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The Bulletin of the Woodland Hills Rock Chippers, Inc.

Regular club meetings are held at 7:00PM on the 3rd

Saturday of each month at: First United Methodist Church, 22700 Sherman Way, West Hills, CA 91303

Visit our website www.rockchippers.org WHRC Editor: P.O. Box 205 Woodland Hills, CA 91365

Membership Information

For any questions regarding membership in the Woodland Hills Rock Chippers please email Virginia Rotramel at

[email protected]

Future Rockhounds of America

For any questions regarding membership in the FRA please email Thalia Goldsworthy atin-

[email protected]

Bulletin Index Page 1 … President’s Message, Contact Information Page 2…Tool Corner; Refreshments; Birthdays, Anniversaries Page 3 … Federation Report, Future Rockhounds of America - FRA Page 4 … Class & Annual Dues Page 5 … Business Minutes Page 6 … UCLA Meteorite Collection Page 7… Let’s Go to a Show! Page 8 … Elected Officers, Directors & Chairpersons Page 9 … Meeting Program Information and Date

January 2019

Volume 60 Number 11

.HAPPY NEW YEAR! 2019 is starting off to be great, and I’m looking forward to the honor of serving the Woodland Hills Rock Chippers as President. I’m planning a lot of fun and exciting things that will suit every rock hound interest. Expect field trips, great programs, and amazing classes, to name a few. The first business meeting of the year took place on January 5

th at

Thalia’s home, and any future board meetings will be held on the first Saturday of each month. Regular meetings will still be held on the third Saturday from 7-9:30pm. This month’s meeting will have a presentation on antique Yemenite Jewish tribal jewelry presented by the newly appointed president (oh yes… that’s me). Being that this is my first time presenting…have mercy! I invite everyone to please submit any ideas that may be related to the bettering of our club.

Looking forward to seeing everyone at the January 19

th meeting.

Sagi Salomon

Rock Chippings Page 2 January 2019

Mary Beth,

Viginia, Evan

John and Shanna

If anyone is missed, please let us know!

The delicious refreshments at December’s meeting party were provided by WHRC and members. Thank you! Refreshments for the January meeting will be provided by Virginia for our enjoyment! Members, please plan to volunteer to bring sweets and/or snacks for at least one of our meetings each year, sign up at the general meetings.

The Refreshment Chairman is Shanna O’Brien

Hardness Picks

These pencil-like hardness picks enable you to do more precise and accurate hardness testing. They tips are made with special alloys that approximate the hardness of minerals in the Mohs Scale for hardness-es of 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.

Available in a plastic field case or a wooden case for the office. Know-ing the hardness of the rocks you are tumbling helps you identify them and know which rocks are compatible for tumbling.

Hardness Picks

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Gary Levitt [email protected] Back in February!

We will be meeting on January 20th at 9:30 am. Current

badge projects are ongoing plus we will have a craft project

as time allows. Junior guests are always welcome providing

their parent accompanies them. Remember to bring your notebooks so we can

keep up to date with the checklists.

Society Traveling Showcase The theme for the 2019 showcase is "Rough and Ready". Our intention is to show both rough

and finished pieces of various materials. Please bring any combos you are willing to share until

the end of the year. We will be setting up the case in February, so it will be ready for the

Ventura club's show, the first weekend in March. If you can't bring your items to the January

meeting, call or email Thalia about dropping them off.

The Board of Directors will approve the schedule of shows and events where we will display our

showcase. Volunteers will be needed to take the materials to the event locations, set up the

display and when the event closes to repackage the items and return them to Thalia for storage

until the next event. If you would like to help, either with the display design or show set-ups, let

Thalia know.

Thalia Goldsworthy

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Learn how to fuse dichroic glass into "cabochons" for jewelry making. Sign-up for the January class on either the 12th or the13th, choose one day. There are spaces for only two participants on Saturday, and three on Sunday. We will meet at Thalia's home from 10 am. to 2 pm. Class Fee is $35.00. This covers materials and use of tools to make four 1 x 2 inch piec-es (or other shapes and sizes using that amount of glass). Depending on the firing and cooling timing you will take home one finished piece. Remaining pieces will be fired as the kiln be-comes available, and will be brought to the January general meeting. Bring tweezers, if you have them, and a lunch.

DICHROIC GLASS FUSING January 12th and 13th-10am to 2pm

Annual Society Dues IT'S DUES TIME AGAIN!!!

A reminder that you can pay at the January meeting you can mail your check (made out to the Woodland Hills Rock Chippers) to me at the address on the roster. I would like to have a current ros-ter out for the February meeting. In order for that to happen everyone interested in rejoining must be paid up.

For a single adult it is $27.50 For each child it is $5.00 (with an adult paid) For a couple (includes two or more at the same address) it is $45.00

I will have your Membership Card available at the meeting when you pay.

