Getting a Newsletter

[Kevin]

When we put together our alumni chapter, we decided that the newsletter would be written by actives, but edited and published by the alumni chapter. Up until that point, there was no newsletter. Trusting someone every year to do it right (and to make sure that the article authors used proper english) seemed like too much of a gamble.

So now I'm our newsletter editor. Using Publisher 2003 (nice program for that). I'm putting out a newsletter every semester. Alumni chapter dues go to pay for it (that's who it's really for anyhow). We as alums feel it's more stable in the hands of the alumni chapter. It's not really a huge effort. I just dedicate space to articles, assign 250 words to various people, the commander gets like 750 words for his article.

The newsletter is printed on one of those spreads that becomes essentially 4 pages. The Commander gets the entire first page and the part of the last page not used for the address labels. I have a 3/4 page section on the second page for Alumni updates (marriages, children born, people getting jobs). There's one 250 word article below that. On the 3rd page are 3 250 word articles.

Maybe someday, I'll make it an 8 page newsletter. But for now, the 4 page format's working great.

Sorry for the tangent.

If you don't like the situation though, as an alum, don't complain about the actives not doing anything. Go do it yourself. They'll probably be very happy you want to do this.