Marion Randall Parsons - Artist Info

About Marion Randall Parsons

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    The following is from the Sierra Club website: www.sierraclub.org/history/key_figures/marion.asp

    Key Figures in Sierra Club History
    Marion Randall Parsons (1878 - 1953)

    "The Sierra Club has great and noble purposes, for which we honor it, but besides these its name has come to mean an ideal to us. It means comradeship and chivalry, simplicity and joyousness, and the care-free life of the open."
    -- Marion Randall Parsons

    In 1902, Marion Randall Parsons was a young woman, who moved from Piedmont with her family to Berkeley. There she met Wanda Muir, age 21, which led to an involvement in the Sierra Club which was to last to the end of her life.

    Marion infused her Sierra Club activities with a remarkable ...

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