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Chairman's Letter By Ray Grant
It has been another good year for the Foundation. We had 143 members this year. That is paid members and the100 hour volunteers at the Museum who are given memberships.
There were five great newsletters and our thanks to Steve Decker for continuing the great job as editor.
The Flagg Show was one of the best ever in terms of weather and crowds. Marc and Sue Fleischer were responsible for the crowds and I'm not sure about the weather. Their publicity efforts were outstanding.
The Fourteenth Minerals of Arizona Symposium was a success thanks to the speakers who gave of their time and energy to give some good presentations.
The Foundation collection is in really good shape thanks to the tireless efforts of Bill Yedowitz. Come by some first Friday and look at the collection, it has some really good mineral specimens.
All of these activities are supported by a great group of people, the officers, the Board of Trustees, the Collection Committee and all those who show up to help with the work needed to keep all of the
Foundation activities running smoothly. Thank you to every one who has helped this past year, also, a big thanks to all those who have donated material to the Foundation during the past year.
We have new material to sell at the Flagg Show and specimens to give to children at the Flagg Show.
A new year is starting and we are doing it all again - the Flagg Show, the Minerals of Arizona Symposium, the collection committee, and our other activities. Come out and join us for some of these activities, we can use your help. As a bonus you get to do fun things with the other Foundation members.
Thank you all and best wishes for a great New Year!
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Here is a poem that I have carried around (in some box) for 46 years.
Maybe if we put it in a newsletter then I won't lose it.
Perhaps it is a poem only a mineralogy teacher can love.
Ray
The Judgement
by R. P. Lister from Punch, August 31, 1960
I dreamed the judgment came to me by night
They stood around my bed, severe of mien
and asked one question "what is enstatite?"
" It is an orthorhombic pyroxene,"
I said, and as I spoke I heard the jangle
of planets crashing down the cosmic seas.
I added hastily: "It's cleavage angle
is eighty-seven (more or less) degrees.
If it were fifty-six, not eighty-seven
We should, quite clearly, have an amphibole."
At this they swept me, singing up to heaven,
Where angels' hands received my battered soul.
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