Thank you.

• Author: Rothschild, Matthew
• Position: Editor's Note

This was a group effort if ever there was one.

Thanks to Elizabeth DiNovella for doing a lot of the heavy lifting, not only in reading decades of the magazine's output but also in narrowing the selections for this issue.

Thanks to Ruth Conniff and Amitabh Pal for tackling a couple of decades each and for combing the issue.

Thanks to Nick Jehlen for designing the issue, top to bottom, primarily utilizing the graphics that appeared in each year of the publication.

Thanks to Phuong Luu for meticulously laying the issue out.

Thanks to Dennis Best, Ben Lembrich, and Ina Lukas for retrieving old texts and making them usable in the computer age.

Thanks to Diana Cook for proofreading this issue, and for proofing The Progressive for the past thirty-five years.

Thanks to Jodi Vander Molen for proofreading this issue, and for proofing The Progressive for the past eight years.

Thanks to Erika Baer for hustling up the ads for this issue, and thanks to the advertisers themselves.

Thanks to Scot Vee Gamble and Tamara Tsurkan for putting this issue up on our website.

Thanks to Maribeth Batcha and Erin Grunze for handling circulation.

Thanks to Carolyn Eschmeyer, our controller, for watching the bills.

Thanks to Dennis Best, Andrea Potter, and Jodi Vander Molen for helping raise crucial revenue for this issue.

Research for this issue was made possible, in part, by Grant Abert, the Argosy Foundation, the Brico Fund, the Buck Foundation, the Compton Foundation, Betty and Corkey Custer, the Donor Collaborative of Wisconsin, Daniel Erdman, the Evjue Foundation, John and Mary Frantz, the Fund for Investigative Journalism, David and Betsy Gifford, Evelyn Haas, Victor and...