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President's Message

2024-2025 Season

2024-2025 Comes to an End, Almost!

It feels like just yesterday that we were busy making plans to start TBFC’s season, and just like that, it’s nearly over. The season has run through 9 months without any problems and FossilFest came off without a hitch (thanks to all of you). There are still plenty of events left before TBFC takes a much deserved summer hiatus.

If you’re new to TBFC you may not know that we shut down for the summer. TBFC will host our end of the season dinner on June 7, but there will be no regular monthly meetings held in June, July, or August. May is the last edition of the Chronicles for this season, so be sure to check the calendar and field trip pages for TBFC’s remaining events until we start back up in September! Read the Chronicles each month (Members Only), check the calendar here on the TBFC website, and follow us on Facebook. Also, please be very cautious while venturing out into the rivers and creeks. There’s nothing in those rivers worth dying for.

June 7 - TBFC’s End of the Season Dinner TBFC’s annual, end of the season, informal dinner and get together is coming in June! (With a scholar-ship presentation, fossil auction, and some door prizes thrown in for good measure.) It doesn’t matter if you’ve been a member of TBFC for ten years or ten minutes, everyone’s invited. The dinner is a great opportunity for fossil friends, old and new, to get together for a final evening of fun and fossil tales as we wrap up the 2024-2025 season. And there’s always a bunch of great fossils and “paleo” related items in the auction (if you have anything you’d like to donate, just bring it along to the dinner). This is a great event for the entire family and cheap too.

We’ll cater spaghetti, pizza, wings, salads, dessert and drinks. The cost is just $8 per person which makes for an inexpensive family outing.

TBFC’s End of the Season Dinner will be held at the American Postal Workers Union Hall, 4409 West Alva Street, Tampa Florida 33614 at 6PM on June 7. This is a central location in Tampa, about a mile from Raymond James Stadium.

RSVP is not required, just show up and pay at the door. But… If you do know in advance that you will be attending, please click on the “Going” button on the Facebook event. This will help a lot with knowing how much food to have on hand when everyone arrives. Don’t miss it! This really, really, is the last event of the season!

Don’t give up on paleo for the summer though. Stay connected with many of our fossil friends on our Facebook page. As long as the water remains safe there will be lots of folks screenwashing, SCUBA diving, and canoeing the banks of beaches, bays, rivers and creeks looking for fossils. Most of these folks posting about their adventures on Facebook would be glad to take you along. Just ask!

As I have reported to you many times in the past, it is an honor and a privilege to serve and represent the Tampa Bay Fossil Club and its many fine members.

I want to thank the great support staff behind me in the Officers, Directors, and many of you members who volunteer to help TBFC excel to the exceptional level it has in both the public and scientific communities. Without all of you, none of what TBFC accomplishes each season would be possible.

Thanks for the adventure TBFC!
Michael Searle
President 2001- Present

Good Hunting,

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