President's Message

It seems like hurricane Hellene pummeled a lot of the SFMS region with Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, and the Carolinas taking the brunt of the bad weather.  However, I don’t think anybody in our region completely escaped the rains and winds.  I hope every one of you survived without any damage to your health, home, or property.

The SFMS Annual meeting was scheduled for this past weekend.  I was watching the weather closely and considered canceling the meeting more than once.  My thanks go out to Jerri Heer and Rick Marshall for keeping me informed on the weather in Florida.  As the meeting date got closer it was clear that the storm would be thru Florida and past the meeting spot, in Atlanta, before the meeting was scheduled to occur. For those of you who attended in-person or online I appreciate you dedication to the SFMS.  I expect Jerri Heer will be publishing the minutes of the meeting very soon.

I would like to thank Georgia Mineral Society for allowing us to use their beautiful clubhouse for the Friday meet-and-greet, and the Saturday annual meeting.  I really enjoyed the fantastic food spread they laid out for the Friday meet-and-greet.  GMS members are very proud of their facility and were happy to give tours and to demo equipment.  Their picnic and the auction that followed were also a blast!!

I would also like to recognize JC and Donna Moore, from the American Federation of Mineralogical Societies, who attended all our functions.  JC is the AFMS President-Elect and Donna is the AFMS Secretary.  My thanks go out to them for the help they provided.  It was a pleasure talking to them during their visit to Atlanta.

Be Safe Everyone!!

Danny Griffin, SFMS President