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TELESCOPE Page 30 MEMBERSHIP NOTES @ The Institute would like to welcome Mr. John F. Polacsek of Ohio, who will succeed Robert Lee as curator of the Dossin Great Lakes Museum. Mr. Polacsek's interest in the history of the Great Lakes is highlighted by two major research projects. The first research project was from 1972 to 1974, when he acted as chief researcher on a survey of all known shipwrecks in Michigan coastal waters. The subsequent investigation of each wreck was done in order to give the sponsor, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources some idea of the historical treasures on the state's bottomlands. The research was performed primarily at the Center for Archival Collections in Bowling Green, Ohio under the direction of Dr. Richard J. Wright. Research proceedures were developed and a computer information retrieval system was implemented to facilitate the indent- fication of unknown wrecks. A similar study was compiled in 1979 for the Ohio Department of Natural Resources. This preliminary study was not as extensive and the major Great Lakes collections provided the neces- sary historical data for the study and denoted type, date of wreck and location of casualty. At the present time he is researching the history of amusement shows, circuses and theatrical companies which traveled on the waterways of America in search of an audience. MEETING NOTICES @ Dr. Richard Wright will be the guest. speaker at this month's entertainment meeting (see notice on page 55). The next entertainment meeting will be on Friday, May 29, 1981. We will have a program of member's slides. You age invited to bring up to 10 slides dealing with our theme "Ships on the Detroit River'. We will'have carousels available for projection. More next month. Business meetings are scheduled for April 24 and June 26, 1981. All meetings are at 8:00 p.m. at the Dossin Museum. Be CONTENTS © Membership notes, meeting dates, etc. 30 The Wreck of the William Barnum Dr. Charles E. Feltner 31 Rx for Stability: Add Sponsons Wayne Garrett 38 Detroit's Fireboat: Curtis Randolph Patience Nauta & Kathy McGraw 41 Great Lakes & Seaway News Edited by Frederic Weber 48 March Meeting Notice : 55 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 D. G. Kerr, one of the last standard 600-footers on the Lakes. She was built in 1916 for the Pittsburgh Steamship Company and was transferred to U.S. Steel corporation in 1952. She was sold overseas for scrap last fall and sank in the Atlantic Ocean while being towed. (See news section on December 12.) This photo was taken by Paul LaMarre, Jr. while the Kerr was upbound in the Detroit River in May, 1975. Telescope is produced with assistance from the Dossin Great Lakes Museum, an agency of the Historical Department of the City of Detroit.