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December TELESCOPE 266 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 MEETING, Friday, January 28, 1966, Dossin Museum, 8 p.m. A pro- gram of entertainment will be fea- tured. NOTES Editorial help not acknowledged on the masthead is that of Suzette Worden, who has pitched in on the writing of recent news columns when Peter Worden's working hours have left him pressed for time. CURATORB CORNER BY ROBERT E. LEE ...Time for lay-up. Soon there'll be ice floating down the river, and the winter quiet will have set in. Looking back, it's been a good season for us. Thanks to the great effort of the Institute and generos- ity of a lot of people, we obtained the Gothic Room of City of Detroit III. We've made many new friends, and Institute membership is higher now than when we reported a year ago. Museum attendance is down a little. But, then, we haven't been able to have any special exhibits since the room usually used for that purpose is closed for marshaling the seven-odd tons of Gothic Room parts. Last month our column space was given over to something we were mighty proud of...the letter inform- ing the Institute that it was the recipient of an award from American Association for State and Local His- tory "for a broad program of support of the history of the development of COVER: Our usual Christmas "ship's bell" theme here becomes a knell for Canada Steamship Lines' cruises from Montreal to the Saguenay and lower St. Lawrence. Last Séptember Bill Worden photographed Tadoussac's bell and hurricane deck shortly after the ship's whistle had tested its echo against the cliffside of Cape Trin- ity for the last time. New Canadian inspection regulations will bar pas- senger.ships with wooden superstruc- tures. So Canada Steamship Lines has announced its withdrawal from passenger services.' Thus pass North America's last active overnight steamers with "guards," a type once predominent on Lakes Ontario and Erie, the St. Lawrence and the East Coast. For views of Tadoussac's mateS, St. Lawrence and Richelieu, see Bill Moss' drawings in Telescope for April, 1965; Great Lakes shipping." It should be well recognized that this award came first as a result of Telescope maga- zine, and that means it is an award to your editor, Gordon Bugbee, and to the contributors who all make it what it is. The award also came as a result of the Gothic Room project in the Museum, and of the Institute role in it. This means recognition of Bill Worden and Bill Hoey, who sparked the effort, and to every one of you who supported it handsomely. Earlier in the year, the propeller Club, Port of Detroit, gave us cups and saucers and a revolving fund, so that the Museum can entertain with refreshments when the occasion calls for it. The Museum has gained another em- ployee this year, and that has made a great difference in the work load. Everybody has gained a bit of time to do things that weren't getting done before. Once again, from all of us, Pat Labadie, Roy Vandekerckhove, Maurice Jackson, Andy Waters, Joe Gasvoda, Paul Colleta, and our Ruth: to some of you a Merry Christmas, to some of you a Happy Hannukah, and to all of you the very best in 1966!