Date: 2/1/26 10:24 am From: Max Thompson <maxt...> Subject: History
While reading some of the past. Bulletins I came across the bulletin in March 1957 that had the following passage.
- The Kansas Ornithological Society has a serious problem; its present financial condition prohibits increase in size of the Bulletin and may in fact force us to curtail our publication. We think that most of the members of this society agree that continued publication of the Bulletin is necessary to the existence of the organization in a formal and significant sense. We hope that you, as members, will act now to strengthen the society financially. There are several pathways open by which this can be done: enlistment of new members, encouragement of former members to rejoin the society, gifts of money, and increase of numbers of sustaining members. Unless we act now, we may be forced to the next alternative-increase of dollars.-Eds.
The dues at that time were $2.00 per person. We haven't increased dues much since that time. There were times when we could not pay our bills until the dues came in. We have come a long way since then. We now have much larger bulletins and color thanks to our present and past editors and gifts of two estates to our endowment that have kept our dues VERY low.
Max ThompsonKOS Treasurer
