TCAS Monthly Meeting Notes
April 2012
Minutes of the
Treasure Coast Archeological Society
Meeting
April 4, 2012
The next meeting is on Wednesday, May
2, 2012
The meeting was called to
order at 7:43 P.M. by Richard Hart, Sr., President of TCAS.
The Pledge of Allegiance was led by Kira "Red" Thesenvitz.
The minutes can be read on the club website, www.tcas.us. They are also emailed to members
with email addresses on file on the last Wednesday of the month.
General
Notes:
29 Members present and 8 guest present. Two guests did join TCAS with
family memberships!
On the sadder side of news, Patricia Gatchell passed away on April 3,
2012.
If you are a member of TCAS and have not paid your 2012 dues, please pay
at our next meeting.
Our Annual Benefit Hunt was a success! Richard Hart, TCAS President is
asking all members to think of one or two (or more) local charities for our
annual donations. TCAS likes to keep the donations in Brevard or Indian River
Counties.
The winners at our Annual Benefit Hunt are:
Coins:
1st Place Michael Abrahaom #29 with 94 coins
2nd Place Scott Bradley # 42 with 89 coins
3rd Place Bill Green #18 with 75 coins
4th Place Lloyd Draper #1 with 71 coins
Pin Point:
1st Place Dan Casey #53
2nd Place Terry Shannon #11
3rd Place Chuck Barber #64
Note on the Pin Point contest: The first and second place winners where decided with the aid of calipers! Yes it was that close…………
Real Tokens:
1st - Michael Boam # 49
2nd - Bob Truitt # 41
3rd - John Cacciapaglio #22
Treasure Chest
George Case # 36 -- The first key opened the chest!
Raffles:
ACE 250 Dennis Haluorson #8
Real Calvin Peoen #24
50/50 $146.00 Bert Webb #25 (his wife won the money!)
Our Annual Spring Hunt will be on Saturday, May 5th. Much more on this
at next month's meeting.
Guest speakers are always needed. If you have any ideas, please see a
TCAS Officer.
Mitch King spoke to the club about his recent trip to Colchester,
England for two weeks of intensive metal detecting. If you were at our Annual
Benefit Hunt you may have notice Mitch took off early. He really needed to
"catch" an airplane!
He arrived in England with a cold. The cold mornings and rainy
afternoons did not help for the first few days, but that did not stop Mitch. He
was using a Minelab Sovereign with a 12 X 10 coil.
Mitch passed around items that he brought back from last year's trip. He
always brings back the previous year's finds when he is over there. Pictures can
be seen on the clubs face book site, https://www.facebook.com/tcasfl Go on
facebook.com and request to be friends with us so you can see and post to cub
members.
Connie Ordille brought a carrot cake to the meeting and I heard they
were very good. Thanks Connie.
Richard Hart explained the "finds" table.
Find
Winners:
Ring: Skip Watson
Group Coins: Jan King
Jewelry: Mike Kurczy
Artifacts: Skip Watson
Single Coins: Jan King
Fossils: Wayne Ordille
Miscellaneous: Skip Watson
Find of the Month: Skip
Watson
Drawing
Winners:
50/50: $30/15 Mary Sieving
Badge: Dale Thesenvitz
T-Shirt: Donna Rothery Hat: Wayne Ordille
Doughnuts/coffee/cooler:
Coffee will be brought by: Kira Thesenvitz
Doughnuts will be brought by: Marty Hufnagel
Cooler with drinks will be brought by: Larry and Jan King (our 50/50
winner will not be at our May meeting)
The meeting adjourned at: 9:07 P.M.
Respectfully Submitted,
Dale T. Thesenvitz
TCAS Secretary