texascavers Digest 30 Nov 2011 17:56:58 -0000 Issue 1443
Topics (messages 19106 through 19120):
Barry Beck has died
19106 by: Carl Kunath
19107 by: Geary Schindel
2012 TSA Spring Convention *Save The Date*
19108 by: ellie watson
19109 by: caverarch
19110 by: Terry Holsinger
19111 by: ellie watson
19113 by: JerryAtkin.aol.com
19117 by: Don Arburn
19119 by: Mark.Alman.L-3com.com
Re: Barry Beck
19112 by: Logan McNatt
volcano
19114 by: Gill Edigar
Obituary for ETGS Member, Barry Beck
19115 by: Geary Schindel
Re: A Whole Lotta Caving Going On December 3rd! - Longhorn, Punkin, and Gov't
Canyon - REMINDER!
19116 by: Mark.Alman.L-3com.com
anniversary issue of Texas Caver
19118 by: Mixon Bill
19120 by: Julia Germany
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I regret to pass along the news that Barry Beck passed away this morning. Many
of you knew Barry when he was in Texas and was a major figure in the Rice
University caving group. Some years ago, Barry suffered a massive stroke that
left him almost totally paralyzed.
I received this message from his wife, Penny, through Rebecca Charles:
“Penny asked me to let everyone know how grateful she is for everyone’s
concern. She is a little overwhelmed with phone calls right now and it would be
best to email her or send her a note if you would like to contact her.
The funeral service will be at Martin’s funeral Home in Oak Ridge at 2:00 pm
Wednesday (1017 Oak Ridge Turnpike - 483-4341). The family will be at the
funeral home around 1:30. The burial will follow the service.”
We are diminished.
===Carl Kunath
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Carl,
Thanks for the post, I have known Barry since the early 1980’s when he was a
professor at Americas University in Georgia. I got to know him better when he
created the Sinkhole Conference and got to work with him closely on the
Huntsville and San Antonio meetings in early 2000’s. His work on behalf of
caves and karst throughout the US was very well known and respected. He was
one of the foremost experts on sinkhole formation on the planet and will be
greatly missed.
Geary Schindel
From: Carl Kunath [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 11:35 AM
To: TexasCavers
Subject: [Texascavers] Barry Beck has died
I regret to pass along the news that Barry Beck passed away this morning. Many
of you knew Barry when he was in Texas and was a major figure in the Rice
University caving group. Some years ago, Barry suffered a massive stroke that
left him almost totally paralyzed.
I received this message from his wife, Penny, through Rebecca Charles:
“Penny asked me to let everyone know how grateful she is for everyone’s
concern. She is a little overwhelmed with phone calls right now and it would be
best to email her or send her a note if you would like to contact her.
The funeral service will be at Martin’s funeral Home in Oak Ridge at 2:00 pm
Wednesday (1017 Oak Ridge Turnpike - 483-4341). The family will be at the
funeral home around 1:30. The burial will follow the service.”
We are diminished.
===Carl Kunath
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Please mark you calendars for the 2012 TSA Spring Convention in Boerne, TX
on March 30-April 1st, 2012.
This is annual, technical meeting with presentations from cavers about cave
sciences, exploration, project status and displays in the Map/Photo Salon.
Presentations will be on Saturday, March 31st and Mallory Mayeux and Roger
Moore have graciously agreed to enlist speakers for the program so it
should be another great year.
Registration: $15 and $5 camping per night (kids camp free)
Facility for Saturday Meeting: Geneva School of Boerne (113 Cascade Caverns
Rd, Fair Oaks Ranch, TX 78015)
<http://genevaschooltx.org/>
Campground for Friday-Sunday: Cascade Caverns* (*226 Cascade Caverns Road,
Boerne, Texas 78015) http://www.cascadecaverns.com/
Please don't hesitate to ask me any questions.
Ellie Watson
TSA Vice Chair
509-899-0007
[email protected]
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Well, now that the date and place are set, Mallory and I can (or more like
"better") begin to solicit for presentations and poster papers for the Spring
Meeting. Let's hear about discoveries and investigations from all parts of the
state (or at least from the parts that are lucky enough to have caves in them)
this year, and from people from all over TSA, regardless of the local presence
or absence of karst terrain. Please think it over, toss aside any uncertainty,
and submit your abstracts or proposals to:
Mallory Mayeux @
[email protected]
or
Roger Moore @
[email protected]
Thank you!
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From: ellie watson <[email protected]>
To: texascavers <[email protected]>
Sent: Tue, Nov 29, 2011 9:31 am
Subject: [Texascavers] 2012 TSA Spring Convention *Save The Date*
Please mark you calendars for the 2012 TSA Spring Convention in Boerne, TX on
March 30-April 1st, 2012.
