Appalachian Mountain Club. Club members climbed in almost all mountain ranges of the world during the year 1961 with particular emphasis, as always, in the mountains of North America.

The Club’s membership rose to new levels with an increase of several hundred over 1960. Honorary memberships were extended to Dr. Arthur Stanley Pease, to Kenneth A. Henderson and to Fritz Wiessner.

The Club’s program of activities contained nothing new or unusual, but many of the previously accepted levels of activity were extended by the much greater interest shown in outdoor recreation both by our members and the public at large. In particular our technical climbing activities reached a new high, severely taxing the resources of the committee charged with this function. This is a sign and a strain that we have found both pleasant and challenging. Most notable among the challenges facing the AMC in our field of responsibility appears to be the greatly increasing demand for use of the Club’s trails, shelters and huts in the mountain areas of New England. We look forward to meeting this growing need in the years to come.

William L. Putnam, Corresponding Secretary