1. David Sankoff
2. Bill Anderson
3. Brenda Taylor
4. Abraham Boyarsky
5. Gail Ivanoff
6. Amit Bose
7. Reg Kulperger
8. Shoichi Mizuno
9. Ian Iscoe
10. Colleen Cutler
11. Raphael Kasonga
12. Jean Vaillancourt
13. Byron Schmuland
14. Bruno Remillard
15. Duncan Murdoch
16. Raj Srinivasan
17. Joseph Denes
18. Yadong Wu
19. Shui Feng
20. Xinhong Ding
21. Hao Wang
22. Guillaume Leduc
23. Genevieve Gauthier
24. Donna Salopek

At the International Conference on Stochastic Models (June 9-12 1998; Carleton University) in honor of Don Dawson, 19 out of 24 former Ph.D. students attended. We were all honored to receive our official Dawson numbers.

Moving backward in time: Dawson's (Ph.D., MIT, 1963) thesis advisor was Henry P. McKean (Ph.D., Princeton, 1955); McKean's thesis advisor was William Feller (Ph.D., Gottingen, 1926); Feller's thesis advisor was Richard Courant (Ph.D., Gottingen, 1910); Courant's thesis advisor was David Hilbert (Ph.D., Konigsberg, 1885).