Did you know that Alta has a magazine that features writings and art of students at Alta? Every year it is offered to students to buy one, but how many of them actually take up that offer? 

    I interviewed Ms. DeVeny (the head of the english department) about the past magazines and how they wanted to set it up going forward. Of course, there needs to be enough students to be interested in being on the staff or else it won’t be published that year, just like this year. DeVeny stressed, “it was not our intention to stop.” The previous teacher that taught the class retired and left no curriculum so the new teacher (Ms. Fryer) had to figure things out on her own. Ms. DeVeny has a lot of faith in her, she even said “Ms. Fryer has really great ideas.”

A big problem that the Euphony faces is that there aren’t enough buyers for the amount of copies they print. DeVeny said that last year about 45 copies were left over. Because of this they wanted to change platforms to Canva so that it would print on demand and it has better features that would make it easier to organize and print the magazine. The students on the staff didn’t like the idea of using Canva, so all four of them left. If you like Canva and want to help students show off their art, please join the Euphony staff.

I went to the library to find the oldest yearbook to figure out how long the Euphony magazine has been around. I strongly recommend looking through the old yearbooks because it was pretty interesting. The Euphony has been running for 45 years, and they used to offer (if you paid them) to write and send a message to the person of your choice. Now that we have cell phones, it’s a lot easier to get a message to someone, even anonymously. It also had a choice of kiss or slap, which is weird.

I really hope this article has helped promote the magazine and that the information I got helps the Euphony get people to join the staff. 

*Photo by Emiline Johnson