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Re: The importance of a good breakfast



I just want to send out a big thank-you to Mary for organizing this great DML breakfast. Besides the fact that there was actually precious food being offered, the breakfast served as a great icebreaker amongst us dinonuts. It was there that I had my first oppotunity to meeting Dr. Tom Holtz, Mike Skrepnick, Dave Peters, and a slew of other people I was interested in meeting. And the prizes were great, too. Thanks to whoever supplied the little dinosaur magnets!
I can only hope to see everyone again next year!


Jordan Mallon

Undergraduate Student, Carleton University
Vertebrate Paleontology & Paleoecology

Paleoart website: http://www.geocities.com/paleoportfolio/
AIM: jslice mallon

From: MKIRKALDY@aol.com
Reply-To: MKIRKALDY@aol.com
To: dinosaur@usc.edu
Subject: The importance of a good breakfast
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 22:36:53 EDT

The 7th Annual Dinosaur List Get-together was a great success, with 29 people
"officially" attending. Those who braved the early morning hour on Thursday
included Andy Farke, Chris Brochu, Christian Kammerer, Cliff Green and his
wife Eileen, David Peters, Demetrias Vital, Donna Braginetz, Jim Farlow, Jordan
Mallon, Judy Horan, Ken Carpenter, Kris Kripchak, Mark Hallett, Mary Kirkaldy,
Matt Bonnan, Michael Corliss, Michael Skrepnick, Mike Keesey, Pete Buchholz,
Scott Hartman and his girlfriend Laura Vietti, Todd Marshall, Tom Holtz,
Michael Habib, Angela Botzer, Ralph and Barbara Molnar, Sam McLeod, and a few others
who dropped by.


We had a lot of laughs during the introductions, as people were asked to say
who they were, where they were from, and whose email they read first on the
list. Many attendees generously contributed to the prizes and almost everyone
"won" something. Thank you to all for the wonderful donations--we could have
had a great auction!


In what I hope is not a trend for future meetings, there was no food served
before the talks or at the breaks. Since most people expected to see pastries
or similar, there were roaming herds of paleos looking for food. Our location
was out of the way, on the upper level by the pool, but a number of people
thought that ours was the food station. The first couple of people joined us
(but had to introduce themselves and relate their fondness for our postings),
but we had to tell later arrivals that it was a private meeting. This was an
unexpected happening, but a friend told me that the DML Breakfast was listed on
the Hotel Channel's events for the day! I took a picture of the message on
the tv screen, and there it was: "Dinasaur (sic) Mailing List Breakfast,
poolside, 7-8 a.m."


Mary

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