The Nittany Lion looks out from a 
Central Pennsylvania doubly terminated quartz crystal.  Artwork © John Passaneau.
Nittany Mineralogical Society, Inc.
State College, Pennsylvania


Generally meets the third Wednesday of each month, August through May
We are now meeting in Penn State's Earth and Engineering Sciences Building,
on White Course Drive off North Atherton Street.
See driving directions and Campus Maps .
All are welcome to attend our meetings!
Mineral collectors and rockhounds, earth scientists and dinosaur lovers will all enjoy our activities.

   LINKS TO: Nittany Gem & Mineral SHOW Monthly Regular Meetings Field Trips Junior Rockhounds Meetings Minerals Junior Education Day

JUNIOR ROCKHOUNDS meetings are planned for 7:00 p.m. Monday evening, April 21, room 117 EES Building, and (day and date to be announced) in May. The topic on April 21st will be Crystal Models. Join us to see how models of the rows of atoms inside crystals help us to understand how the crystals grow and what their properties are.
Click here for more on Junior Rockhounds

May 21st regular meeting:

Minerals on
Postage Stamps

presented by Frank Kowalczyk

     Our May meeting will be held Wednesday the 21st at 7:30 p.m., in the room 114 auditorium of Earth & Engineering Sciences Building on the west side of Penn State's University Park campus in State College, PA.
     6:30 to 7:30 p.m.: Social hour, refreshments in the lobby
     7:30 to 8:00 p.m.: announcements; door prize drawings
     about 8:00 p.m.: featured program

     The event has free admission, free parking, free door prize drawings and free refreshments, and is open to all. Please come and share an enjoyable evening! - - Editor


    

DRIVING DIRECTIONS and PARKING for Earth & Engineering Sciences Building meetings. After 5:00 p.m. and on weekends, free parking is available immediately across the street from the building. From North Atherton St. (Business Rt. 322) between College Avenue and Park Avenue, turn west (toward the golf course) off North Atherton at the traffic signal marked "White Course Drive." Go past the parking attendant's booth, follow the curve to the left, and just before the stop sign, turn right into the parking lot. The building entrance is adjacent to the center of the lot. For campus maps see http://www.campusmaps.psu.edu/ .


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