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May, 2014 Volume 45, No. 9, Page 1 Annual Dinner/Installation of Officers Thursday, May 15, 2014 6:30-9:00 p.m. Location: Harold Seltzer s 3500 Tyrone Blvd. St.

Our end of the annual dinner and installation of officers for 2015 will be Thursday, May 15th at Harold Seltzer s, 3500 Tyrone Blvd, St Petersburg, FL 33710.

The clubhouse will be open during the summer as normal, but we will not be having any meetings until September, which starts our 2015 fiscal year.

1 May, 2014 Volume 45, No. 9, Page 1 Annual Dinner/Installation of Officers Thursday, May 15, :30-9:00 p.m. Location: Harold Seltzer s 3500 Tyrone Blvd. St. Petersburg, FL Another year has gone by so quickly. Our end of the annual dinner and installation of officers for 2015 will be Thursday, May 15th at Harold Seltzer s, 3500 Tyrone Blvd, St Petersburg, FL They have an extensive menu featuring seafood, steaks (prime rib too) chicken, salads, soups and a bar if you are thirsty. We will be there from 6:30 until 9:00 p.m. This is our last "get together" of the year, so please plan to attend, if you can. The clubhouse will be open during the summer as normal, but we will not be having any meetings until September, which starts our 2015 fiscal year. Installation of 2015 Officers: President: Julia Larson Vice President: Eric Odegaard Recording Secretary: Gerri Groves Treasurer: Jerri Heer Correspondence Secretary: Donna Sapp Directors: Holly Dodson, Dave Watson, Dave Schwebel and Joe Cooper HAVE A SAFE AND GREAT ROCK HUNTING SUMMER...SEE YOU IN SEPTEMBER!

Page 2 Rock-A-Gram May, 2014 Board Members Julia Larson, President............. 727-522-1254 Email: glassgal0947@gmail.com Dave Schwebel, Vice President..... 727-547-0364 Email: dschwebel@tampabay.rr.

2 Page 2 Rock-A-Gram May, 2014 Board Members Julia Larson, President glassgal0947@gmail.com Dave Schwebel, Vice President dschwebel@tampabay.rr.com Jerri Heer, Treasurer jheerx6@aol.com Gerri Groves, Recording Secretary gerrigroves@yahoo.com Donna Sapp, Correspondence Secretary dsapp43@yahoo.com Pat Davis, 2 Year Director wayouttamygourd@yahoo.com Rose LaBranche, 1 yr. Director rlabranche@tampabay.rr.com Dave Watson, 3 yr. Director bwatson1@tampabay.rr.com Holly Dodson, 1 yr. Director prozac282@tampabay.rr.com Debbie Bremer, Editor Rock-A-Gram Newsletter bremerslapidary@yahoo.com SGAMS Clubhouse Address: th Street North, St. Petersburg, FL 33709, Clubhouse Activities: Listed on mailer coversheet and announced at membership meetings. SGAMS Board of Director's Meetings: 7:00 p.m., 1st Thursday of each month; September - May. All members are invited to attend SGAMS Board of Director's Meetings at our clubhouse. We solicit your attendance, and constructive suggestions for improving our club. General Meetings: 7:00 p.m., 3rd Thursday of each month; September - May, at our clubhouse. President s Message: Our club year is coming to a close and a lot of our members are preparing to leave town for their summer homes or vacations. Do take care on the roads, no matter where you travel. I want to see you all safely back here in the fall. Some of you will be taking advantage of the wonderful workshops at William Holland and Wildacres. Please share your photos with us. If you can some to me as an attachment, we can publish them in the September newsletter. September s program will, as usual, be an opportunity to share your summer experiences with your fellow club members. We look forward to hearing your stories and seeing your projects. As you travel, if you do any rockhounding (and who wouldn t?), pick up a handful of small pieces for our grab bags for the 2015 show, we will need a lot of specimens. This year our annual dinner and installation of officers will be held at Harold Seltzer s, 3500 Tyrone Blvd., St. Petersburg, Thursday, May 15. I do hope you will attend. Have a safe and relaxing summer. As the song says, See you in September. Julia Larson President

May, 2014 Rock-A-Gram Page 3 A Note From Bill Schmidt: As usual during our Show we sold our excess Lapidary Journals. To find the extras I did an inventory of what we had and ordered for the Library.

