This is Throwback Thursday #45. In these, we look back into the past at ESCONI specifically and Earth Science in general. If you have any contributions, (science, pictures, stories, etc ...), please sent them to [email protected]. Thanks!
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This week, we have have a poem from the old ESCONI newsletters. "Collecting Rocks" is from the January 1962 edition of the newsletter. It was submitted by Hazel Hillmer.
Collecting Rocks
I think that there will never be
An ignoramus just like me,
Who roams the hills thoughout the day
To pick up rocks that do not pay;
For there's one think I've been told
I take the rocks and leave the gold.
O'er deserts wild and mountains blue
I search for rocks of varied hue.
A hundred pounds or more I pack
With blistered feet and aching back,
And after this is said and done
I cannot name a single one.
I pick up rocks where e're I go,
The reason why I do not know,
For rocks are found by folks like me
Where God intended them to be.
(submitted by Hazel Hillmer)
Hazel Hillmer is on the left in the photo below, which comes from a party thrown by the Ades in August 1967.
Her husband, Max, was the 2nd Vice President of ESCONI in 1962. Here he is with a case he built for the ESCONI shows. It was used to hold trilobites. This photo is from Springfield, OH in 1959.
Max is on the left here at the 10th Anniversary in 1959.
