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Number 94 June, 1955 
The Annual Meeting 
By JOHN AND ANNE BAYLESS 
OUR BEST ANNUAL MEETING yet, all present agreed. More than 120 members 
and friends of the Illinois Audubon Society met Saturday and Sunday, May 
14 and 15, at Princeton, Ill., where the Bureau Valley Audubon Club wel- 
comed us at the Hampshire Colony Congregational Church. The hosts pre- 
sented a perfectly planned Saturday afternoon program of papers, informal 
talks, and exhibits to lighten the more serious aspects of reports by the 
officers and directors of the Society and the election of directors. Then came 
the banquet in the church basement dining room, an excellent meal served 
by Delta Alpha Society, and an evening program of color slides, ‘“Gooney- 
birds on the Midway Islands,” by Philip A. DuMont, biologist with the U.S. 
Fish & Wildlife Service and a long-time member of the I.A.S., who came 
from Washington, D.C. to be with us. Sunday was devoted to bird finding, 
with a choice of four different routes led by Bureau Valley birders. 
The meeting began with a round table report to the membership by the 
officers and directors, President Paul Downing presiding. Mr. Elton Fawks 
discussed progress of his committee in developing wider cooperation between 
member clubs and inducing local clubs and their members to join the I.A.S. 
Mr. Francis Whitehead discussed the “Distributional Check List of the 
Birds of Illinois,” the culmination of years of work largely done by our 
former president, Harry R. Smith, now living in Santa Cruz, Calif. It was 
published with the cooperation of the Illinois State Museum. 
Mr. Raymond Mostek, conservation committee chairman, told us of the 
new Illinois Conservation Council, sponsored by the Illinois Audubon So- 
ciety, Illinois chapter of the Izaak Walton League, Illinois Federation of 
Sportsmen’s Clubs, and other nature groups. The Council’s primary goal is 
the exchange of information on what the individual groups are trying to 
do, and the establishment of joint efforts where the objectives of one fit into 
the program of others. Mr. Mostek also told what the I.A.S. has done for 
conservation and what it hopes to do in the next year. 
Mr. John Bayless, who keeps the membership mailing list and dues pay- 
ment records, reported a total of 513 members, a gain of 43 over a year 
ago, but pointed out that as usual many members, 92 to be exact, had neg- 
lected to send in their dues despite the billing in January and the reminder 
in the March Bulletin. Experience of other years indicates that probably 
half of these will be removed from the membership list eventually and that 
more than half of those removed will be first year members. 
Miss Marie Nilsson, chairman of the nominating committee, nominated 
Mrs. Thure Waller, Mrs. Walter Huxford, and Mr. Frank McVey for re- 
election as directors; reported that Mr. Whitehead had declined renomina- 
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