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The development and progress of the studies of winds and mass loss from hotstars, from about 1965 up to now, is discussed in a personal historicalperspective. The present state of knowledge about stellar winds, based onpapers presented at this workshop, is described. About ten years ago themechanisms of the winds were reasonably well understood, the mass loss rateswere known, and the predictions of stellar evolution theory with mass lossagreed with observations. However, recent studies especially those based onFUSE observations, have resulted in a significant reduction of the mass lossrates, that disagrees with predictions from radiation driven wind models. Thesituation is discussed and future studies that can clarify the situation aresuggested.  I also discuss what is known about the dissolution of star clusters indifferent environments. The dissolution time can be derived from the mass andage distributions of cluster samples. The resulting dissolution times ofclusters in the solar neighborhood (SN) and in interacting galaxies are shorterthan predicted by two-body relaxation of clusters in a tidal field. Encounterswith giant molecular clouds can explain the fate of clusters in the SN and arethe most likely cause of the short lifetime of clusters in interactinggalaxies.

Mass Loss and Evolution of Stars and Star Clusters: a Personal Historical Perspective