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March 1, 1950
Los
Angeles, California |
Dear Member:
The following is
your chairman's report to the membership of the Desert Peaks Section covering
activities to date. Since the Desert Peaks Section is becoming a large and
active group in the Sierra Club, and yet since it is difficult to have regular
meetings which will bring all its membership together coincidentally, these
monthly news letters shall attempt to keep all members up to date on section
activities, past, present, and future. Also the chairman has to do
something!
Bob Bear will head the mountaineering committee this
year. He and his committee have the most important job in our section - that of
planning trips and writing the "Climbers Guide to Peaks of the South West".
This latter project is still in its infancy, and this year's committee will set
up much of the criteria to be followed in years to come. Bob may ask many of us
from time to time for information revelant to the guide. I wish to urge that
all of you be as prompt as possible in your replies since only in this way will
the project be able to progress.
On Friday evening, February 17, the
Management Committee (for definition refer to your newly acquired by-laws) held
their first meeting of the year, and four points were discussed. |
| 1. |
Need for
Committees: The four committees in existence last year were discussed in
reference to their actual need. The plan finally adopted were that if there was
no real need for a committee at present then that committee would be deleted.
As jobs for a new committee arise, those committees can be formed. The
following action was taken:
| (a) |
Mountaineering Committee: This committee certainly has a purpose, and so
will be continued. |
| (b) |
Committee for collection of material for Scrapbook: This committee is doing
a fine job under chairman, Alden Hilton, thus will continue. |
| (c) |
Agent for Sierra Club Bulletin: It was decided here
that an agent was not particularly needed. It is true we need articles for the
Bulletin, but for the present that will be left in the hands of the
Mountaineering Committee, since one of their programs is to have published each
year in the Bulletin information about some of the outstanding areas explored
during the year. Anyone else wishing to write articles about the Desert Peaks
for the bulletin have our most sincere felicitations. They may send their
article direct to the bulletin (the Southern Chapter representative of the
Bulletin is Joan Clark) or through the mountaineering Committee or through the
chairman, as they, please. |
| (d) |
Publicity Committee: The section can use a great deal
of publicity in magazines, papers, etc., but it was decided that we would leave
articles, pictures, and etc. up to those members who are so inspired, since no
real program for a committee could be foreseen. Thus the Management Committee
urges those members who like to write articles to make them selves known, since
the Southern Sierran and Sierra Club Bulletin are continuously in need of good
articles. For articles of unusua1 appeal to the general public, it may be
possible to have them published in magazines or papers of wide
circulation. |
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| 2. |
The second
point brought before the Management Committee was that of programs for Friday
night dinners.
For several years now we have had one program a year, but the
schedule Chairman has given us the opportunity of having a program each four
months. The Committee thought this was a good idea, and suggested one program
for the next schedule which is being looked into. But we will need good ideas
for future dates, so if you think of any please write your chairman.
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| 3. |
The third,
point was that of the naming of the highest points in some ranges which have no
name on present maps.
The committee felt this was a good idea, and turned it
over to the Mountaineering Committee. |
| 4. |
The fourth
and last point was whether White Mountain in the White Mountain Range should be
protected by a move to make it a State Park or National Monument.
On this,
there was little or no opinion. It was decided to think about it for awhile.
You might all think about it. But if nothing is done, there may be roads all
over the top of it, ruining its scenic value for our life time. |
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