Pee TARO ee ba eNG Be Uel avo he TaicON 1 
The Wheaton Audubon Society 
By Mrs. Roy J. LILE 
Mr. LERoy TUNSTALL, a member of the National Audubon Society, called a 
meeting in October, 1951 of all persons in the Wheaton area interested in 
bird study. As a result of this meeting, I became the first charter member 
and helped Mr. Tunstall in drawing up the Constitution and By-Laws. 
Elections were held and our group was then composed of Mr. LeRoy Tun- 
stall, President; Mr. Bernard Klein, Vice-President; Mr. William Bode, 
Treasurer; Mrs. Roy J. Lile, Secretary. 
The other charter members are: Miss Edythe Clark, Mr. Norman Kamin, 
Mr. John Kaenel, and Mr. Paul Thurston of Wheaton; Mr. and Mrs. Fred 
La Paglia of Lombard; Miss Nellie Taft, formerly of the Wheaton News- 
paper, and Mr. Larry Wing of Warrenville, Il]. We also have a good 
number of new members and transfer members. 
One large group is from the Benjamin Gault Bird Club of Glen Ellyn. 
We now have thirty-two members. Our field trips have been led by Mr. 
Keith Martin of Naperville, at the Morton Arboretum. An annual report 
of last year’s field trips was made on tape recorder by Mr. Martin, de- 
scribing the trips, naming the birds, and repeating the actual bird calls 
and songs — a classic in field reports, I would say. 
We celebrated our first birthday with a banquet and Indian Summer 
program, with Dr. Russell Mixter of Wheaton College as our guest speaker. 
The Wheaton Audubon Society has the following new slate of officers: 
President: Treasurer: 
Mr. EDWARD F.. LUEBEN Mr. WAYNE FRANK 
7S. Sleight St. 413 E. Lincoln Ave. 
Naperville, Illinois Wheaton, Illinois 
Vice-President: Secretary: 
Mr. KEITH MARTIN Mrs. Roy J. LILe 
232 Douglas Ave. | 408 Pennsylvania Ave. 
Naperville, Illinois Glen Ellyn, Illinois 
Committee Chairmen are as follows: Program: Mr. Edward Lueben; 
Publicity: Mrs. Roy J. Lile; Education: Mr. Allan MacMullen; Member- 
ship: Mr. Wayne Frank. I hope that in the future our group and the 
Society may maintain an exchange of ideas and perhaps combine our acti- 
vities from time to time, which I am sure will be much to the benefit of 
our youthful organization. 
408 Pennsylvania Ave., Glen Ellyn 
