4 THE SAvU DU BsOeN® B Ui eae 
The I.A.S. Annual Meeting 
THE EVANSTON BIRD CLUB will serve as hosts and guides to I.A.S. members 
from all over the state during the week-end of May 21 and 22, 1960. Ar- 
rangements are in the very capable hands of Mrs. Bertha Huxferd, Presi- 
dent of the Evanston Club as well as one of our Directors. With her cus- 
tomary drive and energy, she is even now preparing an interesting program 
of scientific papers and first-rate lecturers. Chairman of the Meeting Com- 
mittee for the I.A.S. is our Vice-President, Mr. Floyd Swink. 
This is the first time in a number of years that the Annual Meeting has 
been held in the Chicago area. A bird walk is scheduled for Sunday, May 
22, which should be the height of the warbler migration. The North Shore 
area of Lake Michigan, up to and including Illinois Beach State Park, is 
well known for its great variety of water and shore birds. Full details of 
the Meeting will be sent to all member's in a month or so. But please circle 
the dates on your calendars now — May 21 and 22, the Annual Meeting of 
the I.A.S.! 
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Within One Generation 
By VERNON GREENING 
“LINGER THROUGH THE evening. Watch the sun go down in purple splendor, 
and study the famous after-glow of Central Illinois, the benediction of the 
day. Watch the lights twinkle in the cabins between the fingers of trees. An 
occasional laugh — a song comes to your ears. The glory of the moon and 
stars are caught in the net of the waves. Here is your interminable vaca- 
tion trail and only four miles away from Springfield.” — a prophecy of 
Lake Springfield written by Vachel Lindsay in 1980 — five years before 
the lake became a reality. 
“A new site for the shelter (dog pound) has already been proposed — 
the Wildlife Sanctuary at Lake Springfield.” — Illinois State Journal, Jan- 
uary 30, 1960. 
Within the intervening years of the above news reports lies the history 
of the Lake Springfield Wildlife Sanctuary. The tenor of the last report — 
the latest of a series — signals the cause for alarm and the need for con- 
certed action by the citizens of Springfield if they wish to retain their Wild- 
life Sanctuary. 
The Sanctuary is a strip of land containing about 160 acres of trees. The 
strip averages about 500 feet in depth, and therefore the greater part of 
the sanctuary fronts the lake — between 2 and 2% miles of shoreline. When 
Lake Springfield was built the City Council authorized the purchase of a 
limited amount of marginal land to help the development of the lake. Short- 
ly after impounding of the waters began, the City Council members, par- 
ticularly Willis J. Spaulding, recognized the need for protecting the shore- 
line. It was he who envisioned a municipally-owned forest, with at least 
60% of the shoreline accessible to the public. 
