fee AUDUBON BULLETIN 
Published Quarterly by the . 
fea NOLS AUDUBON SOCIETY 
ROOSEVELT ROAD AND LAKE SHORE DRIVE, CHICAGO 5, ILL. 
Number 106 June, 1958 
The Annual Meeting — 1958 
By ANNE DOUGLAS BAYLESS 
THE ANNUAL MEETING in Decatur, attended by approximately 130 persons, 
continued the record of other I.A.S. meetings — bigger and better every 
year. Registration began at 10 a.m. Saturday, April 26, with coffee and 
doughnuts provided by the Decatur Audubon Society, host organization, in 
the Decatur Y.M.C.A. Each registrant received an envelope containing a 
name badge, meal tickets, a map of the Decatur area, and a detailed list of 
field trips planned for the next day. 
The business meeting opened at 11:15 a.m. with Paul Downing, president, 
welcoming those in attendance. John Helmer, treasurer, presented a report 
with charts showing how income and outgo have compared in the last five 
years. He noted that the Society will have a bank balance of about $1,700 
at the end of the fiscal year. Oliver Heywood, first vice-president and 
finance chairman, told of the books and other literature available from the 
Society. LeRoy Tunstall, second vice-president and conservation chairman, 
had brought a quantity of conservation literature and invited those attend- 
ing to make full use of it. Mrs. Bertha Huxford, third vice-president and 
education chairman, told of educational work being done through the 
quarterly Bulletin; through the Screen Tour Lectures, and through various 
low-cost or free material available at the book tables. Elton Fawks, fourth 
vice-president and extension chairman, invited ideas from the membership 
on a location for the 1959 Annual Meeting. 
Announcement was made of the study completed by Dr. Richard Graber 
of the Illinois Natural History Survey on the status of Illinois hawk and 
owl populations through the years, a study bound to prove valuable when 
the hawk and owl bill comes up for correction in the next session of the 
legislature. (The protection bill passed by the last legislature has a flaw 
that must be corrected before it can be enforced.) Mr. Fawks also an- 
nounced plans to assemble a guidebook to birding areas in Illinois from 
reports to be published in the Bulletin. 
Mr. Downing introduced some other members: Mrs. Vinnie Dyke, Mrs. 
Pauline Esdale, Mrs. Ruth Waller, Dr. Warren Keck, Miss Margaret Leh- 
mann, Mrs. Freda Russell, Mrs. Anne Bayless, and Milton Thompson. Other 
board members attending included Dr. R. E. Yeatter and John Bayless. 
Nominations for new directors were presented by Mr. Bayless, chairman of 
the nominating committee, as follows: Paul Schulze, Chicago; Floyd Swink, 
Willow Springs, and Raymond Mostek, Chicago. Mr. Heywood, whose term 
expires, was renominated. The four were unanimously elected. Mr. Bayless 
tendered a vote of thanks to retiring directors, whose other duties prevented 
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