From the Chairman- Abe Siemens
This month marks the beginning of another season of DPS activities and promises to be one of the best ever. John Thornton has organized an outstanding outing schedule for the forthcoming triad, both in diversity and frequency. The old-timers should note the new trips never previously attempted. Dick Sykes has arranged excellent programs for our monthly meetings and I expect to see more attendance as word of these occasions gets around.
I am pleased about the Telescope event, since we were invited by the Death Valley '49ers to help participate in their annual 4-day Veterans Day program.
Also appreciated is our northern-located Steve Smith, who has driven down twice this month from Sacramento in order to help lead DPS outings in the new season.
Did You Know?
Two of our prominent DPS climbers, Miriam Myhre, and Ben Romero, decided it was time to pool their ambitions and were recently married. Congratulations, you two! One less Newsletter for two fine emblem holders!
Ron Jones, another old-time DPS fan who has been living in the San Joaquin Valley for several years, has returned to our environs again and is living in Palos Verdes Peninsula.
Our good friends and avid DPS, SPS, HPS, et al climbers, Tom and Trudie Hunt, have sought higher ground in Central America. A letter received en route during the summer has the following excerpts:
"Our new address is: The American School, Apartado Postal No. 83, Guatemala, Guatemala, C.A.
It all started on the Cajon Pass last September. We had been back-packing for three weeks in the clear, beautiful Sierra Nevada. Now we were looking from the fresh desert air into the acrid, eye-stinging pollution of the LA basin. Then, commuting on the San Bernardino Freeway, bumper to bumper clinched it.
Tom spent evening after evening filling out the forms of overseas organizations who might find assignments for a school librarian and a philosopher-educationist. Soon we were corresponding with schools in Greece and Saudi Arabia. We turned down offers in Nigeria and Jordan. Laos, Japan, and Spain had Openings.
Early in the flurry of sending applications, we were fascinated by the statement of the American School in Guatemala City that they wanted teachers who would not try to transplant American teaching patterns, but who would attempt to improve imaginatively in terms of the Guatemalan culture. An interview with International Schools Services corroborated our suspicion that here