Dear Friends: The 2015 edition of Dear Friends, the newsletter of the Elmira College Center for Mark Twain Studies, has been distributed in print and also is available online at http://www.elmira.edu/academics/programs/Center_Twain/Friends_of_The_Center.html This issue introduces the Center's new Director, Dr. Joseph (Joe) Lemak as well as Nathaniel Ball, Archivist/Curator; Dr. Matt Seybold, Americanist; and Trish Cordell, Center secretary. Information on the Center's upcoming Weekend Symposium, Mark Twain & Youth, to be held in October of 2016, also is available. Please enjoy this newsletter either in paper or electronically -- or both. It has been a joy serving as the Center's director. I look forward to the wonderful programming that will develop under the direction of the Center's talented new director. Fondly, b. :) Barb Snedecor