I.A.S, Newsletter, November 1965 ~ 3 - 
The Board expressed a need for some definite assignments to be made in obtain- 
ing reports on Campouts and Annual Meetings. (Perhaps local arrangement committees 
will designate skilled reporters to handle this, so all members can then read in 
the BULLETIN what happens at these fine meetings, As it is now, assignments on 
write-ups are made at the last minute and foisted on people already heavily involved 
in I.A.5, affairs, Annual Meeting Committee at Peoria--please take note} -Ed. 
Desire was shown also for photographic coverage of the meetings, 
In January the Board will consider plans for the Education Committee and in 
March for the Finance Committee, 



Members of I.A.S. are encouraged to write in suggestions ideas, 
resolutions, and announcements --send these to your nearest 
| Board member requesting your expression be brought to the 
attention of the Board at its next monthly meeting. If you have 
| any ideas you believe worthwhile for the Education and Finance 
Committees, submit them now for consideration in January and 
March, 



ANOTHER ROUND OF TREE-CUTTING 
The following "letter to the editor" appeared in the Chicago Daily News for 
Oct. 28, 1965: 
An educational institution, Northern Illinois University at DeKalb, 
plans to destroy the six-acre Charles Montgomery Arboretum in that 
city by using it as a building site, 
The area has been used for over 40 years as an outdoor classroom. 
It is used as a collecting and study area by the faculty. Local 
Schools use the area for field trips. It contains trees up to 
190 years of age; 78 species of birds have been found there; 10 
species of shrubs; 9 species of moss; scores of molds and numerous 
wild flowers, 
Land has been purchased and will be purchased in coming years for 
the proper expansion of the university. We submit that an educational 
institution has a moral obligation to protect and preserve these kinds 
of nature areas, 
Citizens who are aghast at this kind of inept planning may well wish 
to write Paul Stone, chairman of the Illimis Board of Governors of 
State Colleges and Universities, Sullivan, Ill., and to Gov. Kerner 
in Springfield, 
Raymond Mostek, President 
Illinois Audubon Society, Chicago 
The effort to save the Montgomery Arboretum has cost the Illimwis Audubon 
Society almost $100.00 in postage, telegrams, long-distance phone calls, 
printing, etc, The fight will not be won unless thousands of letters of protests 
reach Gov. Otto Kerner, and Mr. Paul Stone, at Sullivan, Ill, That day has passed 
when a mere "letter from the corresponding secretary" could help stop a bulldozer. 
You also have a stake in this problem of preservation of open land, After all, 
it's your country. 
--RM 

