
Joe Milner Wake Forest University Until he retired as Executive Secretary, Ted Hippie was the heart and soul of ALAN. Stan Steiner Boise State University Like his famously snazzy suspenders and neckties, Ted was sui generis, one-of-a-kind, incomparable, the very model of service and civility. Alleen Nilsen Arizona State University Ted Hipple was a kind and gentle man with his head in the lofty clouds of the human imagination and his feet firmly planted on planet earth. Few people take time to provide the kind of human support that Ted has offered those of us who have followed in the "next generation" of academics behind him, but all of us in that generation know how he has helped us, shaped us, given to us, and we gladly share the Hippie bond.