Thursday, June 18, 2009

New Edition of the Newsletter

Here is a link to the new edition of the "Roanoke Bar Review." As many of you know, Sharlene Sherman, the Gentry Locke staffer who produced the newsletter for many years, suffered a health crisis and had to retire. Since I had Microsoft Publisher on my computer, I volunteered to produce the issue. I used one of Sharlene's issues as a template, so she still deserves credit for the sharp layout.

Laying out the issue was an interesting experience. Years ago I was an editor of the W&L Law news and physically laid it out with "sticky paper" at the offices of the Lexington News-Gazette. Doing it 100% on computer is a lot easier, but is still time-consuming and frustrating (at least for me).

The content of the issue is very good, congratulations to editors Linda Gustad and Bryce Hunter. It really lays out all that we have going on.

Until a few years ago the newsletter was only available in "hard-copy;" now the dominant distribution method is direction to the website PDF. We still have about 50 members who pay a premium to be "paper" members; these members still get the old meeting postcards, letters, and hard copies of the newsletter.

Please read the newsletter and let me know what you think.