The first time I ever met Vic Doyno was at the 2001 Elmira Conference and watched him present a paper titled "Twain Writes with Burning Ink: King Leopold's Soliloquy." What a presentation! -- To watch him as he channeled Mark Twain and his writing process. I hope somewhere in the Elmira archives there is a recording of Doyno presenting that lecture. Doyno's book _Selected Writings of an American Skeptic_ with its text of the outstanding letter from Mark Twain to Karl Gerhardt on slavery had been a part of my library since 1996. However, I had no idea of just what sort of author and editor and scholar and talent Doyno was until I watched him present his Elmira lecture in person that August afternoon. After his presentation I made it a point to meet him and tell him how much I would have considered it a privilege if I had ever been a student in one of his classes. He had that sort of power to motivate and inspire. Years ago, when I started noticing that Doyno's name seemed to be missing from conferences and journals and publications where I would expect to see them, I asked "Whatever happened to...." And then I was told about the diagnosis that no family ever wants to hear. Thanks to Taylor for helping break the news to a community of scholars and friends who much admired Doyno's work. Barb