American Alpine Club Mountaineering Fellowship Fund. Five young climbers were given grants in 1974 from the Mountaineering Fellowship Fund. John Lyon, James O’Neill and Rafael Gurvis were supported in their climbing in the Arrigetch Peaks of the Brooks Range, Alaska and Thomas E. Alexander was given his grant to participate in a Mazama expedition to the northwest ridge of Mount Deborah, Alaska. The Boyd N. Everett Mountaineering Fellowship Grant went to Richard Ridgeway for his attempt on the east ridge of Huantsán in the Cordillera Blanca, Peru.

Samuel C. Silverstein, M.D.