Official Publication of the ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF PARK DISTRICTS ILLINOIS PARK AND RECREATION SOCIETY OFFICERS OFFICERS President ALLAN A. WEISSBURG Commissioner, Skokie President: MICHAEL S. POPE Elmhurst President-Elect: WEBSTER D. WILEY Commissioner, Kewanee President-Elect: JACK WHITE Champaign Past President: MICHAEL J. CASSIDY Commissioner, Freeport Past President: ERNEST W, NANCE Park Ridge Vice Presidents: HENRY C. DEIHL Commissioner, Salt Creek Rural Secretary: MARILYN WOLF Homewood-Flossmoor TIM G. SOLDWEDEL Commissioner, Pekin BARBARA WILLIAMS Commissioner, Olympia Fields Treasurer: STEVE RISER Freeport Treasurer: HAROLD C. HAWKINS BOARD MEMBERS Trustee, Springfield Sergeant at Arms: JACK CLAES Elk Grove FERDINAND C. ARNDT Commissioner, Des Plaines ROBYN GLICK Naperville BOARD OF DIRECTORS NATE DIXON Champaign GEORGE KOSTOPOULOS Commissioner, Carol Stream JIM TALLEY Oak Park RAYMOND J. LINDBLAD Commissioner, Joliet JACK FOGEL Rock Island PAUL E. ROBERTS Commissioner, Central Area, Maywood JERRY OAKES Waukegan DOROTHEA WEIGAND Commissioner, Naperville FRANK LUPTON Macomb EDWARD J. ROSEWELL Commissioner, Chicago WILLIAM O'BRIEN Carbondale JERRY HANDLON Napervitle ERWIN ROMKE Board Member, Kane County Forest Preserve DONALD WIRTH Evanston PETER TRENCHARD Commissioner, Deerfield JAMES HOHM, Therapeutic Dixon JAMES CUMMINGS Trustee, Peoria ED HAAG, Student Western Illinois University EXECUTIVE STAFF Eugene Berghoff, Executive Vice President, IAPD and Managing Editor Robert A. Stuart, General Counsel, IAPD Bill Bodine, Accountant, IAPD Kay F. Kastel, Executive Secretary, IPRS and Editor Marilyn Walters, Office Services Specialist

COVER Spring has sprung. The grass has riz'. I wonder where the flowers is. (Photo Courtesy: Kemper Insurance, Long Grove, Illinois) MAY-JUNE 1974 Vol. V, No. 3 Kay F. Kastel, Editor CONTENTS FEATURES Energy Short Recreation ........ 4 Investing ................... 6 Woman Umpire .............. 10 Education . . . Certification = ... 12 Winning Combination .......... 14 South Suburban Gets Involved ... 16 Linear Recreation ............. 24 Status of Bike Facility ........ 32 DEPARTMENTS From desk of V.P. ........... 3 Society Notes ............... 3 Legal and Legislative .......... 8 Position Referral ............. 15 What's up with Students ...... 23 News Briefs ................. 27 People ..................... 28 Associate Members ........... 35 SOCIETY HEADQUARTERS AND EDITORIAL OFFICE 600 E. Algonquin Rd. DesPlaines, Illinois 60016 Society phone (312) 297-6261 ASSOCIATION HEADQUARTERS Suite 206 St. George Bldg. 300 East Monroe Street Springfield, Ill. 62701 Association phone (217) 523-4554 JOINT COMMITTEE Ernest Nance, Chairman Michael Pope Jack White Michael Cassidy Al Weissburg Webster Wiley ILLINOIS PARKS AND RECREATION is published bimonthly at Springfield, Illinois by the Illinois Association of Park Districts and the Illinois Park and Recreation Society. Subscription per year: Domestic $5.00; Foreign, $6.00. Single copies, $1.00 each. Second class postage paid at Springfield, Illinois.