Alcala Yearbook 2004

Ltfftr I rtrm fnt Edtftrr Somehow another year has come and gone and I have managed to complete the final pages of my last yearbook. It has been a challenging year to say the very least, and I have often thought how happy I would be to be done, but there is something bittersweet in knowing that next year I won't be involved in the production of this book. I just need to remind myself that never again will I be locked away in the UC with my six year old blue iMac that Student Computing has declared to be beyond all hope. Nor will I have to call X6800 and hear the phantom audix voice as it tells me that I have received nine new messages since yesterday (or worse, the days when there are no new messages and there should be at least nine returned calls.) Yet, somehow I have enjoyed the whole process and it seems that there is always something ridiculous to laugh at along the way (People who want to pick up their yearbook in September- it's a yearbook!!!). This book would not have been completed without the assistance of certain individuals who have helped me along the way. Colleen, you have probably been forced to endure the most. (OK, we need to figure out what we need to do this week. Let's make a list.) It's just been my way of making sure that you really want to do this next year. Now this will all be yours! Aren't you lucky?! Hey, maybe you will even manage to get PageMaker on the new computer that right now doesn't do anything! Or better yet, maybe you will be able to get that zip disk out of the zip drive! (I am just going to send it this way.) I wish you all the luck next year! Know that I will be there for you to call and complain to. As I see it we are just switching places. (Maybe you will be lucky enough to have someone to slide an apple tree "painting" under the door for you too.) Edie, Jocelyn, and Elaine, I have to thank you girls for all the work that you did with the student life and campus life sections! I know how difficult it can be to track people down and wrestle pictures from them. I appreciate all of your hard work. Nick and Cassie, I have not forgotten you guys! You know that when I disappear for hours on end that I am down in the UC where a cell phone will never get service. Marissa, thank you for being my sounding board and letting me vent all of my frustrations. I know that you are the one person who truly understands how difficult and frustrating this can be. You are also the only one who remembers when this office was just two desks and one computer!!! I also must thank Susan Payment, our advisor, and Ed Shoen, our Jostens representative. Thank you both for all of your he lp and for your patience. I know this year got off to a rocky start with the mugshot disaster, but I hope that the final result proves it all to be worthwhile. Thanks also go to Brock Scott for his help with the mugshots, as well as all of the sports photos. As always, you have done a wonderful job! Thank you for being so helpful and enduring my endless stream of phone calls! Thanks to everyone who was in someway associated with the production of this book. I hope that I have not forgotten anyone. I know that this book would not be published without the help of many and I appreciate all of the assistance that I have received. Once again, thank you to everyone. I will miss all of you next year, but I know that I have left this book in competent hands. Congratulations to the class of 2004!

Meghan Riley Editor-in-Chief

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