Club Proceedings
1960 — The week-end meets were: January 29th—31st, Hill Inn, Chapel-le-Dale; February 19th—21st, Low Hall Garth; March 25th— 27th, The Punch Bowl Hotel, Low Row, Swaledale; Easter, April 15th—18th, Glencoe; May 13th—15th, New Inn, Clapham and Lowstern Hut, Joint Meet with Fell and Rock; Whitsun, June 4th—11th, two official meets, Florence Court, Co. Fermanagh, and Loch Duich, also a climbing meet at L.H.G. and a meet in Skye to help the S.M.C. and Climbers’ Club entertain Soviet climbers. July 1st—3rd, The Long Walk, Tan Hill to Clapham; July 29th—August 2nd, Low Hall Garth; August 26th—28th, Helyg, Climbers’ Club Hut; September 23rd—25th, Robertson Lamb Hut, Joint Meet with Wayfarers and Rucksack Clubs; October 21st—23rd, Lowstern Hut; December 2nd—4th, Lowstern Hut, jointly with Rucksack Club; December 9th—11th, The Bull Hotel, Sedbergh. The average attendance at meets was 21 and the Club Membership was 174.
The 68th Annual General Meeting was held at the Hotel Majestic, Harrogate on the 19th of November, 1960. The following officers of the Club were elected for 1960/61 : President: F. W. STEMBRIDGE; Vice-Presidents: J. LOVETT and W. P. B. STONEHOUSE; 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: A. B. CRAVEN; Hon. Hut Secretaries: Low Hall Garth, F. D. SMITH, Lowstern Hut, P. R. HARRIS; Hon. Hut Wardens: Low Hall Garth, J. D. DRISCOLL, Lowstern, J. LOVETT; Committee: R. J. ALDRIDGE, B. E. NICHOLSON, A. J. REYNOLDS, T. W. SALMON, G. B, SPENCELEY, A. R. CHAPMAN.
The 47th Annual Dinner, which followed, was at the Hotel Majestic. J. H. Emlyn Jones was the principal guest, with the retiring President, John Godley, in the Chair. Kindred Clubs were represented by B. R. Goodfellow, Alpine Club; A. J. Taylor, Wayfarers; E. G. Rees, Rucksack Club; B. Sheard, Gritstone Club; R. Haigh, Midland Association of Mountaineers; H. Sanderson, Craven Pothole Club; and J. C. Ackroyd, Bradford Pothole Club. The attendance at the Dinner was 157. The Meet next day was at Malham.
1961 — The week-end Meets were: January 20th—22nd, Hill Inn; Febraury 10th—12th, Low Hall Garth; March 3rd—5th, Blue Bell Inn, Cleveland; Easter, March 31st—April 4th, The Isle of Arran; April 28th—30th, The Lowstern Hut; Whitsun, May 20th—27th, The Isle of Skye; June 23rd—25th, Brackenclose Hut, Wasdale, Fell and Rock Climbing Club Hut; July 14th—16th, The Lowstern Hut; August 5th—8th, Low Hall Garth; August 25th—27th„ Bewdy Mawr, Nant Peris, Rucksack Club Hut; September 22nd—24th, Robertson Lamb Hut, Joint Meet with Wayfarers and Rucksack Clubs; October 20th— 22nd, Hark to Bounty Inn, Slaidburn; December 8th—10th, The Mortal Man Inn, Troutbeck. The average attendance at meets was 22 and the Club Membership 171. The deaths were recorded during 1961 of H. Armstrong, R. A. Chadwick and R. Green.
The 69th Annual General Meeting was held at the Hotel Majestic, Harrogate on 18th November, 1961. The following Officers were elected for the year 1961/62: President: F. W. STEMBRIDGE; Vice-Presidents: W. P. B. STONEHOUSE and F. WILSON; 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: A. B. CRAVEN; Hon. Hut Secretaries: Low Hall Garth, F. D. SMITH, Lowstern, P. R. HARRIS; Hon. Hut Wardens: Low Hall Garth, J. D. DRISCOLL, Lowstern, J. LOVETT; Committee: B. E. NICHOLSON, T. W. SALMON, G. B. SPENCELEY, A. R. CHAPMAN, E. M. TREGONING, F. WILKINSON.
For the 48th Annual Dinner which followed at the Hotel Majestic, George Lowe was the Principal Guest, with the President, F. W. Stembridge, in the Chair; other Club Guests were Chris Bonington and Don Whillans. Kindred Clubs were represented by E. A. Wrang-ham, Alpine Club; A. Gordon Waklie, Scottish Mountaineering Club; E. C. Bradbury, Rucksack Club; J. Goldsworthy, Wayfarers’ Club; D. Thomas, Climbers’ Club; C E. Arnison, President, Fell and Rock Climbing Club; R. Beard, Gritstone Club; R. L. Crunden, President, Craven Pothole Club; C. Hobday, Oread Mountaineering Club. The attendance at the Dinner was 145. The AEter-Dinner Meet was held at Burnsall.
Two well-attended lectures were held during the year; on 6th May, 1961, in conjunction with the Alpine Club, when Gunther Starker, of Vienna, gave an account of the ascent of Distaghil Sar by the Austrian Expedition of 1960; and on 18th November, 1961, before the Annual General Meeting, by Chris Bonington on the first ascent of the Central Pillar of Freney on Mont Blanc.
New Members Since Journal No. 30
1960
| Hincks, Trevor B. | “Stonewall”, Portinscale, Keswick, Cumberland. |
| Penfold, Douglas P. | 10 Avenue Gardens, Alwoodley, Leeds, 17. |
| Stirling, Hugh | 28 Witch Road, Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland. |
1961
| Lee, George A. | 389 Wakefield Road, Dalton, Huddersfield. |
| Ellis, John R. | Winder House, Skelmanthorpe, Huddersfield. |
| Wrigglesworth, Anthony | 79 Farnley Ring Road, Leeds, 12. |
| Woodman, David M. | “Bankfield”, Allithwaite, Grange-over-Sands, Lancashire. |
1962
| Middleton, John R. | 20 Sparken Hill, Worksop, Notts. |
| Hooper, Jeffrey H. | 1 Kendal Road, Harrogate. |
Resignations
1960
W. Price Smith
1961
P.D. Clarke, W.J. De’Cort, J.G. Knight, C.E. Hartley
Deaths
1961
R.A. Chadwick, H Armstrong, R. Green