THE AUDUBON BULLETIN 
Published Quarterly by the 
ILLINOIS AUDUBON SOCIETY 
Roosevelt Road and Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, Ill., 60605 
Number 128 December, 1963 
THE PRESIDENT’S PAGE 
By Raymond Mostek 
The last several months have been marked by a new vigor in the Illinois 
Audubon Society. Not only are many committees more active, but several 
capable persons have volunteered for certain tasks. These persons are 
contributing their time and talent in a selfless effort. We never have 
enough of these volunteers. For example, I learned recently that a con- 
servationist and bird-watcher from McHenry County has signed up twelve 
persons for membership in our Society. As somebody once said, “Don’t 
ask what the Society can do for you; ask what you can do for conservation, 
for country, and for your Society.” 
The 1964 Annual Meeting, which will be held in May at the Holiday 
Inn near Joliet, promises to be one of the most exciting ever planned. 
Attendance should break all records. For the first time in our history, 
we shall open our Annual Meeting on a Friday night, a common practice 
with many midwestern and eastern Audubon state groups. In 1965, the 
Annual Meeting will be held in Davenport, Iowa, in conjunction with the 
Iowa Ornithological Union. 
The Chairman of our Annual Arrangements Committee, Al Reuss, 
has made the excellent suggestion that plans for our Annual Meetings 
be initiated two years in advance. The same practice will probably be 
followed by our Campout Committee. It has long been a policy of the 
Board of Directors to have one state meeting near Chicago, while the 
other is held outside the metropolitan area. In 1964, with the Annual 
Meeting up north, the Campout will be held ‘downstate,’ possibly at 
Kickapoo State Park near Danville. Since we will meet in Iowa in 1965 
in May, our Fall Campout will most likely be held in the Chicago vicinity 
that year. 
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Social scientists have often indicated that conservationists fail to take 
advantage of one of the most useful weapons they have — “A Letter to 
the Editor.” A recent Gallup poll disclosed that only nine percent of the 
adult population of this country had written their congressman or senator 
on some issue in the last twelve months. Only five percent had written 
a letter to the editor in the same period. The poll also indicated that more 
college graduates wrote than high school graduates, while more Republicans 
than Democrats licked a 5 cent stamp. 
The “Hunting in the State Park” bill (signed by Gov. Kerner) drew 
several persons to protest in letters to the newspapers. The proposed raid 
on Kickapoo State Park by a coal mining firm resulted in heavy editorial 
comment by a local Danville paper. Campers, conservationists, Audubonites 
and even children wrote letters of protest to the press. The vigorous action 
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