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April TELESCOPE 74 Coming Meetings BUSINESS MEETING Friday, June 26, 1964 Dossin Museum, 8 p.m. Our annual election of new officers will follow the disclosure of the results of the recent election of members to the Board of Directors. Visitors are welcome to these meetings of the Board of Directors. Annual bob-lo cruise Date to be announced (in July) Sailing 6 p.m., Foot of Woodward As has been customary in the past, we will join either of the good ships Columbia and Ste. Claire for an evening cruise to Bob-Lo Island and back. Come and join us. In This Issue Institute Page ........................ 74 The Lakers of World War I and their Predecessors, Part One, by Rev. E. J. Dowling, S. J. 75 Argo\ Steam Navigation Comes to the St. Clair River ............. 77 Book Review ........................... 79 Curator's Corner, by Robert E. Lee ................... 80 Great Lakes and Seaway News ........... 81 Institute Page Cover: Painting by Howard Sprague showing the early lake-built ocean steamer Mackinaw (see page 76). * * * Our publishing deadlines for Telescope have fallen so amiss that we owe our readers an explanation. Your editor's attention has been required on other matters until now. Most recently, he has been studying for part of his registration examinations for architects in the State of Michigan. A move to new quarters has also put his operations out of joint (for convenience of his regular correspondents, his address is now 442 Stuart Avenue, Kalamazoo, Michigan 49007; usual Telescope business should continue to go to the Dossin Museum as in the past). We earnestly hope that the coming summer may provide an opportunity to get caught up again...before your editor takes a proposed month's trip to Greece and Egypt in October. So we hope that you will bear with us. Our annual Seaway issue may appear as two months' combined issues. This will not only be for the obvious reason of catching up. It will also be for the reason that the Seaway issue is growing in size (it has always been larger than a regular issue), and promises to grow even larger in future years. Furthermore, it consumes several times the editing attention of a single issue, to say nothing of the work of its compilers, Don Baut and George Ayoub. This issue contains two issues' backlog of news, which we print now, rather than stand on ceremony and put it in its proper monthly slot in future issues. Should we be successful in maintaining shorter intervals for our editorial deadlines of coming issues, some issues will appear without news portions until we are back on our intended schedule. GORDON BUGBEE