Rockhound ramblings. Multi-color Granite from Brazil Kashmir Gold granite from Melur- India

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1 Rockhound ramblings - PASADENA, CALIFORNIA Imperial Red Granite from Rajasthan- India Baltic Green Granite from Finland INSIDE THIS ISSUE Editor s Message 2 Reports, Contact & Club Information 2 Multi-color Granite from Brazil Kashmir Gold granite from Melur- India Ed s Corner 3 Workshop Current Club News Current Club Events Feature Articles Member Finds 4 The Colors Of Granite by Mark Nelson, Pasadena Lapidary Society Granite colors range the spectrum from red to green to gold to white to black to pink - even Blue Bahia granite from central Brazil, used as the background for this page! Granite is one of the most commonly known types of rocks, used in everything from buildings to sculptures. It has been used for thousands of years and is regarded as a symbol of status, strength, and durability. How did granite form, and why is it found in so many colors? Photos courtesy of Stonecontact.com/ Continued on page 4 Society Events 5 Articles, Information and Photos Field Trip Editor s Quiz Federation Reports Tips, Safety Rock & Gem Shows Member-to-Member 6 7 Calendar 8

2 Page 2 Officers Ellen Ferrell, President (727) Ellenbf2007 at aol.com Mona Ross, Vice President (626) mlr.attofgrat at gmail.com Mark Nelson, Secretary (909) Mnelsonair at aol.com Linda Nelson, CPA, Treasurer (909) Lnelsn at verizon.net Joe Goetz, Federation Director (626) joenmar1 at verizon.net Editor s Corner Dear Members, 2016 was a great year for our Society! We celebrated our 70th year of earth science education, gained a lot of great new members and were named the best lapidary society in North America! We did this through service to our members and to the community. I hope that we met your expectations and would like to hear your suggestions for our society in 2017! Good food, good times and good friends. I would like to thank Cindy Lamarche and Linda Nelson for planning our 70 th celebration last FAIR USE NOTICE. This publication may contain copyrighted material the use of which has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We are making such material available in our efforts to advance the educational understanding of the amateur jewelry fabrication and rock collecting hobbies. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use material from this publication for commercial or purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use', you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. Newsletter Articles, ads or corrections should be sent to the editor: Mark Nelson, P.O. Box 5025, Pasadena CA or by to pasadenalapidary at aol.com month and to all of the members who brought food, helped with set-up and takedown, photography and everything that was done to make it so much fun! Thanks also to Gloria Biesterfeld and Nick Taminich for the donation of flashlights that were prizes for the Christmas Carol quiz. Did you like the raffle prizes for the food bank donations? These prizes were donated by Gloria Biesterfeld, Linda Nelson and Clyde Latimer. As a result of the generosity of our members, the food drive was a great success with over 300 pounds of food was collected. Denise Davis and Linda Nelson donated $125 in cash which was also Meeting and General Society Information December Board Meeting by Mark Nelson, Secretary Officers/Directors/Chairs present: Victor Castellano, Carolyn Duncan, Ellen Ferrell, Ed Imlay, Cindy Lamarche, Linda Nelson, Mark Nelson and Mona Ross. Absent:: Joe Goetz, Marcia Goetz, Jennifer Jang, Chris Kyte, and Elizabeth Weston. The meeting was held at Mimi s Café in Monrovia. The directors discussed current items and approved the new members (with Chris Kyte voting by teleconference). The meeting adjourned without a quorum. All members are welcome to attend the board meetings. Membership Information and Meeting Locations Membership per calendar year is only $25, $15 for a second adult member in the same house. Junior members and the third or more adult members at the same house are $10. Initiation fee is $2.00 per person and membership badges are $7.50. Renewals are due by the October General Meeting and delinquent after December 1st. Mail checks for membership to P.O. Box 5025, Pasadena CA Website: pasadenalapidary@aol.com Board Meetings: 7:00 PM on the first Thursday of the month at the Castellano Building at 401 W. Colorado Blvd Monrovia, CA. A map and directions are on the website. All members are welcome to attend! 