Acknowledgments (1986)

The editors are grateful to our authors, to our editorial board, and to our advisory committee (all listed in the early pages of the Encycloiedia) for their labors and advice during these seven years.

The editors acknowledge with utmost appreciation the financial support given to this project by four institutions. The National Endowment for the Humanities made a major grant which the Weingart Foundation of Los Angeles matched. The Macmillan Publishing Company and The Claremont Graduate School also handsomely underwrote this encyclopedia. The earliest private funds came from a small group of southern California attorneys and foundations: The Times Mirror Foundation; James Greene, Judge Dyson William Cox and Janice T. Cox, Robert P. Hastings, James E. Ludlam, and J. Patrick Waley; Musick, Peeler & Garrett; and The Ralph B. Lloyd Foundation.

The Claremont Graduate School and University Center also provided facilities and logistical support for the Encyclopedia. Former President Joseph B. Platt gave the project his encouragement. Executive Vice-President Paul A. Albrecht significantly assisted our grant applications from the outset and remained helpful throughout the project. Associate Dean Christopher N. Oberg has seen to the efficient management of administrative aspects of the project. Sandra Glass, now of the Keck Foundation, provided invaluable aid while she was associated with The Claremont Graduate School. We are also grateful for the unflagging support of the School of Law of the University of California, Los Angeles, and its deans, William D. Warren and Susan Westerberg Prager.

A succession of graduate students at The Claremont Graduate School worked on the project as editorial assistants, research assistants, typists, and proofreaders. First was Dr. David Gordon, who also acted as assistant editor for one year, and who wrote over one hundred of the articles before going on to law school. Dr. Michael E. DeGolyer and Susan Marie Meyer served ably as editorial assistants. Others who worked on the project were Michael Walker, Kenneth V. Benesh, Susan Orr, Suzanne Kovacs, Dr. Steven Varvis, Dr. Patrick Delana, and Paul R. Huard.

The secretaries in the History Department of The Claremont Graduate School have typed thousands of letters and hundreds of articles, in addition to performing numerous other small tasks to keep the project going; particular thanks are due to Lelah Mullican. The Claremont Graduate School Academic Computing Center and its director, Gunther Freehill, showed us how to automate our record keeping and provided facilities for that purpose.

Most important, we gratefully acknowledge the support of Charles E. Smith, Vice-President and Publisher, Professional Books Division, Macmillan Publishing Company, and of Elly Dickason, our editor at Macmillan. Mr. Smith actively and continuously supported the project from its early days and by his prodding kept us on a Stakhanovite schedule. Ms. Dickason performed arduous labors with supreme professional skill and unfailing good humor.

Finally, we thank Elyse Levy and Smiley Karst for their own indispensable contributions to this project. A personal dedication page seems inappropriate for a reference work, otherwise this Encyclopedia would have been dedicated to them. Natalie Glucklich, Renee Karst, Aaron Harris, and Adam Harris, the grandchildren of the senior editors, entered the world without realizing that the Encyclopedia project was underway. They assisted not a whit, but we acknowledge our pleasure in seeing their names in print.