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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.

Families of the Crew: This site is for you. Your encouragement, appreciation, and help have allowed me to continue this website for over ten 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.

Friends and relatives for their continual support: Tim and Leigh McCall, and Patricia Frazee.

People who have made contributions toward the large cost of this site and its services: Ken Green, 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: Jim Kavanagh of CNN, 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, WGOW Talk Radio Tennessee, and more.

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 or let us use pictures: Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum, Marine Historical Society of Detroit, Arthur Kramer, 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.

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