CARL is having their final
event of the summer for the children and their families on Friday, July 22nd,
at 2:00 p.m. A former Army officer and "dinosaur specialist"
named PaleoJoe is coming to Fort Leavenworth.
Joseph has always been a
"collector." Throughout his life, he enjoyed collecting unique
items from butterflies to military medals. His greatest and most
prevalent fascination is fossils; trilobites in particular. He began to develop
his fossil collection and subsequent search for knowledge as a young boy
growing up in the fossil rich Niagara Falls area. Joseph graduated from
Lewiston Porter High School and subsequently Niagara University with a degree
in Education in 1979. He has always enjoyed the opportunity to share his
knowledge and experiences with others. He assembled a fine collection of
marine invertebrates from the Niagara Frontier area and, prior to his entering
the US Army with a Regular Army Commission, in 1979, donated it to the Schoelkopf
Geological Museum of Niagara Falls. Following his military service he,
once again, began to collect fossils and at this point began to specialize in
Trilobites. Since moving to Midland, Michigan in 1993, Joseph has taught
classes on fossils in many of the Midland County elementary and middle
schools. As he gained a reputation as an energetic and entertaining
speaker in the persona of "PaleoJoe", dressing and playing the part
of a "digger" he has taught around the state of Michigan, Iowa, and
Wisconsin and into northern Ohio. He taught "Family Fossil Fun" at
the Midland Community Center and developed that curriculum into an ongoing
series for Midland Community Television. In 1999, PaleoJoe was honored as a
finalist in the Philo T.
Farnsworth
Video Competition for an episode of that series. PaleoJoe has displayed a
4-month fossil exposition at the Midland Center for the Arts called Trilobite
Treasures: Arthropods of the Ancients Seas. Also the collection has recently
been on display at the Bay County Historical Society The exhibit was designed
and built by PaleoJoe featuring most of the Kchodl Collection, his own personal
collection of Trilobites. He has been privileged to be a keynote speaker many
Rock and Mineral Society meetings and Guest Lecturer at the Greater Detroit
Rock and Mineral Exposition. He led several Paleontological expeditions
and given lectures for local organizations. PaleoJoe was also fortunate
to participate in a Paleontological dig in the Czech Republic and toured the
public and private trilobite collections of the Czech National Museum. PaleoJoe
is honored to have one of his trilobites on permanent display in that Museum.
Friend Joe on facebook here http://www.facebook.com/pages/PaleoJoe/166965343336849 or visit his website www.paleojoe.com/default.asp?iId=JDGLH
He will be on post at 2:00 PM on July 22nd, hope to see you there!
