EDITOR'S LOG
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HARVEY GAMAGE Plying the New England Coast and the West Indies trade, the HARVEY GAMAGE accommodates 34 passengers in airy, private staterooms. For further information phone or write to: HARVEY GAMAGE Dept. SH, 39 Waterside Lanâ‚Ź Clinton, Conn. 06413
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The Society's headquarters building and pier at Fulton Ferry Landing in Brooklyn, New York, nestled between th e Brooklyn Bridge on the north and Port Authority Pier I on the south, with the East River running by the doorstep. Your editor forty yea rs ago came down here to paint pictures of visiting cargo ships with his father. Paintings of one ship, Carabobo, done from the shelter of a NY Dock Railway freight car on a rainy Sunday afternoon, still survive. The old ship is long gone but lately, looking up from his work, the editor saw the stern of a new Carabobo through the window, in from South America. Our Vice Presidents John Thurman and Karl Kortum also maintain offices for the Society in Washington (c/o W . R. Grace & Co.) and San Francisco (at the National Maritime Museum). And we like to think, indeed, the Society exists wherever a member does . That would mean the Society is all over the place, with members in all the states and 33 countries abroad. On May 23 Trustees of the Society meeting here unanimously resolved that future elections will be by vote of the
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whole membership, so recognizing the member as the mainstay of our work. This will have more meaning as we get on to regional organization and chapters abroad under the aegis of the World Ship Project, as we earnestly intend to do . We have long sea miles to go in this work, but with that resolution, the course is set. Following the meeting, many members went back across the river in South Street Seaport Muse um 's 1885 sc hooner Pioneer, come over to be in company for the evening. It was pitch black and pouring rain, the city lights dim and seeming distant. You feel the prese nce of ghosts on the river on such a night, and, in such company, you feel a lso among young dreams of things that haven ' t happened yet. PS
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