The Mountains of Oregon Part 6

AMENDMENTS.

This Const.i.tution may be amended by a two-thirds vote of members present: _Provided_, That one month's notice has been given in writing at a regular meeting, and a copy of said notice posted in the Club room for one month.

GAME PROTECTIVE DEPARTMENT.

[Not Organized.]

PHOTOGRAPHIC DEPARTMENT.

OFFICERS.

_President_, W. W. BRETHERTON

_Vice President_, H. GOLDSMITH

_Secretary and Treasurer_, E. E. NORTON

CONSt.i.tUTION.

ARTICLE I.

NAME.

This a.s.sociation shall be known as the PHOTOGRAPHIC DEPARTMENT OF THE OREGON ALPINE CLUB.

ARTICLE II.

OBJECT.

Its object shall be to encourage and promote practical Photography, and to invite and stimulate discussion and investigation of all that pertains to Photographic science and art.

ARTICLE III.

MEMBERSHIP.

The Department shall be composed of such members of the Oregon Alpine Club who practice Photography as amateurs, as shall be elected there and shall be known as active members, and such Honorary and a.s.sociate members as shall be elected by the Department from the members of the Oregon Alpine Club.

Candidates for election may be proposed for election at one meeting, and voted on at the same meeting. All applications for membership shall be voted on by ballot, and it shall require two-thirds of all votes cast to elect any member.

All professional Photographers who are members of the Oregon Alpine Club shall be eligible as a.s.sociate members, and shall enjoy all the privileges of the Department except the right of vote or hold office.

ARTICLE IV.

OFFICERS.

The officers of the Department shall be a President, Vice-President, one or more, a Secretary, and a Treasurer; the offices of Secretary and Treasurer being held by one member if so desired by the Department.

ARTICLE V.

QUORUM.

The attendance of two officers and three or more members shall be necessary to const.i.tute a quorum for the transaction of business, but the const.i.tution or by-laws shall not be changed except at a meeting called for that purpose by the Secretary and by a vote of two-thirds of all votes cast.

ARTICLE VI.

ANNUAL MEETING.

The Annual Meeting of the Department shall be held on the third Friday of January in each year, for the election of officers and such other business as may come before the meeting.

ARTICLE VII.

MONTHLY MEETINGS.

The monthly meeting of the Department shall be held on the third Friday of each month.

ARTICLE VIII.

DUES.

The dues of the Department shall be $3.00 per year, payable to the treasurer of the Department.

PRESIDENTS OF THE OREGON ALPINE CLUB.

HENRY WINSLOW CORBETT, the first president of the Oregon Alpine Club was elected immediately after its organization and served until the close of 1888. He was born at Westborough, Ma.s.s., February 18th, 1827, and came to Oregon, via Cape Horn, with a stock of general merchandise, arriving at Portland, March 4th, 1851. In 1866, he was elected U. S. Senator and served six years with credit to himself and honor to his State. He is one of the wealthiest and most influential men in Oregon. The following in reference to him is taken from the History of Portland:

"In person, Mr. Corbett is six feet high, straight and spare in figure, but symmetrically formed. Cautious, cool-headed and decided, he is not an inviting mark for the wiles of the schemer or impostor, but he is thoroughly approachable, respectful and considerate toward those whom he meets, and utterly lacking either in the arrogance of small greatness, or in the still more objectionable truckling and a.s.sumed _bonhommie_ of the small politician. He is thoroughly dignified, and yet his manners are so una.s.sumingly easy that one hardly notices them. Indeed he is a fine type of that well approved manhood in which courtesy, kindness, dignity, culture, honor and charity are most happily blended. To these excellences can be added unswerving integrity, honesty of purpose, purity of thought and act, and those crowning virtues born of an ever present and controlling moral sentiment. His career shows what can be accomplished by steady and quiet energy, directed by sound judgment and high purpose. His name has been a.s.sociated with numberless successful enterprises, but not one failure, and he is justly ent.i.tled to a foremost place among those who have created, established and maintained the commercial and industrial supremacy of Portland."