Desert Peaks Section Angeles Chapter Sierra Club

Trudie Hunt Active in the DPS: 1957-1968 Active in DPS; HPS; Camping; Cabrillo Tom and Trudie Hunt both transplanted New Englanders led numerous trips for the Desert Peaks Section and the Hundred Peaks Section in the late l950s and early '60s. Their outings were superbly organized the pace was geared to the abilities of the group and most everyone who wanted to reach the summit was caringly shepherded to the top. Equally rewarding was the congeniality and intellectual stimulation provided by Tom and Trudie themselves; an evening campfire with the Hunts was an experience never forgotten. The Hunts were active not only in leading trips for the Angeles Chapter but also in serving on committees. Tom Trudie and son Peter all served on the chapter membership committee. Trudie was Angeles Chapter chairperson in l96l and chairperson of the Desert Peaks Section in l963. Their service to the Chapter ended in l967 when they moved to Guatemala and in keeping with their life-long vow to help the underprivileged set up the Guatemala Friends Student Scholarship/Loan Program. This program has provided higher education for more than four hundred Highland Maya Indian youth in the past twenty-five years. Tom Hunt died at the age of 79 in 1996; Trudie passed away a year later at the age of 80.-John W. Robinson In 1964 Peter worked for six months with the Presedent's Civil Rights Commission doing research on discriminatuion against Spanish speaking peoples and against minorities in federal agricultural projects in the South. He marryied Miss Pat Kelly in Elmira New York.
Right: Tom and Trudie in Guatemala in 1977.
	Left: Tom and Trudie Hunt flank their son Peter on the summit of Death Valley's Pyramid Peak in December of 1957
Trudie and Peter Hunt on Agua Alta March 1957. "
	Trudie Hunt and Tom Hunt backpacking on Mono Pass Trail Sierra Nevada no date.

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1957	Joined the Desert Peaks Section
1957	Member - Chapter Membership Committee
1957	DPS Emblem
1957	Secretary-Treasurer - Desert Peaks Section
1959	Vice Chairman - Desert Peaks Section
1959	Associate Editor - Southern Sierran
1959	SPS Emblem
1960	Member - Chapter Anti Litter Committee
1960	Chairman - Chapter Executive Committee
1960	Banquet Chair - Desert Peaks Section
1961	Member - Chapter Executive Committee
1962	Chairman - Chapter Conservation Committee
1962	Member - Chapter Executive Committee
1962	Banquet Chair - Desert Peaks Section
1962	Secretary/Treasurer - Hundred Peaks Section
1963	Member - Chapter Executive Committee
1963	Chairman - Desert Peaks Section
1965	Member - Library Committee
1966	Member - Library Committee
1967	Member - Library Committee
1968	Last year active in the Desert Peaks Section