THE AUDUBON BULLETIN 
Published Quarterly by the 
ILLINOIS AUDUBON SOCIETY 
Roosevelt Road and Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IIl., 60605 
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Number 131 September 1964 
THE PRESIDENT'S PAGE 
By Raymond Mostek 
In my report to the Society at the May Annual Meeting, I declared that 
cooperation with such groups as The Izaak Walton (League of America, 
The Illinois Federation of Sportsmen’s Clubs, and The Illinois Nature Con- 
servancy enabled us to progress in Illinois toward greater conservation 
goals in at least a half-dozen different areas. I also suggested that a second 
decade of intensive cooperation should bring closer working arrangements 
with such groups as The Garden Clubs of Illinois, The Illinois Federation 
of Women’s Clubs, The Daughters of the American Revolution, and other 
organizations with conservation committees. 
Another way in which the individual may make a contribution to 
the cause of outdoor conservation is by a three-way membership in the 
Audubon movement. The value of a local, town or county Audubon club 
has been amply demonstrated over the years. Such a club or society can 
reach “grass-roots America” better than a state or national organization. 
The local club can provide field trips, show Audubon films to the com- 
munity, educate children through Junior Audubon Clubs, and as in Kickapoo 
State Park. provide the vigilance and the strength to ward off raids by 
private interests upon public property. 
For several years the I. A. S. Board of Directors has encouraged the 
formation of local Audubon clubs. This drive has met with tremendous 
success. Upon the initiative of our former President, Paul Downing of 
Highland Park, and Board Member Franklin McVey, a new I. A. S. Chapter 
has recently been formed in Lake County. Stuart Otis has been elected first 
president. The Society has helped form almost ten new Audubon clubs in 
the last decade. If you are interested in establishing a new Audubon group 
in your community, please. write to our Vice-President for Extension, 
Harlan Walley, 717 North Elm St., Sandwich, Illinois. 
Many new members of the Illinois Audubon Society may not realize 
that it is one of the oldest conservation clubs in the nation. Formed in 
1897. the I. A. S. is even older than the national organization. Like many 
other outdoor groups, we have enjoyed tremendous growth in the past 
six years, but there must be thousands of others in Illinois who would 
join our cause if they only knew about us. We should reach the one 
thousand member mark long before our announced goal of Dec. 31, 1965. 
You can help by sending us a list of a dozen prospects and we will send 
them literature and membership information. 
You may not be aware that no other state conservation organization 
in Illinois provides its membership with such excellent publications as 
our Audubon Bulletin and the I. A. S. Newsletter. No other state group 
provides such frequent mailings to its members; nor are other “house 
organs” so packed with useful news and information about the Illinois 
