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Telescope Editor Gordon P. Bugbee Associate Editors Otto Strek William A. Hoey Robert E. Lee Vessel List Editor Rev. Edward J. Dowling, S. J. Photographic Editor Emory A. Massman, Jr. The Great Lakes Maritime Institute, Inc., promotes interest in the Great Lakes of North America; preserves relics, records, pictures and memorabilia related to these lakes; encourages the building of scale models of Great Lakes ships; and furthers the program of the Dossin Great Lakes Museum, the repository ctf Institute holdings. The issues of Telescope, monthly journal of the Institute, seek to stimulate inquiry and discussion and to place a record in public hands. Subscription to Telescope is included in membership rights in the Institute; single copies cost 354 each. Telescope welcomes an opportunity to consider manuscripts for publication. These should be addressed to "The Editors, Telescope. Great Lakes Maritime Institute, Dossin Great Lakes Museum, Belle Isle, Detroit 7, Michigan. The editors cannot assume responsibility for the statements made by authors. Other correspondence with the Institute should be addressed to the Coordinating Director at the above address, or may be made by telephone at LO 7-7441. The Great Lakes Maritime Institute was organized in 1952 as the Great Lakes Model Shipbuilders' Guild. The Institute is incorporated as an organization for no profit under the laws of the State of Michigan. No member receives any remuneration for services rendered. Donations to the Institute have been ruled deductible by the Internal Revenue Service. Membership in the Institute, by the calendar year, is available in these forms: Regular Membership........... S 4 annually Contributing Membership.... 5 annually Sustaining Membership......... 10 annually Life Membership..................... S 100 The Institute is supported in part by the Detroit Historical Society. Cover Illustration April Meeting: BUSINESS MEETING of the Board of Directors. General membership invited. Friday, April 27, at 8 p. m., at the Dossin Museum. May Meeting: Our speaker will be Neil Morrison, who will tell "A Tale of Two Captains." Mr. Morrison is well known in marine circles, and best known as the author of the history of Windsor and Essex County, Ontario, Garden Gateway to Canada. The meeting will be Friday, May 26, at 8 p. m., at the Dossin Museum. Meeting Notices The Scotch origins of Robert Hopkin, the Detroit marine and landscape painter, are clearly evident in this ink portrait (13" x 16" framed). With a jaunty set to his tam-o'-shanter, Hopkin "looks as if he had just come from a curling match," as one viewer was prompted to comment. This portrait is the work of Thomas May, veteran artist of the old Detroit Journa1, drawn in 1899 for Hopkin's grandson, Arthur Hopkin Gibson, to whom it still belongs. Gibson is the author of a recently-published biography of Hopkin. Based upon this book, the Dossin Museum will open a special exhibit of Hopkin's work on April 14, running through mid-June. (See article in this issue, page 78.)