EXCHANGE · To the editors, from the editors

AROUND THE POND · Our champion benefactors, our prince among schoolteachers, a follow up on drinking; Campaign UMass gears up on campus, and a profile of Emeritus Dean Marston.

BRANCHES OF LEARNING · An enviable outbreak of endowed professorships in the ISOM; Dean Thomas O'Brien on Campaign UMass in the school; plus the "Deans' List" of faculty honors.

HER PLAY'S THE THING · Alumna Constance Congdon is a widely praised bard of the boards, and also teaches at the other college in town.

PROMETHEUS'S GIFT · Forestry professor Bill Patterson has been setting fires again, and showing no remorse whatsoever.

MAKING OUR MARK · What UMass's marketing chief is up to with that spanking-new logo.

COME ON AND HEAR · They won't say it, but we will:
the award-winning Marching Minutemen are the best band
in the land.

VISUAL ARTS · Space, Light, Flight: How "seagoing hermit"
Judith Mann '78G is spending her sabbatical.

BOOKS · By day he's a mild-mannered English professor, by night a toymaker extraordinare; John R. Nelson's American Folk Toys.

EXTENDED FAMILY · Mugs & Hugs, in "UMass Gatherings";
in Class Notes, reader responses to "Thinking about drinking."
Plus "In Memoriam" and other family business.

GREAT SPORT · Tennis, everyone? In praise of Coach Judy Dixon, auteur of coed intensity on the UMass courts.

NORTH 40 · Swan song: a changing of the guard on the Campus Pond.