Princeton
Weekly Bulletin
January 10, 2000
Vol. 89, No. 13
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New editor takes over at Princeton Alumni Weekly

Jane Chapman Martin will become editor of the Princeton Alumni Weekly (PAW) as of February 1.

Martin, who earned her AB in English from Princeton in 1989 and an AM from the University of Chicago in 1990, has consulted in the editing and design of magazines for clients including Drew University, Montclair State University, the Lawrenceville School and the University of Chicago.

"This is a job I've had my eye on ever since I started working in alumni magazines 10 years ago," Martin said. "It's an especially meaningful opportunity because PAW is celebrating its centennial in April. I'm very much looking forward to leading the magazine at this important point in its history."

As an editorial assistant at University of Chicago Magazine in 1990-91, Martin shared a Gold Award from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education for staff writing. She then worked for two years as associate editor of Salt Lake City magazine, one of a two-person editorial staff producing a 120-page bimonthly.

In 1994 she became founding director of a publications office for the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, where she coordinated design, editorial content, desktop production and printing of all Kellogg's promotional publications and served as editor in chief of the alumni magazine, Kellogg World.

Poise and moxie

"We're delighted to have an editor of Jane Martin's strength and experience assume the leadership of the PAW," said Peter Brown '70, editor in chief of The Sciences magazine and chair of PAW's board. "Jane has the poise and the moxie to be a terrific editor.

"We are also deeply grateful to the magazine's current staff--especially managing editor Lolly O'Brien--for stepping up to the plate and doing splendid work under difficult circumstances during the past few months of transition."

The Princeton Alumni Weekly is published 17 times a year. Despite its title, it is published biweekly during most of the school year, with monthly issues in September, January, May, June, and July. Its circulation is 60,000. A special committee composed of representatives of the PAW trustees, the Alumni Council, and the University's trustees and administration, is expected to complete a review of the future of the magazine early in the new year.

Martin lives in Basking Ridge with her husband, James Martin '89, and their son Charlie.


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