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FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK... 
l. Thanks to John and Anne Bayless 
THE INSIDE FRONT COVER of The Audubon Bulletin, for the first time 
since 1948, no longer has the name “Bayless” in the list of Officers and Di- 
rectors of the Illinois Audubon Society. Yielding to the pressure of growing 
responsibilities at work, John and Anne both resigned this summer. John 
has served in many capacities — as Director, Editor, and Membership Com- 
mittee Chairman — for fourteen years. Anne Douglas Bayless has been a 
Director and has handled publicity and secretarial duties for the Society for 
more than eleven years. Her feature articles on bird life in The Chicago 
Tribune have made her well-known all over Illinois. We have known them 
as co-workers and friends for a long time, and will miss them greatly. 
2. Who Participates? 
WHEN YOU LOOK AGAIN at the inside front cover of this issue, you 
will see that we are now listing the various committee chairmanships held 
by the Directors. This is meant to give the members a better idea of the 
kind of work being performed by those who are most active in the Society. 
For example, Paul Schulze has now added the duties of Membership Chair- 
man to his regular tasks as Publicity Chairman — that is, he is carrying on 
both functions formerly handled by John and Anne Bayless. This is more 
work than one member should reasonably be expected to do. It seems strange 
that with almost 800 members, the entire task of running the Society should 
fall upon about 30 people. Yet this is the case—and if we as a group are 
to do more, or are to become more effective, we must find more volunteers 
to participate in our activities. 
To give you an idea of the amount of work some of the Directors assume, 
here is a sketch of our new President, Raymond Mostek: His devotion to the 
out-of-doors was launched by a wilderness canoe trip in 1948 through the 
Quetico-Superior Canoe Country. He came out to enroll immediately in the 
Izaak Walton League, Illinois Division, and soon thereafter joined the Illin- 
ois Audubon Society. In 1952, he was elected a Director, and for almost ten 
years he has served as Vice-President for Conservation. He has also served 
(often concurrently) as President and Conservation Chairman of the Metro- 
politan Chicago Council of the American Youth Hostels; as founder, Chair- 
man, and Recording Secretary of the Natural Resources Council of Illinois; 
and as Chairman of the Chicago Area Chapter of the National Parks Asso- 
ciation. Besides serving as President of our Society, Mr. Mostek is working 
actively in many other outdoor groups, as follows: Editor of the N.R.C.I. 
Newsletter; Vice-Chairman of the Citizen’s Committee for Nature Conser- 
vation; Chairman of the Finance Committee of the Prairie Chicken Foun- 
dation of Illinois; and member of the Governor’s Advisory Committee for 
Illinois Beach State Park. In addition, he is a member of the Nature Con- 
servancy, Wilderness Society, National Audubon Society, DuPage Audubon 
Society, Florida Audubon Society, and the Illinois Dunesland Preservation 
Society. If one person can do so much, who can truthfully say that he can- 
not do more? 
What can you do to helv the Illinois Audubon Society get more active 
participation from more of its members? By participation we do not mean 
merely writing letters to your Congressman or to the editor of your local 
newspaper, although such activities do help. What we mean is working on 
one of the committees or carrying out some task for the Society. The task 
