Around the Bend, Volume 1, Number 12, May 1987

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The Newsletter of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom , t he
Pledge of Resistance and the St. Joseph County Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign
Volume 1, Number 12 "All the news that fits we print. " May 1987
EDITORS' INTRODUCTION
We a r e c e lebrating our f irst birthday with
this issue . Let's give ourselves a big
round -of a pplause. We need to show special
appreciation to Thos Langston, Rhonda
Hughes and a small group of Monday evening
editors who produced the first few issues,
and to Jurgen Brauer who, practically sin­gle-
handedly, produced the later issues.
The enormity of their efforts is only now
becoming clear to your new editorial staff
as we struggle with this issue . So far
Caroline Domingo has agreed to do copy
editing; Dan Blacharski the layout; Peter
Smith the ·word processing; Jeff Schwartz
(WILPF) and Mara Hudson {FREEZE) the edit­orial
board. We c~:mtinue to depend, of
course, on the multitude of volunteers in
the back room of Albert's for the final
collate, staple, stamp-ede to g'et the issue
to you.
Since this is the start of our new
publishing year, perhaps those of us who
have been r eceiving the newsletter from the
start should make another contribution. See
bottom of page 9 for suggestions.
PROPOSED PROCESS FOR PUBLISHING ATB
by Caroline Domingo (WILPF)
The following procedures should ensure that
we continue to produce a top . quality news­letter
without overburdening any one per­son.
These suggestions were discussed at a
r e c ent WILPF meeting and met with general
agreement. If there is similar agreement
at the next Pledge and FREEZE meetings we
could start implementing them with the July
newsletter.
Persons in the three sponsoring groups
should send articles to the editorial board.
Currently, Jeff Schwartz is convening this
board, which is composed of semi - perma nent
r e presenta tives of each of the sponsori~g
groups along with volunteers f or parti c ular
issues . The board will meet on the e ve ning
of the 17th of the month to skim <,lUickly
through the ma teri a l and de c i de:
what should definitely be put in this
i s s ue ;
what should be held over for the next
issue;
what should be discarded altoge t her ;
Board members can also mark suggestions for
cuts or alterations if they wish .
The material for the current issue
should then be delivered to Peter Smith,
who will put it on disk and print a copy in
column format for Caroline Domingo. She
wil 1 proofread and copyedi t · it - - 'consuit ­ing
the authors about changes if necessary
-- and return it to Peter for enter ing the
corrections.
The corrected version in column format
should be delivered to Dan for layout, to
Caroline for a final proofread, and back to
Peter for preparation of c~mera-re a dy copy.
The final copy should be delivered to
the Notre Dame Copy Center around the 25th
of the month. They need 4 or 5 days to
print the newsletter, so the group volun­teering
to collate, staple , stamp and ad­dress
the copies cayi plan to meet around
the 30th.
It seems to me that much craziness can
be avoided if each person involved is res­ponsible
for her/his stage only and no more
than that. What do you think? It also
seems to me that anyone who cannot manage
her/his stage that month should definitely
be responsible for making sure that s/he
has a substitute lined up in advance and
that the substitute knows exactly what is
involved and has a list of all the relevant
phone numbers .
The need to involve the editorial
board , the copy editor and the layout edi ­tor
with the computer person interposed
between each of these, plus printing time,
requires an early deadline fo r articles
(the 17th of the month) .
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