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Speaker: Bob Goemans
Subject: 60 Years in the Hobby
Date: July 20th, 2007
Subject Description: Bob's past years and vision of the aquarium hobby including about 100 photos.
Speaker Bio: Bob has been in the aquarium hobby for well over fifty years. He was born and raised in Queens, New York and started with freshwater aquariums as a young child.
His first marine aquarium was in 1956. At an early age he was a member of the Jamaica Aquarium Society and became the first person in the United States to own an undergravel filter.
In fact, he actually maintained at least one aquarium for the majority of my years in this hobby and have collected specimens for past aquariums from the South China Sea to the Caribbean.
Bob has written for Marine Fish Monthly for over fourteen years and may have had the world's longest running marine column as I had written 178 straight monthly articles for that publication without ever missing one month!
Unfortunately, that magazine recently ceased publication due to the editor’s health. Bob currently writes for Freshwater And Marine Aquariums and Tropical Fish Hobbyist in the US, and Practical Fishkeeping and Marine World in the UK.
About five years ago, Bob retired from a subsidiary of General Motors where he was the Environmental Contracting Manager. Besides numerous writing endeavors Bob has an aquarium, and environmental consulting businesses. I've also provided question and answer sessions at new "Store Openings," spoken to aquarium societies worldwide, and even appeared in a TV hobby show for an ABC station in my home town of Tucson, Arizona.
Has also provided many question and answer sessions for local school children and other interested aquarists at his home or in their schools.
Bob has never been an employee of any aquarium product company and has no allegiance to any aquarium product company. He considers himself a truly independent voice with nothing to gain but satisfaction in helping my fellow aquarists. His web site:http://www.saltcorner.com/
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New membership cards are available.
If you want one please go to your profile on the MARS website and check the “Membership Card†requested check box.
Subject: 60 Years in the Hobby
Date: July 20th, 2007
Subject Description: Bob's past years and vision of the aquarium hobby including about 100 photos.
Speaker Bio: Bob has been in the aquarium hobby for well over fifty years. He was born and raised in Queens, New York and started with freshwater aquariums as a young child.
His first marine aquarium was in 1956. At an early age he was a member of the Jamaica Aquarium Society and became the first person in the United States to own an undergravel filter.
In fact, he actually maintained at least one aquarium for the majority of my years in this hobby and have collected specimens for past aquariums from the South China Sea to the Caribbean.
Bob has written for Marine Fish Monthly for over fourteen years and may have had the world's longest running marine column as I had written 178 straight monthly articles for that publication without ever missing one month!
Unfortunately, that magazine recently ceased publication due to the editor’s health. Bob currently writes for Freshwater And Marine Aquariums and Tropical Fish Hobbyist in the US, and Practical Fishkeeping and Marine World in the UK.
About five years ago, Bob retired from a subsidiary of General Motors where he was the Environmental Contracting Manager. Besides numerous writing endeavors Bob has an aquarium, and environmental consulting businesses. I've also provided question and answer sessions at new "Store Openings," spoken to aquarium societies worldwide, and even appeared in a TV hobby show for an ABC station in my home town of Tucson, Arizona.
Has also provided many question and answer sessions for local school children and other interested aquarists at his home or in their schools.
Bob has never been an employee of any aquarium product company and has no allegiance to any aquarium product company. He considers himself a truly independent voice with nothing to gain but satisfaction in helping my fellow aquarists. His web site:http://www.saltcorner.com/
Club Business
New membership cards are available.
If you want one please go to your profile on the MARS website and check the “Membership Card†requested check box.
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