Bobbi, How about if I include the following in the convention article?
(from your announcement?)

Late breaking news: The guest speaker for the 2001 Shell Odyssey
Convention banquet will be:
S. Peter Dance from London, formerly with the British Museum, the
Manchester Museum
and the National Museum of Wales. His books include Shell Collecting: An
Illustrated History;
The Collector's Encyclopedia of Shells and The Art of Natural History.
He co-authored   Compendium of Seashells with Dr. R. Tucker Abbott.

Lynn