Official Publication of the ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF PARK DISTRICTS ILLINOIS PARK AND RECREATION SOCIETY OFFICERS OFFICERS President: WEBSTER D. WILEY Commissioner, Kewanee President: JACK WHITE Champaign President-Elect: HENRY C. DEIHL Commissioner, Salt Creek Rural President-Elect: RICHARD JOHNS Glenview Past President: ALLAN A. WEISSBURG Commissioner, Skokie Past President: MICHAEL POPE Elmhurst Vice Presidents: GEORGE KOSTOPOULOS Commissioner, Carol Stream Secretary: THOMAS HALL Wilmette TIM G. SOLDWEDEL Commissioner, Pekin PETER TRENCHARD Commissioner, Deerfield BOARD MEMBERS Treasurer: HAROLD C. HAWKINS Trustee, Springfield JOE H. DOUD Northbrook Sergeant at Arms: FERDINAND C. ARNDT Commissioner, Des Plaines DAVE MARKWORTH Des PIaines BOARD OF DIRECTORS STEVE GONZALEZ Dundee Township BARBARA ALTWIES Skokie PAUL E. ROBERTS Commissioner, Central Area, Maywood ROBERT HUMKE Champaign DOROTHEA WEIGAND Commissioner, Naperville EDWARD J. ROSEWELL Commissioner, Chicago ELENA RUANE Palatine DAVE SNIDER Peoria ERWIN ROMKE Board Member, Kane County Forest Preserve DONALD E. PILGER Deerfield JAMES CUMMINGS Trustee, Peoria ROBERT DUNSMUIR Wheaton BARBARA WILLIAMS Commissioner, Olympia Fields JAMES TALLEY Oak Park GERALD E. WERNICK Commissioner, Rockford ROBERT EMS Canton PATRICIA LEONHARD Commissioner, Champaign HAROLD E. BROWN Granite City MANNY HOFFMAN Commissioner, Homewood-Flossmoor FRANK WAIDE, Therapeautic Branch Madden Zone Center DONALD EARLEY Commissioner, West Chicago JOHN BRUNS, Student Branch Western Illinois University EXECUTIVE STAFF Eugene Berghoff, Executive Vice President, IAPD and Managing Editor Robert A. Stuart, General Counsel, IAPD Kay F. Kastel, Executive Secretary, IPRS and Editor Bill Bodine, Accountant, IAPD Marilyn Walters, Office Services Specialist

COVER Spring is beginning to bud in the Wheaton Park District's Northside Park. (Photo courtesy of the Wheaton Park District.) MARCH/ APRIL 1975 VOL. VI, No. 2 Kay F. Kastel Forest, Editor CONTENTS FEATURES Save A Tree ................. 4 Arbor Day Highlights .......... 5 The Play is the Thing .......... 6 Community Concerns .......... 10 Creative Playgrounds .......... 12 Vandalism .................. 14 Swimming for Mentally Retarded ..... 24 Changing Jobs ............... 26 DEPARTMENTS Legal and Legislative ......... 8 Survey ..................... 15 From the desk of VP .......... 23 Society Notes ............... 23 IPRS Lecture Series ........... 28 People and News ............. 32 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 Allan Weissburg, Chairman Webster Wiley Henry Deihl Paul Roberts Michael Pope Jack White Richard Johns Joe Doud 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.