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He joined the faculty of the University of Chicago in 1903, and taught anatomy and 
ornithology. Altogether, he has been on the faculties of ten or more colleges and 
universities, teaching anatomy, biology, physics, and zoology. He has made many con- 
tributions to medical literature. At the time of his retirement, he was professor and 
chairman of anatomy at the Stritch School of Medicine of Loyola University. On Dec. 
12, 1957, he was given a citation by Samuel Cardinal Stritch, Archbishop of Chicago, 
as one of ''Chicago's 100 most outstanding citizens." 
But now to return to our reasons for honoring Dr. Strong today. He has served as a 
leader of local conservation and scientific societies since the beginning of the century. 
He founded the Chicago Ornithological Society in 1912, and served many times as an 
officer and director. He has been the Chairman of the Conservation Council for more 
than 25 years, and in this office he has been involved in almost every local and state 
conservation battle right down to the present day. He is also the Chairman of the 
Governor's Advisory Committee on Illinois Beach State Park, and is a Vice-President of 
the Illinois Wildflower Preservation Society. For ten years, from 1941 through 1951, he 
was President of the Illinois Audubon Society, and he is now our honorary president. 
It is the practice of the Illinois Audubon Society to present an award each year to 
the person who has made the greatest contributions to conservation in this state during 
the preceding twelve months. In this instance, however, we have a man whose work 
in behalf of conservation has been so outstanding over so many years, and on such a 
broad scale, that no one year can be singled out as his period of greatest achievement. 
Therefore, the Board of Directors have voted to bestow a Special Conservation Award 
to Dr. Strong, in the form of an illuminated crystallite plaque, as a token of esteem 
and recognition for unparalleled leadership, foresight, and effort in promoting con- 
servation for more than 70 years. The plaque carries the best wishes and the gratitude 
of not only the members of the Illinois Audubon Society, but of thousands of nature 
lovers all over the country. | will now call upon our Vice-President of Conservation, Mr. 
Raymond Mostek, who will make the presentation. 
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New I.A.S. Members — 1958-1959 
OuR NEW MEMBERSHIP Chairman, Mr. John Bayless, has reviewed the 
membership rolls conscientiously to compile all names of new members for 
the past two years. Many of you remember that we used to publish these 
“new member lists” in every other issue of the Audubon Bulletin. If any 
of these names seem like those of familiar friends to you, please consider 
that some of these persons could have joined as long ago as 1957, when the 
last “new member list” was compiled. 
If you find that your name does not appear here, and you joined the 
Illinois Audubon Society between January, 1958, and October, 1959, please 
send a card with your name to the Editor at once. Members who joined 
after October, 1959, will be listed in future issues. Unfortunately, we have 
not been able to show which persons are contributing members and which 
are active members; this we will attempt to do in future lists. The two 
names starred below indicate groups which have affiliated with our Society. 
We are happy to welcome all of you new members, and we hope that you 
