January 1992 — Vol 14 No 1
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Open original PDF • January 1992 • Vol 14 No 1 • 84 pages
Overview
Volume 14 opens with new leadership. Lorin Evans is now President (succeeded Rall after 1991 election re-run). Beth Medlin is new Office Manager (succeeded Nancy Pochepko). Bernard Urban returns formally as VP-Community Affairs — completing his Oct 1990 reconciliation arc. Officer roster: - President: Lorin Evans - VP-Apple: Ken De Vito - VP-Mac: Bob Shaffer - VP-Administration: Bill Wydro - VP-Community Affairs: Bernard Urban - Treasurer: Charles Froelich - Secretary: Dana Schwartz
Office News (Lorin Evans writes it, 10). Deborah Hoyt continues as Managing Editor ("In the Pi Pan" editorial). Amendment to the Bylaws (15, Board of Directors). 1991 WAP Journal Index (compiled by Harvey Kaye, 16). Exploring Typefaces — 11 (Frank Potter, 20) — Galliard, Nofret, Weidemann. WAP Artists on Exhibit (Anne Aiken, 24) — art by Caroline (Seferian role taken over by Aiken). Mouseman (Thomas Hoyt, 35). Decisions! Decisions! Decisions! (Lou Pastura, 37) — hardware reviews. The Paucity of Elementary Level Educational Software for the Mac (Phil Shapiro, 33). French Survival Manual (Carolyn Lingeman, 46). WordPerfect 2.0 Revisited (29).
Table of contents (selected)
Club News: Editorial Page: In the Pi Pan (Deborah Hoyt, 5); Office News (Lorin Evans, 10)
SIGs: Columbia Apple Slice (Tom Cook Apple II + Lawrence I. Charters Macintosh, 11); Apple IIGS SIG (Paul Tarantino, 12); EdSIG (Phil Shapiro, 13)
General Information: Volunteer Column (Tom Witte, 14); Amendment to the Bylaws (15); 1991 WAP Journal Index (Harvey Kaye, 16); Exploring Typefaces — 11 (Frank Potter, 20); WAP Artists on Exhibit (Anne Aiken, 24)
Macintosh Articles: Notes on the Mac (Paul Schlosser, 26); WordPerfect 2.0 Revisited (29); ShareWare Envelope DAs (Vincent Shen, 30); The Paucity of Elementary Level Educational Software for the Mac (Phil Shapiro, 33); Mouseman (Thomas Hoyt, 35); Decisions! Decisions! Decisions! (Lou Pastura, 37); French Survival Manual (Carolyn Lingeman, 46); The White Elephant of Style (Blake Lange, 47)
Apple II: Apple II Ramblings (Ken De Vito, 49); Educational Computing Organizations (Phil Shapiro, 50); View from the Cathouse (Kim Brennan, 52)
Highlights
Lorin Evans becomes President — Lorin Evans
New Pi President: Evans, longtime Pi contributor (Hartford-Macintosh Drive-in piece 1990-09 — V12 N09), elected after Rall's farewell and the 1991 election re-run. Now writes Office News column too.
Bernard Urban — VP-Community Affairs
Founding editor formally rejoins leadership as VP-Community Affairs — completing the reconciliation arc from his Oct 1990 Canvas-article return.
Lawrence I. Charters — first appearance
Lawrence I. Charters appears as Columbia Apple Slice Macintosh writer. This is likely the prolific Pi author/editor noted in the 1979 backlog item.
1991 WAP Journal Index — Harvey Kaye
Annual index continues; Kaye's indexing project ongoing since 1988.
The Paucity of Elementary Level Educational Software — Phil Shapiro
Critique of Mac educational software gap for K-3 — Shapiro continuing his education advocacy.
Entities
People: Lorin Evans, Ken De Vito, Bob Shaffer, Bill Wydro, Bernard Urban, Charles Froelich, Dana Schwartz, Beth Medlin, Deborah Hoyt, Tom Witte, Tom Cook, Lawrence I. Charters, Paul Tarantino, Phil Shapiro, Harvey Kaye, Frank Potter, Anne Aiken, Paul Schlosser, Vincent Shen, Thomas Hoyt, Lou Pastura, Carolyn Lingeman, Blake Lange, Kim Brennan Topics: Lorin Evans Presidency, Bylaw Amendments 1991, WAP Officers 1992, Pi Educational Advocacy References: WordPerfect 2.0, Mouseman, ShareWare Envelope DAs, French Survival Manual
Connections to other issues
- Lorin Evans Presidency follows Rall Farewell (1991-09 — V13 N09)
- Bernard Urban formal return completes arc from 1990-10 — V12 N10 Canvas article
- Lawrence I. Charters first sighting — answers the 1979 backlog question about whether he's the prolific Pi author/editor