Murray F. Buell in the New Jersey Pine Barrens. One of the many editors of the Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, Murray F. Buell provided a type specimen for excellence in service to ecology and the Society. He served on numerous Society committees during his long membership, was elected ESA Secretary (1951-1953), Vice President (1955), President (1962), and received the Eminent Ecologist Award (1970). He taught his numerous students that supporting the Society through work on ESA committees, editorial boards and the like was one of their most important responsibilities as professional ecologists. The photograph shows Buell in one of his favorite haunts, the Pygmy Plains in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey in April, 1968. Rather than pay honoraria to the seminar speakers he invited to Rutgers, he provided the speakers with all-day field trips, accompanied by several of his students, to examine sites of past and current research in the Barrens. Coincidentally, the students could demonstrate their intellectual capabilities to potential future employers, a point not lost on either Buell, his students, or his guests! Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 83(4), October 2002