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I am very pleased to announce that Ann Beer is the new Director of McGill's Centre for the Study and Teaching of Writing. Ann will take over the position officially in August. Also in August, Jane Ledwell-Brown will become the Associate Director of the Centre, which means she will finally receive a title that reflects the work she has been doing anyway for many years. Most CASLLers know Ann and Jane, and therefore know that the Centre is very fortunate that they have agreed to take these positions. Both have a long association with the Centre; in fact, Jane was a tutor when the Centre began in 1978 (Ye Olde Writing Centre!). Ann adds her recent research into academic and professional writing in engineering to a long list of interests, which includes women's studies, Northern and First Nations education, computers and literacy, and English studies (her dissertation at Oxford was on Samuel Beckett). Jane, whose doctoral and ongoing research has been concerned primarily with business writing, has long been the Centre's chief missionary, carrying our work out to boardrooms, training courses, management seminars, and other foreign soils. Most recently, along with colleagues Sharron Wall and Merle Emms, Jane did some workshops with the Governor General's staff. I am delighted that the Centre is in such capable hands, and I know CASLLers join me in wishing them good luck. Anthony Pare