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Hey Everybody,

The next UASC meeting is coming up fast, this Wednesday the 29th of May, at the Chicago Maritime Society space on the 6th floor of the Helix Building, 310 S. Racine at Jackson. As usual, light refreshments will start at 6:30, business at 7:00, and the guest speaker around 8:00.

This month our guest speaker will be Ted Karamanski, who will be presenting on the Great Lakes Sailing Vessels of the War of 1812. He is working on a history of the Great Lakes region, specifically a history of Lake Michigan, particularly a cultural and environmental history, book length.  Dr. Karamanski  is a Professor of History at Loyola University Chicago where he teaches courses in American Indian history, the Civil War, and public history. Karamanski has been a leading and national voice in the promotion of American and public history for more than three decades.  He was the founder and later director of Loyola’s Public History Program, the first such program in the Midwest and later the first to offer the Ph.D. in public history.   For a full biography on Dr. Karamanski, see http://luc.edu/history/people/facultyandstaffdirectory/theodorekaramanski.shtml

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Hey Everybody,

The next UASC meeting is coming up fast, this Wednesday the 24th of April, at the Chicago Maritime Society space on the 6th floor of the Helix Building, 310 S. Racine at Jackson. As usual, light refreshments will start at 6:30, business at 7:00, and the guest speaker around 8:00.

This month our guest speaker will be Richard Lanyon, presenting on the History of the Sanitary and Ship Canal. Richard Lanyon has had a life long association with the waterways in and around Chicago. He grew up along the North Branch, attended the University of Illinois Navy Pier campus, worked as a beginning engineer on the Lake Diversion legal controversy and capped his working life with a 48‐year accomplishment with the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District. He enjoys biking along the waterways, Lake Michigan and hometown Evanston, Illinois neighborhoods where he lives with his wife Marsha Richman.

If anyone has any items that they would like added to the agenda, please let me know. ( If you have images to go with it, that is even better. )

For refreshments this month I know there will be a lot of food left over from Sunday's picnic out at Haigh Quarry, and then I think we would like one or two people to bring a pot-luck item just to fill in. So if you would like to contribute a dish or a snack, please contact Dan Kasberger, (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ), and he will let you know if it is your turn in April or May. ( As usual, UASC will provide the soft drinks, plates, cups, utensils, condiments, etc. )

See you there,

John