It is with great sadness that we report the passing of LCSNA member Dr. Anashia Plackis on Jan. 9, 2008, in Wantagh, New York. Anashia had completed her doctorate in English Literature at the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1986 with the dissertation entitled Alice: Carroll’s Subversive Message of Christian Hope and Love. As an adjunct professor at the university, she gave lectures to graduate students and medical students. She joined our society around 1985 and with Jim, her husband, regularly attended our semiannual meetings, not only those in New York City but also around the country. At three of those meetings she gave the following talks: "Carroll's Poetical Use of Hieroglyphic Symbolism" 1987 at the Enoch Pratt Free Library meeting; "Lewis Carroll as a Pioneer of Whole Language Philosophy" 1994 at the Second International Lewis Carroll Conference at Wake Forest University; and "Lewis Carroll - A Millennial View" 1998 at UCLA. She was also a guest speaker at the International Lewis Carroll Conference in Oxford in 1989, and delivered a lecture at Harvard University a few years ago. Anashia's enthusiasm for Lewis Carroll and his works was exuberantly infectious. We shall miss her greatly. Her family has generously requested that in lieu of flowers memorial contributions be made to the LCSNA Anashia Plackis Memorial Fund in care of LCSNA Secretary, Clare Imholtz, 11935 Beltsville Drive, Beltsville, MD 20705.