In Memoriam: Helene Frischauer

Helene Frischauer was our - and your Administrative Editor, our link with the headquarters Editorial Department, and the channel through which we sent your contributions to be transformed into finished editions. Ever kind and generous, she pursued each of us with a combination of diligence, dignity, and tact that made us know that she cared. For those of us remote from New York she was the ever-polite, ever-kind voice of cheeriness on the telephone. She took time to listen to our problems, and many times offered us solutions based on her years of experience. In spite of thousands of opportunities to do so, she never lost her sense of humor. Most of the Transactions came into being under her guidance, as she worked for the IEEE (and IRE) for 15 years; her attitude toward each publication is best exemplified by her own words: "Each word is patted lovingly into place as it passes across our desks."