This newsletter marks the final “Word from the Chair” column that I will write. The end of my term as chair, along with very welcome return of cold fall weather to Northern Idaho, has left me in a somewhat introspective and reflective mood.
Getting involved in the AEJMC History Division wasn’t something that I necessarily set out to do as both a graduate student, and then later as a faculty member. As someone who was one of very few media history-oriented students a large graduate program, and is now part of a small department, I’ve gotten used to doing my things on my own. I enjoyed the many, many (many) hours I spent alone in the microfilm room of a library or at a table in a special collections department. I loved reading through a stack of books, taking detailed notes on a legal pad, and then filing them away in an old metal cabinet that could likely withstand a nuclear attack in my office.
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