Saturday, 28 January 2012
Old to New Glendoran
W
hen the ‘dream’ of a magazine first engulfed Ida and I, things were a lot different. First of all, computers were in their infancy and what they offered was little more than a fancy electric typewriter with limited storage. In 1982 the TRS-80 computer was being offered by Radio Shack. It had a word processing program that sounded like it would revolutionize the publishing business. We invested in one and thus began the saga of the Fracasse’s and the publishing of the Glendoran magazine.

Our first publication consisted of 40 pages and the cover showed the village of Glendora looking north. The subscription price was $20 per year for a few years until it was raised to $25 and it has remained the same ever since. Beginning copies were very basic in layout design and everything, and I mean everything, was done by hand. The pages, when ready, would be filmed by the printer and plates made to use on the printing press. The photos were turned into what was called ‘stats’ when
 

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A new version of our website is coming soon! PDF Print E-mail

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he Glendoran website first appeared in 2008 and was considered an experiment. It was a way for us

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to keep in touch with you and to allow you to buy subscriptions and back issues of the magazine. In that aspect, we have had some success, but it is time to update the look and feel and to make the site more user-friendly.

Our goal is to make our site easier to use for our readers and ready for the distribution of electronic issues in the near future. We will be steamlining the readers' access to the site and making it simpler to navigate. We will also be making it easier for use to update easily, making newer, fresher communication more immediate.

Our polling has shown that there is some support for electronic versions of the Glendoran Magazine for our more computer-savvy readers out there, so, we will do our best to create new issues with an electronic version for download, but also, go back and recreate older, out of print back issues for download, also. This will be a gradual process that will take some time to complete, but our readers have been requesting this. It's kind of a new frontier (an electronic one) for the Glendoran, and we will be feeling our way through it.
 
It's all about the kids! PDF Print E-mail

It's all about the kids!

T
he Glendoran magazine is proud to once again publish our Special Annual Youth Edition, with the cooperation of the Glendora and Charter Oak Unified School Districts and their teachers and students.

The September/October 2010 issue is dedicated to highlighting the literary work of the children of Glendora. It gives the youngsters an opportunity to be published, express their creativity, and showcase their work. Public recognition of accomplishments is a proven factor in building character and self confidence.

The presence in this periodical of business and personal ads indicates their support of the goal of excellence in education put forth by the Boards of Education of both Glendora and Charter Oak Unified School Districts. This massive project takes the greater part of a year to coordinate and complete and is the cooperative effort of many individuals. On behalf of the talented students whose work is featured and their dedicated teachers, we thank everyone who continues to support this exciting project each year.

Thank you! We couldn’t have done it without you.

Joe and Ida Fracasse
Publishers
Glendoran Magzine
 
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