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Annual Meeting / OUR MAN OF THE YEAR 
Traditionally highlighting the annual meeting was ptesentation of the 
Man-Of-The-Year plaque and handsome nature book to the candidate who 
captured the majority of Board votes of all candidates submitted by IAS 
affiliates. This year’s award winner has made amazing impact on the 
preservation of the natural environment. He has played a significant role 
in the following conservation causes and is cited for his effective labors: 
e To save Allerton Park from terracide by the Army Corps of 
Engineers. 
® To restore Boneyard Creek in Champaign-Urbana, 5 miles of 
highly polluted, totally urban stream. 
e To save Lusk Creek Canyon in southern Illinois from flooding 
and extirpation by the Army Corps of Engineers. 
® To save Big Walnut Valley in Indiana. 
e In behalf of Lincoln Reservoir at Charleston. 
e To assist conservationists as far west as California, where they 
are receiving the Army Corps blitz. 
A Ph.D. in engineering, he is allied with the Audubon cause in its 
reaction to intrusions on the environment. He focuses on all facets of 
wildlife in the “woods’—where he somehow feels “at home.’ He regards 
birds as an index of the condition of the ecosystem. The Audubon Society, 
he feels, is a tool for improving the environment. (Those who have seen 
the terrible disaster to beautiful Hetch Hetchie Valley in Yosemite under- 
stand what this award winner has been fighting to prevent at Allerton Park.) 
Water, nature’s life-giving resource, a prime concern of the whole 
world, is our award winner’s dominant interest. He has thrown his full 
weight into many conservation battles involving water in our environment, 
and if we take a good look at the Illinois Audubon ‘Man-Of-The-Year,” 
professor of engineering and computer science at the University of Illinois, 
we get a good idea of the stature that he lends to conservation. 
Congratulations to BRUCE HANNON for winning the Audubon plaque 
in recognition of all he has done, and inspired others to do, to save the 
outdoor heritage in Illinois. —Betty Groth 
LIFE MEMBERSHIP DUES TO INCREASE 
By vote of the Board of Directors of the Illinois Audubon Society, 
Life Membership dues of the society will be increased from $100 to 
$200 beginning on January 1, 1971. Previous notices have been given 
regarding this increase in dues, and have met with an overwhelming 
response from members who seek to take advantage of this bargain 
before the new year. 
All money received from Life Membership goes into the society’s 
Endowment Fund, which helps to defray the cost of operations of 
the society. Average dues are insufficient to wholly support the edu- 
cation and conservation activities of the organization. 
Checks may be forwarded to the regional office of the Illinois 
Audubon Society before Jan. 1, 1971, at 1017 Burlington Avenue, 
— Grove 60515. 
