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EDITORIAL PAGE EXPANSION PROGRAM of the MUSEUM OF GREAT LAKES HISTORY This month we present the expansion program of the Museum of Great Lakes History in as much detail as space will permit. This project has long had top priority with the Guild, and now has the support of several other groups in the City of Detroit and the State of Michigan, including The Marine Historical Society of Detroit, The Algonquin Club, The Historical Society of Michigan, and several others. Letters to the Chairman of the Detroit Historical Commission, endorsing the program, have been received from all of these organizations, or are being prepared at this time, by them, for presentation in the near future. Our thanks to all of them. Within recent years much has been done in the field of Great Lakes History by individuals, but there has been no co-ordination of effort, and no central repository for collections of documents and objects where they could be made available to the public under the supervision of a competent custodian with adequate facilities for their protection. The Burton Collection of the Detroit Public Library has accumulated a considerable number of documents but no objects other than a few pictures, and there is no member of their staff who is a specialist in Great Lakes History. With the facilities outlined in this number of the Telescope we may, at last, hope to see justice done this very important part of Amercian History. We have included here a plan of the museum deck of the schooner "Wing11 to show how impossible it is to proceed further in the development of a maritime museum, without these facilities, and this only partly tells the story. The museum files, drafting room, and preparatory shop are even more crowded. The Detroit Historical Commission has indicated its interest in seeing the program carried out. Let us all work with them. ---------o------ -- AS A REMINDER Our entire program for 1955 depends upon the prompt payment of dues early in January. Dues are payable on January 1, and your prompt attention to this detail will make our work very much easier. J. E. Johnston Secretary-Treasurer.