Virginia Rotramel

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WHRC Business Meeting Date: January 5, 2019 Location: Thalia’s House Call to Order 19:07- Ending 20:42 Established Quorum: Yes (10) Visitors: Yes (1) Corrections: Nothing to correct Report of Treasurer: Barbara, all accounts in order. No bank statement for January, yet. The November bank statement was submitted. We are in the black. Correspondence: Gem Faire complimentary admission flyers received. Old business: Club working on Facebook pages. New Business: Goals for 2019. Silent Auction: February 16, 2019 & June 15, 2019. Corporate Administrator: We are current. Auditor: Virginia to receive books. Bulletin: All is current. Classes/Workshop: Dichroic Glass Fusing January 12

th & 13

th, 2019 from 10am-2pm.

Class fee is $35.00. Courtesy/Hospitality: Nothing to report. Community Outreach: The committee to meet on February 23, 2019. Display/Education: Debbie presenting Show and Tell. Federation Director: Nothing at the moment. Field Trip: Possible Field Trip in March. FRA: Two of the families did not renew. The kids have multiple activities. Historian: Nothing to report. Insurance: All are current. Librarian: Working on the Books and DVD’s in library. Membership: Virginia is updating membership forms. Drop in membership. Program: Historical Yeminite Jewish Jewelry Artifacts by Sagi Salomon. Publicity: Nothing to report. Refreshments: January refreshments by Virginia. February refreshments by Sagi Solomon. Shop Committee: Nothing to report. Show Chairman: Approval for show date October 19, 2019. Ways and Means: John will be checking in donations. Web Master: Thalia is making changes to the website.

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2018 Re-gents Uni-versity of California

JAN

20 2019

KY HUGHSON

THE DAWN SPACECRAFT AT CERES, THE LARGEST ASTEROID

Location: Geology 3656

Time: 2:30PM

Ceres has the largest water content among large asteroids. After orbiting asteroid Ves-

ta for 14 months, the Dawn spacecraft used its solar-electric propulsion system to

move to Ceres and orbit it. During three years at Ceres, Dawn observed anomalous

ammonium, vexatious volcanoes, wandering water ice, freaky flows, effervescent evap-

orites, capricious carbon, and many more peculiarities. Ceres’ properties suggest that it

is an evolved CM chondrite.


JANUARY 2019 January 19 - 20: EXETER, CA Tule Gem & Mineral Society, Visalia Exeter Veterans' Memorial Building 324 N. Kaweah Avenue Hours: Sat 10 - 5; Sun 10 - 4 Contact: Laura Manser (559) 308-0632 Email: [email protected] Website: www.tulegem.com FEBRUARY 2019 February 15 - 24: INDIO, CA San Gorgonio Mineral & Gem Society Riverside County Fair & National Date Festival 82-503 Highway 111, Hours: 10-10 Contact: Bert Grisham, (951) 849-1674 Email: [email protected] February 16 - 17: ANTIOCH, CA Antioch Lapidary Club Contra Costa County Fairgrounds 1201 West 10th Street Hours: 10 - 5 daily Contact: Brenda Miguel, (925) 301-6957 Email: [email protected] Website: www.antiochlapidaryclub.com February 23 - 24: VALLEJO, CA Vallejo Gem & Mineral Society McCormack Hall, Solano Cnty Fairgrounds 900 Fairgrounds Drive, Hours: 10 - 5 Contact: Dan Wolke, 707 334-2950 Email: [email protected] Website: www.vjgems.org MARCH March 1 - 3: NEWARK, CA Mineral & Gem Society of Castro Valley Newark Pavilion 6430 Thornton Avenue Hours: Fri & Sat 10 - 6; Sun 10 - 5 Contact: Beth Farmer, (510)-731-8664 Email: [email protected] Website: www.mgscv.org March 2 - 3: VENTURA, CA Ventura Gem & Mineral Society Ventura County Fairgrounds 10 West Harbor Blvd. Hours: Sat 10 - 5; Sun 10 - 4 Contact: Diane Cook, (805) 312-8467 Email: [email protected] Website: www.vgms.org

Mark Your Calendars Now! March 8, 9 & 10, 2019 80

th CFMS SHOW & CONVENTION

POMONA, CA Pasadena Lapidary Society Email For Vendor Forms: [email protected] Or call: (626) 260-7239

Details will be posted as they develop.

