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The Annual Meeting 
THE ILLINOIS AUDUBON SOCIETY will hold its Annual Meeting and Field 
Trip in Chicago on the week-end of May 8-9, 1954. Tentative plans call for 
the meeting to begin at 11:00 a.m. Saturday, May 8, at the Chicago Natural 
History Museum, Roosevelt Road and Lake Shore Drive. The first event 
will be an unusual tour, “Behind the Scenes in the Museum.” 
After luncheon in the cafeteria, there will be a one-hour business meet- 
ing. Officers and committee chairmen of the Society will give brief reports 
of their activities during the past year. The members will vote for Directors, 
with eight vacancies on the Board to be filled. The afternoon program will 
consist of several short talks on ornithology by experts from the Chicago 
area, followed by a discussion of conservation problems. The members will 
then adjourn for a special dinner in the Museum cafeteria. | 
The evening program will consist of movies and/or slides presented by a 
well-known lecturer on birds of the Chicago region. Mr. Franklin McVey 
and Mrs. Walter Huxford are co-chairmen of the Annual Meeting. Registra- 
tions should be sent to Miss Marie Nilsson, Secretary of the Society, 1510 
Olive Ave., Chicago 30, Illinois. 
The Annual Field Trip, on Sunday, May 9, will cover Orland Wildlife 
Reserve and neighboring sloughs, fields and forest areas. Members from 
downstate are especially urged to come out and see for themselves the great 
variety of good birding to be found in the environs of Chicago. The trip 
will include a visit to the “Little Red Schoolhouse,” the outdoor nature 
laboratory and experiment station recently established by our Forest Pre- 
serve District. 
Mr. John Helmer and Mrs. Russell Mannette are co-chairmen of the Field 
Trip. Full information about the details of the Annual Meeting and Field 
Trip, as well as registration blanks and reservation forms, will be mailed 
to all members next month. In the meantime, remember to set aside May 8 
and 9 for the big event of the spring birding season — the annual get- 
together of the Illinois Audubon Society! 
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Send Your Dues in Now 
Letters have gone out to all members regarding renewal of dues to the 
Society for the coming year. Something of a record was set last year when 
over forty members changed their class of membership from the $2.00 active 
to the $5.00 contributing type. The cost of printing the Bulletin and pre- 
senting five Audubon Screen Tours alone adds up to more than $2.00 per 
member. When the additional costs of projectionist’s fees, postage, and 
stuffing and addressing envelopes is considered, one can see why even more 
contributing members are needed. Next year we plan to present five Audubon 
Screen Tours again, although the cost of these has been increased. All 
members who have not already sent in their dues are urged to do so at 
once in order to save the Society the cost of extra billing and postage. 
