Letter to the Editor: A note from a previous editor
Maria Liberati Peters
Issue date: 10/16/08 Section: Letters to the Editor
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I confess. While you were away a janitor let me into The Critograph office. You are working over sacred grounds. Did you know that where the office is located, the original Critograph was put together by cut and paste method in a white clapboard house converted
for our use?
We entered during turbulent times. In the summer of '69 there was a festival in Woodstock and Neil Armstrong took the first step on the moon. Of most importance, the Beatles broke up. During our years at the college the men had to worry about their draft numbers coming up in the Vietnam War lottery. We were the first 18-year-olds who voted in an election. It was Nixon vs. McGovern. We had the first Earth Day celebration. Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin died of drug overdoses. There was protesting on campus...and panty raids. And the women...we burned our bras.
This Homecoming Weekend the Class of '73 returned for our 35th reunion. We are still a tight-knit group. My wish is that when you leave Lynchburg College you come back and support
the college like we do.
By the way, The Critograph is lookin' good!
- Maria Liberati Peters
Class of 1973
Critograph Editor-in-Chief
1971 and 1972
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