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Raymond Gosselin, now in retirement in Connecticut, has this year reached the age of seventy-five. Although the editors of The Psychoanalytic Quarterly know full well that during the greater part of those seventy-five years he has resisted, even forbidden, any celebration in print of his accomplishments, they nevertheless cannot let this milestone pass without comment.
Raymond Gosselin served as Editor of this journal for sixteen of its most difficult, probably its most critical, years. To him the post meant devotion of time and interest to an extraordinary degree. He read every sentence we printed; he thought about it, he revised it when necessary, saw it through the press with the help of Pauline Turkel (they were a perfectly mated editorial pair). To the writings of psychoanalysts, a group not always distinguished for ease of literary expression, he applied the principles of logic and of the English language, and thus he produced a journal clear, concise, and pleasant to read. Other editors have had other virtues, but this is Ray's. He believed in editorial surgery: 'If you can't understand it, strike it out' was a first principle of his editing.
He was associated with The Quarterly from its beginning in 1932, and as Editor from 1943 to 1959 assumed, in effect, its sole direction, a direction under which it prospered and set a standard for editorial excellence. He continues today as an Associate Editor.
Since the days when he was boss we have grown and in many ways progressed. But in the clarity of our contents, in the simplicity and elegance of our message, we have not surpassed his achievement. To him in large degree we owe such status as we enjoy in the world of psychoanalysis. We wish him a happy seventy-fifth year and many more of them to come.