.
Secretary, Debi Lindsey / Joan Sheppard Nothing to report.
6th Board Member, Mike Russell Nothing to report.
Show Chair, John Taylor / Vendor Chair, Lynn Couvillion Collecting small crystals for the show to give to each child. Members that are also a vendor at the club's annual show will be required to donate 4 hours to any show related activity, such as set up, take down, identifying.
Editor, Joan Sheppard RokTok was sent out.
Webmaster, John Taylor Chrissy Prusha has volunteered to help with our web page.
Break for meal at 8:05 Return to meeting at 8:15 Door Prize Winner
Door prize: Quartz Pendant Field Trips
Nothing to report Shop Classes
Adjourn: The meeting was adjourned at 9:00 p.m. Raffle Proceeds: No raffle Attendance: Members: 27 Guests:1
Debi Lindsey DGMS Co-Secretary Attachments: Sign-in Sheets for Members and Guests
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TWISTING WIRE Twisting wire can be done with an old hand drill but goes
much faster with a power tool. My preference is to use a screw gun, although a Foredom should do well.
Just make a little hook out of coat hanger wire (or use a screw-in cup hook) and chuck it up in your screw gun. Grip the free ends of the wire in a vice and slip the looped end onto your hook. Keep a little tension on the wires as you twist.
Note that a power drill is too fast a tool for this unless you have one with variable speed.
April Club Meeting Lots of cool stuff in our Silent Auction!
Dinner and Social Time
Door Prize was won by Dr
Sudarshan Singh
Even the Easter Bunny
hopped by!
Bench Tips By Brad Smith
See all Brad's jewelry books at: Amazon.com/author/bradfordsmith
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Sunshine Report (May Birthdays)
Chase Martin Owen Goold Cristella Medrano Jean Stephens Chris King Jason Goyer David Metzner Richard Sheppard Aidan Flores Cory Loudermilk Ashley Brooke Adams Vicki Ewing Melissa Martin
May 2019
Rain Report Please keep the following people in your thoughts
Lydia Blackwood is feeling better! Bobby and Vicki Thornton are still under the weather Ben Hong is in Hospice
[If you know of someone who should be mentioned, please email the DGMS Secretary at ‘[email protected]’]
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CLASS ANNOUNCEMENTS
QUALIFICATION CLASS DGMS Shop Qualification Class will be held the first weekend of each month. The first class is mandatory and only offered on the first weekend of each month. After this mandatory class, we will coordinate Saturday/Sunday afternoons or another week night to complete the 12 hours needed to qualify. If you want to attend a class, email Diana Case ([email protected])and she will make sure the first Saturday of the next month will have a teacher for the 1:00 class. The classes will be 2-4 hours long.
WIRE WRAPPING CLASSES There will be a Beginning Wire Wrap class on Thursday, May 2, 2019, 6pm at the shop. Cost: $20.00 plus Materials Kit $15.00 If there is interest, there will be a Wire Wrapping a Cabochon class on Thursday, May 9, 2019 6pm at the shop. Cost: $20.00 plus $5.00 for wire. Email Laurie Eley ([email protected]) if you’re interested.
****Summer Rock Swap****
It won’t quite be Summer yet, but that’s what we’re calling the next Rock Swap! Hopefully, the Spring rains will have diminished and we will have a great time on June 1st. Come on out to buy, sell, or trade your rock-related items! Or just come out to enjoy all the fellowship!
Mark your Calendars June 1st - 8am until 1 or 2ish !
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emerald
May Birthstone
Source: https://collections.nmnh.si.edu, https://geogallery.si.edu
Smithsonian Photos by Chip Clark
THE MACKAY EMERALD NECKLACE
The Mackay Emerald is the largest cut emerald in the National Gem Collection and is set in a pendant of diamonds and platinum designed by Cartier, Inc.
The Art Deco style necklace was a wedding gift in 1931 from Clarence Mackay to his wife, Anna Case, a prima donna of the New York Metropolitan Opera from 1909 to 1920.
The emerald weighs 167.97 carats and is set in platinum with 35 emeralds and 2,191 colorless round brilliant and step cut diamonds.
Mrs. Anna Case Mackay bequeathed the necklace to the Smithsonian in 1984, and it is on display in the Gem Hall at the National Museum of Natural History.
