March 14, 1996
Issue No. 3
¡EEditor's Note
¡EAlumni & Graduate
Students' Words
¡E Student News
¡E What do you think
of our newsletter?
¡E Teacher News
¡E Astrological
News
The Newsletter asked, "What do you think of the alumni newsletter? Does it have a future? How can it be improved?"
Cynthia Shin-feng Wu - "The newsletter is worth keeping, but the format should change. Reduce the number of columns, be more brief with language, simplify the content. It's not neces-sary to provide too much information. Publish it once a year. The editor should get a contact person from each M.A. graduation class, and each of them can write up part of the material. Thus, every year the newsletter would have its own special character."
William Lee - "The news-letter seems a little crowded."
Elyssa Chang - "The way it is now seems good. If you need help, I'd be happy to try my best."
Fred Chih-wei Chang - "Although I don't have any suggestions for improvement, I hope the newsletter will enjoy a long life. I really ap-preciate it. It's good to know how my teachers and schoolmates are doing."
Sharon Ou - "The news-letter is very good."
Joyce Chi-hui Liu - "My response is the newsletter is a great contribution and blessing for all of us who care about the program and wish to know something about one another. It fulfills at least the function of the above words, and doesn't need to do more. Of course it'd be better if more people would send news back and a larger and more proportion-ate picture of our alumni and alumnae could be presented. But it really depends on peo-ple's feedback . . . and this requires so much extra work! Perhaps we should live with the current conditions and wait for its slow growth. Getting class representa-tives to slowly shift part of the work to our alumni may be a good beginning."
Winifred Huang- "Our newsletter has a bright future as long as someone is will-ing to be the editor, and our readers are happy to corre-spond. With the exception of the teachers in our institute, I doubt though the possibility of finding people to work as an editorial team. Most who have graduated live far apart, and those who are still studying may not be able to spare the time. Well, per-haps we can find represent-atives in each area of Taiwan and they could be responsible to contact the alumni near them and write up a section for it."
Joyce Yang - "How do I feel about the current news-letter? Guess what? I love it! It's just marvelous. This is definitely not flattery or ©ç°¨§¾. I actually showed my last copy to colleagues here, and saw envy on their faces. I feel proud of it. So my view is the newsletter must be carried on and become a tradition in our institute. An editorial team? That might be a good idea, but I wonder if there would be any volun-teers to do the work . . . ."
John Liu - "I look forward to the newsletter. I find that the last one was more colorful than the earlier one because of its content and style. I suggest that the new gradu-ating classmates work as an editorial team to continue it."
In response to the January 1995 edition, Father Edward Vargo (¼Ú¶§Þ³¯«¤÷) wrote: "Congratulations on a superb second edition. It really flows well, and shows what a varied and interesting group of people it is that populates the Graduate Institute. Fine work."¡»
