Dear Art -

  Regarding all this discussion of what we should be called, I certainly
haven't done anything as magnificent as your epitonium book, but I have had
a couple of brief articles published  and Dr. Bill Emerson and I
co-authored a new species.  I know I am not in your class so I couldn't be
a Sergeant-Major; but I think I deserve more than a Drill Sergeant.  Maybe
I could be a Sergeant-Lieutenant (or is there a height requirement for that
rank)?  I am also curious as to whom you  would rank as a Four-Star General.

Betty Jean, The Tall One

At 08:40 PM 6/14/00 -0400, you wrote:
>     If thou lookest for title designations, gho thou to the Army.
>     All us "amateurs" would be some sort of non-com. Betty Jean would be
>a Drill Sergeant. Published amatuers (me) cound be Sergeant-Majors.
>     A professional (one accepting lucre) would start as Captains and
>Lieutenants (dealers maybe)  Jose would surely be a Colonel. Andy
>Rindsberg would be, too. The generals would be those individuals
>(Harasywich, Pierce) running the meuseums. Tucker Abbott retired as a
>Field Marshall.
>     Now all we need would be those war-zone whatdyacallems worn on the
>left breast. One for each shell show or prize won at same. Do you think
>we could get Major Medical?
>         Art