Annual Shell Show
The Club sponsers a judged show each year. Competition is held in a wide range of categories with special groups for novices and juniors. Divisions for shell crafts and photography are included as well. The Club invites the public to attend and vote for their favorite display. For more information, contact
Shell Show Co-Chairmen:
John Timmerman
ncshellclub@gmail.com
Karlynn Morgan
karlynnmorgan@earthlink.net
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MEETINGS
The Club meets four weekends per year. Meeting locations change each quarter and occasionally are out of state. Locations are announced in the club newsletter prior to each meeting. Programs on Friday and Saturday nights feature speakers. During the day on Saturday there is an opportunity to collect shells. The Club invites guests to join us for any of our meetings.
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2022 Club Meeting Schedule
Ocracoke, NC
Portsmouth Island Collecting Trip
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Shell Show
May 6-8, 2022
Set-up on 5th
See Photos from the Show!
Morehead City , NC
Crystal Coast Civic Center
3505 Arendell Street
Morehead City, NC
Admission Charge $5 Adults
Children 18 and under Admitted Free
Seniors Age 65+ and Military $3
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Morehead City, NC/
Cedar Point Area
September 23-24
Western Park Community Center
Cedar Point, NC
SPECIAL COLLECTING TRIP
TO SHACKLEFORD BANKS ON SATURDAY!
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Carolina Beach , NC
November 11-12
Katie B Hines Senior Center
308 Cape Fear Blvd., Carolina Beach
November Date to be Determined
Annual Auction and Meeting
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New Identification Guide on Ridged Shells
Prepared by John Timmerman
Click on Shell to download or view .pdf
NEW PAGES ADDED:
See John Timmerman's Article published in
American Conchologist:
Select components of a shell show exhibit
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COA 2023
The North Carolina Shell Club is hosting the 2023 COA Convention in Wilmington at the Hotel Ballast (formerly the Hilton) and plans are presently in the works for a great convention.
Click on above image for entire 3-fold pdf flyer
Field Trips May 29-30
Convention May31-June 4, 2023
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Newsletter
The Club publishes a newsletter four times a year which provides articles on shells, descriptions of field trips, and information on up-coming meetings. The newsletter is now mailed electronically except to those individuals who do not have computer access or require a printed copy.
If you have any news items or an article you wish to have published in the newsletter, please contact our newsletter editor, Ed Shuller.
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Annual Auction
One of the highlights of the year is the annual fund-raiser held during the November meeting. Shells and shell-related items are offered in both silent and live auctions.
Click this shell for a preview of the shells available during our Auction!
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North Carolina Shell Club Officers:
President - Mark Johnson - - - - - - - -Treasurer - Karlynn Morgan
1st Vice President - Dan Minior - - - - Members at Large -
Secretary - Vicky Wall - - - - - - - - - - - Scott Fox
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -John and Jan Reaves
Everett Long receives COA
Neptunea Award
During the 2022 COA Convention, Everett Long was posthumously awarded the prestigious Neptunea Award for service to COA. Accepting the Award for Everett was club member and a previous award receipient, Jeannette Tysor. In August, several members of the club presented the award to Everett's wife Nancy.
THANK YOU SHELL CLUB MEMBERS!
Find out about the North Carolina Shell Club's project to display shells at the Nunnelee Pediatric Specialty Clinic in Wilmington - organized by John Timmerman and Brady Semmel.
Click HERE for article from Jul-Sep 2017 newsletter
DID YOU KNOW?
The North Carolina Shell Club has a Facebook Page. Please drop by for a visit and join this group, easily found at:
N C Shell Club on Facebook.
New Scholarship at UNC-W!
Ron and Janie Hill have funded a new scholarship, the Ron & Janie Hill Honors Scholarship at UNC-W in Marine Biology. Within the next three years they hope to have the value of the scholarship reach $6,000 annually. The Hill's daughter, Mandy, studied Marine Biology at UNC-W, obtaining her B.S and Master's Degrees there.
Special Collecting Trips
During the year special trips may be scheduled to local beaches, off-shore islands or fossil sites for collecting.
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Click HERE for a pictoral review of the 2022 fossil collecting trip at Maryland's Calvert Cliffs in April, again presented by leader Dora Zimmerman
Click HERE for an interesting look at fossil collecting at Maryland's Calvert Cliffs in April, 2018 presented by Dora Zimmerman
Click HERE for a nice photo essay on the club's trip to Cumberland Island in February 2016 prepared by club member, Vicky Wall.
