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I.A.S8. AWARD PRESENTED TO DEKALB COMMITTEE 
ON MARCH 238, 1960, at the Chicago Natural History Museum, Raymond 
Mostek, Vice-President of the Illinois Audubon Society, presented the Dr. 
Alfred Lewy Book Award to Mrs. S. A. Tyler of DeKalb, Secretary of the 
Citizens’ Committee for the 
Preservation of Montgomery 
Arboretum. The Book Award is 
presented by the I.A.S. each 
spring in recognition of an out- 
standing conservation endeavor 
by a state group. 
The Montgomery Arboretum, 
a six-acre plot in the heart of 
DeKalb, is part of the campus 
of Northern Illinois University. 
The area has long been used by 
the biology staff and students 
as an outdoor classroom; many 
undergraduates have studied 
the plant and bird life as source 
material for their biology theses. The Arboretum has trees over 150 years 
of age; it supports a wide variety of songbirds, and in the spring the forest 
floor is aglow with dogtooth violets, wood anemones, spring beauties, and 
other native flowers. University officials had wished to use the area as a 
building site. 
This year the Dr. Alfred Lewy Award consisted of eight books which 
will be distributed to several public schools and libraries in DeKalb county 
by the Citizens’ Committee. Among the titles were: “Traveling with the 
Birds” (Boulton), ‘Birds at Home” (Henry), “How to Watch the Birds” 
(Barton), “Reading the Landscape” (Watts), “1,001 Questions About the 
Birds” (Cruickshank), and “Seeing Our National Wildlife Refuges” 
(Butcher). 
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I. A.S. MAILING LIST IS NOT FOR SALE 
THE BoarD oF DIRECTORS of the Society has made it a rule to refuse all 
requests for sale of the mailing list of our members. For some exception- 
ally worth-while causes, the Directors have permitted use of the Bulletin 
mailing stencils to send material to members which came from a reputable 
source and was in the best interests of wildlife protection and conservation. 
In these cases, the senders give the material and envelopes to us for mail- 
ing and are billed for the entire cost. But as a matter of policy, the Di- 
rectors will not permit release of member names and addresses, or use of 
our mailing plates, for commercial purposes. 
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