March 9 - 10: TURLOCK, CA Mother Lode Mineral Society, Modesto Stanislaus County Fairgrounds 900 North Broadway Hours: 10 - 5 daily Contacts: Bud & Terry McMillin, (209) 524-3494 Email: [email protected] www.motherlodemineralsociety.com March 16 - 17: SAN JOSE, CA Santa Clara Valley Gem & Mineral Soci-ety Santa Clara County Fairgrounds 344 Tully Road Hours: 10 - 5 daily Contact: Sonia Dyer, (408) 629-5735 Email: [email protected] Website: www.scvgms.org March 23- 24: ROSEVILLE, CA Roseville Rock Rollers Gem & Mineral Society Placer County Fairgrounds 800 All American City Blvd (off Wash-ington) Hours: Sat 10 - 5; Sun 10 - 4 Contact: James Hutchings, (916) 995-7380 Email: [email protected] Website: www.rockrollers.com March 30 - 31: TORRANCE, CA South Bay Lapidary & Mineral Society Ken Miller Recreation Center 3341 Torrance Blvd (enter on Madrona Ave) Hours: Sat. 10 - 5; Sun. 10 - 4 Contact: Kathy Polliard, (310) 533-4931 Email: [email protected] southbaylapidaryandmineralsociety.com

APRIL 2019 April 13 - 14: MARIPOSA, CA Mariposa Gem & Mineral Society Mariposa County Fairgrounds 5007 Fairgrounds Road (South of Mari-posa off Hwy 49) Hours: Sat 10 - 5; Sun 10 - 4 Contact: Meredith Meehan Email: [email protected] Website: http://mariposagemclub.org April 27 & 28: LANCASTER Antelope Valley Gem & Mineral Society Antelope Valley Fairgrounds 2551 West Avenue H (Hwy. 14 & Ave. H) Hours: 10 - 5 daily Contact: Susan Chaisson-Walblom, (661) 406-0143 Email: [email protected] Website: www.avgem.weebly.com April 27 - 28: RENO, NV Reno Gem & Mineral Society Reno Sparks Livestock Event Center 1350 North Wells Avenue Hours: Sat 10 - 5; Sun 10 - 4 Contact: Daniel Ellis, (775) 229-4420 Email: [email protected] Website: www.renorockhounds.com April 27 - 28: SANTA CRUZ, CA Santa Cruz Mineral & Gem Society Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium 307 Church Street Hours: 10 - 5 daily Contact: Sarah Hawklyn Email: [email protected] Website: www.scrockngem.org

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Woodland Hills Rock Chippers, Incorporated

Our organization, a non-profit corporation, was formed for educational and instructive purposes: to foster collection and study of minerals, to disseminate knowledge about them, to sponsor field trips to find them, to encourage the use of them in lapidary and faceting studies, etc. And to have one whale of a good time doing those things with all of our friends. Regular meetings are held on the 3rd Saturday of each month at 7:00 p.m. Re-freshments are at 6:30 p.m. Field trips are at various times throughout the month. Guests are always welcome to attend. Membership is open to interested applicants after they have attended at least two meetings. Annual dues are due in November for the following year.

Elected Officers/Directors

President Sagi Salomon Director At Large Gene Berwager

Treasurer Barbara Bradbury Director At Large Lillian Berwager

Secretary Pati Mejorado. Director At Large Larry Bradbury

Corp. Adm. Deborah Hirlinger Director At Large John & Shanna O’Brien

Chairpersons and Appointed Positions

Auditor…………………....Virginia Rotramel

Bulletin Editor ……….……Melanie Demont

Classes/Workshop……......................Open

Courtesy/Hospitality…..…. Lillian Berwager

Custodian ……………………Sagi Salomon

Display/Education.……......................Open

Federation Director…………......Gary Levitt

Alternate Fed Director……..Maureen Levitt

Field Trips……………………………...Open

FRA…………………......Thalia Goldsworthy

Historian………….…….......Gene Berwager

Librarian…………………………...Shanna O’Brien

Library Displays…………….................Committee

Membership ………………. .…..Virginia Rotramel

Parliamentarian………...………...……….….Open

Programs …………………...………………...Open

Publicity………………………........................Open

Refreshments…….……...............Shanna O’Brien

Shop …………………………….….….. Committee

Show Chair………….……....…..Virginia Rotramel

Ways and Means…………….……...John O’Brien

Webmaster…………...............Thalia Goldsworthy

Material from Rock Chippings may be duplicated for non-commercial purposes with appropriate credits. For commercial use, individual authors must be contacted for approval. Articles lacking bylines have been gener-ated by the bulletin staff. Direct other questions to the Editor online to:

www.rockchippers.org - or by mail to:

WHRC Chippings Editor P. O. Box 205 Woodland Hills, CA 91365

Woodland Hills Rock Chippers, Inc. MEMBER OF CALIFORNIA FEDERATION OF MINERALOGICAL SOCIETIES

P.O. BOX 205, Woodland Hills, CA 91365

Address exchange Bulletins to: Editor at above address

WHRC Regular Meeting- Saturday, January 19th, 2019; from 7:00-9:30pm

Presented by Sagi Salomon
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