Next Meeting: Wednesday, September 25th, 2024, CLICK HERE TO REGISTER
Socialize at 6:30, Business at 7:00, Featured Presentation at 8:00
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UASC Members:
Our next meeting is just around the corner, this Wednesday March 27th, at the Chicago Maritime Society museum space on the 6th floor of the Helix Building, 310 S. Racine at Jackson. Light refreshments will start at 6:30, business at 7:00, and the featured guest speaker around 8:00.
This month our featured speaker will be Kira Kaufman, who will be presenting on the survey work on Wrecks in Indiana Waters. With five years of supervisory experience in underwater archaeological techniques and research, and has conducted underwater archaeological survey, excavation, and documentation projects in the Midwest and Southeast United States, as well as in Ghana, Africa. Dr. Kaufmann has served in a supervisory capacity for a number of maritime‐related projects, for which she conducted survey, recovery, remote sensing, monitoring, and report writing.
One exciting piece of business at the March meeting will be the raffle drawing to see which of our new members will win free entry into one or the other of the two workshops we have coming up this spring. By my count we welcomed 25 new memberships between Our World Underwater, the Chicago Maritime Festival, Ghost Ships, and the February meeting, plus we will be honoring the show special one last time at the March meeting on Wednesday, so hopefully we will see a lot of those new faces in the crowd. Two free entries will be drawn - One for the two-day hands-on ROV workshop to be delivered by Mark Gleason in April and the other for the research methods workshop to be delivered by noted historian Brendon Baillod at a date still to be determined.
The next meeting is set for Wednesday, January 30th and it will be held at the Chicago Lighthouse located at 1850 W. Roosevelt, Chicago, Ill. The facility has free parking adjacent to the building and we can bring in food and beverages. One stipulation is that we cannot bring in any alcohol due to insurance reasons. This is the only change to our normal meeting experience.
UASC Members:
I'm sure the minutes from the November meeting will be posted soon, but in the meantime there are a few items of information I wanted to get out to everyone right away, most of which were announced at the meeting for those who were there, but some of which have changed slightly since then. In more or less chronological order:
Dear UASC member:
The Nominating Committee is pleased to announce the following members as nominees for 2013 officers of the Underwater Archaeological Society of Chicago (UASC). The committee has discussed the nominations with each individual, who have agreed to offer their names to this ballot for election at the November 28, 2012 UASC meeting. As has been our custom, additional nominations from the floor will be accepted at the meeting before the election takes place.
All UASC members may vote and are encouraged to attend the Nov. 28 meeting to participate in the election.
Thank you.
UASC Nominating Committee Members:
Don Doherty
Chet Childs
Jim Jarecki
Hey Everybody, Two quick reminders regarding the October meeting:
See you soon,
John