Sometimes life seems to be a series of tradeoffs. You get your dessert if you
at least try the spinach. You can have the car on Saturday night if you
wash it and fill it with gas. You can take Friday afternoon off if you get a
vital report to the boss by Thursday. Life at Colby is like that, too. For more than a year, editors Kevin
Cool and Sally Baker have been hearing from alumni in the 50-Plus classes who
want individual class columns in the magazine. We also hear from constituents
across the board that they like the issues in which we run four-color
photographs--and they want more. But with paper and mailing costs rising almost
faster than we can track them and without additional funds to print color or to
increase the number of pages in the magazine, we knew we couldn't respond
positively to those comments unless we made some difficult choices. The first of those choices is reflected in this issue of Colby. Instead
of printing full obituaries for deceased alumni, Colby now will run
brief death notices in the Alumni at Large department. We hope that the
resultant gain in pages and reduction in costs will allow us, eventually, to
expand the 50-Plus section and/or add four-color photographs to each issue.
More study is needed, so these changes won't be made overnight, but we hope
that the majority of Colby alumni will favor our attempts to improve the
magazine within the constraints of our budget. As always, Executive Editor Sally Baker and Managing Editor Kevin Cool welcome your comments on the magazine. Sally Baker may be reached at 207-872-3220 or
sabaker@colby.edu. Kevin Cool is available at 207-872-3226 and
jkcool@colby.edu. If you would like information about how to contact survivors,
please contact the Alumni Office at 207-872-3190.
Sincerely,
Kevin Cool
Managing Editor, Colby
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