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Number 90 June, 1954 
Harry Smith Retires From Board 
By Mrs. JANET ZIMMERMANN 
RETIREMENT TO A LIFE of leisure spent bird-chasing in the ‘West is all very 
nice for Harry Smith, but it is hard on his friends back in Chicago and 
Evanston. Harry and his charming wife, Marie, pulled up their roots in the 
Middle West, and left for Los Angeles on March 26. His retirement follows 
nearly thirty years in the Savings Department of the First National Bank 
of Chicago, and as many years in conservation work in the Chicago area. 
At the April meeting of the Board of Directors, Harry Smith was made 
Honorary Vice-President of the Illinois Audubon Society. He was President 
of the Society from June, 1951, to June, 1953, and Treasurer from Decem- 
ber, 1948, to June, 1950. For many years, until he became President, he 
was also Chairman of the Membership Committee. He was responsible for 
building up the membership very substantially from the low point to which 
it fell during the second World War. His correspondence with nature and 
bird study clubs throughout the state made the Society well-known, and is 
the foundation on which the Directors are now working to coordinate the 
conservation activities of state organizations. For several years Harry was 
also President of the Chicago Ornithological Society. 
Most of the ardent birders in the Chicago area know Harry’s study of the 
spring arrival dates of migrating warblers. His notes are models of careful 
observation and accurate recording. First published in the Illinois Audubon 
Bulletin in March, 1950, the study was reprinted in leaflet form and can be 
obtained from the Society. - 
For the past two years Harry had been working on a Distributional Bird 
List of the State of Illinois, in cooperation with the Illinois State Museum 
in Springfield. In January of this year he turned his records over to the 
Museum for completion. 
After so many years of leadership in the Society’s work, Harry Smith 
will be greatly missed. At the time of this writing, he and Marie were 
rambling up and down the coast of California, trying to decide whether to 
settle on the Coast, or in Prescott, Arizona, where they have relatives. We 
hope that they aren’t going to miss that little grand-daughter back in 
Evanston too desperately, and that wherever they decide to make their home 
they will find happiness and good birding. 
604 Ravine Ave., Lake Bluff, Illinois 
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