Until his death on June 28, 1984, A. Eugene Havens was professor and chairman of the Department of Rural Sociology at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. He served as director of the Center for Developing Nations Program from 1968 to 1970 and was a consultant to the Ford Foundation on agriculture and rural development in Latin America from 1975 to 1979. He also consulted with CIERA in Nicaragua on many aspects of post-revolutionary agricultural adjustment and planning. Gregory Hooks is assistant professor of sociology at the University of Indiana, Patrick H. Mooney is assistant professor of sociology at the University of Kentucky, and Max J. Pfeffer is a graduate student in the Department of Sociology /Rural Sociology at the University of Wisconsin.