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THE AUDUBON BULLETIN 
Published Quarterly by the 
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Number 93 March, 1955 
The Annual Meeting’ 
THE ILLINOIS AUDUBON SOCIETY will hold its Annual Meeting and field trip 
in Princeton, Illinois on the week-end of May 14-15, 1955. The host society 
this year will be the Bureau Valley Audubon Bird Club. The President of 
the club, Mrs. Vinnie Dyke, 404 N. Church St., Princeton, Ulinois, has 
issued a special invitation to I. A. S. members from the Chicago area, as 
well as members of cooperating bird and nature clubs throughout the state, 
to join her in an interesting program of meetings and field trips. 
The original plans and contacts for the Annual Meeting were made by 
Mr. Elton Fawks, Director of the Society in charge of coordinating the 
activities of member clubs. Co-chairmen of the meeting (as last year) are 
Mr. Franklin McVey and Mrs. Walter Huxford. 
Tentative plans for the meeting include: Saturday morning — bird-walks 
for the out-of-town guests as they arrive, to be guided by members of the 
Bureau Valley Club; business meeting and presentation of papers and 
lectures throughout the afternoon; a banquet supper; and a motion picture 
on birds and nature study in the evening. On Sunday morning there will 
be field trips around Princeton and along the Illinois river valley. This wiil 
be the height of the song bird migration, so the tours should yield many 
interesting birds. (An article elsewhere in this issue tells of the main- 
tenance of a bird sanctuary on the Illinois river near Bureau.) 
Formal invitations to all members of the Lilinois Audubon Society to 
attend the Annual Meeting will be mailed in a few weeks. Registration 
costs and information about accommodations will be included. In the mean- 
time, all members should set aside the week-end of May 14-15 for the So- 
ciety’s annual get-together. It has been a policy of the Directors for the 
last few years to alternate the Meeting site between Chicago and down- 
state. Although much of the membership is concentrated around Chicago, 
the attendance at the downstate conventions (Springfield in 1951, Tri-Cities 
in 1953) has been fully as large as at Chicago. Get your reservations in 
early! 
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Send Your Dues in Now 
Membership renewal notices have now been mailed out, and already the 
applications have begun to come in. Last year we established a new record 
for contributing members — over 60 persons changed from the $2.00 active 
to the $5.00 contributing status. The extra funds are needed to pay for in- 
creased costs of the Screen Tour Lectures, increased printing and mailing 
costs for the BULLETIN, and so on. If you believe in the Society and what 
it is trying to do in conservation and education, show your support by your 
membership. And if you have not already sent in your dues, do so at once 
in order to save the Society the cost of extra billing and postage. 
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