Folklorist and professor of American and British folklore and American literature. Baughman was a Fellow of the American Folklore Society and a collector of Southwestern folktales, legends, jokes, rhymes, proverbs, and superstitions. Born in Manson, lowa, September 10, 1916, Baughman received his B.A. from Ball State Teachers College in Muncie, Indiana, in 1938, started teaching and collecting local folklore in Muncie, in 1939, and received his M.A. from the University of Chicago that same year. From 1942 to 1948, he continued graduate studies at Indiana University under Stith Thompson and served as a teaching assistant and later instructor. He received his doctoral degree in folklore in 1953 when he finished his dissertation. It was published in 1966 as A Type and Motif Index of the Folktales of England and North America (Indiana University Folklore Series No. 20) and was Baughman’s greatest academic achievement. In addition to his massive Index, Baughman published short articles and reviews in journals, including the Journal of American Folklore, Midwest Folklore, Western Folklore, Southern Folklore Quarterly, New Mexico Historical Quarterly, and the New Mexico Folklore Record, which he edited off and on from 1952 to 1979. He also did the scholarly annotations for Vance Randolph’s Sticks in the Knapsack and Other Ozark Folktales (1958), and contributed annotations for Herbert Halpert’s Folktales of the New Jersey Pines (1973) and Randolph’s Pissing in the Snow (1976), the latter a controversial collection of bawdy tales from the Ozarks. Baughman also did significant work in American literature, publishing in 1967 a notable article in New England Quarterly, “Public Confession and the Scarlet Letter,” that was reprinted in the Norton Critical Edition of The Scarlet Letter in 1978. Baughman served as president of the New Mexico Folklore Society in 1957 and was named to the New Mexico Folklore Society Roll of Honor in 1976. Throughout his professional career, he served on various committees on the executive board of the American Folklore Society (AFS), and he was named an AFS Fellow in 1971. During his career at the University of New Mexico, Baughman collected over 2,000 tales and 20,000 3×5 index cards from students that recorded riddles, rhymes, proverbs, superstitions, jokes, and legends. This collection, more than ten cubic feet of printed material, is housed in the Special Collections Department of Zimmermann Library at the University of New Mexico. An avid fisherman, summertime resident of Telluride, Colorado, and renowned humorist, Baughman was considered by many in the field as a helpful and thorough colleague who practiced collection, indexing, and annotation in the traditional form of scholarly folklore research. Peter White Kenneth B.Keppeler