Our celebration of the 30th anniversary of TWI concludes with a memorial tribute to W. Ross Winterowd, who died on January 21, 2011. As the Director of the Ph.D. program in Rhetoric, Linguistics, and Literature at the University of Southern California, Ross mentored the many dozens of graduate students who served on the Editorial Board for The Writing Instructor from 1981 through 1996. We have included contributions from a half dozen of them below, and others will be forthcoming in the weeks following the official publication date of this anniversary issue.