Our Vice-chairman Takes a wife: Today, Rosemarie Kent and Lloyd Balsam were married. The ceremony was held in an unusually appropriate location - a small, rustic, and very charming church in Pacific Palisades. A very friendly group of 80 to 90 people attented, the larger portion of whom were friends from the Sierra Club. The double ring ceremoney was by candle light with everyone standing, which presented a beautiful effect. Rosemarie was attended by Margaret Henderson as Matron of honor, and Lloyd was attended by Alan Balsam, his brother, as best man. Eric Kent gave the bride away. The ushers were Roland Kent and Muir Dawson. The bride and groom were an unusually handsome couple. After the ceromony, the reception was held in the gardens of the church, with no less than 150 pictures being taken by 12 cameras. After the reception, a wedding dinner was presented the couple at the Switzerland Restaurant with 26 in attendance. Rosie and Lloyd received a wonderful sendoff with many gifts, thick steaks, a scrumptous cake, and champagne. Mr. and Mrs Balsam will have a new address: 1249 S. Plymouth Blvd.,. YO. 6947. A Note from the Mountaineering Committee; On the subject of naming hitherto nameless desert peaks-through the medium of submitting suggestions to the proper authorities in Washington, your Committee requests the membership to submit for consideration to committee member, Willard Dean your best ideas covering the following worthy peaks scaled by Desert Peakers this year   Providence Range .,.High point elev. 6900'     Cottonwood Range... . Two high points, approx. 4425', one on Pinkham Well quad, other on     Cottonwood Springs quad.     Any other unnamed peak.   On the subject of the Desert Peaks Guide, your Committee wants to enthusiastically thank the many cooperative members of the Section who have responded so promptly and conscientiously to its bold demands for write-ups. Included among the recent contributors are Bill Henderson, Chester Versteeg, Parker Severson, Alden Hilton, Niles Werner, Henry Greenhood, and Harry Sutherland. Lest the members of the Committee be thought to be "passing the buck", let it be known that each has submitted his quota of write-ups. The net worthy result of our combined efforts is a file of some 50 write-ups, covering all 18 qualifying peaks plus some 12 others. (No, that doesn't add up to 50: there are many of our peaks for which we have more than one write-up, for the purposes of checking the highly involved technical info going into our guide'?) With the groundwork for the Desert Peaks Guide so thoroughly laid by previous Committees up to the point of a "Catalog of Ranges and Peaks of California" it appears that the present Committee can hardly squirm out of presenting the Section members with some initial version of the Guide in printed form. Advancing towards this end, the Committee is in the process of agreeing on the final form and organization of the Guide. Most likely the Guide will appear substantially in the form so painstakingly worked up by prior committees. But, a word to the wise - don't hold your breaths waiting for the proofs! After all it's Spring fever season, with summer and vacations fast approaching. In the meantime, let the unwritten policy of the Section be repeated once more: All D.P. trip leaders, of scheduled or outlaw trips, will please provide the Mountaineering Committee with a write-up of each trip led, in order to provide the basic information needed for our ambitious Guide project. Thanking you in advance for your kind cooperation. We remain yours sincerely, Freda, Willard, Tony and Bob. DON'T MISS: Telescope Peak. June 10 and 11. For cool desert air, a beautiful pine forest, views that look more like paintings than the real thing, and abundant subjects for the Ektars, climb Telescope Peak. Also don't forget it is an emblem climb. Mt Dubois and White Mtn. Peak, July 1,2,3,4. The lofty summit plateau of the White Mtn. range is a weird, beautiful region, which has no counterpart in the U.S., and its views are exceptional. There is little doubt but what Mt. Dubuois will become a qualifying Desert Peak. Also remember White Mtn. is an emblem climb. After the Charleston Pk. climb, we congratulate new DPS'ers Florence and Walt Collins and Marie Smith. P.S. Biggest group on any DPS trip seems to be 35 on the Oct. 1947 Cerro Gordo Pk. trip. In the April News letter I told you I'd look it up!
				Bill Henderson, Chairman

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