The Sea Shell Searchers Shell Show 2001 was held October 20-21at the Lake
Jackson Civic Center.  There were 30 exhibitors with 80 exhibits entered in
the show this year.  There were 373 feet of scientific exhibits and 46 feet
of "artistic" exhibits.  The scientific judges were Emilio Garcia and Chris
Takahashi.  The artistic judge was Barbara Feiner (a local artist) and the
beany judge was Sandra Oliver.

The results are listed below:

DuPont Trophy - Rose Marie Neuffer - "Trivia Pursuit" (20 feet)

COA Award - Gene Everson - "Strombidae Worldwide" (34 feet)

Mildred Tate Gulf of Mexico Award (sponsored by the Brazosport Museum of
Natural Science honoring the outstanding shell or exhibit of shells
collected from the Gulf of Mexico or along the shores of the Gulf of
Mexico) - Janey Nill - "Seashells of Texas" (20 feet)

Shell of the Show (any source) - Stephanie Coker - Haliotis pourtalesii

Shell of the Show (self-collected) - Ted & Ellen Strasser - Drupa elegans

Best of Texas - Roe Davenport, Jr. - Cymatium tranquebaricum

Best of the Caribbean - Rose Marie Neuffer - Pleurotomaria gemma

Biggest Shell - Cliff & Dean Harris - Melo broderipii

Smallest Shell - Leslie Crnkovic - Marginella species (unnamed)

Favorite Beachcomber Item - Rusti Stover - Buffalo Jaw

Junior - Stephanie Coker - Haliotis pourtalesii

Judge's Rosettes
- Michael Neuffer - "Ovulidae: Egg Shells" (20 feet)
- Cliff & Dean Harris - "Shells of the Philippines" (26 feet)
- Rusti Stover - "Beachcomber Shack" (artistic judge, Barbara Feiner)
- Darwin Alder - "Dragon The Sea Floor" (beanie judge, Sandra Oliver)

Category: One Family
First Place (tie) - Rose Marie Neuffer - "Trivia Pursuit" (20 feet)
First Place (tie) - Gene Everson - "Strombidae Worldwide" (34 feet)
Second Place - Dave & Lucille Green - "Californian & Panamic Conidae" (28
feet)
Third Place - Wanda Coker - "Ranellidae" (18 feet)

Category: One Genus
First Place - Wayne Humbird - "Morum" (3.5 feet)
Second Place - Patty Humbird - "Homalocantha" (3 feet)
Third Place - Lucy Clampit - "Ficus: A Wallflower at the Shell Dance" (4
feet)

Category: One Species
First Place - Leslie Crnkovic - "Calliostoma brunneum - Dispelling the
 Myths" (12 feet)
Second Place - Nunnie Clements - "Haliotis pulcherrima, growth series (1
foot)
Third Place - Lucy Clampit - "All olives do not look alike" (2 feet)

Category: Single Specimen
First Place - Stephanie Coker - "Haliotis pourtalesii"
Second Place - Rose Marie Neuffer - "Pleurotomaria gemma"
Third Place - Tina Petway - "Latiaxis santacruzensis"

Category: Texas (<500 yds offshore)
First Place - Janey Nill - "Seashells of Texas"
Second Place - Roe Davenport, Jr. - "Tritons, 2001"
Third Place - Rusti Stover - "A Texas Treasure"

Category: Gulf of Mexico
First Place - Leslie Crnkovic - "Methane Breathing Albino Sea Mollusk from
out of the Briny Deep" or "Extreme Offshore Texas Collecting - 360 miles
east then turn 1 mile towards China"

Category: Regional
First Place - Cliff & Dean Harris - "Shells of the Philippines" (26 feet)
Second Place - Ted & Ellen Strasser - "Shells of French Polynesia" (4.5
feet)
Third Place - Karen Couch - "Land of Fire and Ice-Seashells of Southern S.
America" (9 feet)

Category: Educational
First Place - Karen Couch - "Cephalopods are Mollusks, too!" (14 feet)
Second Place - Michael Neuffer - "Ovulidae: Egg Shells" (20 feet)
Third Place - Dennis & Mary Harris - "Nautilus Exhibit" (9 feet)

Category: Fossils
First Place - Janey Nill - "Belasaepia veatchi"

Category: Land Mollusks
First Place - Dennis & Mary Harris - "Dead Snails Leave No Trails" (5 feet)
Second Place - Roe Davenport, Jr. - "A Collection of Land Shells from the
Beach" (2 feet)

Category: Marine Life
First Place - Stephanie Coker - "Classification of Crabs" (2.5 feet)

Category: Beachcomber
First Place - Wanda Coker - "Back to Nature?" (12 feet)
Second Place - Rusti Stover - "Where the Buffalo Roamed" (2 feet)
Third Place - Cathy Betley - "Princess Dolphina" (3 feet)

Category: Shell Art - Self Made
First Place - Linda Koestel - "Escaping Snails" a quilted wall hanging
Second Place - Janey Nill - "Cross stitch of Sea Shells"
Third Place - Tina Petway - "Picture"

Category: Shell Craft - Self Made
First Place - Rusti Stover - "Beach comber Shack"
Second Place - Jo Tirrell - "Octagon Shell Picture"
Third Place - Ellen Strasser - "Shell Flower Arrangement"

Category: Shell Craft - Owned, Not Self Made
First Place - Nunnie Clements - Shells & Candle Arrangement

Category: Under The Sea Beanie, Natural State
First Place -  Gene Everson - "Scuba Diving Manatee"
Second Place - Cathy Betley - "Seine Fishing"

Category: Under The Sea Beanie, Cleverly Disguised
First Place - Leslie Crnkovic - "Cool Cats Beach Party"
Second Place - Ellen Strasser - "Carrier Beanie"
Third Place - Jo Tirrell - "King Tut Fish"

Regards,

Steven Coker