Hi Kathy et al,
In the last board meeting, we discussed doing the Home Show visits earlier
this year. That way the Home Show Presentation could be used any month we
needed it. I agree the Home Show is great, but I don't think it can be
stretched into a 1 1/2 hour program. Last June we did the Home Show in
conjunction with the Horticulture Awards Program Presentation / Awards; Club
Board / Committee Chair Elections; and the Ice Cream Social.
I was doing some planning on the Home Show earlier last week. The 2010
Super Bowl is Sunday 2/7/10 and Valentine's Day is Sunday 2/14/10. The Home
Show visits would have to be in January or the weekends of 2/20 - 2/21 or
2/27 - 2/28 in February. The March GSAS meeting is 3/9/2010 which doesn't
leave a lot of time to assemble the pictures, do the voting and put together
the video and presentation.
As for talks, if we have Jen come down from Vancouver for a talk on cichlids
in January, another talk by Jeff (our new member) on cichlids later in the
spring seems excessive to me.
I am glad we are discussing the spring agenda now; it gives us some time to
work things out.
Roy
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On Behalf Of Kathy Olson
Sent: Sunday, November 22, 2009 12:34 PM
To: GSAS board members and alumni
Subject: Re: [GSAS-board] FW: Aquarium club talk
Hi Paul,
Home show is pretty cool. We really don't have any chance to see each
others tanks and appreciate what everyone is doing. I think this would be
a great meeting topic all alone. It is really fun to see the details
about what everyone is doing. Designs. Fish rooms. Etc....
What do you think of making that the whole meeting topic in March.
After the presentation then open it up for everyone to talk??
Kathy
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"Perhaps wisdom is simply waiting, and healing a question of
time. And anything good you've ever been given is yours forever.".....from
Kitchen Table Wisdom by Rachel Naomi Remen
On Sun, 22 Nov 2009, Paul M. Wallace wrote:
Dear Eric,
Phil is working with new friends in Canada to bring character for January.
The topic may need refinement.
The Homeshow is moving up with pictures early in 2010 and a short
presentation to be worked in at the awards.
Finally, we love the FISHO game in December. Would you please generate a
set of cards?
-Paul
On Sun, 22 Nov 2009, Erik Olson wrote:
Ad's talk will most definitely be about Rift Lake Cichlids. I think
Wayne
Leibel's talk will be on speciation and hybrids, but he is a cichlid guy.
What *are* the January and March topics? Kathy had said she heard from
Paul
that the cichlid guy who just moved here was talking in January...
leaving
March as the only open slot for the home show. What's going on?
- Erik
On Sun, 22 Nov 2009, Susan Welenofsky wrote:
Is it filmed in the actual lake? Sounds very interesting, but I wonder
what
Ad Konings talk is
going to be about since he's very into rift lake cichlids.
Susan
On Nov 21, 2009, at 2:39 PM, Seattle_Aquarist wrote:
Thanks Phil for coming up with a suggestion! Hey guys (and gals),
do
we have any
others for January? Roy
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Behalf Of Phil Lacefield Jr.
Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009 12:10 PM
To: 'GSAS board members and alumni'
Subject: [GSAS-board] FW: Aquarium club talk
Hey gang, here’s the conversation I’ve had with Jennifer at the
Vancouver Aquarium.
Thoughts?
Phil
From: Jennifer Reynolds [mailto:Jennifer.Reynolds@vanaqua.org]
Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009 11:43 AM
To: 'Phil Lacefield Jr.'
Subject: RE: Aquarium club talk
Hi again Phil,
Let me know what the gang thinks. To be honest, I would rather do my
Tanganyika
presentation just because it's already all prepped, I've had a few
chances
to practice it
so far, and I'm eager to share what I experienced with other keeners- I
know
if I weren't
already me, I'd love to see this talk- it even has underwater video. My
favourite is of
cooperative hunting behaviour between mastacembelid eels and predatory
cichlids!
The other factor of course is time to make a new presentation- kind of
lacking on that
front right now, and with the holidays coming up, it's sure to get
worse.
Now, I could
easily do a really short blurb about the Aquarium either before or after
that- I think I
can do a good job of talking the place up and I could bring down some
pamphlets, possibly
even raffle off some more admission passes/etc if I can get my paws on
some...
Cheers,
Jen
Jen Reynolds
Senior Aquarium Biologist, Tropical Waters
Vancouver Aquarium
Ph: (604) 659-3530 Fax: (604) 659- 3502
jen.reynolds@vanaqua.org
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From: Phil Lacefield Jr. [mailto:phil@lacefield.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 10:42 AM
To: Jennifer Reynolds
Subject: Re: Aquarium club talk
Hey there! I'll be more than happy to pass this along to Those Who
Decide
on our board,
and personally I would love to hear more about cichlids - we had
Lawrence
Kent do an
utterly amazing talk on his West African adventures int he spring, and I
even won some of
the fish he hand-carried back on the plane. Yeah, I know!!! :-)
However, I have a feeling we might be a tiny bit cichlid-ed out, as the
question arose at
our board meet on Tuesday that someone might want to come down and
discuss
the Vanc
Aquarium and what you do there/why it's an awesome aquarium to visit. I
thought it was
particularly cool that we got to visit an aquarium in a country that
borders
a vast
portion of the Arctic, not a perspective we often get down here :-)
Maybe
combine the two
somehow?
Like I said, this evening I'll pass this along and we'll see what we can
do!
THanks so much! - Phil
Jennifer Reynolds writes:
Hi Phil,
Dave passed on a message to me that you are looking for speakers
for
January.
I've done a talk on my cichlid work in Lake Tanganyika last year a
few
times
now that has been pretty well received. It's especially good for
cichlid
geeks, but I also include some stuff for travellers, catfish and
eel
folks,
and scuba divers- lots of underwater photography in it, too.
Attached is a
little blurb/poster type thing with a couple of images and a write
up
about my
work. Let me know if you're interested- would be a good
opportunity
for me to
come down to Seattle. I also know there are lots of folks in the
Seattle club
who are way more into Africans than there are here- so it would be
awesome to
talk to them about it. I saw Ad Koning's talk on Lake Malawi down
in
Seattle
about 5-6 years ago or so.
The only potential issue is I may be going to Brazil in late
January
for some
work with the World Fisheries Trust and a new aquarium in Belo
Horizonte.
That hasn't yet been confirmed, however- and the dates were
definitely
leaning
more toward the end of the month. I *think* it is a safe bet that
I
can do
Jan 12, but just wanted to let you know that there could be
complications.
Let me know what you think!
Cheers, and thanks again for your terrific auctioneering.
Jen
Jen Reynolds
Senior Aquarium Biologist, Tropical Waters
Vancouver Aquarium
Ph: (604) 659-3530 Fax: (604) 659- 3502
jen.reynolds@vanaqua.org
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