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Our Museum Needs You Rockhounds!
The Arizona Mining and Mineral Museum needs us! As our Chairman, Les Presmyk, pointed out at the last meeting, our Foundation was formed to support the Museum, and we should be up at the front of the line when volunteers are needed. The main qualification is to be available on a regular basis (once a month, twice a month, every Saturday, whatever). You can be the most valuable asset of this World Class repository of natural history. Here are some of the ways you can help:
Work at the Front Desk, and meet the public. Your smiling face will be the first thing that visitors from all over the United States and the World will see when they enter. Not a good job for me, but I bet you wouldn't scare them off! Count heads and answer questions.
Assist in Museum Gift Shop, bring in some cash to help keep things running smoothly. Money is the Universal Lubricant.
Assemble Teacher's kits, one of the big services we can provide to Arizona's Educators. You can help some of our most important public servants keep the Rock hounds of tomorrow awake in class.
Assemble Treasure Bags, everybody likes Treasure!
Make Jewelry, but you don't get to keep it, except at Family Day. You can do this at home, and the Museum can even supply you with materials! Your creations will be sold in the gift shop.
Help with Outdoor Projects, Make the Borianna Head Frame look like we are digging under downtown Phoenix. Maybe we are...isn't there an old China Town hidden down there?
Lapidary Shop Support, Doug Duffy can be a gruff old rock likker sometimes, but he seems to be a pretty good boss. You will do Cleanup, maintain the equipment, shop steward duty, and the like. You can make stuff while you work on this job, I bet. Training is required, but you are probably already pretty good at it, and Doug is a great teacher.
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