This is annual, technical meeting with presentations from cavers about cave
sciences, exploration, project status and displays in the Map/Photo Salon.
Presentations will be on Saturday, March 31st and Mallory Mayeux and Roger
Moore have graciously agreed to enlist speakers for the program so it should be
another great year.
Registration: $15 and $5 camping per night (kids camp free)
Facility for Saturday Meeting: Geneva School of Boerne (113 Cascade Caverns Rd,
Fair Oaks Ranch, TX 78015)
Campground for Friday-Sunday: Cascade Caverns (226 Cascade Caverns Road,
Boerne, Texas 78015) http://www.cascadecaverns.com/
Please don't hesitate to ask me any questions.
Ellie Watson
TSA Vice Chair
509-899-0007
[email protected]
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And is there a date and location for the winter business meeting?
Terry H.
On 11/29/2011 2:31 PM, ellie watson wrote:
Please mark you calendars for the 2012 TSA Spring Convention in Boerne, TX
on March 30-April 1st, 2012.
This is annual, technical meeting with presentations from cavers about cave
sciences, exploration, project status and displays in the Map/Photo Salon.
Presentations will be on Saturday, March 31st and Mallory Mayeux and Roger
Moore have graciously agreed to enlist speakers for the program so it
should be another great year.
Registration: $15 and $5 camping per night (kids camp free)
Facility for Saturday Meeting: Geneva School of Boerne (113 Cascade Caverns
Rd, Fair Oaks Ranch, TX 78015)
<http://genevaschooltx.org/>
Campground for Friday-Sunday: Cascade Caverns* (*226 Cascade Caverns Road,
Boerne, Texas 78015) http://www.cascadecaverns.com/
Please don't hesitate to ask me any questions.
Ellie Watson
TSA Vice Chair
509-899-0007
[email protected]
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Please see in the 2011 Fall Meeting Minutes Archive Page
http://www.cavetexas.org/TSA/meetingminutes.html that "Alman asked if
people think a Winter Business Meeting is really necessary since it is so
close to the fall and spring meetings. A motion was made to cancel the
Winter Business Meeting. Seconded and motion carried".
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That's all well and good, but the TSA Bylaws stipulate at least 3
membership meetings per year. Given that there will be a TSA meeting at the
Spring
Convention and in the Fall, when do the officers propose to hold another
meeting to comply with the Bylaws ?
Jerry.
In a message dated 11/29/2011 5:29:20 P.M. Central Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:
Please see in the 2011 Fall Meeting Minutes Archive Page
_http://www.cavetexas.org/TSA/meetingminutes.html_
(http://www.cavetexas.org/TSA/meetingminutes.html) that "Alman asked if
people think a Winter Business Meeting is
really necessary since it is so close to the fall and spring meetings. A
motion was made to cancel the Winter Business Meeting. Seconded and motion
carried".
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...and if I don't, will I go to TSA jail?
This was the current administrations making, please don't pass it on to me.
On Nov 30, 2011, at 8:50 AM, Michael Cicherski wrote:
> My suggestion is that Don Arburn calls for a winter meeting to be held 1 hour
> prior to the beginning of the first bexar Grotto meeting in January.
>
> That will take care of it
>
> M
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Since the Winter Meeting has already been cancelled, a third meeting
will be discussed by the new Board at the Spring Business Meeting at the
2012 TSA Spring Convention in Boerne, TX on March 30-April 1st, 2012.
Thanks,
Mark
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2011 12:57 AM
To: [email protected]; [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Texascavers] 2012 TSA Spring Convention *Save The Date*
That's all well and good, but the TSA Bylaws stipulate at least 3
membership meetings per year. Given that there will be a TSA meeting at
the Spring Convention and in the Fall, when do the officers propose to
hold another meeting to comply with the Bylaws ?
Jerry.
In a message dated 11/29/2011 5:29:20 P.M. Central Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:
Please see in the 2011 Fall Meeting Minutes Archive Page
http://www.cavetexas.org/TSA/meetingminutes.html that "Alman asked if
people think a Winter Business Meeting is really necessary since it is
so close to the fall and spring meetings. A motion was made to cancel
the Winter Business Meeting. Seconded and motion carried".
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I remember Barry but don't think we ever went caving together. A quick glance at the book 50 Years of Texas Caving details some of Barry's
accomplishments in Texas and beyond:
1969 one of the founding members and first Chairman of the Rice
Speleological Society (Houston)
1970 joined the Carta Valley Society of Underground Cavers, Karstologists,
and Speleologists (photo page 201)
1971 TSA Chairman
1971 TSA caver of the month
1977 NSS Fellow
2004 NSS Honorary Membership Award (lifetime membership "for outstanding service
to speleology and the NSS")
Barry was also known as the "Rain God" because of numerous misadventures involving large quantities of water, from the Colorado River near
Gorman Cave, Texas (photo, page 98) to a cave near Pigeon Mountain, Georgia
Wished I had known him better, sorry to hear of his passing.