3 May, 2014 Rock-A-Gram Page 3 A Note From Bill Schmidt: As usual during our Show we sold our excess Lapidary Journals. To find the extras I did an inventory of what we had and ordered for the Library. We took in two donations of quite a few boxes of magazines, which helped out quite a bit. Also some others were found through the Tampa club. The newer magazines are in the main room of the clubhouse and the oldest ones are boxed up in the office. Please put the back when you are done so we don't loose any; we were down about 8 magazines since last year. So where we stand now is the Journal started bi-monthly in 1947 and went monthly in In this span we have just a few in '60, '61, and '62. In the rest of the decade '63, '68, & '69 are complete while the remainder of the years have just a few. The '70's and '80's are 20 years of complete with the slight exception of November, 85. The '90's are over half with 6 years complete and just 5 issues are missing out of the other 4 years. Years 2000 and 2001 are complete but, we need 20 issues between 2002 and From 2007 on we do not have any. If you have issues that could help fill the empty spots, please get them to me and I will get them into the system. A full sized list in hanging on the shelves with the Journals in the main room. PLEASE HELP US WITH THE SHOW GRAB BAGS: Looking ahead for our next Show we need to restock the grab bag closet. So during your summer travels, and rock hounding, would you please consider looking for some small pieces of whatever you are collecting to donate to the club We need small examples of typical rocks and minerals or larger ones that we can break up. Next fall we'll get volunteers together, put a piece in a small plastic bag, add a paper with the identification and then group them into Grab Bags. Any quantity, small or large, would be greatly appreciated. Sue Hazelden has been spearheading this project for over 18 years and is retiring----so we are looking for volunteers to get together one morning (usually a Saturday morning) sometime in September or October to fill bags. We will supply all the materials. The more volunteers we have, the quicker and more fun it is, so PLEASE give Sue a quick call or her to sign up. Contact Sue Hazelden at or her at sujagems1@aol.com. This is an easy, cheap, quick, and fun way to help support your club. Thank You, Bill Schmidt WELCOME NEW MEMBER Gail Thayer Who wouldn't want to see the Rolling Stones? Well, come to the clubhouse on May 16th, 2014 and you will be able to experience them 1st hand!!! (Well, sort of) Actually, our back deck on the clubhouse is full of buckets and buckets of stones that need to be sorted thru and removed. The ones that are not valuable will go into a rock garden. You don't need to know much about rocks because Sue Hazelden will be there to help decide what to keep and what to put in the garden. These buckets of rocks are adding a lot of weight to the deck which is already in bad shape, so we need lots of help. Please come to the clubhouse on the 16th at 8:30 a.m., if you can help for a couple hours. This project will take more than one day, so if you can't make it for this time, there will be additional work days and times. Thanks so much!!! Donna Sapp Membership/Corresponding Secretary

Page 4 Rock-A-Gram May, 2014 Monthly Bench Tips By: Brad Smith Canaveral Moonstone, May, 2014 Brad Smith is moderator of LAROCKS and teaches jewelry making in Santa Monica, California.

