ETGS Membership,

Halloween is behind us and we find the COVID 19 pandemic is still with us and continues to affect our activities. Your ETGS Board continues to look for educational and social activities for the membership, while keeping the safety of our members as our top priority. To this end, ETGS hosted our popular outdoor event, the annual Golf Tournament in October. This year ETGS offered “BREAKEVEN” pricing and we appreciate the great response. We had 99 golfers participate. Thanks to the generosity of 14 sponsors, the tournament was able to offer a number of awards and some 20 door prizes. A fajita dinner on the back patio followed golf. We are happy to report ETGS came close to breaking even! Thanks again to Nick Pollard for organizing and hosting this event!

We have a great virtual meeting planned for November and you should have received an email invitation. Please plan to attend a virtual "Zoom" meeting on November 18 at 12 noon. We will have a presentation by Kelly Hattori with BEG. She will present an expanded version of her research paper, presented at AAPG, entitled "A new sequence stratigraphic framework for the Early Cretaceous Pettet Formation of East Texas and investigation of controls on facies deposition". Follow the link for Kelly’s bio, abstract and how you can sign up. Your support is greatly appreciated!

ETGS is looking at an outdoor oriented Holiday Social, probably at a location like True Vine. We will send out a notification soon, when plans are finalized.

We wish everyone in the Society our very best as we all deal with these unprecedented times. Stay safe!

Ernie LaFlure

November 2, 2020