http://www.albionpleiad.com/2009/04/pleiad-web-site-forum/ Informing Albion for over 125 years Tue, 15 Jun 2010 12:38:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.albionpleiad.com/2009/04/pleiad-web-site-forum/comment-page-1/#comment-21 Melissa Matthews Millecam Sun, 24 May 2009 16:22:12 +0000 http://www.albionpleiad.com/?p=314#comment-21 Dear Pleiad: As a former reporter and editor of the Pleiad (1967-1970) I read with sadness about the demise of the print version of the Albion College Pleiad. To show how very long ago that was, the Pleiad was printed with hot type--a technology now long vanished. (It's how I learned to read upside down--a skill useful to a reporter). Those were the glory years of editors like Richard Smith (66-67), Jonathan Gosser (67-68), and Tom Terp (68-69)--hard acts to follow. In 1970 my new husband Aart ('70) gave me a bound volume of all the Pleiads from 1967-70 --a treasure we still have. (Still have the volume and each other) We wish the Albion Pleiad staff well in your new format, and fervently hope you will sustain the passion and inquisitiveness that often got the Pleiad staff into trouble in the 60s. But I think it will be hard to look back after 40 years at the digital Pleiad with the same impact and nostalgia that the paper version provides. I mourn the passing of newspapers. Best-Melissa Millecam ('70) San Marcos, Texas Dear Pleiad:
As a former reporter and editor of the Pleiad (1967-1970) I read with sadness about the demise of the print version of the Albion College Pleiad. To show how very long ago that was, the Pleiad was printed with hot type–a technology now long vanished. (It’s how I learned to read upside down–a skill useful to a reporter). Those were the glory years of editors like Richard Smith (66-67), Jonathan Gosser (67-68), and Tom Terp (68-69)–hard acts to follow. In 1970 my new husband Aart (‘70) gave me a bound volume of all the Pleiads from 1967-70 –a treasure we still have. (Still have the volume and each other) We wish the Albion Pleiad staff well in your new format, and fervently hope you will sustain the passion and inquisitiveness that often got the Pleiad staff into trouble in the 60s. But I think it will be hard to look back after 40 years at the digital Pleiad with the same impact and nostalgia that the paper version provides. I mourn the passing of newspapers.
Best-Melissa Millecam (‘70) San Marcos, Texas

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