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American Scientific Glassblowers Society Southwest Section Spring 2008 Meeting

The Southwest Section of the American Scientific Glassblowers Society invites you to participate in our annual Spring Gather of Glassblowers. This year, the Gather will take place in two locations in San Antonio, Texas. Our morning meeting and lunch will be held in the Alamo Meeting room at the Sleep Inn, Medical Center, 8318 I-10 West, (210) 344-5400. After lunch, we will be traveling to the shop of Bob Lewandowski. The locations of these meeting places are on the enclosed map.

The program will start at 9:00 a.m. with registration and coffee at the Sleep Inn’s Alamo meeting room. The business meeting will begin at 10:00 a.m. After the meeting, our vendors/sponsors will give brief presentations, if desired, and you will have an opportunity to visit.

Lunch will be provided at noon, most likely catered by Jason’s Deli, but I will also be checking into different alternatives. Soft drinks will also be provided. There will be no charge for the lunch, as our attending vendors will sponsor the meal.

gain this year, we are expecting the ASGS President, Bob Singer and President- Elect, Jack Korfhage to be in attendance! So, if you want to get the low down on what’s happening on the national level, you won’t want to miss this year’s Gather!!!

Saturday evening, you are invited to carpool to a local restaurant to enjoy a meal with your fellow glassblowers. Each single/couple will be responsible for their tab.

For those of you who were not at last years meeting, it was voted upon by those in attendance to begin collecting $15 in dues from our section members annually to help fund the ever increasing costs of conducting section business. In some previous years, our gracious sponsor’s donations have been sufficient to maintain an adequate balance. It was decided that dues should be collected to ensure the continued financial well being of the section. If you would like to voice your opinion concerning this issue, I recommend that you join us at this year’s Gather!!!

I have enclosed a list of hotels and restaurants, provided by Bob Lewandowski that is within approximately a couple of miles of his house. We decided not to book a block of rooms at the Sleep Inn, as there are both higher and lower priced hotels and motels in the immediate area. For those who are interested, the Sleep Inn rooms run about $79 per night. I would suggest making reservations at your earliest convenience, as I am unfamiliar with the events that may be going on in San Antonio during that weekend.

Enclosed with this announcement, you should find the following:

Attendance Form, Section Membership Application and Return Envelope: Please fill out and return the enclosed Attendance Form (and Membership Application if not currently a member) in the stamped/addressed envelope to me or call or email your intentions to attend. This will really assist me in the planning of this year’s Gather!!!

Meeting Area Map: This is a map showing the location of the Sleep Inn and Bob Lewandowski’s house. Driving directions from the airport are included. If you have any questions, please call Bob Lewandowski at 210-843-1032 or email him at ralco@satx.rr.com .

Dues Statement and envelope: You will find a Dues Statement and a stamped/ addressed envelope for remitting your annual dues to our Treasurer, Bob Singer. We will be using the information provided and returned by you to update our membership list for future announcements and mailings!!! If you don’t want to be omitted from these announcements, be sure to remit your dues statement as soon as possible!!! Your membership is important to us!!!

I would like to encourage all of you who are able to attend this year’s Gather. I forgot to mention previously that there should also be a discussion during the meeting regarding the 2010 Symposium, which will be hosted by our section in San Antonio!!! It would be great to get as much input from our section members as possible for planning purposes! I hope to see you all at this year’s Gather!!!!

Sincerely,

Jim Cornell

Director, Southwest Section of the ASGS

Home:	615 Morningside Drive	Work:	University Of Oklahoma
	Norman, OK 73071		Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry
	Phone: (405) 321-3968		620 Parrington Oval
	Cell: (405) 532-0604		Norman, OK 73019
			Phone: (405) 325-4535
			Fax: (405) 325-6111

Northeast Section Meeting
Saturday, April 26^thUniversity of Vermont
Burlington, VT 05405

On a hill overlooking the shores of Lake Champlain, at the foot of the Green Mountains, the University of Vermont combines faculty-student relationships most commonly found in a small liberal arts college with the resources of a major research university. The university is home to over 9,040 undergraduates, 1,351 graduate students, 406 medical students and more than 1,292 full- and part-time faculty.

9:00 AM -10:00 AM Registration & Morning refreshments

10:00 AM - 12:00 Noon

Tour of the Physics Museum with Dave Hammond, curator and scientific equipment technician. Tucked away in the recesses of the Physics Dept is a well maintained collection of scientific apparatus dating back to the 1800's. We will be offered the opportunity to view Crooks, Geisler and X-ray tubes, glass lifting pumps, and many other antique devices used over the past two centuries for research and for demonstrating physical properties to students.

