UASC

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 e-mail 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

UASC Members:

Our next meeting is just around the corner, this Wednesday March 27th, at the Chicago Maritime Society museum space on the 6th floor of the Helix Building, 310 S. Racine at Jackson. Light refreshments will start at 6:30, business at 7:00, and the featured guest speaker around 8:00.

This month our featured speaker will be Kira Kaufman, who will be presenting on the survey work on Wrecks in Indiana Waters. With five years of supervisory experience in underwater archaeological techniques and research, and has conducted underwater archaeological survey, excavation, and documentation projects in the Midwest and Southeast United States, as well as in Ghana, Africa. Dr. Kaufmann has served in a supervisory capacity for a number of maritime‐related projects, for which she conducted survey, recovery, remote sensing, monitoring, and report writing.

One exciting piece of business at the March meeting will be the raffle drawing to see which of our new members will win free entry into one or the other of the two workshops we have coming up this spring. By my count we welcomed 25 new memberships between Our World Underwater, the Chicago Maritime Festival, Ghost Ships, and the February meeting, plus we will be honoring the show special one last time at the March meeting on Wednesday, so hopefully we will see a lot of those new faces in the crowd. Two free entries will be drawn - One for the two-day hands-on ROV workshop to be delivered by Mark Gleason in April and the other for the research methods workshop to be delivered by noted historian Brendon Baillod at a date still to be determined.

The next meeting is set for Wednesday, January 30th and it will be held at the Chicago Lighthouse located at 1850 W. Roosevelt, Chicago, Ill.   The facility has free parking adjacent to the building and we can bring in food and beverages.  One stipulation is that we cannot bring in any alcohol due to insurance reasons.  This is the only change to our normal meeting experience.