Salvi sitis omnes linguae Latinae magistri,

The son of my colleague has just resuscitated a high school student-produced Latin newspaper called "Latin Lives" and needs help from high school Latin students everywhere to help keep it going. (I don't know the history of the paper exactly, but apparently it used to exist, disappeared for a long while, and has now been launched again.)

The aforementioned student is a junior at a public high school in California. The inaugural issue of this newspaper was published in December 2005. Since he is more or less a "one-man show" he would love to have help from other high school students to keep it going. This help can come in the form of helping produce the newspaper itself (as co-editor-in-chief, roving reporters, section editors...) to submitting pieces for publication. The format of the paper (which is flexible, of course, depending on input from others) is currently the following: Letter from the Editor, original Latin composition, short pieces about daily life in Rome, book reviews, games and photos. This could be expanded to include all sorts of things like reports from JCL certamina, interviews, etc. Really, the sky's the limit.

I'm not sure whether there is an electronic version of this newspaper available, however he will gladly mail out a copy (or more than one) to anyone who would like to see it and show it to their students. I think this would be a great opportunity for creative collaboration among high school Latin students. You can email me off-list at guinevera@gmail.com to give me your name and address, and I'll pass the info along to him.

Who am I? you might be asking. I am a librarian at UC Berkeley for a special collection that houses rare books (maxima ex parte Latine conscripti!), but I am also a HUGE fan of Latin and the teaching thereof. I hold a master's degree from the University of Kentucky (with a certificate from the Institute for Living Latin Studies) and am an avid participant in weekly Latin speaking and reading sessions, monthly cenae Latinae, and (time permitting) annual Conventicula or Rusticationes.

Vivat lingua Latina, vivantque linguae Latinae magistri!

Guenevera (a.k.a. Jenny Nelson)
guinevera@gmail.com