Club Proceedings
1958. —The week-end Meets were: January 31st-February 2nd, Hill Inn, Chapel-le-Dale; February 21st-23rd, Low Hall Garth; March I4th-i6th, Ingleby Cross; April 4th, Easter, Ben Nevis; May 2nd-4th, Harden, Austwick; May 24th-3ist,Coruisk, Isle of Skye; June 20th-22nd, ‘ Helyg ‘ Hut, Climbers Club, N. Wales; July i8th-2oth, Harden, Austwick; August 1st-4th, Bank Holiday, Low Hall Garth; July 18th-20th, The Lowstern Hut; September 26th-28th, Robertson Lamb Hut, Joint Meet with the Wayfarers’ and Rucksack Clubs; October 17th-19th, Bainbridge; December 5th-7th, Cray, Buckden. The average attendance at Meets throughout the year was 22. The “Club Membership in 1958 was 179, an increase of 4 over the previous year. The death took place during the year of our Honorary Member Geoffrey Winthrop Young.
The Annual General Meeting was held at the Hotel Majestic, Harrogate, on the 15th November, 1958. The following Officers for 1958/59 were elected: President, JOHN GODLEY; Vice-Presidents, J. A. HOLMES and J. E. CULLINGWORTH; Hon. Treasurer, S. MARSDEN; Hon. Secretary, E. C. DOWNHAM; Hon. Asst. Secretary, J. HEMINGWAY; Hon. Librarian, J. G. BROOK; Hon. Editor, H. G. WATTS; Hon. Asst. Editor, R. B. WHARLDALL; Hon. Hut Secretaries, Low Hall Garth, J. D. DRISCOLL, Lowstern, P. R. HARRIS; Hon Hut Wardens, Low Hall Garth, A. TALLON, Lowstern, J. LOVETT; Committee, J. A. DOSSOR, W. P. B. STONEHOUSE, F. S. BOOTH, A. J. REYNOLDS, B. E. NICHOLSON, F. D. SMITH.
At the 45th Annual Dinner which followed at The Hotel Majestic, S. Marsden was in the chair and the principal guest was C. W. Brasher. Kindred Clubs were represented by Dr. Graham Macphee, Alpine Club; Raymond Shaw, Wayfarers’ Club; Edward Moss, President of the Rucksack Club; B. Firth, Gritstone Club; A. H. Robinson, Midland Association of Mountaineers; J. R. Nield, President of the Craven Pothole Club; A. Shepherd, Bradford Pothole Club; D. J. Clarke, Leeds University Mountaineering Club; and R. Gowing, Oxford University Mountaineering Club. There was an attendance at the Dinner of 161.
The After Dinner Meet on the Sunday of the Dinner week-end saw the official opening of the Club’s new Hut—’ Lowstern’ at Clapham by E. E. Roberts.
1959. —The week-end Meets were: January 30th-February ist, Hill Inn, Chapel-le-Dale; February 20th-22nd, Low Hall Garth; Easter, March 28th; The Cairngorm Club Hut, Muir of Inverey; April 24th-26th, Lowstern Hut; Whitsuntide, 16th-23rd May, Two Meets—An Irish Potholing Meet based near Enniskillen and a Scottish Chmbing Meet in Wester Ross; June 19th-21st, ‘ Helyg,’ Climbers’ Club Hut, North Wales; July 17th-19th The Lowstern Hut and Joint Meet with the Gritstone Club; August ist, Bank Holiday weekend, Low Hall Garth; August 28th-30th, Teesdale; September 25th-27th, Robertson Lamb Hut, Joint Meet with the Wayfarers’ and Rucksack Clubs; December 11th-13th, Cray, Buckden; New Year week-end Meet, Low Hall Garth.
The average attendance at Meets throughout the year rose to 25; the Membership of the Club remained the same, 179. The deaths were recorded in 1959 of A. W. Sykes and of W. B. Odgers, and early in 1960 of Dr. Alex Rule, Matthew Botterill and E. E. Roberts.
The Annual General Meeting, the 67th, was held at The Hotel Majestic, on 21st November, 1959. The following officers were elected for 1959-60: President: J. GODLEY; Vice-President, J. E. CULLINGWORTH and J. LOVETT; Hon. Treasurer, S. MARSDEN; Hon. Secretary, E. C. DOWNHAM; Hon. Asst. Secretary, J. HEMINGWAY; Hon. Librarian, J. G. BROOK; Hon. Editor, H. G. WATTS; Hon. Asst. Editor, R. B. WHARLDALL (R. B. WHARLDALL resigned shortly after the A.G.M. and H. L. STEMBRIDGE was appointed in his place). Hon. Hut Secretaries, Low Hall Garth, F. D. SMITH and for Lowstern, P. R. HARRIS; Hon. Hut Wardens, Low Hall Garth, J. D. DRISCOLL and for Lowstern, J. LOVETT; Committee, A. J. REYNOLDS, W. P. B. STONEHOUSE, B. E. NICHOLSON, F.D.SMITH, T.W.SALMON and R. J. ALDRIDGE. Two Honorary Life Members were elected by general acclamation, DAVIS BURROW and FRED S. BOOTH.
For the 46th Annual Dinner which followed at The Hotel Majestic, the Club reverted to dressing for Dinner, and the principal guest was Alf. Gregory with the President, John Godley in the Chair. Kindred Clubs were represented with I. G. McNaught-Davies, Alpine Club; H. Stirling, Scottish Mountaineering Club; C. Topping, Rucksack Club; F. N. Walker, Wayfarers’ Club; A. B. Hargreaves, Vice-President of The Climbers’ Club; H. P. Spilsbury, President of The Fell and Rock Climbing Club; C. Smith, The Gritstone Club; P. L. Tyas, President of The Craven Pothole Club; D. N. Bailey, The Yorkshire Mountaineering Club; There was an attendance at the Dinner of 146. The After Dinner Meet on the Sunday was at Ramsgill.
New Members Since Journal No. 29
1958
| Piercy, Henry | 2, Conifer Grove, Billingham, Co. Durham |
| Short, John | 31, Parliament Street, Stockton-on-Tees, Durham |
| Smith, Stephen Hattersley | Pool Hall, PooL-in-Wharfedale, Yorks. |
| Varney, John Arthur | 2, Scotton Moor, Knaresborough, Yorks. |
1959
| Baldwin, Geoffrey Leonard | 14, Hawthorn Avenue, Timperley, Cheshire. |
| Barker, Dennis Thornton | 200, Warwick Road, Carlisle, Cumberland |
| Bates, Geoffrey Booth | Station Lane, Birkenshaw, Bradford, Yorks. |
| Carr, Ian | c/o J. Sheperdson, The Hollins, Grosmont, Whitby, Yorks. |
| Selby, John Michael | 22, St. Philips Avenue, Middleton, Leeds, 10. |
| Simpson, James David | 2, Trenance Drive, Shipley, Yorks. |
1960
| Banme, Louis C. | Flat 4, 2, Cleveland Gardens, London, W.C. 2 |
| Bell, Peter Alexander | 192, Cromwell Road, London, S.W.5 |
Resignations
1958
D. G. Liversedge, E. W. Green, W. Kelsey, W. S. Norris
1959
J. A. T. Stock, J. Umpleby, P. Thornton, A. G. Smythe, H. E. Kern