This is the last issue of PERSPECTIVES that I shall edit; this task and that of Managing Editor (ably filled for more than six years by Warren Schmaus) will be assumed by a new member of the staff of the Center, Michael Davis. It seems, therefore, somehow appropriate that I should address this last of my editorial enterprises to a topic that has concerned me deeply since it was first brought to my attention by the late George Low, President of R.P I. and earlier Director of N.A.S.A. This is the issue of hazards to effective communication between the engineers on a job and the managers on the same job.

It is also especially fitting that one of the important articles in this issue should be by Warren Schmaus's father, an engineer of distinction who has worked for decades in a variety of circumstances that presented different problems. And finally, I assumed the prerogative of the "last word:" the concluding article in this issue is a very brief report of an interview I conducted with Dennis Kessler, VicePresident of Fel-Pro Corporation last February 16th. The deliverance of this interview is that there really are ways of making (or at least of helping to make) things go right in this communication enterprise. I am more drawn to plausible means of healing than to welldeserved causes for blaming. Yet both are aspects of the task called "applied ethics."

The first article in this issue is by Vivian Weil and Michael Davis and states their reasons for believing that there is a communication problem and that it is important and that a conference might help to solve some of the difficulties. The next is by a distinguished Professor at the Harvard Business School and is followed by one written by a Visiting Professor of History of Technology at LIT. Then comes the Work Autobiography of Mr. Schmaus, and last of all, my own report of the most encouraging interview at Fel-Pro.