Professor Lynn Elen Burton

Dear Lynn:

I am delighted to add my voice to the appreciation of your many accomplishments and your outstanding, creative, and influential contributions to futures studies.

As a fellow laborer in the vineyards of futures studies myself, I have often been discouraged at the slow development of our field and the reluctant acceptance of it in some of the old and established corners of our universities and other major institutions.

But your shining examples of first-rate futures research, vision, courage and goodwill always have combined to return my faith in futures studies. They always return me to the conviction that it will fulfill its promise and make the important contributions we believe that it can make to help shape a future world of peace, justice, freedom, and opportunity.

Thank you for your friendship, your encouragement, and your past leadership. More power to you as you pursue your current and future projects. Please enjoy the honors that your students, colleagues, and fellow futurists bestow upon you. They are richly deserved.

Best wishes

Wendell

Wendell Bell, Professor Emeritus
Department of Sociology
Yale University
P.O. Box 208265
New Haven, CT 06520-8265, USA

E-mail: <wendell.bell@yale.edu>