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September 1, 2010

Summer officially ended yesterday with the end of August, we are now weeks away from having our first luncheon of the year. September 16, 2010 at EMGI is where we will kick off the 2010-2011 program, one last reminder that this is a FREE luncheon to ALL paid members of the Dallas Geophysical Society. If you’ve not renewed your membership, please get it in asap.

The news has finally moved on to other subjects as the BP Gulf Oil Spill has lost its luster as an everyday topic on local and national news outlets. Even though it is no longer in the news daily, our Industry is still feeling the effects and ramifications of the spill. There seems to be a slowing of activity as many companies are still uncertain as to what long term effects will be due to the spill.

The SEG meeting is on the horizon and the council will be voting on the bylaw changes proposed to bring us into compliance with Government regulations for non-profits.  We will attach a PDF of the proposed changes as they were printed in the June issue of TLE /attachments/wysiwyg/210/tle2906r0644.pdf. I urge our members to read the proposal and to communicate to the board any feedback you have on the matter. We plan to present the opinions of our membership to the SEG at the council meeting in Oct.

The short version is this proposal was voted down last year, as it was not presented properly to the members. We got a brief description at last year’s annual meeting from Steven Hill the SEG President where he incorporated this into his talk. Again please read the proposal and respond to the BOD with any comments you feel we need to present. The BOD represents the total membership of the DGS, we will listen and formulate our response before we attend the council meeting in Denver. I hope we can hear back from everyone before we hold our October BOD meeting.

I hope to see everyone on September 16th at EMGI as we have a great slate of speakers coming to town to present the latest and greatest to our membership.

Wayne Edson
2010-2011 President

Dallas Geophysical Society