Melissa Yelle ’05 shares an SNC memory that recaptures the joy of the college learning experience and the lifelong flourishing that great teachers foster. It feels just right to share this now, as we head into Commencement weekend. All those new…
Category: Editing & Writing
New Roles, New Paths
If you’ve visited the St. Norbert College Magazine page on Facebook recently, you’ll have noticed new energy and a new voice. It’s the work of publications intern Emilie Smith ’20, who’s taken this channel under her wing – and lots…
Dutifully Noted
Senior publications intern Mariah Doughman ’18 has served the college in many ways during her two years with us in the office of communications. Mariah is now in her final semester, and here she takes moment to reflect on one of…
As Assigned
This artefact from the history of a young writer is just one of many delightful surprises that has shown up in our office since I first connected with Breanna Mekuly ’09 earlier this summer. Breanna’s name first cropped up when I asked the…
A Few Choice Words …
… from our new issue: lepidopterous Love this one! We have a bit of fun with the “in” phrases we use to set up our list of online exclusives, and “In matters lepidopterous” was the brilliant touch from Jill that introduced a video about the Moth…
Lightness of Being
I spend almost all of my time with the interns’ prose reining them in; emphasizing the spare and economic techniques of straight newswriting; eliminating the flowery, ruling out the editorial voice. So it’s a beautiful thing, in the week’s student newspaper, to…
A Slow Day at the Office
Today I’m practicing slow journalism. Today I said yes to an opportunity to which common sense dictated I say no. I drove south instead of north. I skipped the office, I went well off-campus; out on a limb, on the lam…
Family Reading
Tongue-in-cheek text from younger son: “Ugh: I have to read some ‘Being Norbertine’ article by one ‘Allen, S.’ for my first graduate course.” Which is how we in the office discovered that the cover story of our Summer 2014 issue is now…
Gerry and the List, and the Notes
I keep a well-thumbed list of alumni writers, faculty writers and, above all, of the faithful band of contributors on whom we call regularly to write for the magazine. Some of them write for us regularly, some no more than…
Me and the Girls
Pictured, my autographed loot from a day spent with the doughty women of the All American Girls Professional Baseball League. These World War II era athletes were made known to new generations through Penny Marshall’s great movie, “A League…
