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A letter to the editor is presented in response the article "RETHINKING THE PAPER HELICOPTER: COMBINING STATISTICAL AND ENGINEERING KNOWLEDGE" in a previous issue.

The article presents information on the properties of Graeco-Latin squares enumerated by mathematician Leonhard Euler. Euler suggested that a Graeco-Latin square of size n could never exist for any n of the form 4k +2, although he was not able to prove it. A Latin square is an n-by-n array of n distinct symbols in which each symbol appears exactly once in each row and column. On the other hand a Graeco-Latin square is an n-by-n array of ordered pairs from a set of n symbols such that in each row and each column of the array, each symbol appears exactly once in each coordinate. In one of his papers on Graeco-Latin squares, Euler used magic squares, which are closely related to Graeco-Latin squares. Magic squares were constructed by using Graeco-Latin squares of orders 3, 4 and 5. He showed that a Graeco-Latin square of order n can be converted into a magic square by the use of an algorithm. One can construct Graeco-Latin squares of every order n except those values for which the prime factorization of n contains only a single factor of 2.

The article discusses the editor's experience of being associated with journal "The American Statistician." The editor has reviewed 120 new manuscript since July 1, 2005. A new section called "Interdisciplinary" has been added to the journal to bring good statistical science to a variety of disciplines and to bring good discipline-specific science to statisticians. Papers in this section might contain overviews of discipline-specific issues in need of statistical solutions. The journal has adopted an online manuscript management system since October 1, 2005.

A response by the author is presented to a letter to the editor about his article "RETHINKING THE PAPER HELICOPTER: COMBINING STATISTICAL AND ENGINEERING KNOWLEDGE" in a previous issue.