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TELESCOPE Page 62 MEMBERSHIP NOTES e Lag-time -- that period required between the preparation and production of Telescope makes it difficult to be up to date in these reports, but it is something we can't help. This is being written on March 19 -- you'll read it after May 1. By that time this will be "old news."' However, you'll note that this issue carries the name of Kathy McGraw as Editor. We have been working toward this for a bit more than six months, and now it is time for her to take full hold. Your former Editor, now "Editorial Advisor," steps down after eleven full years. During that time we have given you an index, color-photo covers, and professional typesetting. Output has been im- pressive -- 67 issues, totaling 2,172 pages, plus specials like D-II, Seaway Salties, and Edmund Fitzgerald -- 1957 - 1975. Now we are retiring (or may have retired by the time you read this). We have tried to set stan- dards that will outlast us. We have tried to train a successor that can keep up the standards, and we believe she will -- with your help. We have enjoyed every minute of it. Robert E.Lee MEETING NOTICES e@ A CORRECTION -- The May entertainment meeting was shown as May 20 in the last issue. This is wrong. . .it should be May 30, 8:00 pm, Dossin Museum. There is no meeting in July, and the Annual Dinner Meeting will be held September 12. Special notice of that meeting will be sent to all members in the Detroit area. Those outside that area should request information and send a self-addressed stamped envelope. Business meetings will be held on June 27 and August 22 (to avoid Labor Day weekend). The election of officers takes place at the June meeting. All meetings are at Dossin Museum at 8:00 pm. CONTENTS e Membership Notes, Meeting Dates, etc. 62 The Self Unloaders of Sturgeon Bay Paul G. Wiening 63 Recollections of a Master Mariner Capt. Howard L. Shaw 69 Great Lakes & Seaway News Edited by Frederic E. Weber 17 Cartoon "Emergency Repairs" Bob Hopkins 19 The Victory Ship Mesologi George Ayoub 82 oO 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. . .The R. E. MOODY is shown passing through the double-leaf bascule bridge at Alpena, Michigan. The ship is one of those featured in this month's lead article on the self unloaders of Sturgeon Bay, beginning on page 63. The photo is from a postcard in the Dossin Museum collection O Telescope is produced with assistance from the Dossin Great Lakes Museum, an agency of the Historical Department of the City of Detroit.