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J.E. Johnston, Editor: Membership $3.00 (Hrlrampr PUBLISHED BY Great Lakes Model Shipbuilders' Guild BELLE ISLE DETROIT 7, MICHIGAN R. H. Davison, Associate Editor Subscription $2.^0 Supported in part by the Detroit Historical Society. EDITORIAL LEST WE FORGET We have built a wonderful world. A wonderful push-button world, of ease and comfort, and wealth beyond the dreams of men of a hundred years ago, or even eighty years ago when the first iron-hull bulk carrier began an era the end of which we cannot yet see. Out of the economies that stemmed from modern methods of transportation,* and manufacturing technique, but principally transportation techniques, since manufactures, without transportation are of little value. What we, as a community, and as a nation owe to Great Lakes Shipping men is beyond computation. SURE - they have all been paid well for their services. Some of them have amassed millions for their contribution to progress. Let us be grateful for a form of government, and a way of life, that permits such things. But you know, as I know, that money alone is poor pay for a life of service. The greatest remuneration, the most satisfying recompense for service is recognition. There is no man with soul so dead that he is not made a better man for having received for his life*s work,the recognition of his fellow man. Deny him that and he, of necessity, turns to material rewards, and material rewards only, as a selfjustification. Recognition for service to society can only be evaluated in terms of what has gone on before. The preservation of what has gone on before, we call history, and history is Society's memory and the mother of Society's tradition. Without traditions no society has prospered. While we have been developing a pushbutton world, what have we been producing in the way of men. Marquette, and Jackson, hold part of the answer, in Michigan. I ask you: Had those men there, at Marquette and at Jackson possessed honorable traditions to live up to, would they be where they are today? Our traditions shape our code of ethics, and unless we preserve traditions, and histories, of the good and the great, we are in danger of losing goodness and greatness. Somehow, a very important part o'f our national history has almost passed unnoticed - - the history of the development of shipping on the Great Lakes. We have a literature on the winning of the West; on the California Gold Rush, and that of the Klondike. We have a literature on the Atlantic seaboard colonies, and on the South but where is our literature on the Great Lakes Region, and what would our United States be without this region. Pause a moment and reflect upon this, will you please. See page 16. THE GUI ID ORGANIZED IN 1952 TO LOCATE. ACQUIRE. AND PRESERVE INFORMATION AND OBJECTS RELATED TO THE HISTORY OF SHIPPING ON THE GREAT LAKES AND TO MAKE SAME AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC THROUGH THE MUSEUM OF GREAT LAKES HISTORY AND THE COLUMNS OF TELESCOPE. THE CONSTRUCTION OF AUTHENTIC SCALE MODELS OF GREAT LAKES SHIPS IS ONE OF THE PRIME OBJECTIVES OF THE ORGANIZATION. WHICH HAS BROUGHT INTO BEING THE LARGEST EXISTING COLLECTION OF MODELS OF THESE SHIPS. THE MUSEUM OF GREAT LAKES HISTORY. LOCATED ON THE SHORE OF BELLE ISLE. IN DETROIT. IS OFFICIAL HEADQUARTERS FOR THE ORGANIZATION AND THE REPOSITORY OF ALL OF ITS HOLDINGS. THE GUILD IS INCORPORATED AS AN ORGANIZATION FOR NO PROFIT UNDER THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN. NO MEMBER RECEIVES ANY COMPENSATION FOR HIS SERVICES. DONATIONS TO THE GUILD ARE DEDUCTIBLE FOR TAX INCOME PURPOSES. ------- -----la.anw...aw I fay OFFICERS Robert L.Ruhl........President John K.Helgesen.Sr Vice President Joseph E.Johnston, Secy-Treas. DIRECTORS Robert H.Davison.....Ferndale. Walter Massey,.....LaSalle,Ontario. John F.Miller,... Grosse Pointe . Leo M.Flagler, Windsor.Ontario. Carl G.Ammon, Detroit. Frank Slyker,. East Detroit.