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Archives for October 2022

Recording of the 50yr celebration event

29th October 2022 By Mary Starkey

If you were disappointed not to attend the talks and reminiscences marking our 50th anniversary, you will be pleased to find a link to a recording of it on the Members’ page. This link will remain active until the end of January.

Members can also look forward to receiving a substantial magazine giving many past stories about the Society and its history, which is currently with the printer.

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The Russell Society 50th Anniversary Evening – Thursday 27 October 2022 (via Zoom)

4th October 2022 By Mary Starkey

Please join us for an evening of reminiscences, happy memories and funny stories. We’ll be looking back over a fantastic fifty years of mineral collecting, sharing photos and testing your knowledge of the history of The Russell Society and the people that make it special. There will be plenty of opportunity to chip in with your own contributions. If you have any photos you would like to share please send them to Roy Starkey ASAP.

The zoom login will be posted on the members’ page a couple of days before. See you there!

Provisional Programme

19:45 Doors open

20:00 David Aubrey Jones Hon. President – Welcome, opening remarks and a toast to The Russell Society

20:05 Nigel Moreton – The Early Years

20:15 Paul Monk – Reminiscences from the Far North

20:25 Frank Ince – Central Branch Projects

20:35 Marashean Parker – Maisemore and Other Memories

20:45 Sheila Harper – South West Memories

20:55 Owen Baker – Looking Back in Cornwall and Devon

21:05 David Ifold – Excursions to Lundy Island

21:15 Tom Cotterell – The importance of JRS

21:25 Roy Starkey – Quiz (30 mins)

22:05 Finale and a few nostalgia photos – for maybe 15 minutes – aiming to wrap up before 22:30

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