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letter from the editor<br />
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and it will be given to you.” and re-edited. Every page, from the extra<br />
Out of context, it’s any petulant 1/16th of an inch in the margins to the picture<br />
of Mr. Leclercq in the Dress to Impress<br />
“Ask,<br />
child’s dream. But it’s also the<br />
statement I’ve grown to appreciate at MPH, a feature, was thought out, re-thought out,<br />
school that provides us with the opportunity debated, consulted, laid out and re-laid out.<br />
and support to pursue what we care about, Everything you see and read is a reflection of<br />
even if it means letting go of something that our deliberate decisions, made right up until<br />
we’ve had since 1927. MPH bets on its students;<br />
it certainly bet on us, when we chal-<br />
go to the printer for publication.<br />
the timer ran out and we were forced to let it<br />
lenged to create something wildly new and This kind of devotion is what made this<br />
unproven, while giving up a long-standing, magazine a reality. I’m thankful that this<br />
award-winning tradition.<br />
year’s staff, from the new members to the senior<br />
seniors and Ms. A, were willing to go on<br />
But we asked, and we received.<br />
A magazine format provides versatility in this journey. This issue is what it is because<br />
students’ expression, more so than a newspaper<br />
format could, both in written word and and sometimes conflicting personalities that<br />
of the humorous, sarcastic, bubbly, genuine<br />
hin design and photography. It was difficult make 2<br />
up this year’s class. I can’t recall a more<br />
for <strong>The</strong> Rolling Stone, published quarterly, to fun and meaningful journalism experience<br />
rightly keep its title of a “newspaper,” especially<br />
in today’s instantaneous news culture. I came full circle by shooting Maddy (who’s<br />
than the final photo shoot for the cover, when<br />
Shifting to a biannual magazine would also been on the paper since her freshman year,<br />
allow for different kinds of features and the longest of all of us) for the cover of my final<br />
issue, as I shot her for my first cover story<br />
exposes as well as more creative and pertinent<br />
photography. After 46 volumes (and too for <strong>The</strong> Rolling Stone.<br />
many issues to count) with the same types of As I recall my journalism beginnings at<br />
spreads, we were ready for some text-bending MPH while I approach the end, it’s humbling<br />
layouts and full-bleed pictures.<br />
to know that our magazine contains the<br />
As the apogee of Upper School-wide same determination, effort and thought that<br />
tutorial discussions, one-on-one interviews was put into <strong>The</strong> Rolling Stone. Despite the<br />
and in-class debates, the new format brings change in size, the article topics have not diminished<br />
in seriousness or relevance, and the<br />
with it new content: MPH By the Numbers,<br />
Ask an Alum, Spotlight, Food, <strong>Issue</strong>s and journalistic integrity with which we approach<br />
Interactive. Even the stuff we’ve kept from the our reporting has not relaxed.<br />
newspaper— Advice, Selfie, Culture and Big In other words, everything’s changed,<br />
Picture—are all reimagined.<br />
except for us. This is <strong>The</strong> <strong>Pebble</strong>.<br />
<strong>The</strong>se changes were, in part, driven by<br />
you. Though a handful of students started<br />
the conversation and executed the plan, this<br />
publication has its foundation in its audience.<br />
But our process has not changed. Every<br />
story, from the Spotlight of Mr. Z to the<br />
Big Picture on cancer masks, was outlined,<br />
re-outlined, discussed, workshopped, edited