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IN MEMORIAM Since our last Issue, we have learned of the passing of fifty-five Fellows, one of them Past President Stu Shanor, who died on April 12, 2023. We typically write somewhat more extensive memorials for departed Past Presidents, but we didn’t have time to do that – at least, time to do it right – before our pencils- down deadline for this Issue. So we will circle back to Stu in a later Issue. Our departed Fellows ranged in age from sixty-one to ninety-four – all way too young, way too soon. Twenty-one of these departed Fellows were veterans, one of them having served in World War II. Eleven were college athletes. Nine were judges. One was Chief Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court; another, Chief Judge of the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. One took a year-long honeymoon in Alaska, where she and her husband built a cabin by hand, hunted to feed themselves and used sled dogs for travel, only returning to civilization because she was eight and a half months pregnant. These departed Fellows wrote books. Books were written about them. They argued landmark cases in the Supreme Court. They made a difference. They will all be missed. We can only honor those we know have passed, when we know. We do not charge retired Fellows dues, so we don’t think much about not hearing from them. So if you learn of the passing of a Fellow, please be sure that the National Office Staff is informed. These pieces are necessarily brief. We don’t have space to list all surviving family members, so we name only spouses; we count, but do not name children or grandchildren. And some of these pieces are way too brief – not because of editorial discretion but because we simply could not find the facts. Yet every one of our departed Fellows left scores of family and friends who will miss and remember them. Through those memories, these Fellows live on. 93 JOURNAL