Dear Reader,

Over the years, obituaries for the following scholars appeared in the Permanent International Altaistic Conference Newsletter:

• Vladimir Minorsky (1877–1966)
• Erich Haenisch (1880–1966)
• Eleanor Lattimore (1895–1970)
• Ananiasz Zajączkowski (1903–1970)
• Martti Räsänen (1893–1976)
• Karl Jahn (1906–1985)
• Ma Yong (1934–1985)
• Louis Ligeti (1902–1987)
• Wolfram Eberhard (1909–1989)
• Owen Lattimore (1900–1989)
• Annemarie von Gabain (1901–1993)
• Hattori Shiro (1908–1995)
• Murayama Shichiro (1908–1995)
• Francis Woodman Cleaves (1911–1995)
• Károly Czeglédy (1914–1996)
• Eleanora Afanas’eva Novgorodova (1933–1996)
• Nikolaj Alexandrovich Baskakov (1905–1996)

The academic achievements of our academic teachers remind us that our work begins everyday anew.

Oliver Corff.