I have had the pleasure to work with many great people this term. Without them, I would likely have already failed as Editor-In-Chief or be well on my way to failing the hardest academic term of my undergraduate program. Each of my staff members brings a unique skill set to from the team of people that produce The Iron Warrior.
To start, I need to thank Mikayla Micomonico. Although she’s had her own struggles and time constraints throughout the term, she has been there to provide direction and feedback on some of the harder problems I’ve experienced throughout my term. She has also continued to be The Iron Warrior’s authoritative source on correct grammar practices. And, she is always adamant that, “punctuation goes inside the quotation marks”.
Kate Heymans has also been a great support throughout the term. Although she is currently on her co-op term three provinces away, she has provided a great deal of support remotely. She has provided the biggest single source of copy editing over the term, helped with my creative blocks, and provided moral support when production weekends would go late into Sunday night. Kate has also been good at helping me to recruit other off-stream staff copy editors when my copy-editor count has been low.
Next, I would like to thank my writers and contributors. Without your content, The Iron Warrior would have no content and would quickly become forgotten. Collectively, you produce approximately 30,000 words per issue, with 38,000 for this final issue. I don’t know you all as well as I know my staff that comes in on production weekends, but I look forward to working with you again in future terms.
This is the first A-Soc term since the class of 2016 has arrived on campus. I would like to thank all the new faces to The Iron Warrior for taking the risk of stepping into our office and finding out that we aren’t that scary (well, most of us). Specifically Leah Kristufek and Nicole Jiang have been a great help of this term. Leah has been enthusiastic about helping out with “All The Things!” and Nicole put her prior passion for photography and design to good use. Josh Kalpin from 2016 Software has provided a large amount of time in the last couple production weekends, and I hope he continues to stay involved in the next term he is on campus. Krishna Iyer has been a huge help for layout . Even after he secured his own publication, he came in to help out on production weekends. I wish Krishna the best of luck with the operations of ProMag.
Anjali Gopal and Farzi Yusufali, like Kate, are currently on their work terms. They have been a huge help by coming in on production weekends to help with copy editing and to learn other tasks associated with operation of the newspaper. They are both strong spirited and enthusiastic to help out. Farzi has been demonstrating her commitment to The Iron Warrior since her 1A term. She is familiar with the operation of The Iron Warrior, and for these reasons, Farzi will be my nomination to succeed me as EIC for Fall 2012. This will not be finalized until an end-of-term advisory board meeting.
Amanda LeDuc is my cash-monies person. She is my advertising manager and, therefore, responsible for helping to secure ads and maintain communication with advertisers. She has helped me to be able to complete all five productions while still having a small surplus.
I would also like to thank my web editor, Kevin Veloso, who was done a great job advertising our articles through social media.
There are also others who help with the regular operation of The Iron Warrior. Marry Bland is our administrative assistant. She helps by managing the bank account for The Iron Warrior. She also provides her wealth of knowledge for how to accomplish, pretty much, any task on campus.
I apologies if I missed somebody. I appreciate all the help that has been provided to me and The Iron Warrior throughout this term.
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