Sierra Club Desert Peaks Section Sierra Club
Graser Marie (Smith)
Active in the DPS: 1950-1963
DPS Emblem #48

Active inSongsters (40 Songfests). Marie Graser was active with the Orange County Group back about 1960-62 & 63 She and Bob Greenawalt were good friends but not through Orange Co. Sierra Club.
"An old friend of Greenawalts I knew her back in 1946 when she was a girl scout. She was a big name in the Sierra Songsters which I too belonged to. SClubbers who met once a month and sang campfire and outdoor songs. She moved to Hawaii." -Ron Jones

When Marie married she moved to Huntington Beach. She was instrumental in the founding of the Orange County Regional Group.
From the Rosemarie and Lloyd Balsam Collection

Identified for sure Bernice Heninger (in back) The two women in plaid shirts are the Smith sisters. Unsure which is which. -Bob Cates

:  Photo by Niles Werner
Louise & Niles Werner Collection
Sierra Club-Angeles Chapter Archives

Margie Henderson and Marie
(Smith) Graser (right) at natural arch
on slope of Tin Mountain
November 28 1954


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1950 Joined the Desert Peaks Section
1950 Member - Schedule Committee
1950 Song Leader - Sierra Club Songsters
1951 Treasurer - Desert Peaks Section
1951 Song Leader - Sierra Club Songsters
1951 Associate Editor - Southern Sierran
1952 Song Leader - Sierra Club Songsters
1953 DPS Emblem on New York Butte
1953 Member - Schedule Committee
1953 Song Leader - Sierra Club Songsters
1954 Member - Schedule Committee
1954 Song Leader - Sierra Club Songsters
1955 Member - Schedule Committee
1955 Song Leader - Sierra Club Songsters
1956 Member - Sierra Club Songsters
1958 Song Leader - Sierra Club Songsters
1959 Song Leader - Sierra Club Songsters
1960 Member - Songster Section
1962 Secretary - Orange County Group
1963 Executive Committee Member - Orange County Group
1963 Last year active in the Desert Peaks Section
1964 Executive Committee Member - Orange County Group
1965 Chairman - Songster Section
1966 Chairman - Songster Section
1967 Historian - Songster Section
1969 Historian - Songster Section

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