Los Banos Rotary Club History
Unusual Program At Rotary

An unusual and interesting program featuring fluorescent and phosphorescent materials was presented at the Rotary Club luncheon Tuesday noon by Tom Goff, Red Cross Field Director at Castle Field, Merced. By means of a special ultra-violet light. Goff showed numerous samples of rock that under normal light appeared only as the usual drab looking granite from any Sierra region, but which under the ultra-violet light glistened with the many colors brought out by the special lamps.

He also showed numerous paintings, mostly of flowers, that he had personally painted, using fluorescent paint materials. Goff said that the light had high commercial value in its ability to quickly determine mineral bearing ore, and had been widely used by the government through the war years in the frantic search for war-essential materials.

A motion picture film, based on the last days of the war and the victory celebrations, was shown afterward.

September 3, 1946

 

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