Asst. Professor Dr. Rory Waterman offers a tour of his lab and talk "Glassblowing to enable air-sensitive chemistry at UVM." Dr. Waterman, an inorganic chemist, joined the faculty of the University in 2006. His research utilizes high-vacuum and Schlenk techniques to prepare novel inorganic and organometallic systems for applications in catalysis, material science, and energy.

12:00 PM -1:00 PM Lunch & Business Meeting

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM Demonstrations

We need sponsors and demonstrators. If able to do either, please contact:

Daryl C. Smith,

Yale University, Department of Chemistry

225 Prospect Street

New Haven, CT 06520-8107

E-mail: daryl.smith@yale.edu

Phone: (203) 432-3919

Fax: (203) 432-6144

For directions to UVM, http://www.uvm.edu/about_uvm/maps_directions/

Directions to the Cook Physical Sciences Building/Chemistry Dept.:

From I-89 take Exit 14 W. Stay right and at the 3rd light bear right onto East Ave. At the end of East Ave., take a left onto Colchester Ave. Proceed through the first light (which is the Hospital entrance) and take the next left to access the parking lot which will be to the right. The Cook Physical Sciences Building is the third brick building deeper into the central campus (heading south, away from Colchester Ave.) Cook Bldg. is 5 stories and has large exhaust vents on top. Look for signs. We will be meeting on the 2nd floor in the center of the building, Rm. A229. The Glass Shop is in A 213.

Where to stay:

Best Western Windjammer Inn (Exit 14 E, left at 2nd light)

1076 Williston Rd

S. Burlington, VT 05403

1-800-371-1125

Rooms available at a rate of $75.00/ night for the nights of 25th or 26th of April.
Use ASGS group # 404954. Must reserve by April 11, 2008.

Sheraton Inn (Exit 14 W, immediately on right)

870 Williston Rd

S. Burlington, VT. 05403

Rooms available at a rate of $95.00/ night for the nights of 25th or 26th of April. Reservations must be made through Bernadette at 802-865-6623 by April 11, 2008.

Also close by:

Comfort Inn		Courtyard by Marriott
5 Dorset St.		25 Cherry St.
S. Burlington, VT 05403		Burlington, VT. 05401
1-800-808-4656		1-802-864-4700

There are many other options which can be found on-line.

Daryl C. Smith
Scientific Glassblower
Yale University
Department of Chemistry
Sterling Chemistry Building
225 Prospect Street
P.O. Box 208107
New Haven, CT 06520-8107
E-mail: daryl.smith@yale.edu
Phone: (203) 432-3919
Fax: (203) 432-6144

Spring ASGS Great Lakes Section Meeting
Saturday May 3rd 2008
Technical Glass Products, Inc.
881 Callender Blvd.
Painesville Twp. Oh 44077
Phone: (440)-639-6399

Host: Jim Horvath
E-mail: jhorvath@tgpohio.com

Technical Glass Products is a truly amazing state of the art Quartz working shop that is a must see for any glassblower. Jim Horvath and the crew at TGP are opening the doors and welcoming the section with a shop tour, demos, Q&A session and lunch

Please RSVP to Chris Sprague (989)-496-3510 or wyseman3@aol.com with number of people attending by 4-25-2008.

Tentative Agenda:

10:00 - 11:00 a.m.	Sign in, Meet and Greet.
11.00 - 12:00 p.m.	Shop tour.
12:00 - 1:00 p.m.	Demonstrations
1:00 - 2:00 p.m.	Lunch
2:00 - 4:30 p.m.	Demonstrations and Q&A
4:30 - 5:30 p.m.	Business Meeting. Possible dinner to follow TBD

Sponsors:

Technical Glass Products		Wyse Glass Specialties
VM Glass		Freidrich & Dimmock

Area Hotels

Renaissance Quail Hollow Resort

11080 Concorde Hambden Road

Painesville, OH 44072

Phone: 1(800) 468-3571

http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/cleqh-renaissance-quail-hollow-resort/

Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites)

5785 Heisley Road

Mentor, Ohio 44060

Phone: (440) 357-0384

Marriott Residence Inn

5660 Emerald Court

Mentor, Ohio 44060

Phone: (440) 392-0800

ASGS Southeastern Section Meeting 2008

Join us at the Beach. ASGS Southeastern
Section invites all of you to share the
sun and sand May 1st thru May 4th 2008
at St. Augustine Beach Front Resort &
Conference Center. St. Augustine Beach,
Florida. For detail information please
contact Jeff Atwell (480) 332-3530 e-mail: ja85251@earthlink.net
or Curt Sexton (803) 725-2781 e-mail: william.sexton@srnl.doe.gov

Last updated April 20, 2008