Programs for Upcoming Meetings
Updated 08/19/2008

General Meeting (7:30 p.m. on the 4th Tuesday)  & Show Information
(Send suggestions for General Meeting Programs to Terry Proctor, HGMS President.)

Date: Show Info:	August 23, 2008        Saturday Annual Show Flyer Labeling Party: 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the clubhouse. This is where we all put in an hour or two labeling our wonderfully-designed tri-fold fliers (which take the place of our usual postcard this year), help the School Collections Committee put together the Show School Sets, and then get treated to a wonderful lunch hosted by the Show Hospitality Committee. Please show up to help out your fellow club members.
Date: Program:	August 26, 2008 Dr. Patrick J. Lewis, Professor at Sam Houston State University: His topic will be on his trip to a South African cave for prehistoric animals including primates. He is digging in the Koanaka Hills which lie in a remote corner of northwestern Botswana. Caves within these hills contain fossil deposits that date between 2 million and 500,000 years old.
Date: Show Info:	September 6, 2008      Saturday at the Clubhouse Pre-Show Kick-Off Dinner and Auction: This is our big pre-Show event. The Show Hospitality Committee will serve dinner beginning at 6 p.m. We want to start early so the auction can “kick off” about 7 p.m. As always, you can help this year’s Kick-Off Dinner be successful by bringing desserts and items for the auction. Don’t have a garage sale, donate some rocks! Your duplicates and leaverites are someone else’s new treasures. Please feel free to drop off donations in advance at the clubhouse office in the box marked “2008 Show Auction.”
Date: Program:	September 23, 2008 NASA: NASA has agreed to present a program to HGMS.
Date: Show Info:	September 24, 2008        Wednesday 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Load Up: On the Wednesday night before the show, come load up the U-Haul and volunteer vehicles with items to be transported to the Humble Civic Center. Many hands make for light work.
Date: Show Info:	September 25, 2008   Thursday 8 a.m. to noon: Humble Civic Center Setup Day: We will need volunteers beginning at about 8 a.m. to unload the U-Haul truck and cases. Members of each Section must be prepared to set up their own booths. We will also need to drape about half of the dealer tables. The dealers start arriving at 11 a.m. to begin their own set-up, but work on the Section booths will continue. Volunteer and Dealer Appreciation Dinner--6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Humble Civic Center: We host this dinner every year to show our appreciation to all of our volunteers and dealers. Following dinner, lifelong mineral collector David Wilbur (now associated with the HMNS) will give our presentation for the evening. Many of you heard him recently at the General Meeting where he gave a very entertaining presentation on some of his experiences and showed some fantastic mineral slides.
Date: Show Info:	September 26, 2008   Friday 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.: Humble Civic Center Lapidary Competition Stones and Silver Work Need To Be Turned In: Lapidary competition stones and jewelry should be turned in by Friday. However, they will be accepted until 10 a.m. Saturday. The official Lapidary competition stones are as follows: Novice: 30 x 40 agate Advanced / Master: Free-form moonstone. Smallest dimension 12 mm.                                        Largest dimension no more than 30 mm.
Date: Show Info:	September 27   Saturday 8:00 a.m. Humble City Cafe Breakfast with the Editors: If you are interested in writing articles, poetry, cartooning, etc for the newsletter, join us for a wonderful breakfast buffet and see your fellow rockhounds rewqrded for their writing efforts. Click on the 2008 Show Registration Button, and print the Advance Registration Form. Fill it out and mail it in with a check to let us know in advance that you will be coming. Timed Cabochon Cutting Competition: The competition may be at 10 a.m. More information will be presented here when it is known. Awards Banquet--7:00 p.m. in the Humble Convention Center's Hospitality Room: The banquet will be a barbeque this year. All-American Education awards, Program Competition awards, Competitive Case awards, and Endowment Fund drawing winners will be announced, and AFMS officers will be installed. CW Smokehouse and Catering will be cooking the barbecue in our parking lot, so come to the banquet and have some of that barbecue you'll be smelling all day. Be sure to let us know that you will be coming. Click on the 2008 Show Registration Button, and print the Advance Registration Form. Fill it out and mail it in with a check so we can plan on you being there.
Date: Show Info:	September 28   Sunday Houston Museum of Natural Sciences Tour:  10:30 a.m.  Followed by Clubhouse Tour Clubhouse Tour and no HMNS Tour: 1 p.m. Light refreshments will be served. Show Teardown and dinner at club afterwards  5:00 p.m.
Date: Program:	October 28, 2008 To be announced: The 2009 HGMS Officers Nominating Committee presents its report to the General Meeting, and nominations will be taken from the floor.
Date: Program:	November 25, 2008 To be announced:  Election of 2009 officers
Date: Program:	December 13, 2008 Annual Christmas Party
Date: Program:	December 23, 2008 No Meeting

Beading Group (1:30 p.m. on the 3rd Saturday)

Date: Program:	August 23, 2008        ONE WEEK AFTER USUAL DATE!! Contact Diane Sisson for additional information. 713-299-1232 theneonwizard@yahoo.com Finish up one of your projects: Bring a project to work on that you haven't yet finished, or help with a pattern.
Date: Program:	September 20, 2008   Contact Diane Sisson for additional info. 713-299-1232 theneonwizard@yahoo.com Make an Illusion Necklace: We will have everything ready for making the Illusion Necklace.

Paleo Section (7:30 p.m. on the 3rd Tuesday)

Date: Program:	August 19, 2008 To be announced:
Date: Program:	September 16, 2008 To be announced:
Date: Program:	October 21, 2008 To be announced:
Date: Program:	November 18, 2008 To be announced:

Lapidary and Silversmithing Section (7:30 p.m. on the 3rd Monday)

Date: Program:	September 15, 2008 To be announced:
Date: Show Info:	September 26, 2008   Friday 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.: Humble Civic Center Lapidary Competition Stones and Silver Work Need To Be Turned In: Lapidary competition stones and jewelry should be turned in by Friday. However, they will be accepted until 10 a.m. Saturday. The official Lapidary competition stones are as follows:     Novice: 30 x 40 agate     Advanced / Master: Free-form moonstone. Smallest dimension 12 mm.                                        Largest dimension no more than 30 mm.
Date: Show Info:	September 27, 2008    Saturday at Humble Convention Center Timed Cabochon Cutting Competition: The competition may be at 10 a.m. More information will be presented here when it is known.
Date: Program:	October 18, 2008       Saturday Lapidary Section Annual Auction: Put the Lapidary Section Auction on your calendar NOW. More information later.
Date: Program:	October 20, 2008 Making a bead necklace and earrings:  Karen Burns will instruct us. Supplies will cost $3.

Mineral Section (7:30 p.m. on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays)

Date: Program:	October 1, 2008 To be announced:
Date: Program:	October 15, 2008 To be announced:

Day Light Section (1:00 p.m. on the 2nd Monday)

Date: Program:	September 8, 2008 To be announced:
Date: Program:	October 13, 2008 To be announced:

Faceting Section (7:30 p.m. on the 2nd Wednesday)

Date: Program:	September 10, 2008 Work on the stones you are cutting for the show: Bring your faceting machine to the meeting. We'll continue our discussion on how best to display the stones.
Date: Program:	October 8, 2008 To be announced

Youth Section 

(10:00 a.m. on the 1st and 3rd Saturdays)

Dates:

September 6, September 20, 2008 October 4, October 18, 2008

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