Welcome
The North Carolina Shell Club is dedicated to providing a friendly and enthusiastic organization where people of all levels of expertise, ranging from beginner to professional, can meet and share knowledge and information about the fascinating world of shells.

CONTACT INFORMATION


Dora Zimmerman -  President
Mechanicsville, MD

Linda Gustafson - Vice President
Carolina Beach, NC
Karlynn Morgan - Treasurer
Winston Salem, NC
Vicky Wall - Secretary
Mayodan, NC 

Karlynn Morgan - Webmaster
Winston-Salem, NC

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

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.



Click this Shell to Read the Minutes From the Most Recent Shell Club Meeting

2020 Club Meeting Schedule

Ocracoke, NC
March 27-28

 

Ocracoke Meeting Cancelled Due to
Impact of COVID-19

All Special Auctions have been moved to September Meeting

 

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Annual Shell Show
NEW DATES!!

May 22-24, 2020

Wilmington, NC
Coastline Conference and Event Center
503 Nutt Street
Wilmington, NC

Admission Charge $5 Adults
Children 18 and under Admitted Free
Seniors Age 65+ $4

 

Read Cape Fear Living Magazine's Article about our 2019 Shell Show

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Morehead City, NC/
Cedar Point Area

September 18-19

Western Park Community Center - Cedar Point, NC

 

Special Auction Catlalog Part I

Special Auction Catalog Part II

Silent Auction Preview Click Here

 

SPECIAL COLLECTING TRIP
TO SHACKLEFORD BANKS!


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Sunset Beach, NC

November 6-7


Annual Auction and Meeting

Sea Trails Homeowners Association Club House 201 Station Trail, Sunset Beach, NC

 

 

 

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NEW PAGES ADDED:

John Timmerman's Presentation from May, 2018
Meeting at Cedar Point on
Building a Shell Show Exhibit -

ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW
TO ENTER THE SHOW!

Click on shell for presentation

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NEW SHELL FOOD PRODUCT!

Contact Webmaster

to comment / complain / inspire

 

 

 


COA 2020

 

Click on image for further information

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.

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!

 

 

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.

 

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


Ocracoke newspaper article features NC SHELL CLUB weekend!

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Click Above Shell
For Tips on Shell Show Exhibits and Labels

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See the shells auctioned during the 2018 COA Convention in San Diego.
Click here

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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 on the above shell to see photos of
our Shell Show 2014

 

 

 

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.

New Records added March, 2019

 

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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Click Shell for

New 2019

Raffle

Information

 

 

NC SHELL CLUB MEMBERS ON COA BOARD OF DIRECTORS

 

Karlynn Morgan - Vice President

Amy Dick - Secretary

Everett Long - Trustee

Vicky Wall - Awards Director

Anne Joffe - Convention Co-ordinator

Alan Gettleman - Historian

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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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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 Above Shell
To read Doug Wolfe's Article which appeared in the December 2014 issue of American Conchologist about past club member Hugh Porter