70th Anniversary Dinner The 70th Anniversary Holiday Party was hosted by the Hospitality Committee of Cindy Lamarche and Linda Nelson. Members enjoyed the wonderful pot-luck dinner, fun holiday quiz and a food drive gift raffle. A good time was had by all! Program Meetings: 6:45-8:45 PM on the third Tuesday of each month at the Pasadena Central Library at 285 E. Walnut Street. Doors open at 6pm. Guests are welcome! Field Trips are scheduled each month. Refer to the bulletin and website for date, location and info. Workshop: The use of the club s equipment is available to members from 9am to 5pm on the 2nd Sunday of each month in our shop at 97 E. Montecito Ave., Sierra Madre. There are two sessions - from 9am to 1pm and 1pm to 5pm. Equipment proficiency is required and instruction is free. Fees are $3 per session or $5 for a full day. Bring lunch! presented to the Friends In Deed food bank and women s shelter. We received the thanks of the Director for making the holidays better for a lot of families. We will repeat the food drive again in June! This month we look forward to one of the most popular field trips of the year - to the Quartzsite Shows! Information about the excursion will be on the web site and discussed at our Program Meeting on the 17 th. I ll look forward to seeing you there and would be happy to answer any questions that you might have about Quartzsite!.. Mark Mark Nelson, Editor April Meeting January Program Meeting A bucket list event for rockhounds are the Quartzsite Shows this month! Mona Ross and her guest speakers will let our members know what to expect at the shows and at local field trips in the area. Carolyn Duncan will share tips about camping. Information is available on the calendar page of the web site. Come early at 6 p.m. and enjoy coffee and light refreshments by Cindy Lamarche s Hospitality Committee. Bring rocks and minerals for identification! The display table is for members to show items they have collected at recent field trips or in their travels. Safety: Liability waivers, eye protection, closed-toe-flat-heel shoes and machinery safe-practices are mandatory for all participants. Workshops are for adult members and junior members 8 and older with adult supervision. The Annual Club Show is held the second weekend of March at the Masonic Center, 3130 Huntington Drive, San Marino. 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3 Ed s Corner Page 3 EDUCATIONAL OUTEACH By Ed Imlay Chair, Education Committee On December 9th, Ed Imlay supported "Science Night" at Harrison Elementary in Los Angeles. Schools are back from vacation, so it is a great time Ed Imlay at a local school to be first in line to have my popular rocks and minerals presentation scheduled for your favorite school, home education, church, community and youth group. To schedule my special educational presentation to your group or school contact me by phone at (626) or by edimlay at hotmail dot com. Identification: Would you like to know the name of a rock you have acquired? If you can polish or knock a small window off of a corner without damaging the rest of the specimen, please do so to expose the inside. Set it on the table at the rear of the meeting room in January with a note asking What is this? Display Table: At the January Program Meeting you may display items of general interest, workshop projects and items you collected on field trips. Celebrate our gemstone of the month - Garnet - by wearing or displaying something made from this birthstone! Welcome New Members!! The Society is continually seeking new members, ideas and enthusiasm to assist us in sharing the enjoyment and understanding of earth sciences. We welcome our newest members - Emily Traeger, Clyde Latimer, Elaine Ige and Kyle Bright. We welcome your talent! Share the lapidary and jewelry hobby! Invite your friends and neighbors to one of our monthly meetings to learn more about the Pasadena Lapidary Society! ROCK OF THE MONTH PRESENTATION One of our Junior Rockhounds Of The Year will Surprise our members! We need folks to be scheduled to talk about an interesting rock or mineral in February and succeeding months. Sign up at the monthly meeting or Mona Ross at: mlr dot attofgrat at gmail dot com This may be your final bulletin if you have not renewed your Society membership for 2017! Send your renewal to: Pasadena Lapidary Society, P.O. Box 5025, Pasadena CA The dues amounts are on page 2. By her who in this month is born No gem save garnets should be worn; They will ensure her constancy, True friendship, and fidelity. Source: Gregorian Calendar 1582 WORKSHOP This Month s Workshop Program: Instructor Helen Crisp This year we will present several classes to introduce our members to basic wire-working skills. The January work shop will feature a local jewelry instructor, Helen Crisp. Helen will show how to make a basic rosette