A.A.C., Sierra Nevada Section. The Section continued its active program this year by sponsoring three evening meetings, a late winter dinner meeting at Director Raffi Bedayn’s home, and our now traditional May meeting in Yosemite. As the May meeting coincided with that of the Board of Directors in Yosemite, many of our members as well as other local climbers were able to attend both meetings.

Open discussion at our meetings provided a forum for member input to Directors Bedayn and Rowell. Topics which have generated considerable interest included: the proposed Yosemite National Park Master Plan and its relationship to the new Yosemite concessionaire, Music Corporation of America; criteria for honorary AAC membership; the proposed AAC guide certification program; Nominating Committee procedures; and the general questions relating to the goals and direction of the Club.

Our meetings also included several outstanding slide programs. Gus Benner took us on a trip through the Brooks Range in Alaska. Jim Morrissey described his successful expedition to Dhaulagiri. Galen Rowell led us up a 5000-foot wall on Alaska’s Mount Dickey. Al Steck reported on his experiences at the joint AAC-Russian climbing camp in the Pamirs. Finally, George Lowe exposed a Yosemite audience of more than 225 people to the world of winter climbing in the Tetons, and described his new route on the north face of Mount Alberta in the Canadian Rockies.

We were deeply saddened with the loss of three of our active members this year. Bill Hooker and Glenn Converse were killed by an ice avalanche while attempting an ascent of Huandoy in Peru in July. Bill was chairman of the Section in 1963-1964. Francis Farquhar died at his home in Berkeley at the age of 88. He continued to attend our meetings and take an active interest in Section affairs right up until the time of his death.

David H. Coward, Secretary