Make my newsletter better and improve circulation.

I’m always looking for the lead story, the front page. This time that was taken care of by announcing the annual retiree get-together.

And our email list is longer than ever!

LOTS of submissions from fellow retirees! Wonderful!

and, amazingly, it is almost done. Boy, it’s either feast or famine for material, and I have a lot of material for this next issue.

Two former co-workers went to Pakistan for their business, and wrote a diary. They sent it all to me complete with photos. It’s the lead piece in this next issue.

I have discovered former co-workers on Facebook, and they’re giving me their email addresses to add to the distribution list for the newsletter. We’re probably sending to over 200 people now.

While I don’t think this was the best one ever, in terms of writing, style, etc., I think it’s exactly the kind that everyone loves, and we got great feedback on it.

The key was featuring as many retirees in it as possible, and including a lot of photos.

it is almost ready to go. George is going to add a page of pictures and do a few other changes. I sent him my draft. Now I just have to wait to see what he comes up with.

We actually have enough material to publish now, but that would be a month early. Lots of photos in this edition, which will make people happy.

The LAX group had a meeting, and they sent me a photo (although they couldn’t identify everybody). And the East Bay group from the Bay Area had a separate lunch, and I got two photos from that. People looove photos, more than the written word, it seems.

We had a lot of input from fellow retirees, which is very new.

And I was able to increase my email distribution list by adding on former employees I knew from when I worked at a previous station.

and it’s gotten a very successful reaction. One of the original Alcatraz guards (well, original in the fact that he worked there in the fifties, as a young man) joined our organization to complete his career. So I did a story on him. His photo and voice are all over the island.