Finally, generous contributions by the author’s brother, Ralph G. Cheney of Seattle, and by Dr. W. H. Bueermann of Portland made possible the printing of the work in 1969. Jack Cheney at age seventy-six, learned how to operate a typesetting machine to type the text for the first edition. Shortly thereafter I received a telephone call from his wife, informing me that Jack had suffered a stroke. I asked her to assure him that the book would soon be printed. When she told him, Jack Cheney, now speechless