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Seeking a closer contact with the membership, spread well over the 
state as it was, a regular publication was thought desirable. The first 
number of the Audubon Bulletin was issued in 1916. This was continued 
under various editors, consisting of annual and semi-annual numbers until 
the Bulletin was made a quarterly in 1939. A total of 77 numbers has been 
issued so far. Many famous ornithologists have been among the contribu- 
tors, and the Christmas census report has become a regular feature. 
At the annual meeting in 1898 Mr. Ruthven Deane was elected presi- 
dent, which position he held with great honor and benefit to the Society 
until 1914. He was succeeded by Mr. Orpheus M. Schantz (1914-1930), 
Prof. C. W. G. Wifrig (19380-1941), and Dr. R. M.- Strong, who is now 
president. The society was without a vice-president until John M. Blakely 
was elected in 1913, to be followed by Albert L. Stevenson (1914-1916), 
Jesse L. Smith (1916-1931), and Mrs. W. D. Richardson (1931-1950). Mrs. 
Riehardson was made honorary vice-president in 1950, and three new vice- 
presidents were elected. They are Paul E. Downing, 1st vice-president; 
Mrs. Pauline Esdale, 2nd vice-president; and Dr. Alfred Lewy, 3rd vice- 
president. 
The Society has been most fortunate in its secretaries, through whom 
so much of the work has been carried on. Miss Rumsey was succeeded by 
Miss Mary Drummond (1898-1912), Miss Mary A. Hardman (1912-1914), 
Mrs. Frederick H. Pattee (1914-1918), Roy Monroe Langdon (1918-1920), 
Miss Catherine A. Mitchell (1920-1938), Miss Doris A. Plapp (1938-1944), 
and Mrs. Janet H. Zimmermann (1944-—). In 1912 the treasurer’s office 
was separated from the secretary’s and Miss Amalie Hannig served until 
1918, when the offices were again combined in the persons of Mr. Langdon 
(1918-1920) and Miss Mitchell (1920-1925). Mr. Schantz combined the 
duties of treasurer with those of president (1925-1927) until the offices 
were again separated by the election of Stephen S. Gregory (1927-1928), 
C. O. Decker (1928-1948), Harry R. Smith (1949-1950), and Theodore 
Dunmire (1950-—). 
At the annual meeting of 1913 Miss Esther A. Craigmile was named a 
member of the board of directors, which position she held until she retired 
and was named an honorary director in 1950, the longest official connection 
of any member with the Society. The 1913 meeting was also attended by 
Miss Mitchell, Mr. and Mrs. Pattee, Mr. Schantz and Mrs. Jesse L. Smith, 
all of whom were very active members and officers for years afterward. 
Others who were already on the board and whose work left a definite im- 
pression on the Society’s activities were John M. Blakely, Rev. George B. 
Pratt and Frank H. Woodruff. 
Later the Society benefited from the services of such well-known orni- 
thologists as William I. Lyon, Dr. Alfred M. Bailey, Benjamin T. Gault, 
Dr. Howard K. Gloyd, Edward R. Ford, Fred S. Lodge, R. J. H. DeLoach, 
Mrs. Margaret Morse Nice, Dr. T. E. Musselman, Mrs. E. T. Baroody, 
O. C. Durham, Dr. Alfred Lewy, Earl G. Wright, Leo K. Couch and 
Philip A. DuMont. 
