Welcome to the Santa Fe Boys Newsletter. In these issues of Santa Fe Boys, we attempt to clarify the needs of boys and to examine what is happening to them in our community. One way we do this is through a statistical portrait of boys. We present a fact-based, objective picture of the health, educational and emotional status of boys today in Santa Fe, New Mexico and in the United States. We also look behind the statistics at what is happening in our society that influences boys. We do this through articles about boys and young men who tell us what growing up here is like and through interviews with people in our community who work with boys, like social workers, psychologists, and teachers who interpret the situation of boys for us through their experiences. Furthermore, we see this newsletter as a way to describe some of the experiences that parents and caregivers have connecting to boys. Through advice, often from authorities in the field, and through suggestions, for example, about films to watch with a boy, we try to help adults in relating to boys. We hope this newsletter becomes a forum for others to share their concerns, enthusiasms, and successes about sons, students, or friends by encouraging those with an interest in this subject--boys, fathers, mothers and others--to write about them. Lastly we would like to emphasize that the editorial policy of Santa Fe Boys is to consider any article for publication. If you would like to contribute an article or a comment on the subjects raised here or other subjects related to boys in our community, please contact us at PO Box 273, Santa Fe, NM 87504-0273 or e-mail us at: santafeboys@comcast.net.     Sincerely, Paul Golding, PhD Editor