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Membership
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Winter
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Fellow members,
Our winter meeting
schedule is now determined.
Once again, we will meet in the basement of the
The speaker in
January will be our own Gary Emberger, who will give a hands-on
demonstration of how identification keys are constructed and used, based
on his experience in setting up his web site on fungi that grow on wood.
The February meeting will feature Dr. Amy Rossman, who works with
the National Fungus Collection in
The January meeting
is also the time for our biennial elections, and will mark the end of my
tenth year as your president.
I have enjoyed my tenure at the helm very much, and wish to thank
all of the other officers who have assisted me over the years: our
culinary coordinators, Chris and Kathy Snyder; our membership secretary
and treasurer, Bill Miknis, who has served much longer than I; our
newsletter editor, Marilynn Fusco, and her predecessor, Sue Butler; Gary
Emberger, officer at large, NEMF Trustee and past president; our foray
recorders, Paul Good and Annie Li; and our foray chairwomen, Annie Li
and (before her) Cathy Cholmeley-Jones.
Working with all of you has been a distinct pleasure.
I’m pleased that
during my time as president our club has rebounded from the deaths in
2002 of two of its mainstays and charter members, Susan Whitaker and
Helen Miknis, and that membership has now reached an all-time peak of
105. But for the continued
health of the club, the time has come for me to step down as
president and for another to take over as club leader.
In addition, Bill Miknis has announced his retirement as
membership secretary/treasurer, so we must find someone to take over
those duties as well. Terms
of office are just two years, so I urge all of you to please
consider being a candidate for one of those positions.
I will gladly assist my successor in whatever way I can (if need
be, I could even assume some other post within the club), but if the
club is to continue to thrive, it’s imperative that some who have not
previously served as officers become more involved in its management.
In closing, let me remind
everyone and that 2012 is our club’s turn to assist in hosting the
Northeast Mycological Federation’s annual foray next August at East
Stroudsburg State University. That means that our club is one of
four (along with the
of mushrooming in the Poconos with other committed (or should I say, committable?) mycophiles. Sincerely, John Dawson |
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Eastern Penn Mushroomers Winter Schedule 2012
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MEETING PLACE:
The meeting room is in the basement of
the
GPS: DD:
39.884862
-76.732078, DMS: N39 53 05 W76 43 55,
Decimal: N 39 53.092 W 76 43.925
VERY IMPORTANT: Please sign up with Chris and
Kathy Snyder to bring some refreshments to these meetings. If you need a
suggestion as to what to bring, contact them and ask. Or just let them
know what you will be bringing. Thanks. – Ann Li
Saturday, January 14, from 10 a.m. until noon -"Keys for Identification
of Fungi".
This will be a presentation by Gary Emberger. He
will discuss how to use keys, how keys are made, and what makes a key
good. Attendees may practice
making keys of their own.
Additionally, our biennial elections for
club officers will be held prior to
Saturday,
February 11, from 10 a.m. until noon -
“The National Fungus Collection”
Dr. Amy Rossman from the National Fungus
Collection will be presenting this program. She will cover what the
collection is, how it is useful, and how it relates to determining
current taxonomy of fungi.
Saturday, March 17, from 10 a.m. until noon -
"Slime
Molds" by Phil Layton. Phil will talk
about the habitats of slime molds, their life cycles, and what to look
for in identifying them.
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