The Foundation's Board deeply regrets the loss of its member, Professor Karl W. Deutsch, who died in Cambridge, Mass. in 1992. Professor Deutsch became a Board member in 1984 after the death of the Foundation's founder, Professor Peter Heintz in 1983, left a seat vacant. Thus Karl W. Deutsch contributed essentially to the development and identity formation of the Foundation at a time when its activities were as yet hardly consolidated. His unusually wide knowledge and experience also influenced the formulation and application of policy guiding research funding. In Karl W. Deutsch the Board loses a colleague of in ternational repute whose own world citizenship so excellently embodied the image which the World Society Foundation wishes to project.