Magazine Literacy Bee

I know that when you organize a campaign such as this, you are bound to run into problems. My problem is my computer. I have the Vista operating system which is not compatible with many others. How is this relevant?

I sent off information about the magazine drive to the head of our department here at Pace last Friday to get the school officially involved. Nobody in the office was able to open the file I sent. I found this out when I emailed them to see if we would still be moving forward with the project. In effect, I have lost five valuable days of potential participation from my entire school department. It is still before the tentative dates that I would like to go full-force, but support from within would be a great help, and I will need some time to get volunteers signed up just to help with the orgainzational aspects, including scouting out sites, putting collection bins out, and getting the magazines ready to go.

I also spoke to one of my professors who works at Time, Inc. She will be looking into back issues and contact information for me, which could turn into a huge reserve of magazines. We shall see.

Take the good with the bad and always have a back-up plan!

Best,
Elizabeth