BECAUSE WE MUST INFORM MEMBERS OF THE ELECTION OF OFFICERS AND OF THE DETAILS OF THE DECEMBER POTLUCK MEETING WE ARE SENDING THIS OUR FINAL ISSUE OF THE NEWSLETTER AT THIS TIME.
The November meeting will be held November 7th at the Museum of Natural History at 7:30 PM in one of the meeting rooms. Everyone is welcome whether a member or not. The nominating committee has been hard at work seeking officers for the coming year. They will be presenting the slate they have prepared and we will be accepting nominations from the floor for would include additional officers. It is proposed that the Newsletter Editor, an Event Planner (which would include the Foray) and a Science Coordinator be added. Your presence at this our annual meeting is very important to the Society. Please be there.
At the request of the treasurer Peg Hooton we wish to remind you that dues for the coming year are due at the November meeting and delinquent after the first of January. Your $20 is divided equally with NAMA. Our share pays for the operation of NMMS. NAMA's share brings you the national members directory, the national newsletter, and McIlvania, as well as a variety of mushroom related advertising. If you do not pay until later in the year your name and address and other details of your membership will not be entered in the NAMA annual directory and you will not receive the directory, newsletters, or McIlvania. (You might be happy not to receive the advertising.) To eliminate errors please make sure that Peg has a correct listing of your name, address, and phone number(s).
It is with sadness that we report that long time member Martha Alfonso passed away September 24th in Darwin, Australia, of colon cancer. Martha had departed Albuquerque on June 28th for Australia knowing that her case of cancer was probably terminal. Martha had lived in Sydney, Australia for about 20 years and was familiar with Australia. She had heard of the hostel in Darwin where they were able to treat some cases of advanced cancer with unexpected success. She wrote from Darwin to some of her friends in Albuquerque that she was being treated very well and was being kept without pain, but that her illness was too far advanced for treatment to be of any help. A Memorial service for Martha was held Friday, October 20th at the Spanish Methodist Church at Granite and 7th St. NW. She will be missed.
The December meeting will be our annual potluck and will be at the home of Ellen and Bill Reed, on December 2nd at 6:30 PM. Bring your favorite goodies (food), your family and friends and anything else you feel should be included.
We are happy to report that Pat Brannen is recovering from her encounter with slippery grass and the resulting broken leg. Keep getting better, Pat.
Quoted from John Gierach in Field and Stream June 1994
"The common wisdom says you can gather wild mushrooms without damaging the resource in the same way you can pick apples without killing the tree. On the other hand, if you picked every last apple from every last wild tree, pretty soon there wouldn't be any new trees. I've been told that commercial mushrooming is becoming more popular in America at least in part because the forests of Europe are being depleted."
"I've heard two opinions on this. One is that the little buggers are so hard to find that, even if you take everyone you see, you never feel like you got them all. The other says you should leave a percentage of what you find-maybe one or two out of every five or six, or maybe just whatever seems right at the time."
Comment: Ruth says, "It isn't the apples that produce the new trees; it is the seeds. Are they going to ship all the apples to Japan? Maybe they should ship the seeds back here."
~c4x