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MAY x JUN, 1979 Page 58 MEMBERSHIP NOTES This summer promises to be a banner season for Belle Isle when the community commemorates the Island's Centennial. A number of civic events are planned, and Dossin Museum will have a special exhibit. Unfortunately, though, some of the "civic events" close off part of the Island and, even more unfortunate, it will be the part of the Island we occupy. It seems that each year there is one or more "special" days, or foot race, or bicycle race. . .or something. . .when the south side of the Island has to be closed, and access to the Dossin Museum is denied! We've complained, but evidently not enough others have because the powers that be continue to do it. There are much better places than Belle Isle to hold these traffic-crushing events, and we hope that one of the Centennial Birthday presents given the Island will be an end to this mis-use of a lovely facility. It is high time we stop denying 100,000 people use of Belle Isle so a thousand or less can ride around all day in a circle O MEETING NOTICES The next membership meeting is scheduled for May 18, at 8:00 pm, at the Dossin Museum. There is no meeting in July. The next general membership activity will be the Annual Diner, at the Detroit Boat Club on September 14. Details of this meeting are mailed to Detroit area mem- bers, but not to those assumed too distant to attend. If you live out of the Detroit-metro area and want details, send a self-addressed stamped envelope to us and we'll see that you get them. Business meetings are scheduled at Dossin Museum, at 8:00 pm, on the following dates: June 29 (Election of officers), August 24, and October 30, 1979. CONTENTS Membership notes, Meeting dates, Etc. 58 The Sinking of the Wokoken Jack Messmer 59 Fitzgerald -- The Last Word? From The Federal Register 62 The First Puritan Edward N. Middleton 63 An Ode to the New Breed William Hewig II 76 Great Lakes & Seaway News Edited by Frederic E. Weber 177 The Liberty Ship Ever Life George Ayoub 82 Published at Detroit, Michigan by the GREAT LAKES MARITIME INSTITUTE ©All rights reserved Printed in the United States by Macomb Printing Specialties OUR COVER PICTURE. . .Incase you might have forgotten (now that we're into summer) it gets cold in winter. This photo was tasken by Capt. Bill Hoey, in December, 1978 on the WILLIAM CLAY FORD while the ship was anchored in Whitefish Bay to wait out bad weather and severe winds. She was Duluth-bound. Telescope Magazine is produced with assistance from the Dossin Great Lakes Museum an agency of the Historical Department of the City of Detroit.