Thank You

I V THANK YOU As EFT concludes its fifth volume and its fifth year of publication, many special thanks are due to persons whose names ordinarily do not appear in our pages and many others the occasional recording of whose names is not nearly enough recognition for the assistance they have been. First, we are very grateful to have had the cooperation during these five years of Professor Barriss Mills, Chairman of the English Department until this academic year. He has always shown a sympathetic interest in the work we were doing and in practical ways encouraged us to go on with it. We are now fortunate in having the continuing support of Professor Russell Cosper, our new department chairman. We continue to have the help of a half-time graduate assistant, we continue to have the use of members of the secretarial staff for stencilling and mimeographing, and, the editor for the first time has been granted a reduced teaching load to enable him to carry on his increased editorial duties during the years ahead. The secretaries in the English Department who have seen us through a very difficult year of EFT growth and change while our department was also undergoing growth and change deserve special recognition. We are particularly grateful to Marcia Nuss, who leaves us as the year closes. Mrs. Nuss, besides carrying on the full load of the head secretaryship in the department, typed the bulk of our stencils and mimeographed when we were short-handed. She has been unbelievably patient and good-humored through the most trying crises. We also wish to thank Kathy Ruberto, who mimeographed the bulk of our last three numbers, for so capably subduing a recalcitrant machine. We sincerely appreciate having had the help of Judy Steele with some of the stencilling and mimeographing when we were hardest pressed. Members of the staff of the Purdue Libraries have been very generous of their time in helping us solve some of the peculiar problems we encounter. We are especially grateful to Keith Dowden, Reference Department; Mrs. Rolland C. Flory, lnterlibrary Loan, and her assistant Mrs. Ronald Paolino; and Miss Amy Johnson, Union Catalogs Information. Their continued excellent help will, we know, do much toward making ELT still more useful than EFT has been. Since we are about to make some drastic changes in our way of working, we shall reconstitute our advisory committee. This is therefore the appropriate time to thank the six individuals who have always been on cal 1 for advice, mora) support, and, whenever necessary, outright labor. T. E. M. Boll, a long-standing friend and the kindest mentor one could wish for, has constantly kept the editor's enthusiasm alive; Morton Cohen, Ruth Temple, and Joseph Wolff have always been our excellent reserve forces when we needed help with special problems; Ronald Freeman and Stanton Millet have always been available for advice. They have all done much to stimulate the editor when he most needed it and to curb his more rambunctious notions when they most needed curbing. We also wish to acknowledge our indebtedness to Xanta Woodford for her continued help with Slavic and Italian items; to John Houkes (Purdue Libraries) for his help with Dutch items; to Syed Hamid Husain (India) for persistent help on E. M. Forster; to James 6. Kennedy for help on almost any problem that has arisen but especially for agreeing to contribute the bulk of the annotations on Forster and Bennett; to Konrad Freydank (Marburg) for searching out items at German libraries; to Charles Nickerson (Trinity, Oxford) for searching in the British Museum and Bodleian when the need has arisen; to Pierre Coustillas for searching out items in French libraries and agreeing to serve as our correspondent in France; and to many others who have in various ways allowed us to impose on them. We have also been fortunate in our graduate assistants. Mrs. Elsen, whose official association with us was terminated by the completion of her graduate work in June, still continued to haunt the EFT office this term whenever we were collating another number. She is apparently a slave to the EFT habit. Marie Tate, who joined us in...