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SHELL SHOW AWARDS – SCIENTIFIC

AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY – Sheila L. Nugent – Gulf of Maine / Bay of Fundy EcoRegion

CONCHOLOGISTS OF AMERICA – Norman Terry –  It’s A Small Small World

THE DuPONT TROPHY – Harry Berryman – Family Costellariidae

BEST FLORIDA / CARIBBEAN EXHIBIT – Bob Pace –  29 Species of Marine & Land Shells Found In About 45 Minutes

NEIL HEPLER MEMORIAL TROPHY FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE – Carole Marshall – Gods, Goddesses, Shells and Money

BETTY HAMANN FOSSIL AWARD – Valentino Leidi – South Florida Fossils

LEN HILL MEMORIAL AWARD FOR MOST BEAUTIFUL EXHIBIT – Norman Terry – It’s A Small, Small World

“BEST OF THE BEST” – Gene Everson – Seashells of the New Millennium 2000-2009 – self-collected

SHELL OF SHOW – Self Collected – Bob Pace – Bursa grayana

SHELL OF SHOW – Any Manner – Sonny Ogden – Tridacna gigas

BEST STUDENT EXHIBITOR – Valentino Leidi – South Florida Fossils

PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD – SCIENTIFIC Jonathan Galka – Fossil Mollusks of South Florida

BEST BEGINNING EXHIBITOR – SCIENTIFIC – Sonny Ogden – Tridacna gigas

STUDENT: Grades K through 6 – Any Manner – Blue – Katherine Albert / Fossilized Turban Shell

STUDENT: Grades 7 through 12 – Any Manner – Blue – Valentino Leidi – South Florida Fossils

ONE REGION – Self-collected – Blue – Bob Pace – 29 Species of Marine & Land Shells Found In About 45 Minutes

ONE REGION – Any Manner – Blue – Sheila L. Nugent – Gulf of Maine / Bay of Fundy EcoRegion

ONE FAMILY – MAJOR – Any Manner – Blue – Kenneth Brown – Sampling of Family Cypraeidae

ONE FAMILY – MINOR – Any Manner – Blue – Harry Berryman – Family Costellariidae

ONE SPECIES – Any Manner – Blue – Sheila L. Nugent – Nocella lappilus

Red – Ken Curry, Sr. – See the many faces of Scaphella junonia

SINGLE SHELL WORLDWIDE – Self-collected – Blue – Sonny Ogden – Tridacna gigas

Red – Conus gauguini – Gene Everson

SINGLE SHELL WORLDWIDE – Any Manner – Blue – Gene Everson – Eupleura volkesorum

Red – James Cordy – Nodipecten

SINGLE SHELL – FLORIDA CARIBBEAN – Self-collected – Blue – James Cordy

Red – Bob Pace – Bursa grayana

White – Amy Tripp – Arcinella cornuta

Judge’s Special Merit Ribbon & White –

Hugh Andison – Albino Horse Conch

FOSSILS – Any Manner – Blue – Harry Berryman – Placanticersa placenta (Fossil Ammonoid)

Red – Jonathan Galka – Fossil Mollusks of South Florida

LAND or FRESH WATER SHELLS – Any Manner – Judge’s Special Merit Ribbon & Blue – Harry G. Lee – Terrestrial Pulmonates

EDUCATIONAL – Blue – Carole Marshall – Gods, Goddesses, Shells & Money

2010 BSC SHELL SHOW AWARDS – ARTISTIC DIVISION

BEST BEGINNING EXHIBITOR ARTISTIC – Jo-Ann Connolly – Mirror Wreath

BEST STUDENT EXHIBITOR – ARTISTIC (made by exhibitor) – Katherine Albert – Simply Paradise

BEST IN SHOW – HOBBYIST (made by exhibitor) – Bob Pace – Novelties category – Animal Caricatures

BEST IN SHOW – PROFESSIONAL (made by exhibitor) – Jae Kellogg – Flower arrangement on driftwood

BEST IN SHOW – SAILOR’S VALENTINE (any manner) Brandy Llewellyn

FAY MUCHA MEMORIAL TROPHY BEST COLLECTIBLES – (any manner) – Linda Zylman Holzinger – Hand Carved Antique Pearl Oyster in Olivewood Frame from Jerusalem

PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD: ARTISTIC DIVISION – (As voted by the attendance) – Brandy Llewelyn – Sailor’s Valentine

