The Be Star Newsletter
Volume 34 - June 2000

1   Editorial  - G. Peters

2  Working Group Matters

• Current News
  Gerrie Peters
• Arne Slettebak
  George W. Collins, II
• Carlos Jaschek
  Yvette Andrillat
• G. Donald Penrod
  Geraldine J. Peters, Steven S. Vogt, Artie P. Hatzes, & Myron A. Smith

3  Contributions

• IAU Colloquium No. 175: "The Be Phenomenon in Early-Type Stars"
  Myron A. Smith
• Rates of Energy Gain and Loss in the Circumstellar Envelopes of Be Stars
  C.E. Millar, T.A.A. Sigut, & J.M. Marlborough
• Physical Properties of Be Stars in Open Clusters
  José Miguel Torrejón
• Circumstellar Structures Near  Cas Inferred from Ultraviolet
  Continuum and Si IV Line Variations
  Myron A. Smith
• H  Emission Behavior of  Cas Between 1976 and 1998
  Ernst Pollmann
• Long-term Monitoring of the H Emission Line Strength
  of the LBV P Cygni
  Ernst Pollmann

4  What's Happening?

• SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT: IAUC No. 175
  Myron A. Smith
• Royal Astronomical Society Astronomy Prize
  Awarded to Richard Townsend
  The Editors
• The Recent Polarization Increase of o And
  David McDavid
• Near Infrared Spectroscopic Studies of Be Stars
  N.M. Ashok
• Be Star Newsletter Now Searchable by ADS
  The Editors
• Stellar Winds APS Poster, Encyclopedia Article Available
  Stanley P. Owocki
• Be-Star Polarimetry Data Online
  David McDavid
• Incremental Data Release from the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS)
  Schuyler Van Dyk
• Release of the INES Archive
  Antonio Talavera
• Encyclopedia Article Available
  Geraldine J. Peters

• Be Stars Spectrographic Survey Project
  Christian Buil

• Be-Stars Mailing List
  Rich Townsend

5   Abstracts

6   Bibliography

7  Meetings

• Third (Final) Announcement:
  "The Be Phenomenon in Early-Type Stars"
  (IAU Colloquium No. 175)
• "Darwin and Astronomy:
  The Infrared Space Interferometer (IRSI)"
  November 17 - 19, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden
• "The Influence of Binaries on Stellar Population Studies"
  August 21 - 25, 2000, Brussels, Belgium