I wouldn't be your editor if I didn't love being your editor. For one thing, it gives me a soapbox, which is indispensable for someone with strong opinions, which I sometimes have. For another, it gives me contact with some of you who never are able to make the meetings... and I really like that. I feel very close to you all. But what I would really like, from those of you who get to all the monthly meetings, those who get to occasional ones, and those of you who, for one reason or another, haven't yet attended any, is some sort of contribution.

You have a good mind -- you wouldn't be in Mensa otherwise. You have definite interests - and I'd like to hear about them. You read -- so do me a book review. You think -- so give me a thought piece. You care -- so write a short, medium or long article on what you care most about. I'm not the only one interested - we all are. I have twelve pages to fill every month, and an editor is not necessarily a magician or an egotist -- I'd much rather print your stuff than my own. Be humorous, be serious, be sentimental, be acrimonious -- but be a luv and send me something for Spectrum. Remember, you might be an editor someday, and I'd be nice to you!

Spectrum, July 1977, Virginia Long, Editor