Winston, Elizabeth M., 1905-2000.

Elizabeth Melone was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota on August 13, 1905 to Theodora (Gardiner) and Albert Melone. She graduated from Northrup School in Minneapolis in 1922, and Vassar College in 1926. After receiving her baccalaureate degree, she enrolled at the University of Minnesota and completed pedagogy courses hoping to become an elementary teacher. She then met Frederick S. Winston in early 1927, and married him later that year on September 5. They had three sons: Donald, Frederick, and Neil. Frederick S. Winston became a prominent attorney, championing conservationist causes, including serving on the Quetico-Superior Council in the 1920s and 1930s. He died on February 13, 1964.

Elizabeth Winston became involved in the Great Lakes, and specifically Lake Superior, conservation issues in roughly 1973 when she noted that erosion on her Madeline Island property required massive repairs. After much research, she and others determined the cause of Lake Superior's rise was the regulation of the Great Lakes water levels by the United States Army Corps of Engineers. As she saw it, this was in direct violation of the International Joint Commission Treaty of 1909.

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