and to use it as a basis for making a wire cat from 18ga copper wire. You will need flat, chain and round nose pliers and wire cutters. Copper wire will be furnished and you are welcome to bring your own silver or gold tone wire if you desire. The project will begin at 10 am. At 1pm, time permitting, I will demonstrate a copper jump ring two-in-two bracelet using wire wrapped 6 mm beads. Jump rings will be furnished and some beads. If you have some beads please bring them. The same pliers can be used for both projects. Wire cat in gold craft wire by Helen Crisp Park on the street or in the parking lot on the east side of the building and enter through the walkway on the west side. New and current members who have not received our new safety orientation are required to do so prior to participating in workshop events. The safety orientation will start at 9am. Please contact me to schedule your orientation at: or at gem.quest at verizon dot net.... Carolyn Duncan, Workshop Chair Be one of the growing number of our followers on Twitter! Meeting Refreshments: Program Meeting Refreshments Thanks to all who brought refreshments last year! Linda Nelson and I will start off the new year by bringing refreshments to the January meeting! To volunteer to bring refreshments Contact me at (626) or by at grammiecyn at verizon.net.. Cindy Lamarche Sunshine: Congratulations to our 2017 Rockhound Of The Year Rex Nishimura and Alyson Nishimura as our 2017 Junior Rockhound Of The Year! Carolyn Duncan successfully underwent eye surgery Linda Nelson is recovering from her brief hospitalization in December. Hailey Carter will be leaving us for college in Florida! The Pasadena Lapidary Society has a Sunshine Committee to send cards and words of comfort and support and congratulations to our members who are in need or who are deserving of it. Help me recognize them! My contact info is (626) or by at grammiecyn at verizon.net.. Cindy Lamarche

4 Page 4 Continued from page 1 The Colors Of Granite by Mark Nelson, Pasadena Lapidary Society What is Granite? Granite is an intrusive igneous rock with large grains (minerals) easily seen by the naked eye. An igneous rock is a rock that has solidified from molten rock. This is in comparison to the two other major types of rock, sedimentary and metamorphic. Here in Southern California we see a lot of igneous lava rocks everywhere in the Mojave Desert. Why aren t all of these rocks granite? This is because those lava bombs are extrusive rocks, and granite Extrusive lava rock in the Mojave Desert is an intrusive rock. Extrusive rocks are expelled and cool during a volcanic eruption and allow no time for orientation of minerals, creating a homogenous looking rock with no discernible grains. An intrusive rock is one where the molten lava rock cooled within the earth s crust and was never expelled as molten rock. The gradual cooling of the molten rock is imperative to create the large crystals of a singular mineral that we see in granites. With time, there is differential lithification or solidifying of molten rock dependent on chemical makeup, this allows for different types of minerals to form at different periods of time and alter the final resulting granite. Granite is a conglomerate of minerals and rocks, primarily quartz, potassium feldspar, mica, amphiboles, and trace other minerals. Granite will typically contain 20-60% quartz, 10-65% feldspar, and 5-15% micas (biotite or muscovite). While most granites are grey in color, it can be black, dark-red and the rarer green or bluish-grey India Brown Granite color. The minerals that surrounded the forming granite gave it the unique colors we see in different types of granite. What Determines Granite Colors? Granite colors are most commonly pink, white, variations of grey and black. However, it's important to note that some stones marketed as black 'granite' are in fact likely gabbro (a type of basalt) as granite must contain at least 20% quartz within a rock to make it granite. White granites tend to have more aplitic plagioclase, along with some dark mica and hornblende. The color of feldspar especially strongly Granite with pink feldspar influences the decorativeness of granite. But - feldspars are naturally white! Feldspar breeds get grey and black colors from the admixture of dark-colored minerals, mica or pyroxenes. Where does the red come from in some granite stones? Red or pink feldspars are included into their mineral composition. Granite feldspar acquires the pink coloring when the amount of hematite does not exceed 3 to 4%. Egyptian Imperial Red Porphyry Granite Granite, which is green in color is due to inclusions of green potassium feldspar, was known for a long time