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TELESCOPE November 243 MEETING NOTICES BUSINESS MEETING, Friday, January 7, 1966, Dossin Museum, 8 p.m. As is customary, visitors are welcome to these Institute Board meetings. GENERAL NEETING, Friday, January 28, 1966, Dossin Museum, 8 p.m. A pro- gram of entertainment will be fea- tured. At the general meeting of November 19, Harry Wolf presented his slide program, "Down the St. Lawrence to Quebec." Mr. Wolf is of course the ship's photographer for South Ameri- can, and favored Dossin Museum with an exhibition of his color photo- graphs of lake ports and subjects several years ago. NOTES We are both very proud and very grateful for the recent honors which the letter on the opposite page con- veyed to the Institute from American Association for State and Local His- tory. While the citation recognizes the "broad program of support of the history of the development of Great Lakes Shipping," we understand that the recent Gothic Room campaign did much to bring the Institute this attention. The award was presented officially at Detroit's Local His- tory Conference at the end of Octo- ber. Institute President Bob Radunz was there to receive it, along with Father Dowling who st for recog- nition. Cover: Pere Marquette 4 approaching her dock at Nanistee, around 1905. Photo courtesy of Manistee County Historical Society. See page 244 for John Derler's article on the Pere Marquette Line Steamers. Illustration above: A view of Lake Gakona, from a drawing. During the First World War, illustrations like this were given to crew members of the ships. Photo courtesy of Louis Menard. See the continuing list of World War I Lakers, Part 8, p. 250.