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by Liz Fleming When I took over as editor of this magazine nearly ten years ago, the feeling was similar to what Olympic torch bearers must experience as the flame is passed..."A lot of other people have managed to carry this thing ... please, don't let me be the one to screw up!" And here we are, thirty editions, many, many editorial board meetings and thousands of articles later with the flame still burning. The fact that we are still alive and well, is due in no small part to the efforts of the legion of Trent staff, faculty, students, alumni and other volunteers who have worked together to make this publication work. To everyone who has contributed over the years, my sincerest thanks. Perhaps the people to whom we all owe the largest collective debt of gratitude are those who names appear in the masthead of the first issue of what would years later become the Trent magazine. These were the people who first decided to create a publication to ensure that the growing Trent family would stay in touch. Their names were: Harry Vanderlugt, Carol Ann Lugtigheid, Bob Lightbody, Colin Wright, Norm Moyer, Paul Delaney, Ron Butcher, Jim English and Dick Sadlier. An impressive crowd of Trent notables. "It was an exciting time," says Bob Lightbody, now working as a lawyer, but still an enthusiastic and involved member of the University. "Everything we did we were doing for the first time." Dick Sadlier shared the same view, "You saw something that needed to be done. You did it and someone thanked you for it. It was a wonderful feeling." The fact that the intended readers of that first publication were very few didn't bother the editorial pioneers. Says Colin Wright (who remembers being taken for a drive to the then-empty Otonabee campus by Dick Sadlier because "up here, everything we look at is ours!") "That first issue was put together for a very, very tiny audience. We were really writing for ourselves," he laughs, "but luckily, we found ourselves very interesting!" As members of the first graduating class, Bob Lightbody and his wife Margie, view those early years at Trent as being among their best and saw the writing of that first issue as simply an expression of the "great Trent spirit" they still share today. Jim English, the editor from whom I took over on his retirement, was the official staff member responsible for the publication. It was one of the hundreds of publications Jim worked on over the course of his 24 years at Trent. "I don't recall having anything as official as an editorial board meeting." says Jim. "I think a group of us saw the need for some kind of news vehicle to keep people in touch so we created it. I'm pleased with the way the publication has evolved and I think it should continue in the same direction, focusing attention on the good things that are happening at Trent." Given the fine work that Jim produced during his years at Trent, I don't think that the members of the present editorial board could receive a greater endorsement! | |
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