[New-Poetry] Good magazines inform and inspire –D.K.LEE :COMMENT BY GBEMI TIJANI MST

[BY TJMST]

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*GOOD MAGAZINES *  partly implies consistent content customization of
publishers’ goals with a dynamic blending of reader participation.
Relatively speaking - in this instance - good might not necessarily be a
complacent hyperbole. The readers accept it and welcome subsequent editions.
However, its splendor – not necessarily its candor is boost by utilitarian
adverts or even robustly floated by a non-profit or endowment. This implies
a worthy magazine may not only flourish but also live as long as it serves
its immediate or distant society (of readers). Prior to the ezines era -
Readers Digest, Science Digest, The Psychologist Magazine, The National
Rotarian, now known as The Roitarian, Mother Jones, Essense, Gentleman
Quarterly, The New Republic, Tines Literary Supplement Newswatch, The News,
Tell, Ovation, Dokita, Life Mirror, Woman’s World, Impact Of Science On
Society –to mention just a few that have made impact within or beyond their
shores of publishing - are sustained by their readers burning expectations
to welcome the next edition.

The Rotarian and Rotary Africa, published since 1911 and 1927 respectively
endeared the years in readers mind because they carry* Rotarian values of
service above self *

Reading activities especially of a 1911 – type –of magazine evidently
justifies its advent and perennial as it has bloom into more than 30
regional and club level, country specific magazines including ROTARY AFRICA,
precociously born 16 years after the parent magazine debut .It shows as RI
President, D.K.LEE has said – ‘*each edition, each article across the years
he's become a Rotarian INFORMS & INSPIRES.’*

 *APRIL- AS  ROTARY ‘s MAGAZINE MONTH* is significant because reading of any
good book,magazine,newspaper,brochure,novel,report  unlocks the key to a
treasury of values,wisdom,knowledge, trendy or contemporary skills ,how-to
do things better  or behave more productively, mimic heroes or role models
than otherwise.

 PAUL HARRIS impeccably amplified global amity and glorify the essence of
responsible friendship through the Rotary Clubs he primarily sojourned to
co-found with other friends, a tailor and a miner...Community-efficient
literacy is one more indelible cultural legacy which Rotary clubs have made
their existence unforgettably felt though carefully planned
economic-contained interventional literacy project –especially in Thailand’s
ASIA and Africa where the CLEM -cluster language encounter- was experimented
and replicated successfully elsewhere.

* Will there ever be magazine readers & writers without Literacy & Literary
culture?* ROTARY CLUBS also show sustained concern in the less privileged
becoming literate comprehensively..

Again - the diverse range of human problems, potentials, professions &
community co -operation glowingly boost the readership of Rotary magazines
beyond Rotarians.

My first personally held and read copy was given to me in 1988 by Rtn
G.A.Oyemade,a limb surgeon at University College Hospital,Ibadan.The Salk
vaccine was reported and it actually rekindled my earlier 10-year interest
of voracious reading of Sci-Fi works of writers like Isaac Asimov, Ray
Bradbury & Arthur C.Clarke.

DESPITE THE MULTIMEDIA options - COMPETING FOR EASIER, VISUAL ATTENTION than
any print magazine.- I opine modestly that it’ll not only  be  the reading
activity  per se that will dwindle. The contents relevance, presentation
menu such as cartoons, artistic creativity, reader
participation,editorial,language and style, resource link, advert support  and
allied production brilliance ought to sustain WHAT TO READ, or being
packaged as magazine or clamored to be read  as The Rotarian or any other
appealing weekly or monthly.

*ROTARY INTERNATIONAL should also encourage the production of District
Monttly Magazines and club Quarterlies. This initiative in itself will boost
rotary awareness in the society and also augment members’ rotary knowledge.*

*.- RTN.GBEMI TIJANI MST,*

*DIRECTOR INT.SERVICE, RC OF OLUYOLE ESTATE,IBADAN,D9130*
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