22 THE AUDUBON BU LD teeeiie 
P.C.F.I. ORGANIZES HONORARY ADVISORY BOARI 
To stimulate interest in, and to promote the activities of the Prai 
Chicken Foundation of Illinois, a new P.C.F.I. Honorary Advisory Boa 
has been established. It lists some illustrious names in the fields of co 
servation, politics, and business. 
Those on the new board include William Rutherford, director, Illine 
Department of Conservation; Dr. Preston Bradley, president emeritus 
the Izaak Walton League of America; Dr. Ralph Yeatter, a former sti 
member of the Illinois Natural History Survey; A. G. Staley, Jr., a Decat 
businessman; Dr. George Woodruff, former chairman of the Natural R 
sources Council of Illinois; State Senator Harris Fawell; Dr. Russell Mixt 
ot Wheaton College; Canon Don Shaw of the Congress on Population a: 
Environment; Congressman Abner Mikva of Chicago; State Representati 
Robert Mann; Tom McNally, outdoor writer for Chicago Tribune; Pet 
Edge, Chicago businessman and president of the Hawk Mountain Sanctuai 
and G. Mitchell Flieg, Brookfield Zoo, Brookfield, Ill. The board w 
organized in 1969. 
The Prairie Chicken Foundation of Illinois, a tax-exempt group, w 
organized in 1958 under the sponsorship of the Illinois Audubon Socie 
The Izaak Walton League of Illinois, the Illinois Federation of Sportsma 
Clubs, and the Illinois Chapter of the Nature Conservancy. It now ow 
almost 300 acres of sanctuary land for the prairie grouse in south centi 
Illinois. The new Honorary Advisory Board was organized under t 
direction of Raymond Mostek, president of the Illinois Audubon Socie 
Prairie Chicken Foundation To Honor Eight 
Honor award certificates will be presented eight individuals 
and organizations for their dedicated service to preservation of the 
native prairie chicken in ceremonies April 10 at the annual dinner 
meeting of the Prairie Chicken Foundation of Illinois. The event 
will be held in Newton, Ill., and award recipients will be: 
Dr. Ralph Yeatter, Natural History Survey, Urbana; 
Mrs. Adolph Cabor, Rock Island; 
The Gaylord Donnelley Foundation of Chicago; 
Lorenze Ayres, St. Louis, Mo.; 
Jamerson McCormick, Sulphur Springs, Mo.; 
The Cincinnati Bird Club of Ohio; 
The Max McGraw Foundation of Dundee, Ill., and, 
The Illinois & National divisions of the Izaak Walton League 
of America. 
Their honor certificates will be imprinted over an illustration 
of a large prairie chicken, painted by Charles W. Schwartz. 
