Peter Lidiak has been pipeline director for API for 10 years, and has proved to be an effective leader, administrator, and facilitator for numerous initiatives within the pipeline industry, culminating in the pending RP 1173 on Pipeline Safety Management Systems. He has announced his retirement from API effective April 30, but assures us that he intends to continue his contributions in some other capacity in the near future. I, like many of his friends and co-workers, look forward to that opportunity.