Treasure Coast Archaeological Society
Sebastian, Florida  Indian River County

 TCAS Monthly Meeting Notes

March  2005

The meeting was called to order by club president, Richard Hart at 7:50 p.m.

Aubrey Kozak is an Ocean Engineering Graduate Student at Florida Institute of Technology. She gave a slide presentation about the difficulty of mapping the ocean floor.  Ms. Kozak is a volunteer at the Mel Fisher Museum in Sebastian.  Some of her sponsors are:

RPM Nautical Foundation.  RPM is a non-profit organization utilizing state-of-the-art technology to advance research in the field of nautical archaeology.

www.RPMNautical.org

Geometrics.  They design and manufacture geophysical instrumentation.

www.geometrics.com

Mel Fisher  Maritime Heritage Society.  Their web site is about shipwreck archaeology.

www.melfisher.org

Mary McGee read a thank you letter from Operation Hope expressing their appreciation for the $1000.00 that TCAS donated to them.

Richard wants to have a Club hunt.  Ed Stranard suggested having the hunt after the next meeting.

Mary McGee asked if  the Club will start buying silver and prizes for next years hunt.

Donna Rothery is to send Jim Stewart a list of members to have badges made up.

Marty Hufnagel will buy doughnuts for the June meeting

Richard and Joan Hart will buy the drinks.

Members present                      21                                Visitors present 5

Winners:

50/50               Richard Hart, Sr.                      $7.00

T Shirt              Marty Hufnagel

Badge              Will Rose

Rings                Richard Giles

Jewelry             Marty Hufnagel

Coin Single                   Richard Giles

Artifacts                       Tom Kelly

Fossils                          Marty Hufnagel

Miscellaneous               Tom Kelly

Find of Month              Tom Kelly

The meeting adjourned at 9:15 p.m.

D onna Rothery

Secretary, Treasure Coast Archaeological Society