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Echoes from the Chair |
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By Dan Richter 6/24/95 |
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People have had trouble finding chairs to sit on at our last two general meetings. We have new members and subscribers showing up as well as a good turnout from the ongoing membership. The Angeles Chapter fiasco over whether to charge for the Schedule of Activities has fueled passions that has brought new life to the Chapter as well as debate to our meetings. As your chair I’m glad to see all this discussion and healthy dissent. I must say that I find troubling that only one side of this debate is appearing in the Southern Sierran. The SPS in the May general meeting voted to support an ad in the Southern Sierran supporting a free Angeles Chapter Schedule of Activities. ExComm in its wisdom, or lack of it, tabled a motion to allow it to appear and thereby censored it at least till the fall. The Southern Sierran appeared purged of all dissent with a number of articles supporting the decision to charge for the schedule. As a result of the controversy the July/October schedule has gone out without charge. |
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Our Special Projects Coordinator Anne Kramer represented the SPS at special session of the Chapter Finance Committee on May 24th and presented us with a detailed and very well received report on the proceedings at which many ideas to mitigate the Chapter’s financial problems were presented. |
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On another note I want to thank Bonnie Sharpe and the ExComm for voting to provide the SPS up to $900 this year to cover our leaders insurance costs on restricted trips. ExComm made it clear that they not only supported the work that our leaders and the SPS does in leading restricted trips, but that they considered it so important that even in this time of financial austerity they should give us more than we asked for. Bonnie felt it should be more than just a "Band-Aid" for this year and that they expect us to ask them for help each year as the need arises. On top of this our thanks must also go to Carleton Shay and the HPS management committee who at the suggestion of Southern Courtney also gave us $200 towards leader insurance costs. |
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I hope the SPS will not ever have to ask its leaders to pay to lead a restricted trip. |
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The first joint meeting of the SPS, HPS and DPS is being put together by Barbara Tidball and will be held in January 10, of 1996. We hope this will become an annual event and we are also talking with the DPS and the HPS to put together some joint meetings of the Management Committees to discuss issues we have in common. The General Meeting will be run by all three chairs and will feature a multi-media slide presentation by Jim and Sylvia Gallagher, probably on the San Bernadino Mountains. Barbara and Harry Freimanis will handle the publicity. |
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We also climb mountains too. While many of our spring trips have been canceled due to the great amounts of snow still in the Sierra, many are going and we have a great schedule that will be in full swing by the time you read this. Tina Stough reports that Vi Grasso’s mountain register records were turned over to her by probate. Please remember to send Tina your register reports. I look forward to seeing you on the peaks. Climb on! |
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© Copyright 1994-2001 Dan Richter |
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