Just here from Ann Buddenhagen:

Here are the results of the North Carolina Shell Club Shell Show held
last weekend -- this was edition 2000:

Regional Self-collected:
    1 -- Karlynn Morgan:  Self-collected Cones of the Solomon Islands

Regional -- Any source:
    1 -- Karlynn Morgan:  Small Shells from the Caribbean & Carolinian
Provinces

Worldwide Self-collected:
    1 -- Dean & Dottie Weber:  What's at Shelly Beach?

Fossil Mollusks:
    1 -- John Timmermon:  A Fossil Slit Shell from North Carolina

Specialized Collection:
    1 -- Vicky Wall:  The Lion's Paw Scallop; also won a Judges' Merit
Award
ribbon

Family or Genus Collection:
    1 -- Doug Wolfe:  Wentletraps of North Carolina and the World; also
won
a
        Judges' Merit Award ribbon

Educational Collection:
    1 -- Vicky Wall:  The Internal Beauty of Seashells

Marine Life Exhibit:
    1 -- Peggy Wilkerson:  Under the Sea -- Not for Shells Only

Other Category:
    TIE for first place
    1 -- Dean and Dottie Weber:  Miss World Beauty Contest
    1 -- Nancy Timmermon:  Some of My Favorite Shells -- A Growth Series

Single Shell -- Self-collected:
    1 -- Mark Johnson:  Conus theodori
    2 -- John Timmermon: Busycon carica eliceans
    3 -- Nancy Timmermon:  Fossil Pelican's Foot

Single Shell -- Any Source:
    TIE  for first place
    1 -- Vicky Wall:  Acteon eloiseae
    1 -- Charlotte Johnson:  Laevicardium pictum

    TIE for second place
    2 -- Doug Wolfe:  Syrinx aruanus
    2 -- Karlynn Morgan:  Conus ammiralis

Shell Photography:
    1 -- Mark Johnson:  Drymaeus dominicus
    2 -- Karlynn Morgan:  Ficus communis
    3 -- Vicky Wall:  Milk Conch

Arts & Crafts Using Actual Shells:
    1 -- Marge Gardner:  Shell & Driftwood Lamp
    2 -- Nancy Timmermon:  Whatuido With All These Shells I Pick Up?
        A picture frame starring "Rosie" Timmermon, and a heart-shaped
decorative
        plaque
    TIE for third place
    3 -- Janet Durand:  Picture Frame made with Sneads Ferry shells
    3 -- Janet Durand:  Electric Candle

Arts & Crafts Depicting Shells:
    1 -- Doug Wolfe:  Precious Wentletrap carved out of alabaster
    2 -- Vicky Wall:  Crossstitch picture of a Distorsio clathrata
    3 -- Karlynn Morgan:  Crossstitch picture of a Chambered Nautilus

Trophies:
    Best Junion Exhibit AND Best Novice Collection -- John Wall for a
shell-
        decorated picture frame

    Best Shell in Show -- Mark Johnson for his Conus theodori

    Best Self-collected Shell -- Karlynn Morgan for her Conus
gloriamaris

    Best Self-collected Exhibit -- Dean & Dottie Weber for What's at
Shelly
Beach

    Best North Carolina Collection -- John Timmermon for A Fossil Slit
Shell
from NC

    Best Photography -- Mark Johnson for his Drymaeus dominicus

    Best of Arts & Crafts -- Doug Wolfe for his Precious Wentletrap

    DUPONT AWARD -- John Timmermon for A Fossil Slip Shell from NC

    COA AWARD -- Vicky Wall for The Internal Beauty of Seashells

    HUGH PORTER AWARD -- Karlynn Morgan for Small Shells from the
Caribbean
        and Carolinian Provinces