as a semi-precious stone. The early American Indians used it as decorations. Birjand Green Granite from Iran Blue Bahia granite, used for the cover of this month s bulletin, get s its color from inclusions of blue sodalite foidolite of the Precambrian period. It almost makes a person want to go rock collecting in a kitchen counter store, doesn t it? Sources for this article include: Trevor Nace of Forbes.com; europeanmarbleandgranite.net and Stonecontact.com/ Mining Supplies and Rock Shop 9565 C Street, Suite K, Hesperia, CA We buy and sell gold and silver and carry a nice supply of rocks and minerals, jewelry, findings, tumbled glass and rocks, rock slabs and cabs, silver wire and sheet, beads, and more. Gold panning equipment, dry washers, gold pans, metal detectors, tumblers, rock saws, polishing equipment, lost wax casting, soldering silver and gold jewelry. We support lapidary clubs!

5 Page 5 Activities, Tips and Information 2016 PLS 70th Anniversary Holiday Meeting Left: President Ellen Ferrell holds proclamations celebrating our 70 years by the City of Pasadena and the California Federation of Mineralogical Societies (CFMS). Right: VP Mona Ross was wearing electric light bulbs as she presented the honors to our Rockhounds Of The Year! Right: Victor Castellano proves the adage from 1546 (400 years before PLS was started) that many hands make light work in the cleanup after the celebration! Left: Event Co-Chair Linda Nelson and our photographer, Mary Kirmil show that service to the Society can also be fun! 2017 Rockhounds Of The Year Rex Nishimura Rockhound Of The Year Rex has been an active member of the Society for several years. He has led the effort to obtain donations and to keep the equipment at our Workshop in good operating condition. He frequently foregoes his own lapidary projects in order to help new members learn their basic skills. Rex has attended BLM regulatory meetings where he has voiced the opinion that our Public Lands should remain open to educational rock and mineral collecting. His report is on the PLS Website. Rex and his family have attended the Society s field trips, as well as the 2016 AFMS Annual Convention and subsequent field trips. Rex Nishimura is a true model of what a Rockhound Of The Year should be! Alyson Nishimura 2017 Junior Rockhound Of The Year Left: Our thanks to Bruce Lamarche for his excellent sound system, and to Cindy Lamarche for her work planning this event and making the illuminated centerpieces! Clyde Latimer, shown at left, was seen at the December workshop trimming this 12 tall quartz crystal for display at our Annual Show! Jennifer Jang will be assigning display cases for our March Annual Show. The cases are free to members and we will show you how to set them up to show off your creations! Contact Jennifer at: jennijae at yahoo.com Member Creations Right: Gloria Biesterfeld created this small piece of fused art glass and made a silver ring to showcase it! Send a photo of your creation by text to or by to pasadenalapidary at aol.com. Alyson Nishimura's love of rock hunting and lapidary skills are an asset to our club. Her latest showcase featured Botswana Agate, which she obtained on the January PLS field trip to Quartzsite. In addition, her congenial demeanor and enthusiasm at our rock show welcomes children at the sand scoop and encourages prospective rockhounds to join PLS. By sharing her knowledge, new members feel welcome and are willing to participate in club activities. Her last speech on Thundereggs, at the May 2016 general meeting, kept the audience captivated and well -informed. Alyson attended 10 field trips in 2016! She reads our Rockhound Ramblings newsletter conscientiously, because she loves to search for the answer to our editor s junior question of the month. She regularly attends our workshops to advance her skills and knowledge base! Alyson Nishimura is a great asset to our Society! Y2K Jewelers 917 W. Arrow Highway San Dimas, CA (909) What is this gemstone? Is it real or imitation? Identification is a free service for lapidary club members! This 3rd generation family manufactures their own jewelry designs, as well as selling estate and antique jewelry. They repair your old or broken jewelry in the store. At Y2K Jewelers they strive to make high quality, beautiful jewelry. Come in today to be blown away by the displays of beautifully unique jewelry! Bring this bulletin for a special Lapidary Society discount! Armando Pedroza Pasadena Lapidary Society Full Tree Services, Property Maintenance, Landscape Design and Installation, Hardscape Services, Petrified wood features, Retaining Walls, Driveways, Water Features, Outdoor Kitchens - and more! References and photos.

