(From Preface) IT HAS BEEN MY CUSTOM to make an annual report to the
Chancellor, cataloging our accomplishments for the year.
This volume is a continuation of that tradition, expanded to co,•er
lhc octennium and to contain somewhat more of reflection on the
fonctions involved.
~I) thanks go to Clyde Wingfield for his help on the chapters
011 Students and on the Inter-American Institute; to ~Ii1ton Leech
for reading h¥o drafts of the manuscript and offering countless
suggestions for its improvement; to Dale Walker for information
for the section on Bhutanese arc;hitccture; to John Sharp and
Chester Christian for data on the Inter-American Institute; to
Steele Jones for invaluable assistance in many ways; and to all
of my colleagues at U.T. El Paso and in the Chancc1lor's Office
among whom I have lived, labored, and learned with rarely a dull
moment. Needless to say, the errors and expressed opinions are my
own, and they should not be attributed to persons named above.
Finally, I wish to express my deep appre
