From Ye Olde President…..

Hello to everyone: Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Hope your holidays were joyous. 

23 members attended the Annual FFH Christmas Party and shared great food. Thank You Dave & Melissa Dunaway for hosting all the fun! Members won great auction items and raised 165,000 fossil bucks.

The FFH 2026 Meeting schedule is confirmed. FFH will have 10 meetings at the OSC in the Founders Room for 2026. See PG 8

It’s time again to renew your membership for 2026.

Salvatore Sansone and Valerie First, will be handling the outreach for the Orlando Science Center representing FFH. OSC Events include: Science Night Live, Stem/Steam events for schools and First Saturday of every month for community partners day and Fossil Fest Days. We invite FFH members to join us at these events to share our knowledge and love of Fossils! Its a great way of earning fossil bucks too.

Paleontology for Kids programs will be active at all meetings from 2pm to 3pm. Thank you Laurie and Francesca for your hard work and dedication to making Paleontology for Kids a success.

January Meeting: Our guest speaker for the January meeting is Valerie First and the topic will be about Evolution

Working on a field trip to Chris Delory’s workshop. I will send an email when date is scheduled.

At EVERY meeting!

• Support your club with the purchase of vintage fossil fair t-shirts! Variety of sizes available at meetings while they last. $25/Adults and Kids/$20.
• “Fossil swap”: every member brings in fossils to talk about and swap with other members.
• Paleontology for Kids has been a success and will be held before the general meetings at 2:00pm.

Thank you,
Salvatore Sansone,
FFH President