4 Page 4 Rock-A-Gram May, 2014 Monthly Bench Tips By: Brad Smith Canaveral Moonstone, May, 2014 Brad Smith is moderator of LAROCKS and teaches jewelry making in Santa Monica, California. REVOLVING SOLDER PAD: Often when we're soldering we have multiple pieces on the pad or a single piece and would like to work on several sides of it during the same heat. One of the ways to deal with this is to put your solder pad onto a turntable. That way you can rotate each piece into position when you need to or can rotate the pad to reach another side of a larger piece. All you need to make one of these is a piece of aluminum sheet and an inexpensive turn table assembly. A good hardware store will have both, although you can usually find the aluminum in the scrap pile of a local sheet metal shop. In building a turntable for my 6 inch solder pad, I used a seven inch square piece of aluminum and cut out 1/2 inch notches from each corner. Then I used a bench vice to bend the sides along the dotted lines to form a tray that cradles the solder pad. I attached the tray to the turntable assembly with a couple small machine screws and nuts. QUENCHING: Some jewelers drop the hot piece from soldering directly into the pickle. Do you hear that little hiss? The hot piece sends small drop-lets of acid into the air. This can rust nearby tools and can't be all that good to breathe either. To avoid this I quench in water. A coffee cup of water at the solder station lets me cool a soldered piece before dumping it into the pickle. It's also useful for annealing metals and for cooling off tweezers. Get all 101 of Brad's bench tips in "Bench Tips for Jewelry Making" on Amazon at the following URL: More pictures and details, if needed, are available in the bench tips book. More BenchTips by Brad Smith are at groups.yahoo.com/group/ BenchTips/ or facebook.com/benchtips/ or see the book Bench Tips for Jewelry Making on Amazon FEDERATION NEWS American Federation of Mineralogical Societies Regional Federation Shows and Conventions California Federation May 30 - June 1, 2014 Pomona, CA Eastern Federation March 29-30, 2014 Plymouth Mtg, PA Midwest Federation October 18-19, 2014 Des Moines, IA Northwest Federation August 15-17, 2014 Hermiston, OR Some links to help you keep track of upcoming shows: Other Web Sites: American Federation of Mineralogical Societies web site is at: American Lands Access Association: Southeast Federation of Mineralogical Societies Website at: Check this site out for Wildacres & William Holland information The URL for CMGS web site is: Winnipeg Rock and Mineral Club: Rock Vein Newsletter Canaveral Mineral & Gem Society: Canaveral Moonstone Newsletter National Park Foundation: Rocky Mountain Federation July 9-13, 2014 Tulsa, OK South Central Federation August 9-10, 2014 Baton Rouge, LA Southeast Federation TBA If you find any other interesting websites, please let me know and I will publish in newsletter.

5 May, 2014 Rock-A-Gram Page 5 Glass Top Display Cases For Sale: The following sizes are available for purchase: 2-1/2 x 3-1/2 = $ /2 x 4-1/2 = $ /4 x 6-1/4 = $ x 12 = $ x 16 = $9.00 If interested in purchasing any of these Glass Top Display Cases, contact: Jack Hauser at Suncoast Gem & Mineral Society, Inc. Board of Directors Meeting April 3, 2014 Those in attendance were: Julia Larson, Gerri Groves, Dave Watson, Jerri Heer, Pat Davis, Holly Dodson, Rose LaBranche, and Donna Sapp. Also attending was Bill Schmidt and Joe Cooper. The following reports were reviewed and discussed. Secretary s report; motion by Jerri Heer to accept as published. Motion carried. Treasurer s report: Motion by Holly Dodson to approve for audit. Motion carried. Membership: There is no new members to vote on at this meeting. Donations: Suggestion as to how to let people purchase any of this merchandise. We agree that all the people that worked to get this donation to the club house should have the first pick. They will be asked to make a list of the items they are interested in and submit it to Julia. They will be given a box and allow them to fill the box. After they have done this, it will be open to club members to purchase what they would like. Suggestion was made that the better cabbing material be used in the cabbing room. Also we should save some of the material for the annual show. Someone will need to identify the material and get pricing for them. The following people have been suggested for this Pat Davis, Jerri Heer, Sue Hazelden, and possibly Shamus Walker, and Dave Schwebel. Motion by Jerri Heer, to purchase and install a keyless entry system, on the outside doors of the club house. This is being requested for the new silver class that wants to get started. There was a vote taken 6 yes and 3 no. Joe Cooper said he would be in charge of getting the silver room set up. Joe Cooper will be the subcommittee chairman for the silver room. The end of the year dinner will be at Harold Seltzer s on Tyrone Blvd. They are charging a $75.00 room rental fee. Submitted by: Gerri Groves, Recording Secretary

