The Audubon Societies 



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Bird-Work and the Children 



The organization of Junior Audubon 

 Classes, chiefly in the public schools of 

 the country, has been going forward of late 

 on an increased scale. During the autumn 

 months, and up to the first day of January, 

 1Q20, there were enrolled something over 

 88,000 Junior Audubon members, which is 

 a larger number than during the same 

 period of any previous year. There have 

 also been an unusually large number of 

 notices in the local papers throughout the 

 country, dealing with the activities of 

 these Junior Classes. The following letter 

 written by Oran Edison, a Junior Member, 

 was recently published in the San Fran- 

 cisco Bulletin: 



"The Audubon Club is, as you probably 

 know, a society for the protection of the 

 song-birds and useful Hawks and Owls of 

 our state. Because we study birds, that is 

 no sign we study their long Latin names 

 that have been wished onto them. Our 

 Club goes on many hikes to Lake Merced, 

 to hidden nooks and crannies in Golden 

 Gate Park, to Black Hills, and at present 

 a hike to Bay Farm Island is being dis- 

 cussed. These hikes are anything but tame 

 and prosy affairs; we go out for a good 

 time and there are no nonsensical restric- 

 tions. Our lunch is cooked over a camp- 

 fire; we wear the oldest clothes we have, so 

 that we can climb trees, cliffs and fall into 

 the water and mud with a perfectly clear 

 conscience. Our mothers do not need to 

 worry about us, as there is always a 

 teacher along who is at the head of the 

 club, and maybe another grown person 

 will come as a guest." 



Here is another by a school-girl, Made- 

 line Kurkowski, published in the Richfield 

 Springs (N. Y.) Mercury: 



"The Seventh Grade Audubon Society 

 held a party in the Assembly Hall on 

 Monday afternoon, from 4 until 6. All 

 members of the Society were present, to- 

 gether with the following guests: Professor 

 and Mrs. Pratt, Miss Jordan, Miss Brady 

 and Miss O'Mara. The program consisted 

 of recitations and piano and Victrola so- 

 los, after which refreshments were served. 



"Another Audubon Club was organized 

 in the Sixth Grade on Monday afternoon 

 and the following officers were elected: 

 President, Milton Lonnebacker; Vice- 

 President, Maria Wallis; Secretary, YVin- 



throp Moore; Treasurer, Kenneth Watson. 

 The reason of the Club is to be kind to all 

 birds. You can save many birds by putting 

 food in old houses or on window-ledges; 

 also to see that they are not hurt by their 

 enemies. Besides that the Club will have 

 ;i few social gatherings." 



New Life Members Enrolled from 

 October 20, 1919, to January 1, 1920 



Allen, Frederic Brevoort 



Archer, George T. 



Barrell, Finley 



Bicknell, E. P. 



Biddle, William C. 



Book, C. H. 



Butler, Charles Stewart 



Carey, Miss Mary deP. 



Cary, E. F. 



Chubb, Percy 



Collins, Henry Hill, 3d. 



Corbett, Merritt J. 



Cottier, Miss M. Elizabeth 



Danforth, Mrs. G. H. 



Dommerich, L. W. 



Durand, William C. 



Enos, Miss Louisa I. 



Frost, Mrs. Charles S. 



Goethals, George W. 



Guggenheim, S. R. 



Harriman, Mrs. Edward Henry 



Hornblower, Ralph 



Hudson, C. Alan, Jr. 



Jackson, Miss Fannie A. 



Keep, Mrs. F. A. 



Lloyd, Horatio G. 



Malone, Mrs. L. H. 



Marshall, Edwin J. 



Matthies, G. E. 



Megeath, S. A. 



Mellon, A. W. 



Mullen, Miss Marie Rose 



Xiles, F. C. 



Pike, Mrs. E. S. 



Pitcairn, Miss Mildred Glenn 



Purdy, Charles R. 



Quinlan, Miss Florence E. 



Rockefeller, John D., Jr. 



Rockefeller, Mrs. John D., Jr. 



Ruddock, Albert B. 



Scrymser, Mrs. James A. 



Shewan, James 



Silsbee, Mrs. George S. 



Slocum, J. Jermain 



Smith, W. Hinckle 



Spong, Mrs. J. J. R. 



Stursberg, Julius A. 



Thompson, William Boyce 



Yanderbilt, W. K. 



Wentz, D. B. 



Wood, Robert Matheson 



