  This contribution pays homage to Aaldert Wapstra, the founder of the Atomic
Mass Evaluation (AME) in its present form. Producing an atomic mass table
requires detailed evaluation and combination of the various decay and reaction
energies as well as data from inertial mass measurements. Therefore, a brief
summary of all mass measurements published since the last ENAM (2004) is given
(as of 2008). The status of the AME is then discussed and as well as attempts
for its continuation. (Since this paper was the written, coordination of the
Atomic Mass Evaluation was taken over by the Chinese Academy of Sciences,
Institute of Modern Physics, in Lanzhou.)