6 Page 6 Rock-A-Gram May, 2014 Suncoast Gem & Mineral Society, Inc. General Meeting April 17, 2014 There were 22 members in attendance. The following reports were discussed: Secretary s report: Motion by Jerri Heer to accepted as published. Motion carried. Treasurer s report: Motion by Darell Groves to approve for audit. Motion carried. Membership: One application will be voted on after the meeting. Election of officers for the New Year. There are no nominations from the floor. The vote was taken and the following people were elected for the coming years, to be installed at the dinner in May. President: Julia Larson Vice President: Eric Oaegaard Treasurer: Jerri Heer Recording Secretary: Gerri Groves Correspondence Secretary: Donna Sapp Director s: Holly Dodson, Dave Watson, Dave Schwebel and Joe Cooper The May 15th meeting will be a dinner held at Harold Seltzer s on Tyrone Blvd. We have the room from 6:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Holly Dodson will be in charge of the Hospitality Committee. Tonight s program is Jerri Heer s trip to Tucson and Beyond. Meeting adjourned at 9:00 p.m. Voted on new member, Motion by Donna Sapp to accept the application of Gail Thayer. Motion carried. Submitted by: Gerri Groves, Recording Secretary

7 May, 2014 Rock-A-Gram Page 7 WE THANK OUR ADVERTISERS FOR THEIR SUPPORT AND ENCOURAGE ALL OUR MEMBERSHIP TO VISIT AND PATRONIZE THEIR BUSINESSES. Clubhouse Class Schedules (As of September 5, 2013) CABBING: Tuesdays, 6:30-9 p.m. (May 13, 20, June 3, 10, 24, with Dave) Dave Schwebel (727) or dschwebel@tampabay.rr.com Pat Davis (727) or wayouttamygourd@gmail.com Wednesdays, (1st and 3rd 12-4 p.m., 2nd and 4th 12-4 and 6-9 p.m.) Jerri Heer (419) or jheerx6@aol.com ENAMELING: Enameling Class is taking a break for summer, will resume in the fall. Pat Davis (727) or wayouttamygourd@gmail.com Sandy Schwebel dschwebel@tampabay.rr.com FACETING/WIREWRAPPING: Tuesdays, 6-9 p.m. Dave Watson (727) or bwatson1@tampabay.rr.com FUSED GLASS: Contact instructor* Julia Larson (727) or glassgal0947@gmail.com GEM TREES: Jerri Herr (419) or jheerx6@aol.com KUMIHIMO: Contact instructor* Sue Black (727) or sueblack@tampabay.rr.com OPEN STUDIO: First Tuesday of each month, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Don Roberts flmetalman@yahoo.com COMING SOON: New group of Metal Smith classes which will have a daytime and night time weekly schedule. Cost for classes (except faceting) is $2.50 per hour plus any additional supplies.

8 ROCK-A-GRAM This is the official newsletter of the SUNCOAST GEM AND MINERAL SOCIETY, INC. P.O. Box 13254, St. Petersburg, Florida This Society is a member of the SOUTHEAST FEDERATION OF MINERALOGICAL SOCIETIES, INC., and its parent society, the AMERICAN FEDERATION OF MINERALOGICAL SOCIETIES, INC. The general purpose of this society is to promote popular interest in education and research in the earth sciences and lapidary arts, and to cooperate with other similar organizations. General Meetings are held the third Thursday of each month, September through April at 7:00 p.m., at our clubhouse, th Street North, St. Petersburg, FL. December and May meetings are special meetings and a time and place will be announced in this bulletin. The public is cordially invited to attend the general membership meetings. Dues: $15.00 single or $20.00 couple/family; due annually each September. All exchange bulletins should be sent to the Rock-A-Gram editor. Feel free to copy any material from this bulletin, but please list all byline credits. ROCK-A-GRAM (Official Bulletin) Suncoast Gem & Mineral Society, Inc. Debra Bremer, Editor 1349 Lakeview Road Clearwater, FL Clubhouse Activities September - May Board Meeting: (September - May) First Thursday: 7:00 p.m. Clubhouse Open: Tuesdays, 6:30-9 p.m. Wednesdays (see schedule) Faceting/Wirewrapping Classes: Tuesdays, 6-9 p.m. Open Studio: First Tuesday/month 6:30-8:30 p.m.

General Meeting. Thursday, February 21, :00 p.m. Location: Clubhouse, th Street North, St. Petersburg, FL

General Meeting. Thursday, February 21, :00 p.m. Location: Clubhouse, th Street North, St. Petersburg, FL February, 2013 Volume 44, No. 6, Page 1 General Meeting Thursday, February 21, 2013 7:00 p.m. Location: Clubhouse, 4619 69th Street North, St. Petersburg, FL Grab Bags We successfully filled the Grab Bags