SIERRA CLUB DESERT PEAKS SECTION NEWSLETTER #28 OCTOBER 28, 1953 |
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Dear Desert Peaker: As it always happens, your news editor waits for several months each time before putting out another newsletter and there's so much to talk about that you all probably fall asleep reading it! First item is the proposed organizational change of the DPS as written up in the previous NL. After considerable discussion at the Sept. 15 DPS management committee meeting it was evident that the committee was in favor of the principal of the proposal but it was agreed to take no affirmative action inasmuch as the proposal contained some rather unwieldy ramifications to which an alternative was not advanced at the time. Your chairman was directed to engage various members of the Club's Board of Directors in conversation on this subject at the annual banquet, Oct 17. This was done and resulting was a rather satisfactory compromise which DPS members and Club officials as a whole will be asked to discus and vote on during the period ending Jan. 1, 1954, as follows: |
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Your Chairman is
rather anxious to settle this proposal-pro or con-during this term of office
which expires Jan, 1, 1954. Accordingly, it is sincerely requested that your
comments be made known to me as soon as possible and in any event before the
annual meeting of the DPS which is to be held in early December. In the
meantime the scheduled DPS outing to 29-palms Mt., in the Joshua Tree Nat.
Mon., (Nov.7-9) will afford a fine opportunity for interested Desert Peakers to
discuss the matter. It is hoped that the Management Committee will be present
on that trip, en-total, so that a semi-official meeting may be held around the
campfire, Sat. I haven't been asked for my opinion on the above, but
nevertheless, I do feel that the proposal as advanced now would A. Provide justifiably greater recognition by the Club of the desert conservation problems, recreational potentialities, and DPS publications. B. Eliminate the illogical organizational ramifications which allow any Club member to also be a member of a Chapter Section. C. In no significant way usurp rights or functions of DPS members now or later to be active.
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