Logan
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Here's the website for the Instituto Geofisico in Ecuador that has the
latest info on the erupting volcano.
Former Texas caver Patty Mothes works there.
--Ediger
http://www.igepn.edu.ec/
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Here is a link to Barry Beck's Obituary.
http://www.oakridger.com/obituaries/x711437432/Barry-F-Beck
>From Brad Stephenson,
It is with great sadness that I report the passing of Dr. Barry F. Beck, a
long-time ETGS member who contributed much to our society and to the
international karst geoscience community. Barry passed away early this
morning, following an extended illness.
A funeral service and burial will be held Wednesday afternoon. Martin Funeral
Home in Oak Ridge will handle the arrangements. Additional details will be
provided once they are known.
Barry wife, Penny, sends her love and gratitude for all of your support through
his illness.
For those who did not know Barry, he made a career of studying and consulting
in the engineering and environmental challenges of karst settings around the
world. Since the mid-1980s, Barry organized a series of conferences on those
topics, and the 13th conference in that series is being planned for Carlsbad,
Mexico in May 2013. He worked for geological surveys in Georgia and Puerto
Rico and directed the Florida Sinkhole Research Institute. About 20 years ago,
Barry opened the Oak Ridge office of P.E. LaMoreaux & Associates, Inc., where
he served as Vice President and Chief of Operations. While teaching geology at
Georgia Southwestern College in 1979, he was involved in an adventure in which
he and a group of geology students were "trapped" for a day or two by flood
water in a cave south of Chattanooga. That event was the subject of a segment
on the Weather Channel's "Storm Stories" last year.
Barry was a dear friend, as well as a colleague and mentor.
Please keep Penny and the rest of Barry's family in your thoughts.
J Brad Stephenson PG
Assistant Webmaster
East Tennessee Geological Society
www.discoveret.org/etgs<http://www.discoveret.org/etgs>
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Wow!
There's a lot of caving going on!
Please mark your calendars on Saturday, December 3rd, for either the Longhorn
Project weekend, or the DFW Spring Creek Cave Trip, the Punkin Survey trip
where sketchers are desperately needed (email Crash at [email protected], if
you can help), and the Gov't Canyon monthly project (email Marvin Miller at
[email protected], if interested).
As far as the Longhorn Caverns SP Project goes, we will have a dual pronged
effort that weekend.
· We will continue work on the Lovers Lane area (bring wheelbarrows,
shovels, pick axes, and buckets if you have 'em!).
· We will also have a crew digging down in Lumbago Alley on a promising
lead that may add more passageway to the existing cave.
Overnight camping will be available and supper will either be at the Maxican in
beautiful downtown Burnet or at that institution of fine down home dining, The
Bluebonnet Café, in marvelous Marble Falls.
Or you can rough it at the campground.
We also will be having an informal meeting establishing the groundwork needed
to launch the non-profit group Friends of Longhorn Caverns. Kudos to Julia
Germany for taking the bull by the horns and getting this effort researched!
Please check the TSA calendar for more info or give me a shout if you're
interested or have any questions.
If you plan on helping out on the 3rd , please let me know when you plan on
coming and what your interest and area of expertise is, so we can schedule
accordingly.
Thanks and hope to see you there or caving somewhere!
Hope you had a safe and happy Thanksgiving and work off those calories this
weekend by getting underground!
Mark
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Jut received the long-overdue 4th quarter 2005 issue of the Texas
Caver, celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of that august
publication. Great job. Many tales of old-time caving from the fifties
or shortly thereafter, lots of historic photos. It was mailed to those
who were members of TSA back then (2005, not the fifties). I hope
there are additional copies available for sale to others. -- Mixon
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Double ditto what Bill said. I LOVE the "missing" issue and wish to thank
everyone who made it possible. Well worth the wait.
julia
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From: Mixon Bill <[email protected]>
To: Cavers Texas <[email protected]>
Sent: Wed, Nov 30, 2011 11:49 am
Subject: [Texascavers] anniversary issue of Texas Caver
Jut received the long-overdue 4th quarter 2005 issue of the Texas
Caver, celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of that august
publication. Great job. Many tales of old-time caving from the fifties
or shortly thereafter, lots of historic photos. It was mailed to those
who were members of TSA back then (2005, not the fifties). I hope
there are additional copies available for sale to others. -- Mixon
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