Monthly Meetings + Speakers and Topics

We meet the second Wednesday of every month at Troy View Church of God (click button below for directions) at 1770 North County Road 25A, Troy, Ohio 45373. We start at 7:00 PM EST. Doors open at 6:30 PM EST. Presentations are approximately 45 minutes to 1 hour and then we have club business until 8:30 PM. Refreshments will be provided & we love seeing new faces. We haven't updated our annual membership fees since we established. Become a member today!

Troy View Church of God

Upcoming Presenters and Topics at the Monthly Meetings

June 10th

August 12th

June 10th

Beverly Girten

Types of Meteorites and Their Significance

Bev Girten is a biologist who earned her Ph.D. from the Ohio State University. She worked for NASA for 25 years and managed numerous life science payloads on shuttle and International Space Station missions. She retired this past December and looks forward to spending more time collecting and selling meteorites, fossils, amber and other rocks and minerals.

July 8th

August 12th

June 10th

Summer Club

Family Picnic

Potluck

at the

Manning's

in Casstown

August 12th

September 9th

Ice Cream Social + Members Silent Auction

September 9th

November 11th

September 9th

Gary Condon is the owner and operator of Edwin F Nickol Monuments, Inc. in Versailles, Ohio. Operating out of their long-time facility on East Main Street, he carries on a family legacy of providing custom memorial design, headstones, and cemetery markers.

More Info Here

October 14th

November 11th

Greg Brown

Mineral and Fossil Speciman Collection that Matches with Stamp Collecting!

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November 11th

Coming Soon!

December 9th

Holiday Social Club Potluck and Gift Exchange Party

previous presenters and topics

May 2026

April 2026

May 13th, 2026, we heard from Guest Speaker: Suzan Jervey, MS, Senior Naturalist. She has previously worked with the Ohio Dept of Natural Resources and Publications. Her presentation was about Rock Collecting with a Naturalist around Ohio. She took us for a virtual nature hike at some of her favorite rock collecting sites. Suzan Jervey, with more than 50 years in environmental education, spoke about other things that can be seen along with the wonderful rocks, minerals and fossils of Ohio. Suzan lived in Miami County early in her career and enjoys retirement at her cabin in Licking County.

April 2026

April 8th, 2026, we heard from Guest Speaker: Dan Cooper, the father of Jason Cooper who found the APEX Stegosaurus on their property in Colorado. He talked about the discovery, preparation, and sale of the $44 Million Dollar Dinosaur which is currently on display at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City along with other ways his family has contributed to future education of fossil hunters.

March 2026

February 2026

March 11th, 2026, we heard from Guest Speaker: Dr. William Ausich, Academy Professor of Earth Sciences and Director of Orton Geological Musuem. Presentation Topic: Quest for Early Silurian Crinoids.

February 2026

Christina Smith Fitzpatrick and Dana Nadar came together to create Interactive Bar Trivia Night: Presidents and Rocks along with special Rocktails (mocktails and bar food).