DESERT PEAKS SECTION NEWSLETTER #47 ANGELES CHAPTER - SIERRA CLUB
				February 1, 1957
Dear Desert Peaker: Here I am, six years after my first stint, starting out another news squib to the nicest captive audience an amateur editor could ask for. You see, the Section voted the following slate of officers for 1957 at its annual meeting at Club Headquarters on December 7, 1956:    Chairman (and Neusletter Editor) - Bob Bear    Chairman of Vice (and Desert Mountains Committee) - Dick Kenyon    Secretry-Treasurer - Trudie Hunt    Management Committee Member-at-Large - Bill Henderson I'm looking, forward to my second term as your Chairman with no less relish than the first. In this job I'm sure to be up to my ears in my favorvorite Club Activity, duty-bound to get out on a lot of Section trips! At the December 7, 1956, ANNUAL MEETING, best attended in several years, the following business items came up: 1. Forest Service has stymied progress on the proposed Wilderness area in the White Mountains by losing the file submitted by the Sierra Club and after its replacement, by postponing further consideration until issuance of a new topographic map, due this spring. 2. Irene Charnock reported little progress on the Section's cherished Guide to the Desert Peaks of the Southwest during l956. It was decided that a revised ededition was very worthwhile and that a committee should be set up to accomplish the purpose in 1957. The original 1950 edition of the Guide is exhausted. 3. Dorothy Cutler, as Secretary-Treasurer, announced a flourishing treasury and nine new Section members an 1956. Our new Secretary-Treasurer, Trudie Hunt, hopes to have a revised DPS Roster ready to distribute with the next Newsletter. 4. The meeting voted to add the following worthy peaks to our DPS qualifying list:    Wheeler Peak, 13,063', Snake Range, Nevada    Inyo Peak, 11,107', Inyo Range (2 mi. north of Mt. Keynote)    Clark Mt., 7,900', Clark Range (near Baker, California) I like to think we Desert Peakers are pointing the way to further recognition of Wheeler Peek in the form of early creation of the Great Basin Range National Park, wherein it is located, by our fellow member, Weldon Heald. We also voted to drop Coso and Maturango Peaks from the qualifying list of Desert Peaks, because of being inside the restricted China Lake Naval Ordinance Training Station. We hope to have a revised list of qualifying peaks shortly, possibly herewith.

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