6 Page 6 Joe Goetz Field Trip Chairman FIELD TRIPS By Joe Goetz It s Quartzsite Time! January 21 st - 22 nd, 2017 In January we will visit the extensive and varied rock, gem and mineral shows in Quartzsite, Arizona. Our timing is to take advantage of the annual Pow Wow, hosted by the Quartzsite Improvement Association. Many of our members will meet there on the 18 h in order to have ample opportunity to see more of the shows while they are there. The Quartzsite Roadrunners Gem and Mineral Club will have two field trips each day from the 18 th to the 22 nd to some of their favorite collecting areas. The details to these will be posted on the Calendar page of the web site as they are made available. Pasadena Lapidary Society field trips will be on Saturday and Sunday to some new and favorite and fruitful collecting areas. See the Calendar page of the web site for where we will collect, where to meet and what we will be looking for! The January Program Meeting will feature plenty of time for questions and answers about these collecting opportunities! Congratulations to Alyson Nishimura for knowing that the pun for what you call a periodic table with gold missing is Au Revoir!. Unfortunately, there were no correct answers to the Adult question. FEDERATION NEWS By Joe Goetz CFMS - California Federation of Mineralogical Societies CFMS PRESIDENTS MESSAGE By John Martin Happy Holidays Rockhounds! You now have a new President and CFMS has a new Executive Committee for This year has been a real experience for me and Susy. I do not think I would have missed it and I am glad I was able to travel throughout the Federation and see and visit with Rockhounds through out the CFMS. We had two good Earth Science Study Camps, a wonderful CFMS Convention and Show, a lot of outstanding local shows and there are a lot of great and wonderful Rockhounds through out the Federation. It was my privilege to serve the Federation as the 2016 President and to represent the 8,474 members at the AFMS Convention and as the Rockhound Ambassador when engaging with government agencies on Rockhounding issues. This year we managed, through a lot of hard work by many Federation Members, to have the first National Monument which allows Recreational Rockhounding as a recognized activity though still only temporary and more work needs to be accomplished to make Rockhounding enduring. After several years of negotiations we were able to sign the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to continue our access and collecting in the Hauser Geode Beds for all Rockhounds and the public to enjoy! Read more newsletter material at: AFMS - American Federation of Mineralogical Societies Start Your Plan for the All American Club Yearbook by Regina Kapta, AFMS Chair Begin now to plan out your entry for the All American Club Yearbook award in Entries will be due a bit earlier this year April 1st is the deadline, so the awards may be handed out at the AFMS Convention in June The All American Club Award is given to the individual club Yearbook that highlights a club s activities for the past year. Prizes were awarded at the December Program Meeting! Editor s Quiz Juniors: How many pounds of food were donated to the Friends In Deed pantry by our Society? Adults: What are the three main minerals that make up granite? Group activities, individual member participation, workshops and shows are all part of a great club. Credit is given for member attendance at regional and national shows, holding officer positions on various committees, writing to state representatives, involvement in ALAA, and junior programs and workshops - activities that reflect an active club that makes membership worthwhile for everyone. The AACA awards are recognition of these activities, with bronze, silver and gold levels and an overall 1st place gold award! Read more about it at: The answers to this month s quiz can be found in this