The State - News from June 8, 1987

C. Freeman Allen was elected the first chairman of the new statewide Sierra Club volunteer organization, Sierra Club California. Allen, 58, is chairman of the Advisory Council to the South Coast Air Quality Management District and a member of the chemistry faculty at Pomona College. Allen was chosen from among four candidates by 95 delegates attending the group’s first convention, meeting near San Luis Obispo. Also elected were nine members of the group’s 11-member board of directors. Allen and a state conservation chairman also sit on the board. Sierra Club California was organized to give the state’s 13 independent local Sierra Club chapters a bigger voice in statewide politics and within the nationwide Sierra Club.