DR . HALDAN KEFFER HARTLINE, Professor retinography. It is interesting to note that Dr. Emeritus of Biophysics at the Rockefeller Uni­ Hartline's studies began as often great dis­ versity, is a scientist, teacher, conservationist coveries do, in a seemingly unlikely place­ and benefactor of all mankind. Dr. Hartline's the eye of the horseshoe crab. It was in 1932 distinguished career as a physiologist spans that he and his associates were able to re ­ five decades devoted to the study of vision . cord, for the first time, the activity of single His research has always been distinguished optic nerve fibers in the eye of the horseshoe by an investigative approach, employing crab. The myriad of ingenious experiments quantitative, physical and chemical tech­ that followed from his laboratory over the niques at the forefront of modern technology. years provided us with the basic information One of his major contributions is the develop­ on how the eye of any an imal, man included, ment of the required methods for recording detects light. electrical signals in the intact human eye, permitting the World-wide recognition of the important contributions he has simultaneous study of the electrical and visual responses in made to ou r understanding of how the eye works was un­ the eye. His discoveries have provided the breakthrough derscored in 1967, when he was awarded the Nobel Prize needed for the development of modern clinical electro- in Physiology and Medicine. OlA BEllE REED has been a sensitive, artic­ ponents of cultural understanding across con­ ulate, and dynamic carrier and interpreter of i ventional racial and socioeconomical lines. the traditional music and culture of the South­ Ola Belle Reed 's music has in recent years ern Appalachian region for more than half a become known throughout the United States century. The disruption of the Great Depres­ through films, television, and documentary re­ sion brought hers and hundreds of other Ap­ cordings. She has been sought out peren­ palachian families to Maryland. Since that nially by scholars and archivists as a seminal time, through her vision and creativity, her source of information regarding both her own personal integrity and power as a performer, cultural tradition and the complex processes she has contributed to our common cultural of cultural change. Documentary records of life the rooted values and expressive tradi­ her life and music now enrich a dozen or tions that reach back beyond the foundations more local , state, regional , and national ar- of our r.epublic. With rare vision, breadth of sympathy, and a chives. The depth and power of her influence can be seen profound ethical sense, she has given of herself and her locally in a second and third generation of traditional musi­ prodigious musical talent to engender respect for and cians, and nationally in the careers of those who shape and understanding of diverse forms of musical expression. She dir.ect our emerging domestic cultural policy. has become one of our most vigorous and effective pro-.