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New I. A.S. Affiliates Formed 
By RAYMOND MOSTEK 
DURING THE FIRST half of this year, a committee headed by the writer and 
Mr. LeRoy Tunstall, 323 E. Wesley St., Wheaton, Ill., has visited a number 
of communities in a radius of 100 miles from Chicago in attempts to estab- 
lish local Audubon Societies. The following procedure has proved most 
practical: contact is established with a local student of wildlife, usually 
an I.A.S. member who has ascertained that enough people in the area are 
interested in nature and the out-of-doors so that there is some hope of 
success. The contact determines a time and place for the meeting (as a 
nearby church, school, or lodge hall) and announces the meeting through 
church and school announcements, articles in the local press, and so on. 
The I.A.S. is notified when their speakers will be needed. 
At the prearranged time, Mr. Mostek, Mr. Tunstall, and others when 
available have traveled to the meeting place to address the local audience. 
A short movie on wildlife is shown (the Illinois State Museum in Spring- 
field has many 10-minute movies available free for this purpose). Mr. 
Mostek outlines the need of local conservation organizations in Illinois to 
help preserve existing parks and forest preserves and to establish new 
ones as needed. He describes the objectives of the J.A.S. in preserving 
birdlife and the native landscape. The listeners are urged to form a local 
Audubon Society and to affiliate with the I.A.S. and/or the National 
Audubon Society. 
Next a longer movie is shown, such as “Wild Alps of the Stehekin,” a 
color picture on the need for preserving the Northern Cascades wilderness 
area. Then Mr. Tunstall, founder of the DuPage Audubon Society, de- 
scribes how his group has grown to a club of over 100 members in less 
than four years. The club, with headquarters in Wheaton, has field trips 
throughout the year, an annual dinner in January, a picnic each summer, 
and monthly lecture meetings in a science hall in Wheaton College. Now 
the club is attempting to preserve a sizeable marsh west of Wheaton as a 
wildlife sanctuary. Dues are $6.50 a year, which includes concurrent mem- 
bership in the National Audubon Society and a subscription to the na- 
tional Audubon Magazine. The club is also an affiliate of the I.A.S. 
Finally, participation is asked of the audience: volunteers are sought to 
form a temporary committee with the purpose of establishing a new local 
nature club. The effectiveness of these meetings may be judged by the re- 
ports that follow: 
615 Rochdale Circle, Lombard, Ill. 
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WILL COUNTY AUDUBON SOCIETY 
THE FIRST MEETING was held in the Joliet Y.M.C.A., Ottawa and Webster 
streets, on Friday, Jan. 22, 1960, at 8:00 p.m. Over 25 persons attended, and 
another 12 expressed interest but were unable to attend. Since no one 
volunteered to act as temporary chairman, a second meeting is indefinite. 
