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as the fund will justify, to be erected on the Soda Springs prop- 

 erty in the Tuolumne Meadows, which is now controlled by the 

 Club. This will be a single room containing a large fireplace 

 and will serve as a permanent Club headquarters and meeting 

 place in that region. In this manner will Mr. Parson's useful- 

 ness and devotion to the Club be suitably perpetuated. 



It will interest Club members to learn that his wife, Marion 

 Randall Parsons, has been elected a Director of the Club by 

 the remaining members of the Board. Her devotion to the 

 interests of the Club has been such that it seems particularly 

 appropriate that she should have been selected to aid in carry- 

 ing forward the work which meant so much to Mr. Parsons. 



In Memoriam Resolutions Adopted by the Directors 

 Whereas, the Sierra Club and the Board of Directors have sus- 

 tained an irreparable loss in the untimely death of Director Edward 

 Taylor Parsons ; be it resolved, 



I. That we record our deep sense of personal loss over the de- 

 parture of one who rarely ever was absent from the deliberations of 

 this body, and whose place has now been made vacant by an in- 

 scrutable Providence; 



II. That we bear in grateful remembrance his nobility of char- 

 acter, the sanity and wisdom of his counsel, his unfailing devotion to 

 the interests of the Club, his cheerful response to every special emerg- 

 ency, as well as his steadfast and brotherly friendship ; 



III. That we recognize particularly the deep interest and devotion 

 which he brought to the task of preserving the Hetch-Hetchy Valley 

 from the hands of the spoiler, a task which made heavy drafts upon 

 his strength and vitality; 



IV. That we herewith express our sense of the great and lasting 

 value of his years of service on the Directorate of the Sierra Club, 

 and in the personnel of its important committees ; 



V. That these resolutions be spread upon the minutes of the 

 Directors' meetings, be published in the Sierra Club Bulletin, and 

 a copy be forwarded to his widow. 



