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MARSHALL BROOKS, essayist and printer, is the editor of Nostoc and associate editor of the Eugene O'Neill Newsletter. Persons interested in information about Nostoc, an adventurous little magazine, and its editor's other avant-garde publications may obtain it from Mr. Brooks at 101 Nehoiden Road, Waban, MA 02168.

MICHAEL HINDEN, Associate Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is chairman of the Publications Committee of the Eugene O'Neill Society. His previous appearances in the Newsletter have included essays on The Hairy Ape (January 1978, pp. 2-4), Richard Middleton (January 1979, pp. 13-16), and The Emperor Jones (January 1980, pp. 2-4).

DEBORAH KELLAR, a member of the Membership Committee of the Eugene O'Neill Society, is spending the summer as Faculty Costume Designer for a four-show season at Central Washington University in Ellensburg. The recipient of an M.A. in Directing from the University of California at Santa Barbara, she served as guest artistic director at Centralia College in Washington during academic year 1979-1980, when she directed and designed the costumes for the production of A Touch of the Poet that she discusses in this issue.

PATRICK J. NOLAN, Professor of English at Villanova University, has "been teaching O'Neill in seminar for better than twelve years and found the state of scholarship somewhat spotty." The essay in this issue points out "one spot I believe should be filled." A playwright, Professor Nolan won an Emmy award for the ABC Movie of the Week, Jericho Mile.

PAUL D. VOELKER, Associate Professor of Drama at the University of Wisconsin Center in Marshfield, served as literary consultant to the Milwaukee Rep's 1977-78 productions of Ah, Wilderness! and Long Day's Journey Into Night. His previous appearances in the Newsletter were in September 1977 (pp. 4-6), January 1978 (pp. 15-17), September 1978 (pp. 14-15) and January 1980 (pp. 20-21). His review of the forthcoming Guthrie Theater production of Desire Under the Elms will, if time permits, appear in the next issue.

FREDERICK C. WILKINS, Chairman of the Department of English at Suffolk University in Boston, is editor of the Eugene O'Neill Newsletter and a Director and chairman of the Membership Committee of the Eugene O'Neill Society. He is currently euphoric about the Newsletter-Society merger, and plans to take a group of students to the Stratford (Ontario) Festival production of Long Day's Journey Into Night in the fall--a performance that he will review in a future issue of the Newsletter.

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