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S. Peter Dance has written a wonderful article about Donald and Eloise Bosch which he has shared with use. You may read it HERE
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NEWS FLASH!
Article in the Ocracoke Observer about the March, 2018 NC Shell Club meeting and trip to Portsmouth. Click HERE
Club member Art Bogan has had an article published in the Raleigh News & Observer. To read Art's article, click on this link:
Raleigh News & Observer
Club member John Timmerman, has written a brief article on NC Shells for "Going Green" magazine's current issue.
It can be viewed and downloaded at their website:
www.goinggreenpublications.com
This link is actually to the archives section. John's article appears in Vol. 1 Issue 4 (the Winter 2008 issue with his shell photo on the cover)
Interesting Article on Taxonomic Etymology
Click Above Shell
For Tips on Shell Show Exhibits and Labels
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See a Photo review of the 2022 Oak Island Shell and Fossil Show!
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Click Above Shell
To read Art Bogan's recent article on his field work in Malaysia
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Click Above Shell
To read fascinating article on club member Mique Pinkerton
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Click This Shell
to Read John Timmerman's article recently published in COA's American Conchologist about our North Carolina Shell Club's Shell Show.
Here is a link to an article (Page 1) about the Shell Club's meeting in Ocracoke published in the Ocracoke Observer April, 2017. Here is Page 2
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Click on the above shell to see photos of
our Shell Show 2014
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In Memorium
Everett Long
May 26, 1944 - April 26, 2022
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Everett's Obituary
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Dr. Doug Wolfe Awarded
2021 COA Neptunea Award at Annual COA Banquet
Club member Everett Long, COA Neptunea Award Chairman, presents Doug Wolfe his award.
Jeannette Tysor and Ed Shuller Given Their
2020 COA Neptunea Award at 2021 Annual COA Banquet
Club member Everett Long, COA Neptunea Award Chairman, presents Jeannette and Ed their award.
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Club member Vicky Wall was recently featured in the September 2021 issue of Our State Magazine in an article about Collectors. Click on Vicky's photo for a link to the entire article.
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OFFICIAL
North Carolina Size Records
for Marine Mollusks
The Club's Records Committee has generated a complete listing of size records for marine mollusks found in North Carolina. The Rules for submitting your own record-size shells, along with the listing itself can be found by clicking on the symbol below.
Current Record Size Listing for North Carolina Shells
New Scotch Bonnet, Semicassis granulata State Record added at Shell Show in Morehead City!
Tamara Zetka finds record size Semicassis granulata on Portsmouth Island field trip!
Congratulations Art!
At the joint meeting of the Freshwater Mollusk Conservation Society (FCMS) and
Upper Mississippi River Conservation Commission (UMRCC) recently held at St. Charles,
Missouri, Arthur E. Bogan was given the Lifetime Achievement Award by the FCMS.
As most N.C. Shell Club members know, Art is a noted expert in the field of freshwater
bivalves, not only in this country but also worldwide with several trips to Viet Nam and
Malaysia to study freshwater bivalves. He has authored several monographs on state
freshwater mollusks, and a checklist for the world’s freshwater bivalves in 2010.
Art has been and is eagerly sought by government agencies, academics, museum
personnel, and field workers for his knowledge of this unique and fascinating molluscan
fauna He is generous with his knowledge and time to increase the scientific, government,
and general public’s knowledge of this important fauna.
The award states: “ Freshwater Mollusk Conservation Society Lifetime Achieve Award Presented to Arthur E. Bogan for singular accomplishments and long-term conservations
that have advanced the conservation and science of freshwater mollusks at a national and
international level. By order of the Membership of the Freshwater Mollusk Conservation
Society presented in St. Charles, Missouri this 25th day of March 2015.”
_____ - submitted by Alan Gettleman
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NC SHELL CLUB MEMBERS ON COA BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Karlynn Morgan - President
Alan Gettleman - Vice President
Vicky Wall - Secretary
Vicky Wall - Awards Director
Anne Joffe - Convention Co-ordinator
Alan Gettleman - Historian
Dan Minior - Member at Large
Don Pisor - Member at Large
Amy Dick - Advertising Manager
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NEW!! __ Click Above Shell
To read Vicky Wall's Article which appeared in the March, 2016 issue of American Conchologist, entitled "Shelling the Pearl Islands of Panama"
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