texascavers Digest 18 Sep 2012 15:42:11 -0000 Issue 1628
Topics (messages 20709 through 20713):
Re: UT Grotto Meeting - Wed Sept 19
20709 by: Preston Forsythe
Request for officers for 2013 - The TSA Wants YOU To Volunteer!
20710 by: Mark.Alman.L-3com.com
Texas Caver Reunion 2012...one month away!!
20711 by: ellie watson
news from AMCS
20712 by: Mixon Bill
Cave trip to Nepal, anyone?
20713 by: germanyj.aol.com
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Hey Ben and crew. Please video this presentation so we can see it someday.
Preston
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From: Gary Franklin
To: Cavers Texas
Cc: Ben Tobin
Sent: Monday, September 17, 2012 7:26 AM
Subject: [Texascavers] UT Grotto Meeting - Wed Sept 19
Howdy Caver,
You are cordially invited to attend the next UT Grotto meeting - Wednesday
September 19th from 7:45PM- 9:00PM
University of Texas Campus in 2.48 Painter Hall (156 West 24th Street, Austin
TX 78712) http://www.utexas.edu/maps/main/buildings/pai.html
Ben Tobin will present the Program - CAVING IN THE BOB MARSHALL WILDERNESS
An expedition in July 2012 to the Turtlehead Mountain karst in the Bob
Marshall Wilderness of Montana focused on mapping and exploring some of the
deeper caves in the continental US. Come out for the fun and fellowship with
Austin Texas Cavers.
We will even have Bob Marshall in Attendance !!!
For information on Underground Texas Grotto activities, please see
www.utgrotto.org
Officer contact, trip reports, event calendar, and new caver training links
to beginner trips or vertical rope training are available.
Before the meeting, take advantage of Sao Paulo www.saopaulos.net for happy
hour specials. This area is the best place to park and meet folks walking over
to the meeting. Then after the official meeting, we continue with the decades
long tradition to reconvene for burgers, beer, and tall tales of caving at
Posse East. www.posse-east.com
The UT Grotto Program calendar is wide open and needs you, the caver with
photos and a story to share about your adventures, scientific research, or
something else really cool. Scan those photos from back in the day and share
those times that you would love to re-live. Contact me to get your place in
the spot light.
See you there,
Gary Franklin
UT Grotto Vice Chair & Program Organizer
512-585-6057
[email protected]
"Ben Tobin" <[email protected]>
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(Borrowing from one of Ron Ralph's excellent past emails from when he
was the TSA Nominations Chair).
Cavers:
It is once again time to consider running for office. The Texas
Speleological Association needs your hat in the ring for the 2013
election at the Texas Caver Reunion. The positions are for one year and
duties are outlined below. Knowing your reluctance to volunteer for any
position, I am asking your friends (ha!) to suggest to me that you will
be a fine candidate. I will then contact you and ask if you will run and
serve.
Our present officers (2012) are:
President - Don Arburn (standing, unless someone REALLY wants to run)
Vice-President - Ellie Watson (OPEN. Ellie is standing down, after many
years of superb service to the TSA).
Secretary - Denise Prendergast (OPEN. Denise is standing down, after
many years of excellent record keeping for the TSA).
Treasurer - Michael Cicherski (standing, unless someone REALLY wants to
run)
This is the first call for nominations. Please respond with your
thoughts on possible candidates at your earliest convenience.
Sincerely,
Mark Alman, TSA Elections Committee Chair
September 17, 2012
214-289-9181 - Cell
Duties of TSA Officers
Nominations for TSA officers are in progress. This page is an excerpt
from the TSA Constitution describing the duties of TSA Officers.
Article IV: Officers
A. The Executive Council consists of the Chairman, Vice-Chairman,
Secretary, Treasurer and the Chair of each standing committee. Elected
officers shall take office on the first day of the New Year.
1. The Chairman, when present, shall preside over all TSA meetings.
2. The Vice-Chairman is responsible for meeting and program arrangements
and shall preside at TSA meeting is the absence of the Chairman.
3. The Secretary records the minutes of TSA meetings and maintains a
current list of members.
4. The Treasurer keeps track of TSA assets by maintaining adequate
financial records, including those for The Texas Caver. The Treasurer
prepares a budget for the fiscal year, maintains the membership
database, and insures the database is available electronically to the
membership.
B. A vacancy in any elected office other than that of Chairman may be
filled by the Executive Council by appointing any full member in good
standing or by special election if so desired by the Executive Council.
C. The Vice-Chairman shall fill a vacancy in the office of Chairman.
D. Officers may be removed from their position by a three-quarters
majority vote at any Member Meeting.
NOTES: The vice chair has historically organized the TSA spring
convention, in other words, No Vice Chair = No TSA Convention!
And the chairman is responsible for organizing the TSA business
meetings...ie preparing agendas, scheduling the meeting...keeping things
moving at the meetings....and being a "speleo-referee" to keep things
civil.
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TCR Lovers,
Let the countdown begin for Texas Cavers Reunion the weekend of October
18-21, 2012 at Paradise Canyon in Rio Medina, TX!
Don just visited the grounds and says its looking fantastic and ripe for
TCR. We will have the entire park to ourselves and, since they acquired new
land, we're going to have tons more campsites by the beautiful, as always,
Media River. Get the floaties out and ready because there will be some
great swimming and lazing to be had. http://www.paradisecanyon.com/
Paradise Canyon is a wonderful place for TCR fun that we never want to end:
Hot Tub, Big Feed, Speleolympics, Survey & Vertical Contests, Awards, The
Parade, and endless caver revelry. This year's theme: 2012 Mayan
Apocalypse!
Prices, Menu, and any other details will be announced here.
See you soon,
Ellie
Questions? Please contact [email protected] or [email protected]
For Facebook users: https://www.facebook.com/events/204320899690447/
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The Association for Mexican Cave Studies has obtained a small supply
of the 2011 book "Las Cuevas de Yucatán: No. 1, La Región de
Vallodolid," by Christian Thomas with contributions by Fátima Tec
Pool, Carlos Evia Cervantes, and Yan Thomas. The book was published in
France; there is also a French edition, which the AMCS does not carry.
Publisher's price is €40. The AMCS price is $35 plus postage. See
http://www.amcs-pubs.org/other/otherpubs.html
for details about the book; there is a review on page 94 of Activities
Newsletter 35. See
http://www.amcs-pubs.org/finance/order.html
for ordering information. It might be best to e-mail sales@amcs-
pubs.org to reserve a copy before sending money, as we only have
twenty-five copies at this point.
The five volumes of the Association for Mexican Cave Studies
Newsletter," 1965-1977 predecessor to the ongoing AMCS Activities
Newsletter, are now on our web site as free PDF files. Also, free PDFs
of numbers 1 through 20 of the Activities Newsletter (1975-1993) have
also been put there. Numbers 11 through 20 are still available in
print for those who want them. Links and price info are at
http://www.amcs-pubs.org/nl/cat.html
>>>>>>>>> I will have two or three copies of Las Cuevas de Yucatán at
grotto meeting tonight. Bring money. -- Bill Mixon
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Cave trip to Nepal, anyone:
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julia
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