From collection Person List
Editor, marine mart regular
Al Jackman served on the MHSD board of directors and was editor of the 25th anniversary volume of Ahoy & Farewell. He was also president of the Great Lakes Maritime Institute at Dossin Museum and served as editor of Bowling Green State University’s Lake Log Chips publication. Al established Great Lakes Memories, a company formed to retail history books about the Great Lakes, video tapes, model plans and a specialty line of 1:700 resin scale models. He was a fixture at marine marts around the Great Lakes, where he met with his many friends in the dealer trade. He served 35 years in the U.S. Naval Reserve and was a licensed funeral director in Michigan for 50 years. After he retired, he went back to school and received his masters’ degree in 1993 and his Doctorate of Divinity in 1994. He passed away on April 2, 2011.
Al Jackman served on the MHSD board of directors and was editor of the 25th anniversary volume of Ahoy & Farewell. He was also president of the Great Lakes Maritime Institute at Dossin Museum and served as editor of Bowling Green State University’s Lake Log Chips publication. Al established Great Lakes Memories, a company formed to retail history books about the Great Lakes, video tapes, model plans and a specialty line of 1:700 resin scale models. He was a fixture at marine marts around the Great Lakes, where he met with his many friends in the dealer trade. He served 35 years in the U.S. Naval Reserve and was a licensed funeral director in Michigan for 50 years. After he retired, he went back to school and received his masters’ degree in 1993 and his Doctorate of Divinity in 1994. He passed away on April 2, 2011.
