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March 1989, Page 49 A Page From the Publishers—The American Educational Trust Make a DifferenceBig Guns and PlinkersThere was such a pleasant last-minute flutter of wings in late December and early January, that we are publishing in the adjacent column one last roll call of AET's Choir of Angels for 1988. Those are the big guns without which there would be no Washington Report on Middle East Affairs. However, we need lots of plinkers to get it to American opinion-leaders and the American public. That's the point of AET's own "thousand points of light 1989 campaign. We're asking 1,000 of our subscribers to send us $60 or more along with the names and addresses of 12 recipients for donated one-year subscriptions. We're looking for libraries, journalists, members of Congress and their staffs, educators, and clergy. We want our 1,000 points of light to show 12,000 new opinion-molder readers how to make 1989 the year of Middle East peace. Our February campaign kickoff touched off a blinding flash of 1,280 gift subscriptions. We're going to find a way to give honorable mention to all of those donors of 12 or more subscriptions, but have to get the Angel's Choir in and out of the loft first in order to make space. So, while we grind out address labels, please take your pencil, pen, typewriter, computer, or telephone in hand and give us the names and addresses of the 12 (or more) people or institutions to whom you wish to donate a subscription to the Washington Report for the next 12 months. Do your part, and for our part we'll promise that by the end of 1989 there will be at least 12,000 new influential Americans reading the Washington Report. And that, plinkers, will make a difference.
Help WantedLooking for a Few Good Regional VolunteersAET is looking for unpaid local representatives throughout the US, Canada, and overseas. Work varies with the volunteer's talents, inclinations, and mobility, but generally consists of acquainting libraries, schools, bookstores, and newsstands with the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs and other AET books and periodicals. For those interested, there is follow-up individual and group subscription work either on a volunteer or commission basis. Please call Donna Bourne and introduce yourself. One Full-Time, Paid Dynamo In WashingtonWith only six full-time paid positions, the American Educational Trust produces one weekly and two monthly periodicals, publishes books, makes films, and has become the biggest distributor of books and videos on Middle East affairs in North America. To be one of the six you have to be dedicated, indefatigable, detail oriented, and speedy. If you qualify, and can sell ice boxes to Eskimos and sand to Sahraouis, you might just be AET's next Director of Promotions. It involves placing authors on radio shows and promotional tours; placing, selling, and exchanging advertising, signing up group subscriptions; and pushing books through the publishing and marketing mill. If you're willing to spend much of your day on the telephone in return for generous commissions on top of a respectable salary, send a resume to Abigail. And Instant InternsAET's summer intern schedule is nearly filled, but our current roster is nearly empty. If you're available for part-time intern work (at minimum wage) now, we'll give you preference for one of the remaining intern slots in our book or magazine departments next summer. Don't even think of calling, however, unless you're a touch typist, or hunt and peck so fast that you can fool us. Make A Difference This Month |