bulletin. The first Adult and Junior Members to correctly answer these questions will win a special prize at the next Program Meeting. your answer to the Society s address: pasadenalapidary at aol.com. January Did you know that.. January is named after the Roman god Janus, who was always shown as having two heads. He looked back to the last year and forward to the new one. The original Roman calendar only had 10 months. January and February were not included, but were added later. Although March was originally the first month in the old Roman Calendar, January assumed that position beginning in 153 BC. Following the collapse of the Roman Empire, various Christian feast dates were used for the New Year in Europe in the Middle Ages, including March 25 and December 25. Beginning in the 16th century, European countries began officially making January 1 the start of the New Year once again On the average, January is the coldest month of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. However, in the Southern Hemisphere January is a summer month the equivalent of July. Sometimes the Saxons called January the wolf month because hungry wolves would come into their towns searching for food this time of year.

7 Page 7 TIPS, HINTS AND SAFETY Recipe For Cleaning Jewelry Copper Jewelry by Cerrutti Jewelry 1. Pour white vinegar in a bowl or jar. 2. Dip copper in and remove. 3. Sprinkle salt across wet copper. Work it in with your hands. 4. Rinse. 5. While wet, sprinkle the copper with baking soda. Work it in with your hands. 6. Rinse and dry! Copper Jewelry by Using Lemon Juice and Salt, you can literally sit back and watch the copper clean itself in front of you. You can and should use enough lemon juice to cover the surface of the jewelry piece, and about a tablespoon of salt. It s not an exact science - I even left the seeds in! Leave it in the mixture of lemon juice & salt for about seconds Rinse with water and dry! Other Jewelry by Silver: To remove built-up tarnish from your silver, make a thick paste with 1/4 cup baking soda and 2 tablespoons water. Apply with a damp sponge and gently rub, rinse, and buff dry. Gold: To polish gold jewelry, cover with a light coating of baking soda, UOP pour a bit of vinegar over it, and rinse clean. Library All: Drop your dull-looking jewelry in a glass of fizzing Alka-Seltzer for a couple of minutes. It will sparkle and shine when you pull it out! Articles and photographs printed in this bulletin are as credited to their author. Items not so credited are written by the Editor and are not an expression of the Pasadena Lapidary Society. Photographs not credited are from the public domain or from the Editor and are used for educational purposes. Articles and photographs submitted for publication are welcome and must be received by the 15th of the prior month. The Editor reserves the right to edit any article submitted for publishing. Carpet City Carpet Tile Hardwood Laminate Special Financing Available. Save used postage stamps for the CFMS! Why throw these mini works of art away? Former CFMS President Dick Pankey leads the Federation s effort to help fund the cure for cancer through the donation of used postage stamp for international collectors. Give them to our Federation Director, Joe Goetz, at any Society function! Basem Jibrin, Member Pasadena Lapidary Society Discounts to members of the Pasadena Lapidary Society! (909) Free Estimates! LOCAL ROCK AND GEM SHOWS January 6th to February 28th: QUARTZSITE, AZ, SHOWS It s not too soon to plan to visit Quartzsite! It is a short 3 hour drive and well worth it. Our Society will hold its January field trip there during the Pow Wow Look for the gem shows symbol in the calendar on page 8. Show. Level primitive camping around Quartzsite or RV sites and motels in Blythe, CA. See the web site for more information. 