Acknowledgements

     Since S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald Online originally was released to the public on April 25, 2000, we have had help and support from lots of people.  This is a small list of the innumerable people who have helped out with the success of S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald Online in some way.

Our friends and relatives for their continual support: Leigh and Tim McCall, Patricia Frazee, Kevin Flood, and Sally Flood.

People who have made contributions toward the large cost of this site and its services: Richard Werdell, Brian Shajari, Jeff Stine, Jerry Thiel, Sherry Sweet, Eric Sondeen, Roz Brown, Janie Williams, Viola Combs, Kathy Rageur-Newton, Maureen Brown, Joe Shavalia, Glen Schneider, Bill Jandreau, and many more.

Interviewers of Tim and/or media promoters: Michael Schumacher, Ron Prichard of Michigan Talk Radio, Peter Nichols, Tracy Briggs of WDAY TV Minnesota, The Duluth Tribune Wisconsin, Cathy Quinn of North Shore Radio Minnesota, Rob Baykian of Michigan Radio Network, Indianapolis Public Schools, Ray Rice of WISH TV Indianapolis, GOLD 104.5 [WGLD] Radio Indianapolis, WIBC 1070 AM Indianapolis, the Indianapolis Star, and WGOW Talk Radio Tennessee

People who we have interviewed and/or received info from: George Walton, Heidi Brabon, Carol Ross, Michael Schumacher,  Cheryl Rozman, Robert Matthew Vaughn, Sue Hills, Joe Sajdak, Pam Johnson, Frederick Stonehouse, Missy Clark-Nabozny, John O’Brien, Marion Markeson, Bill Wilhelm, Dorothy Lumberg, Rusty Bowers, Shelley Russell, Robert Manning, Cathy Quinn, Beth Foley, Marge Soronen, and Reverend Richard Ingalls.

The people who donated and/or let us use pictures: Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum, Marine Historical Society of Detroit, Ronald Sloan, George Flessas, Peter Rindlisbacher, Gail Vander Stoep, National Geographical Society, Dale C. Rea, and Mary Soyring, as well as many of the families interviewed.

Families of the Crew: I owe everything to you.  Your encouragement, appreciation, and help have allowed me to continue this website for over five years.  I hope you find my commemoration to your lost loved ones appropriate. Any one of you that I have contacted or that has contacted me–you are a joy and delight to me and I am honored that you would talk to me.