Mrs Fraser and Moriston Matters
From Moriston Matters, Issue 18, April 1980.
That Moriston Matters came into being is due to Mrs Fraser - it was her idea to start a community newsletter of some sort. That it has survived and thrived is due to her enthusiasm, her driving force and her industry.
And if it does continue... let's quickly revise the beginning of the sentence... and that it will continue is due to the stamp Mrs Fraser's initiative, stamina and dedication has impressed on it.
Many people, over the few years of its existence, have said very kind things about “Moriston Matters” not just people in and around the glen, but from further afield, much further afield. People who never before new such a place as Glenmoriston existed. It's the idea of the magazine that has struck people most. And sometimes the way the magazine has illustrated ideas in its words.
We try in "Moriston Matters" not to refer to ourselves pretentiously in journalistic terms. A community magazine is a team project. But if one does use journalistic terms, it is to enable a point or two about a magazine's production to be made understandable. Well, Mrs Fraser's tireless capacity in news-gathering, in ensuring (somehow) that the raw material is regularly to hand, her scrupulous attention to detail, her accuracy in checking and proofing - all the pre-and-post publication work, much of it undefinable – make the editorial
task so much easier. But more: it is these features in Mrs Fraser's approach to and execution of the job that enable an editor to have that much more time to stand back and pause for reflection. And as often as not Mrs Fraser has been the magazine's chief reporter.
Mrs Fraser will be able to carry on for one or two issues yet, and that will give "Moriston Matters" some leeway. But when the time comes that distance will make it impossible for Mrs Fraser to be actively engaged in the immediate work of the magazine, we have no doubt that "Moriston Matters" will still continue to benefit from the contributions of both her and Mr Fraser. We wish them a long and happy period of retirement.