Hobbyist Categories

H2. STUDENT – Grades K – 6 – Katherine Albert – Blue – Simply Paradise

H12. MIRROR – Blue – Jo-Ann Connolly

Red – Jo-Ann Connolly

H14. DÉCOR – TABLETOP ONLY – Red – Shell Encrusted Head

H16. PHOTOGRAPHY – Judge’s Special Merit Ribbon & Blue – Kevan Sunderland – Willet with Melongena

Red – Sheila L. Nugent

White – Anne DuPont

H18. JEWELRY and PERSONAL ACCESSORIES – Blue – Sue Burns & Mario Piras

Blue – Elaine Alvo

H19. NOVELTIES – Blue Bob Pace – Animal Caricatures

Red – Elaine Alvo- The Collector

H22. SPECIAL – Blue – Sue Burns & Mario Piras

Professional Categories

P2. FLOWER ARRANGEMENT 6″ or less (Tabletop) – Blue -Brandy Llewellyn

P4. FLOWER ARRANGEMENTS Greater than 6″ (Tabletop) – Judge’s Special Merit Ribbon & Blue

P5. SAILOR’S VALENTINE – Single (Tabletop) – Blue – Brandy Llewellyn

P9. MIRROR (Wall hung) – Heather Strawbridge

P10. SHELL TABLES or TRAYS – Jon Ogden

P11. DÉCOR – (Wall hung) – Red -Heather Strawbridge

P12. DÉCOR – Tabletop) – Blue – Heather Strawbridge

Collectibles – Category C-1

Blue – Linda Zylman – Hand Carved Antique Pearl Oyster in Olivewood Frame from Jerusalem

Red – Heather Strawbridge – Princess Charming Purse Collection

Red – Richard Sedlak & Michael Hickman – Nautilus representations

A QUICK THANK YOU FOR NOW

Nancy Galdo wants to thank everyone who helped make this show the record success that it was.  A more detailed article about the show will appear next month but in the meantime she wanted to express her extreme gratitude, and a complete list of those who went beyond the call of duty will appear in the March issue.  What we can say is that the Raffle Table, Club Shell Table and the Craft Sales Table went way beyond last years’ sales AND the dealers were more than delighted!  You will also note another record….the following new members listing…….

Katherine “Bobbi” Cordy passed away Wednesday morning, February 2^nd, after a several month illness.  She was the show chairperson for the Astronaut Trail Shell Club
for the entire time of their shell shows, Secretary for the COA, and co-chair of the COA conventions in 2001 and 2011.

I visited Jim Cordy and his daughter Denise (from Houston) and there will be a memorial service for Bobbi but plans have not been completed.

Bobbi was truly a larger than life person, a passionate advocate for the hobby and science of shelling and a person of extraordinary energy.  With her husband Jim, she led trips to many Bahamas locations over the past twenty years.  We are so pleased that she got to participate in the opening of the Johnson-Cordy Museum of Shells of the Brevard Natural History Museum last November, a lasting memorial to Bobbi and Jim for their extraordinary knowledge and passion for shells.

The Astronaut Trail Shell Club is fortunate for her hard work which is a legacy in place for the COA convention this July and also for continuing our annual shell shows which already is scheduled for January 14-15, 2012.

The shell world is devastated by the loss of Peter Clarkson.  February 15 he passed away in horror after a brutal attack by two great whites!  Clarkson was the co author of the for all of us famous book Australia’s Spectacular Cowries. He was a very renowned Zoila diver and instrumental in the knowledge in Australian cowries we have today.

I hope all of us will not take it for granted anymore to be able to buy nice Zoila just like that. They sometimes come with a price. A very high price! The life of a good man! Let us all take a minute to pray for the family, close friends and admirers he is leaving behind.

I have never had the pleasure and honor of meeting Peter Clarkson in person. I’d wish I had. But one of my close friends has known him very well and said it was a privilege to have known such an honest, straight forward and great person. “There are very few of his kind,” he told me.

Peter Clarkson died while doing what he loved the most: diving for shells and being in the ocean. Let us remember him every time we look at his wonderful book or at one of our Zoila!

Submitted by Willy Van Damme of Belgium, a leading seller of rare cypraea.

Additional information: The Australian press stated, “It has been reported that the diver was returning to the surface … when two sharks, believed to be great whites, have grabbed him.” The shark attack occurred, near Perforated Island, about 25km from Coffin Bay. Clarkson was a commercial abalone diver.