Degree Structures: Local and Global Investigations

The occasion of a retiring presidential address seems like a time to look back, take stock and perhaps look ahead. Institutionally, it was an honor to serve as President of the Association and I want to thank my teachers and predecessors for guidance and advice and my fellow o¢ cers and our publisher for their work and support. To all of the members who answered my calls to chair or serve on this or that committee, I o¤er my thanks as well. Your work was both needed and appreciated. A major component of the e¤orts of the Association is devoted to our publications. My …rst important task as President was to deal with the need to reorganize the reviews section of the JSL and eventually to move it to the BSL. Appropriately enough, my …rst administrative job for the Association, some thirty years ago, was to serve on a committee to plan a reorganization of the reviews. I thank all those who helped with this transition and who took over the task of running the new reviews section. I hope that it will be another thirty years before further major changes are needed in this area and that someone else will be making them. When I began my term as President, we had a number of other projects in mind. On some we have made signi…cant progress. Among these were developing our book publishing venture, extending our presence in electronic publishing, strengthening our relations with the logic/computer science community and increasing support for students and postdocs. Looking forward, more needs to be done in these areas and new ones will