HGS Night at the Paleontology Museum April 8- includes Scholarship donations. By Linda and Charles Sternbach
HGS is hosting a fantastic “Night at the Paleontology Museum” on Tuesday Night, April 8, at 6:30pm at the Houston Museum of Natural Science . This is the featured local society social event of the 2014 AAPG Annual Convention in Houston at the George R Brown convention center. Your ticket buys you a delicious buffet dinner, drinks and amazement, as you sit right next to the huge dinosaur, reptile and fossil displays inside the Hall of Paleontology. Dr Robert T Bakker, famous paleontology, dinosaur and reptile expert, and HMNS Museum curator, will give a entertaining presentation at 8pm in the IMAX theatre. Dr. Bakker and HMNS curator David Temple will have just returned from a recent excavation fossil dig in North Texas with news about the latest discoveries of Permian reptiles and amphibians.
The HGS encourages AAPG convention registrants to bring spouses and guests to this social event. Registration is online at the AAPG 2014 convention website at http://www.aapg.org/houston2014/. AAPG registrations can buy one or more tickets as they register for the convention. As you register for the AAPG conventon, look for the tab called Guest/Social Events. Adult tickets are $65, students are $35. Buses will take ticketed registrants to and from the HMNS Museum at 5555 Hermann Park Drive, Houston 77030. There will also be free garage parking for private cars. If you already registered for the AAPG convention, but need to add or buy tickets to the HGS Night at the Museum, call the AAPG Registration Center c/o The Pulse Network 781-821-6732. Get tickets now, as the event may be sold out by the time the convention opens April 5. The attendance limit is 400 people.
Bob Bakker
Walter Oil and Gas generously donated $25,000 to this HGS Night at the Museum event . Rusty Walter, CEO of Walter Oil and Gas, is an important financial backer of the HMNS Morian Hall of Paleontology. The Walter family donated funds to create the Paula and Rusty Walter Jurassic Mesozoic Gallery (opened in 2012), which includes action- posed dinosaurs including a Triceratops, three T- Rexs, a Diplodocus, and a Stegosaurus. Charles Sternbach, event chair, would like to thank CEO Rusty Walter and geologist Mike Jobe for their support of this joint HGS- AAPG convention event.
Additional fund raising is also taking place as a result of the Night at the Museum Event. The HGS Scholarship Fund is looking for several corporate sponsors for this event to increase the funding of the graduate and undergraduate scholarship program. John Adamick, Vice President of TGS-Nopec, and former HGS Board member, and chair of the HGS Foundation Scholarship fund (with Carl Norman) volunteered to round up corporate sponsors . John Adamick is seeking T-Rex sponsors at the $5,000 level, Triceratops sponsors at the $2500 level, and Trilobite sponsors at $1000 level.
Sponsorship includes some free tickets and logo recognition. Interested companies can use the form included in the Bulletin, or online at the HGS webpage event site calendar on April 8. Sandra Babcock, the HGS office manager can take checks and credit cards and assist in sponsorship organization. Contact John Adamick at 713-860-2114 john.adamick@tgs.com, and Sandra @hgs.org.
triceratops in the Walter Mesozoic Gallery
