John - our club is taking this on as a project.  I have been communicating with
her often.
 
shelloak wrote:
 
> Tonight I am asking for help from all of you, especially the dealers!!!
> Carol Adamson in Las Vagas needs help!!  Dealers, Please send her your
> rejects, Collectors, if you have an extra shell or two please send them to
> her.  She is starting a class for the "kids" in her high school and needs
> many different kinds of shells, size is not important, but PLEASE do not
> send shells that have been almost destroyed, give her shells that the
> children will like.  Also she wants to start a class to teach teachers
> about shells, so many many shells are needed.Those of you that trade
> shells, surely you can spare one or two for this worthy cause.  Some these
> children may become the future Marine Biologists, others just collectors
> and maybe some might become dealers.  No one knows where this might lead.
> Maybe no where, but with out our help, Carol will have a hard time doing
> the teaching she wants to do.  So there is over 300 of you on the Conch-L
> list, if each one of you send just 2 shells to her, she will now have 600
> shells to teach with.  They do not have to be rare or expensive, she will
> be glad to get anything from any of you.  Paul M. and I have already
> started sending her shells,  I do hope the rest of you can give a little
> also.  Have a good night.. John Bernard   [log in to unmask]   Tennessee
 
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Jim and Bobbi Cordy
of Merritt Island, Florida.
 
Jim Specializes in Self-Collected
Caribbean & Florida Shells
 
Bobbi in Shell Creations