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If you have an announcement or information that would be of interest to the Club, please email the RokTok Editor at ‘[email protected]’
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May 4-5 WACO, TEXAS: Annual show; Waco Gem And Mineral Club; Extraco Events Center (General Exhibits Building), 4601 Bosque Blvd; Sat 9-6, Sun 10-5; $5 for anyone over the age of 10, and $1 for children 10 and under; 59th annual show, vendors offering precious stones, geodes, crystals, fossils, rare minerals, jewelry, plus demonstrations and displays, and activities for children; contact Alison Redding, (254) 707-1341; Email: [email protected]; Website: www.wacogemandmineral.org 25-26 FORT WORTH, TEXAS: Annual show; Fort Worth Gem and Mineral Club; Will Rogers Memorial Center, 3401 W. Lancaster; Sat 10-6, Sun 10-5; adults $5, seniors, students, and military personnel $4, and free admission for children 16 and under; dealers with gems, minerals, fossils, beads, fine jewelry, and crystals, auctions, and activities for children; contact Janice Craddock; Email: [email protected]; Website: www.fortworthgemandmineralclub.org 31-2 TULSA, OKLAHOMA: Wholesale and retail show; Gem Faire Inc; Expo Square, 4145 E 21st St; Fri 12-6, Sat 10-6, Sun 10-5; $7 weekend pass; fine jewelry, precious and semi-precious gemstones, millions of beads, crystals, jewelry repair, cleaning and ring sizing; contact Yooy Nelson, (503) 252-8300; Email: [email protected]; Website: www.gemfaire.com 31-2 COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO: 56th Annual show; Colorado Springs Mineralogical Society; Norris Penrose Event Center, 1045 Lower Gold Camp Rd; Fri 12-7, Sat 10-5, Sun 10-4; adults $5 (3-day pass $8), free for children 8 and under; featured Colorado specimens, exhibits, auctions, activities for children; contact Lisa Kinder; Email: [email protected]; Website: www.csms1936.com June 1-2 LUBBOCK, TEXAS: Show and sale; Lubbock Gem and Mineral Society; Lubbock Memorial Civic Center, 1501 Mac Davis Ln; Sat 10-6, Sun 10-5; adults $4, seniors $3, students (6-12) $2, free admission for children 5 and under; vendors offering loose stones, rough, cabs, slabs, geodes, beads, gemstones, mineral specimens, crystals, fossils, and lapidary supplies; display and activities for children; contact Walter Beneze, PO Box 6371, Lubbock, TX 79493, (806) 797-5832; Email: [email protected]; Website: www.lubbockgemandmineral.org 6-9 AUSTIN, TEXAS: Show and sale; Natures Treasures of Austin; Norris Conference Center, 2525 W Anderson Lane , Ste 365; Thu 10-6, Fri 10-6, Sat 10-6, Sun 10-5; General admission day pass $15, general admission day pass and lecture $20; general admission all four days, $60; general admission for four days and lecture $70; VIP full access all four days, $120; International Exposition of Agate presents speakers, exhibitors, more than 30 vendors from around the world, author book signing, live auction, and activities for children; contact Robert Cooper, 4103 N Interstate 35, Austin, TX 78722, (512) 833-7760, Email: [email protected]; Website: https://ntrocks.com/international-exposition-of-agate 29-30 GRAPEVINE, TEXAS: Annual show; Arlington Gem and Mineral Club; Grapevine Convention Center, 1209 S. Main St; Sat 9-6, Sun 10-5; Adults $6, seniors and children over 12 $5, free admission for children under 6, boy and girl scouts in uniform, and active and retired military with ID; Vendors selling artisan and fine jewelry, gemstones, geodes, minerals, rough cut polished rocks, petrified wood, fossils, demonstrations, and activities for children; contact Amy Kubes, 1408 Gibbins Rd., Arlington, TX 76011, (817) 300-6946; Email: [email protected]; Website: www.agemclub.org
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Dallas Gem and Mineral Society
PO Box 550395
Dallas, TX 75355-0395
Shop Phone (214) 349-2022 (answered only during shop hours)
LOCAL CLUBS AND SOCIETIES Arlington G&M Club, 1408 Gibbons, Arlington, 1st Tuesday at 7:30 pm Cowtown Gem, Mineral & Glass Club, 3300 Bryant-Irving Rd, Ft Worth, 2nd Tuesday at 7:00 pm Dallas Bead Society, The Point at CC Young, 4847 W. Lawther Dr, Dallas, 1st Saturday at 10:00 am Dallas G&M Society, American Legion Hall, 10205 Plano Rd (off of Plano Rd), Dallas, 3rd Tuesday at 7:00 pm Dallas Paleo Society, Brookhaven EMGI (Bldg H), 3939 Valley View Ln, Farmers Branch, 2nd Wednesday at 7:30 pm Fort Worth Gem & Mineral Club, 3545 Bryan Avenue, Fort Worth, 4th Tuesday at 7:00 pm Lockheed-Martin Stone Steppers, 3400 Bryant-Irving Road, Fort Worth, 2nd Tuesday at 7:30 pm Oak Cliff G&M Society, Unitarian Universalist Church 3839 W Kiest Blvd. Dallas, Texas 75233 4th Tuesday at 6:45 Pleasant Oaks G&M Club, Garland Women's Activities Bldg., 713 Austin, Garland, 1st Thursday at 7:30 pm
Since 1956
For members of DGMS only, the RokTok will gladly announce your rock shows
Member of
South Central Federation of Mineral Societies, Inc.
American Federation of Mineralogical Societies
Dallas Gem and Mineral Society Meeting Date and Location
Third Tuesday of the month at 7:00 pm American Legion Hall
next to the shop off Plano Rd 10205 Plano Rd
