Richard V. Desrosiers of the University of New Hmpshire performs a very special annual service for CANE. Everyear Dick has the task of seeing to it that the bowl which is given to the recipient of the Barlow-Beach Award Friday evening during the banquet is both suitably inscribed with the name of the honoree and a Latin quotation and then brought to the meeting either by him, John Rouman, or me. Dick considers an inscribed bowl a fitting conclusion to our annual tradition of publicly recognizing a member's many and various contributions to CANE. I know this for a fact, and so I applaud Dick's willingness to do this for CANE. I don't know how long he has done this (he has done it for as long as I can remember), but he deserves to be recognized for this task. I remember the year when John Rouman was given the Barlow-Beach Award. Months before the meeting, Dick informed John (when he did so, he kept a straight face) that there would be no bowl that year. Not surprisingly, John was at first shocked to hear this pronouncement and then became rather indignant and chastised Dick. John was truly taken aback by· the thought that CANE was breaking with tradition. But Dick's ruse worked. John was therefore completely surprised at the banquet and relieved to hear that CANE was not breaking with tradition after all. Of course, not long after that he was again surprised when he realized that he was that year's recipient.