Historical November 1984 report or notice. Original dates, prices and contacts describe the source period; current availability has not been established.
In the September issue, two letters to the editor were published which expressed our readers’ appreciation for The Times.
It seems appropriate for me to take this moment to express our appreciation and deep thanks to some of the individuals and groups who make this publication possible month after month.
As many of you have read here before: The Times runs on luck, love, and little money.
With recent increases in publication costs, luck and love are becoming ever more important. Almost half of our costs must be met through the contributions of individuals and neighborhood associations.
Without this support, The Times would not be the publication we are used to seeing—at least eight pages long, professionally typeset and printed, with a good number of photographs and a variety of articles.
The recent contributions by the following are very deeply appreciated: Mildred Chambers, Claude I. Schoenberg, Rosedale Neighborhood Association, and DeBaliviere Place Association.
Although money is necessary for publication, the efforts of many volunteers are in reality what make this paper possible.
There are several behind-the-scenes people I would like to single out for praise and thanks. Venita Lake, who has been a part of this publication for practically a decade, performs magic every month.
She and her layout staff take the strips of copy, photographs, advertisements, and headlines and transform it all into the publication you have in your hands.
Without her talent and patience, I do not know what we would do or what The Times would look like.
Mary and Hitch Powell are invaluable as a distribution team.
A grubby job with little glamour, distribution is essential.
And it is their counting, bundling and delivering on each block in the neighborhood that gets the paper to the block distributors in a timely fashion.
Our new business manager is Jane Geer. Combining the two jobs which were being done by Kathleen Williams and Candace Page, Jane has worked wonders in getting us financially organized.
The only unfortunate outcome of her work is that we now know just how broke we really are!
Although it is probably assumed that with a volunteer job such as the editor’s, the spouse of said editor is a behind-the-scenes helper.
It may be entirely inappropriate, but this editor’s husband deserves a public thank you for all his help. I think that in the last year and a half, Paul Kurtz has probably done every job there is to do (except take photographs) and his help has been invaluable. (Spouses of future editors—BEWARE!) The list of thank you’s goes on and on—block distributors, our loyal advertisers, writers, and, of course, you our readers.
Please continue to support The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere—it is your paper.
Originally published in The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere, November 1984.
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