Dedication

This supplement is dedicated to my dear Professor Dr. Anna‐Mary Carpenter who retired on August 1,1987 after 50 years of active teaching. Her scientific career started in 1938 at the University of Pittsburgh where she was a member of the Pathology Department at the Children's Hospital until 1954 when she joined the Anatomy Department at the University of Minnesota. She became Full Professor in 1963 and remained in that position until 1982, becoming then Professor Emerita. She also served as Professor of Pathology at Indiana University, Northwest Center since 1980, and has lived in Indiana since 1982. In spite of all her degrees, scientific deeds, and international recognition (innovations in diabetes, quantitative morphology, and being first to “section” a pancreas using computer simulation), her greatest achievements have come from her teachings of her discipline. She has trained several generations of graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and more than 5,000 medical students. Her extraordinary teaching ability and capacity is the result of her profound knowledge and understanding of morphology. Her personal interest and dedication to all of her students gained her the legendary nickname “Ma Carpenter.” Dr. Carpenter represents an exceptional breed of true scholar and scientist. As one of her students and with the conviction of representing all of them, I want to assure her that those true scientific and university values taught for over 50 years are alive and very strong in all of us, that her teachings will persist for generations, and that she will live in our hearts.