The years from 1962 to 2007, when I retired, witnessed enormous progress in the field of food and environmental virology: I never thought there would be a journal devoted to this field. My group made several contributions, though much of the time we were handicapped by severe lack of funding. A presentation I gave some years ago was entitled, ''Viruses around Us, or How We Are Identifying and Solving the World's Environmental Virology Problems on Practically No Money at All.'' This must have been due partly to my lack of salesmanship, in that most granting agencies, most of the time, did not regard foodborne and waterborne viruses as a major threat to human health. Some other university researchers did better than I. Intramural research was sustained by EPA and less so (over time) by FDA. The Canadian government had an on-andoff virology program: when their virologists were in a hiatus, they discovered that the shiga-like toxin of E. coli was toxic to the Vero cells they had been using in virus research Speirs et al. 1977) . We studied other topics at times, as well, and some of the virology studies were abandoned before reaching maturity. I wish we had accomplished more and trained more students, but we did what we could and enjoyed almost every minute of it. I wish those who are now carrying on the research as much pleasure as I have had from it.