6-8: MESA, AZ 45th Annual Flagg Gem and Mineral Show (Flagg Mineral Foundation) at the Mesa Community College; 1833 W Southern Avenue; Daily 9-5; Free parking and admission. Free activities for kids. Displays. Vendors with beads, fossils, gems, jewelry, lapidary materials and minerals. Please plan to attend one of the lapidary club shows listed on this page, and wear your club badge, shirt or vest when you do! - Editor 18-22: Quartzsite, AZ QIA Pow Wow - Over 520 vendors - required to be 75% gem, mineral or jewelry related. Free Admission and Free Parking with 2 Shuttle Buses running all day to help get people from their cars to the Vendors. We will also be providing 2 ATM's on-site - in the cafeteria area and food available onsite. and at cities/az/quartzsite PASADENA: Pasadena Bead & Design Show, Hilton Pasadena 168 S. Los Robles Avenue. 300 Artisan Booths, Merchant Displays, Galleries, Workshops. 10am to 6pm daily. Admission $10, good all four days. Valet or self parking $ DEL MAR: Wholesale and retail show; Gem Faire Inc, Del Mar Fairgrounds; 2260 Jimmy Durante Blvd; Fri. Noon-6pm, Sat. 10am-6pm, Sun. 10am-5pm; $7, free (ages 0-11); Fine jewelry, precious & semiprecious gemstones, millions of beads, crystals, gold & silver, pearls, minerals & much more at manufacturer s prices. Society logo items are available to our members through Marcia Goetz, Membership Chair. Phone: joenmar1 at verizon.net. Vests = $10, T-Shirts = $15, Hats = $11 and replacement member badges = $9 (specify either magnet or pin mount) Member - To - Member FREE Purple Glass for tumbling & art projects - 2 pounds per person. Linda Nelson (909) Custom bags by Mary Kirmil - Hawaiian, Holiday, Sports, Patriotic & Seasonal totes - mini to jumbo sizes. Perfect gifts for a Rockhound! Mkirmil at yahoo dot com or at bags (626) Mortgage refinancing and Reverse Mortgages - evaluation and consulting are free for PLS members and friends - Bruce Lamarche (626) Jewelry Classes after work in Glendora - Helen Crisp - (626) Free Canon printer - prints paper and photos. Have not used it for 7 years but it was working fine then. May need a cable. Alexandria Wiercigroch (kona1day at aol.com) Jim Gersbach (tenomo at netscape. net), buys lots of gems, beads, coins and stamps - buy sell and trade! Favorite Field Trip Guide of the Los Angeles Gem Hunters. Out of print 44-page guide to forgotten locations of the 1960 s. $15. Mark Nelson (909) mnelsonair at aol dot com Members are welcome to place a FREE message for items or services wanted, for sale or for trade. submissions to: pasadenalapidary at aol dot com or by fax to (909)

8 Page 8 JANUARY 2017 Pasadena, California U.S.A. Founded 1947 Pasadena Lapidary Society, Inc. Bulletin Editor: 1475 Paseo Maravilla San Dimas, CA OUR MISSION The Pasadena Lapidary Society serves to educate its members and the community in mineralogy, earth sciences and training in the lapidary and jewelry arts while promoting sound mineral resource stewardship based on environmental awareness and ethical behavior. The Society fulfills its mission year-round which may include field trips, lapidary workshops, outreach presentations, public mineral displays, an annual show, and monthly informational meetings open to the public. First Class Mail RETURN SERVICE REQUESTED The Pasadena Lapidary Society is affiliated with the California and American Federations of Mineralogical Societies. Our editor is a member of the Special Congress Representing Involved Bulletin Editors. January 2017 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Board Meeting 6 7 Workshop Washington defeats British at Princeton, New Jersey Washington delivers FIRST State Of The Union Address Typewriter Invented Quartzsite Field Trip January 29, 1891 Liliuokalani becomes Queen of Hawaii. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday Program Meeting 1807 Robert E. Lee Born in Virginia Quartzsite Pow Wow Quartzsite Pow Wow Quartzsite Pow Wow Quartzsite Field Trip 1959 Auschwitz Liberated 1945