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Show SHIRLEY MILLS IDA STEWART BROWN EDITOR'S MAIL BOX HERE is the magazine we promised you last spring. We hope you're not too disappointed because we didn't get a good picture of you; but there are other issues to come two more. You asked me about the name several times before . . . well here is the explanation. Transit is Latin meaning to pass over or, more figuratively, to review. It's also that instrument the surveyor's use. (Remember the morning we were walking to school and you thought you were having your picture taken he was only a surveyor and that was a transit). In the beginning we understood that Transit was to be a combination of the annual Acorn and the magazine Scribulus. We decided to have two-thirds campus shots and one-third literary material. And strangely enough that's just about how it worked out. I say strange, because this was not only a christening but a birth as well! We are all uninititiated. Let me know how you like it will you? I tried to get some representative people in it as well as participating and "key" students. When we said we weren't going to have class pictures we met a lot of raised eybrows. "Mugs", we decided, would be definitely out of place. We have, however, used individual faces when we thought the situation merited it from a standpoint of layout, subject matter, and the like. Not all of our photos are works of art but simple unposed pictures. That might account for the scarcity of "toothpaste ads," and the abundance of doleful expressions, (a condition caused by the sudden exploding of a flash bulb and the student discovering he had his mouth open.) Why don't you get out the story you wrote last year, re-hash the plot and bring it up to M-401 some afternoon. We'd like some good timely magazine articles and poems too. If you have those bring them around. At any rate, I think you ought to feel that you have a right to contribute your two-cents worth to your magazine. Please let me know what your reactions are. Until then, I suppose, I'll have to do my own organizing, so now's the time to give me some of your ideas. Sincerely, FIVE freshmen, two sophomores and two faculty members comprise the personnel of contributors to this issue of Transit. DONN THURMAN, freshman photographer, came from Ogden High and chose Geology for his major. Another science major, also from Ogden High, but a Sophomore, is WEALTHY PURRINGTON. JOE JENSEN and MAXINE HEDGES both are music majors from the local high school and DeLORE WILLIAMS is studying pre-law. SHIRLEY MILLS divides her time between the Signpost and Transit. Shirley s story appears on page 24. IDA STEWART BROWN has studied the modern dance and instructs students in that art as well as other phases of physical education. RAY B. WEST, JR. is editor of the Rocky Mountain Review and also adviser to Transit. He is a member of the English faculty. IRENE BUSHELL is editor of Transit. 48 |