We regret to inform you that Alfred S. Golding, member of the Theater faculty at Ohio State University and director of the Ohio State University Theater Research Institute from 1973 to about 1979 passed away. He worked closely with André Veinstein on the third  and fourth editions (1984, 1992) of the famous Blue Book – Bibliothèques et musées des arts du spectacle dans le monde and was SIBMAS Vice-President from 1982-1985. His research interests included early stage gesture (Classicistic acting: two centuries of a performance tradition at the Amsterdam Schouwburg), and theater director and producer Arthur Hopkins (Time out of mind: the theatrical world of Arthur Hopkins).