Page 2 RAIN December 1979 Last month we snuck Mark by you without introducing him. The fact is he dropped in one day during the frenzy of copy deadline, pulled out a proofing pen, and was drafted into service. Which is not to say that he fell out of the sky. Before his summer migration (he'll explain below) he was teaching social ecology at the College of Science in Society at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. Is it serendipity which brings together unlikely but fortunate combinations? I hope so. I've been wanting to use that word all month. But Mark's not the only new face from the East. We have a new intern, Kiko Denzer, from Hampshire College. Kiko is the magician who worked with Jill and Debra to transform the boxes of periodicals piled in our back room into an honest-to-goodness library. Now he's starting in on our files, many of them dating back five or six years. Thank you, Hampshire College! It's not all good news, though. RAIN is losing good energy, too. Yale, who came first as an intern and stayed to shepherd the magazine throu_gh this summer, is returning to Massachusetts and Debra is going home also. Debra began the process that Kiko's now assuming, of organizing RA/N's resource library, but even more important were her insights into women's health, nutrition, and the politics of change that contributed to RA/N's Access over the summer. We'll miss them both. And then there's Del. Our ability to· brag last month that we were finally solvent was due in no small measure to Del Greenfield. She came on board to job-share the business manager's position with Pauline and brought with her wisdom, order and balance (real world as well as checkbook). Her moving on leaves RAIN in desperate need of another kindred spirit (see RUSH). Last month I managed to speak at a conference back home in Minnesota, providing me with three days of Minnesota-style winter. It turned out to be just enough. The grass is greener in Oregon! -CC RAIN IIIIIIE p s I came to RAIN somewhat less directly than Carlotta did, taking about four months and 15,000 miles to get here from New England. It had never occurred to me that I might end up in Portland (especially when I found out Portland wasn't on the coast!). I heard that RAIN needed another editor just as I was heading back east. I thought about it, kept going, thought about it some more, went further and then, when I was all the way across the Rockies in Colorado, decided to turn around and head back to Portland. As I said, it wasn't the most direct route, but I'm really glad.to be here. Working at RAIN, though I've only been here a month, is an experience in itself. The hours are long and demanding, but they're spent with good people doing, as the late E.F. Schumacher put it, "good work." There's a special kind of satisfaction that comes from good work, and it's hard to find in other places. I feel lucky to have come upon it. I was told that it "greys" a lot in Oregon, which seems to be true. However, if I get another glimpse or two of the snowy-white shoulders of Ml:. St. Helens or Mt. Hood fading into the night sky before year's end it will be a very wonderful holiday season. Seeing them in their awesome massiveness hovering over the city like great clouds is a far better gift than any storebo ugh t-presen t -in-n o n- re cy clabl epackaging could ever be. - MR Journal of Appropriate T echnology RA IN_ is a national information access journal making connections for people seeking more simple and satisfying lifestyles, workmg to make their communities and regions economically self-reliant, bu.ilding a society that is durable, just and ecologically sound. RAIN STAFF Carlotta Collette Yale Lansky Mark Roseland Debra Whitelaw Pauline Deppen Kiko Denzer Jill Stapleton-Layout CONTRIBUTO RS Fred Lorish Lane deMoll Tom Bender Phil Conti Steven Ames T ypesetting: Irish Setter Printing : Times Litho Cover: Ancil Nance RAIN, Journal of Appropriate Technology, is published 10 times yearly by the Rain Umbrella, Inc., a non-profit corporation located at 2270 N .W. Irving, Portland, Oregon 97210. Telephone: 503-227-511 0. Copyright © 1979 Rain Umbrella, Inc. No part may be reprinted without written permission. QJ .u C Cl$ z
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