SUNSITES GEM & MINERAL CLUB NEWSLETTER

JANUARY 2005

2004 MEMBERS ONLY MEETING

7 PM MONDAY, 10 JANUARY 2005

Per agreement at the November 2004 meeting, this meeting will be for the members of record as of November, 2004 to elect new officers.

Once we elect officers, there will be a few short points to be considered, such as appointing a Parliamentarian to be consulted when sticky issues of parliamentary procedure arise. Appointment of a Lapidary Chair, a Field Trip Chair, a Speakers Committee Chair, and a 2005 Budget are things we may wish to consider.

Per agreement between Paul McKnight and Pat Sonneborn, the proposed budget will contain line items for a Scholarship Fund, a retroactive honorarium to the Amerind Foundation for the two speeches Dr. Ware has given to the Club, and a grant to the Bookmobile to set up a Rock and Geology Book Section.

Hopefully we will be able to adjourn in plenty of time to prepare for the public meeting at 8 pm. We will have a big membership signup table to assist all the new members in joining both before and after the Presentation.

PUBLIC MEETING

8 PM MONDAY, 10 JANUARY 2005

Kicking off the 44^th year of the Sunsites Gem and Mineral Club, Robert Mortimer, a Geologist, Astronomer, and Solar Power Designer, will speak to the January meeting of the Sunsites Gem and Mineral Club on the topic “Tectonic Trends in Western North America as Reflected in the Geology of Southeast Arizona”.

With a BS and MS in Geology from the University of Arizona, Mr. Mortimer's first field work was in the Turkey Creek area. He did petroleum geology work for Unocal for ten years and spent 6 years doing exploration geology in the south Atlantic. He later studied tectonic styles in the western U.S. and consulted on slides and mud flows after the recent apocalyptic California fires.

Mr. Mortimer is in the process of moving from the San Andreas Fault area of California to the Sulphur Springs Valley.

Come prepared with your questions about earthquakes, tectonic plates, and what he observed when hiking over the Swisshelm Mountains.