Desert Peaks Section Angeles Chapter Sierra Club

Weldon Heald (1901-1967) Active in the DPS: 1951-1959 Local Hikes Angeles Chapter Weldon Heald Conservation Award (1962); As Chair of both the national and chapter conservation committees after WWII Heald played a pivotal role in the club's evolving commitment to aggressive conservation. He was also one of the country's first professional conservation writers. Heald originated the Hundred Peaks Game becoming the first of many who have since attained emblems status in the popular mountaineering section. The Angeles Chapter's highest conservation award is named in his honor. Heald cooks up breakfast on the Arizona Desert in the late 1940s.
	Jack Bascom shaking hands with Weldon Heald (right) on occasion of Heald's 100th peak. Summit of Grouse Mountain 1946 is the Hundred Peaks Section's most famous photograph.

Phyllis Heald and Weldon Heald on their Flying-H Arizona ranch. Slide stamped with processing date of March 1974 but Weldon Heald was deceased long before then. Original most likely dates from early 1960s. --Rorbert B. Cates

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1945	Chairman - Conservation and Forestry Committee
1946	Chairman - Chapter Library Committee
1946	Chairman - Conservation and Forestry Committee
1946	Member - Sierra Club Board of Directors
1947	Chairman - Conservation and Forestry Committee
1947	Member - Publicity Committee
1948	Member - Newspaper and Publicity Committee
1948	Member - Sierra Club Board of Directors
1949	Member - Sierra Club Board of Directors
1951	Joined the Desert Peaks Section
1955	Member - Hundred Peaks Section
1959	Last year active in the Desert Peaks Section
1962	Angeles Chapter Weldon Heald Conservation Award