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SALUTE TO BEAUTY CERTIFICATE 
Early this year, the Illinois Audubon Society established a certificate award to be presented to notable commercial firms 
and public buildings for a significant contribution towards landscaping of their property and the beautification of the 
neighborhood. Sally Greco and Raymond Mostek co-authored this project and the certificate. 
The first certificate was presented to Mr. A. Ringzelli, President of the Chicago Car Seal Company, 634 N. Western Ave., 
Chicago, 60612. The award was presented because of Mr. Ringzelli’s fine efforts in landscaping his premises. The grounds 
surrounding the company were a delight to see, with many different colored tulips, a lush carpet of grass, and the magical, 
little bird houses. 
Nominations for this award by the |AS Roadside Committee are being accepted at the Regional Office of the Illinois 
Audubon Society. Suggest the name and address of the firm and one or two reasons for the award and we will arrange to do 
the rest. A complete file of awards is kept in the [AS Office to avoid any duplication. These certificates are being distributed 
in Cook, Kane, DuPage, Knox, Peoria counties and the Bloomington, Carbondale areas. 
Among those firms which have already received the award are: 
Galesburg Public Library Itasca Village Hall 
Villa Park Public Library Itasca State Bank 
Lombard Public Library 1 Shell Station 
Cicero Public Library 1 Mobil Station 
First National Bank in Springfield Elmhurst Public Library 
The Illinois Audubon Society received front page publicity in the Villa Park Argus for its award to the local library, a new 
building with fine landscaping. This new award can win many friends for the Audubon movement. 
Raymond Mostek 
Saily Greco 
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CLEAN-UP ON THE ILLINOIS PRAIRIE PATH 
i Almost a dozen persons turned out to help clean up the Illinois Prairie Path and the Audubon Section in DuPage County 
| . near Wheaton on Saturday, June 6th. ‘Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country”. 
This admonition of the late President Kennedy was the philosophy that motivated some persons to come out for two hours 
to clean up litter, prune back trees and brush, and remove thistles and weeds. A few Bluebird houses were still seen, — they 
had escaped the vandals. We have never seen the path look so good, nor so heavily used by others, including Boy Scout 
troops, on a twelve mile hike. [AS members can be proud of themselves for helping keep their section ‘‘one of the best on the 
path’, according to a federal official who visited the area lately. 
] FIRST NATIONAL CONGRESS ON OPTIMUM POPULATION AND ENVIRONMENT 
Many Audubon members from all over the state attended the First Congress at the Pick-Congress Hotel in Chicago on June 
7 to 11, 1970. They swelled attendance to almost one-thousand persons. Outstanding speeches were given by ex-Secretary of 
Interior Stewart Udall, Dr. Paul Ehrlich, Raymond Dassmann, Dr. George Wald, and Senator Robert Packwood and Senator 
Gaylord Nelson. 
Work Groups, in session every day, prepared ‘‘position papers’’, later adopted by the convention. A full report on the 
Congress is being prepared and should be available in paperback in about eight weeks, which would be about September. 
Meanwhile our September Audubon BULLETIN will also carry a full summary of the importance and significance of the 
Congress. Ex-Secretary of Labor Willard Wirtz is Chairman of the Congress on Population and Environment. 
Raymond Mostek 

