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The Illinois State Historical Society Officers
President: Rand Burnette, Jacksonville
President Pro Tem: David Scott, Springfield
Treasurer: Arthur M Martin, Chicago
Directors
Directors, Terms Expire in 2003
Michael C. Batinski, Carbondale
Janet D. Cornelius, Penfield
Mary "Happy" Dean, Peoria
Francis Even, River Forest
Warren D. Winston, Pittsfield
Directors, Terms Expire in 2004
Norman C. Berger, Chicago
Timothy Draper, Sugar Grove
Mark Sorensen, Decatur
Patricia J. Walton, Hanover
Park John Week, Sycamore
Directors, Terms Expire in 2005
Leah J. Axelrod, Chicago
Herbert Channick, Rockfond
Redd Griffin, Oak Park
Russell Lewis, Chicago John Power, Jacksonville
Staff
Tom Teague, Executive Director
William Furry, Assistant Director
Sallie Brittin, Membership Secretary
Advisory Board 2002-2003
Charles E. Burgess, Bethalto
Charles A. Chapin, Chatham
Stephen Gharry, Oglesby
James P. Coble, Springfield
Alberta Conover, Springfield
Larry A. Douglas, Belknap
Marvin W. Ehlers, Deerfield
Stuart R. Fliege, Springfield
Wolf D. Fuhrig, Jacksonville
Gerald Lee Gutek, LaGrange
Jon Howard, Mount Vernon
D. Bradford Hunt, Chicago
Charlotte E. Johnson, Alton
Ellsworth Mills, Highland Park
Micheal Newton-Matza, Oak Park
John K. Notz, Chicago
Richard I. Pate, Danville
Craig Pfannkuche, Wonder Lake
Shirley Portwood, Godfrey
Theodore H. Wachholz, Arlington Heights
Joan B. Willenborg, Effingham
Living Past Presidents
Alexander Summers, San Diego, CA
Robert M. Sutton, Urbana
Gunnar Benson, Sterling
Donald F. Tingley, Savoy
Victor Hicken, Macomb
Katie Fiene Birchler, Chester
Samuel Lilly, Downers Grove
David J. Maurer, Charleston
Wilma Lund, Springfield
Patricia Wallace-Christian, Durham, CT
Mark A. Plummer, Normal
John T. Trutter, Northfield
E. Duane Libert, Lerna
Raymond E. Hauser, St. Charles
Patricia Grimmer, Carbondale
John Power, Jacksonville
Robert J. Klaus, Chicago
Michael J. McNerney, Carbondale
Robert McColley, Urbana
Barbara M. Posadas, DeKalb
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Illinois Heritage
March-April 2003 Volume 6 Number 2
Departments
3 President's Message
5 Letters
6 News
22 ISHS Bookshelf
Features
8 Minor-league miracles
The story of "Three-I" baseball, where champions and spitballs ruled
13 The Kaskaskia Reservation
14 Wayfaring stranger Burl Ives' "long and treacherous' journey home to Illinois
17 Percy's autograph book
Military student's keepsake opens window to the past
Review
20 Tidings of grief
In Brief
25 Suckers forever
26 Recent acquisitions
27 Old friends, new faces
To Our Readers
The winter of 2002-2003 is hsitory, the ice and snow that set the mood for February now only a March memory. Yet for some this season will stay frozen in time forever, just like the images in the photographs throughout this issue of . The Bloomington Bloomers baseball team, the anti-ERA demonstrators, folksinger/actor Burl Ives, the flood of '37, the Morgan Park Military Academy students, former ISHS president Irving L. Dillard — all have melted into our collective subconcious, become part of the broad canvas that tells our Illinois story. Other memories, such as the lost Kaskaskia Indian Reservation and John Ford's account of how Illinoisans came to be called "suckers," add color to the landscape and remind us how much of our history is slipping away. There are so many Illinois stories to tell; more are being written every day. Log them. Photograph them. Share them. Don't let them be forgotten. They are your Illinois heritage. Someday we hope you will make them part of ours.
WIlliam Furry
editor
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