Dear EMAC-members, fellows, friends.

It is with great sadness that I report that Dick Wittink passed away on the 4th of June in his home at New Haven (Conn. U.S.A.). We believe that the death was due to his chronic diabetic problem.

Dick has been an outstanding scholar in our field. He published more than 100 articles in the top journals, he is the co (author) of books and he fulfilled many editorial duties, such as area editor of Marketing Science, editorial board member of IJRM, the Journal of Marketing and the Journal of Marketing Research. He was editor-in-chief of JMR since June 2004. He was foreign member of the Royal Dutch Society of Arts and Sciences, he organized the first Marketing Science Conference in 1979 etc.
Dick was the George Rogers Clark Professor of Management and Marketing at the Yale School of Management and Honorary Professor of Marketing at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Groningen in the Netherlands.

Dick attended several EMAC-conferences and he was elected as national representative of the USA at the last EMAC Conference in Milan. He also participated in many EDEN/EIASM programmes.

Dick has been a very wise, warm, open, unselfish person. He was very ambitious, he worked hard and he contributed much to both the practioner and academic marketing research community. He has been not only a great scientist but (what I believe is more important) a wonderful person to co-operate with. Those who have been able to know and to work with Dick will miss him greatly. We wil never forget him and the marketing society owes him a lot.

Peter S. H. Leeflang
Dept. of Economics
University of Groningen
the Netherlands.