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the Evanston Bird Club, and similar local groups throughout Illinois. This 
is something the Illinois Audubon Society has never done, and something 
that would be virtually impossible to do and have the whole state repre- 
sented. 
However, the organizational workings of some of the societies were of 
interest for possible pointers for Illinois. One of the most highly organ- 
ized and successful of the groups represented is the Detroit Audubon 
Society. Miss Louise Lockeman, the kind of hard-working, enthusiastic 
young person that every group could use more of, reported on this society. 
Its activities function through committees having a board member as chair- 
man, and its board of directors has about 40 members, so that it supports a 
large number of committees. 
Among the committees are the bird survey committee, which publishes 
and keeps up to date a mimeographed booklet of all birds to be found in 
the area, sold for 10 cents; a Junior Audubon Society committee which 
is in charge of the several hundred junior societies in Detroit; a commit- 
tee in charge of a leadership training course given for teachers, Scout lead- 
ers, and the like on nature subjects; a lecture committee which is in charge 
of a bureau to provide speakers on nature subjects for other organizations, 
and to act as a clearing house for nature photographers whose pictures 
are useful in giving programs; a committee in charge of young people’s 
groups in the high schools, which have their own field trips and such activi- 
ties as making bird feeders and houses, suet cakes, and the like. These 
groups have their own meetings, but attend screen tours with the adults. 
Miss Lockeman said this has been found an excellent way to bridge the 
gap between Junior Audubon activities and adult membership. 
Other activities of the society, also conducted thru committees, include 
auctions of such articles as cakes, books, or china, to raise money for a 
scholarship for any one of the Aubudon Nature Camps; field trips, and 
week-end “camp-outs” each spring and fall which whole families frequent- 
ly attend. 
The Detroit society sponsors nine Audubon Screen Tours each season, 
instead of the usual five. The series costs $5 for a single membership and 
$10 for a family. This is in addition to membership in the society, which 
is $1 a year. ) 
Almost all the groups represented at the Greenwich camp charge for 
their screen tours, which the Illinois society does not. Many of them use 
the tours as a means of making a little extra money. The Illinois society, 
however, is not even considering putting an admission charge on screen 
tour lectures, as this is not permitted in the James Simpson Theater of 
the Chicago Natural History Museum, where they are given, and it is felt 
that a wider audience is reached if there is no charge. 
The St. Louis society, with 2,000 members, is another markedly suc- 
cessful group. Its representatives were the Misses Camille and Lois Wam- 
hoff, sisters, who said the society has brought the screen tours into the 
schools. It has a monthly publication, and also receives good publicity in 
the St. Louis papers. Each year it sponsors a Loyalty night, a money- 
raising dinner project with proceeds used to give trips to camp or nature 
