July 15, 1997

Middlebury Magazine

Receives National Recognition

According to Middlebury College officials the College’s

magazine, known as Middlebury Magazine, was recently awarded

a silver medal in a national competition sponsored by the Council

for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). The silver

medal is awarded to the second place winner in a competition that

included magazine entries from 52 colleges across the nation.

Middlebury Magazine editor

Rachel Morton and Steve Metzler, Middlebury’s director of publications

and the magazine’s designer, were invited to Washington., DC to

accept the award. The top ranked magazine in the competition was

Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, which received the Gold Medal.

Both magazines are printed at Lane Press in South Burlington.

Middlebury Magazine was

entered in the General Magazine Excellence category. This category

considers all aspects of a magazine - content, writing, editing,

design, photography, and printing quality. Judges also evaluate

how well the magazine understands and communicates with its targeted

audience.

According to Middlebury Magazine editor Rachel Morton,

the quality of Middlebury Magazine results from an institutional

commitment to produce a lively magazine that also informs and

entertains. “The magazine is put together with readers in

mind,” said Ms. Morton. “If a college magazine is to

represent the institution effectively, it has to be read. We work

very hard on story selection and we make sure that the magazine

has as much visual appeal as we can give it,” she said.

Middlebury Magazine, which

is produced quarterly, is distributed to over 34,000 alumni, parents,

students, and friends of the College.