Commissioner Frank Whitney, Springfield, welcomes delegates to Springfield. At table, left to right: Mayor Charles Wellner, Naperville, First Vice-President, IML; Whitney, standing; Mayor Leo Struif, Alton, President, IML; Dr. Richard Paul Graebel, First Presbyterian Church, Springfield, who gave invocation, and Mayor Milton Lundstrom, Rockford.

Mayor Milton Lundstrom, Rockford, presiding at Report of Home Rule Committee session of Convention. At table, left to right, Mayor Leo Morrison, Galesburg; Village President John Noel, Mundelein; Mayor O. Lloyd Welsh, Bloomington; Village President Dan Kulie, Brookfield; Lundstrom; Village President J. Russell Christianson, Oak Park; Mayor Ernest L. Hoagland, Jacksonville; Mayor Paul Johnson, Moline, all members of Home Rule Committee, and Dr. Gilbert Y. Steiner of the University of Illinois, Consultant to the Committee.

William H. Winterhoff, Supervisor, Thornton Township, Lansing, and Sergeant-at-Arms of the League for 25 years, is pictured receiving a token of appreciation from Mayor Leo Struif, Alton, President, IML.

Left to right: Mayor Paul Johnson, Moline, Past President, IML; John Kerstetter, Assistant Director, American Municipal Association, Chicago; Thomas A. Matthews, Legal Consultant, IML; E. J. Thiele, former Village President, Hillside, and Past President, IML; Mayor Leo Morrison, Galesburg.

Registering for Convention: Left to right, Mayor Leo Struif, Alton, President, IML; Village President Harry J. Smith, River Grove, and Mayor Virgil Lafferty, Champaign.

Left to right: Ilion Wait Crabel, City Clerk, Chillicothe; Laura S. Geffert, Village Clerk, Downers Grove; Margaret Ruth, City Clerk, Macomb; Elsie Sullivan, Village Clerk, Westchester; Melba Pierson, City Clerk, Batavia; Lueva McHugh, City Clerk Freeport, and Eda Zimmerman, City Clerk, Rolling Meadows.

Left to right: Claire Congdon, City Manager, East Moline; Mayor Charles Olsen, East Moline; Village President John Noel, Mundelein; Frank Pfeifer, Legislative Counsel, IML; Mayor T. J. Trogdon, Jr., Paris.

Left to right: Vernon Lucas, City Clerk, Collinsville; O. Mack Wagner, City Clerk, Springfield; Irene B. Moore, City Clerk, Vandalia; Mrs. Cecil Smith and Mayor Cecil Smith, Vandalia; Esther Hoffman, City Treasurer, Vandalia and Luke Lavin, City Comptroller, Springfield.

At Annual Luncheon: Left to right: Mayor Leo Struif, Alton, retiring President, IML; Mayor Ben West, Nashville, Tennessee, First Vice-President American Municipal Association.

Left to right: Robert "Bob" Young, Acting Executive Director, Associated General Contractors of Illinois; Village President W. R. Armes, Roxana; E. W. Busch, Supervisor, Social Security Unit, State Employees' Retirement System of the State of Illinois; Thomas Harvey, Field Engineer, Local Roads Bureau of State Highway Department; William Dutelle, Chief Engineer of the Local Roads of the State Highway Department; D. R. Connor, Local Roads Bureau, State Highway Department; Lewis Talerico, Village Trustee, Bridgeview; A. E. Thomas, Executive Secretary, Illinois Black Top Roads Association.

Left to right: Fred Anderson, Village Attorney, Westmont, newly elected State Representative; Peter Bertellotti, Trustee, Westmont; William A. Robinson, Village President, Westmont; George Comerford, Comptroller, Joliet; H. R. Goodspeed, City Engineer, Joliet.

Round Table Discussions—Clerks' Section

William Winterhoff, Supervisor, Thornton Township, Lansing, Sergeant-at-Arms of the IML, (left) greets Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Ray Klingbiel, former Mayor of East Moline and Past President, IML.

A few of the delegates from Calumet City

Left to right: Mayor Virgil Lafferty, Champaign, newly elected First Vice-President, IML; Mayor Charles Wellner, Naperville, newly elected President, IML; Mayor Leo Struif, Alton, retiring President, IML; William H. Winterhoff, Supervisor, Thornton Township, Lansing, Sergeant-at-Arms of the IML.

Left to right: Mayor John Heaton, West Frankfort; Mayor Lester Cunningham, Beividere; Richard McRoberts, Superintendent of Streets, Springfield; '"Bud" Schumanski, Department of Streets, Springfield; Robert Blake, Alderman, Beividere; Mayor William Cunningham, Pinckneyville; Jake Bender, Commissioner, Pinckneyville; Village President Evert Schultz, Lansing.

Left to right: Commissioner Frank Whitney, Springfield; Tom Stevenson, Alderman, Murphysboro; C. Harold Eash, Village Manager, Brookfield; Mayor Joe E. Williams, Murphysboro; Mayor Ernest L. Hoagland, Jacksonville, Past President, IML.

Left to right: Eugene Vestal, Alderman, Rockford; Mayor Milton Lundstrom, Rockford; Harry Kluge, Madison County Superintendent of Highways; Orville Oglesby, Village Trustee, East Alton; Mayor H. B. Blanchard, Centralia; Charles Allison, Administrative Assistant to the Lieutenant Governor of Illinois, and Publisher, Illinois County and Township Officials'; Troy Kost, Assistant Director of Department of Public Works and Buildings of Illinois; S. E. Farin, Engineer, U. S. Department of Local Roads; Herman Danforth, Director of Public Works, Rockford.

Left to right: G. E. Rynerson, Field Engineer, Portland Cement Association, Springfield; O. T. Banton, Decatur Herald-Review, Decatur; Jack Parker, O'Connor Construction Company, Springfield; E. A. Rosenstone, Director of the Department of Public Works and Buildings of the State of Illinois; W. W. Wallace, Chief Engineer, Portland Cement Association, Chicago; Milo Flickinger, Springfield; G. H. Sharp, Engineer, Warren and Van Praag, Decatur; Village President Norman G. Holdt, Beecher.

Table Discussion, Clerks' Section.

Left to right: Mayor Clarence Sablotny, Decatur: Walter Terwelp, Alderman, Quincy; Mayor Paul Woods, Canton; Ed Paul, Commissioner, Charleston.

Left to right: G. F. Yanke, Alderman, LaSalle; Edmund Callahan, Alderman, LaSalle; Genevieve Kudla, City Clerk, LaSalle; A. A. Gunia, Alderman, LaSalle; Mayor B. D. Bruno, LaSalle.

Speakers' Table, Annual Luncheon (a portion of the table is shown) left to right: William H. Winterhoff, Supervisor, Thornton Township, Lansing, Sergeant-at-Arms, IML; Mayor Paul Johnson, Moline, Past President, IML; Chief Justice of Supreme Court Ray Klingbiel, former Mayor, East Moline, Past President, IML; Mayor Virgil Lafferty, Champaign, newly elected First Vice-President, IML; standing, A. L. Sargent, Executive Director, IML; Mayor Leo Struif, Alton, retiring President, IML; Mayor Ben West, Nashville, Tennessee, luncheon speaker; Mayor Charles Wellner, Naperville, newly elected President, IML, and Rev. Joseph Murray, Springfield.