In its ninety-year history, The Christian Science Monitor has won a fair share of journalism awards, including six Pulitzer Prizes. Perhaps more important, it has won readers' hearts to a fairer view of humanity, supplying realism that is both truthful and respectful. The Journal offers this occasional column to record what Monitor readers say this newspaper means to them. In this installment, Lois Rae Carlson and Shirley Paulson interview contributing editor and longtime Monitor reader Beulah Roegge.
I First Read the Monitor when I was about ten or eleven years old. Someone had given our family a three-month subscription as a gift, and it was my job to go the quarter-mile down the driveway to get the mail each day. As long as we were getting the Monitor, I never needed to be prodded to get the mail. I loved it and looked forward to reading it so much, especially the "Sundial" column, which ran in the paper at that time.
When I was in college on the debate team, the Monitor and The New York Times were the only newspapers we could quote from; it was an international rule. So the Monitor meant a lot to me even before I began to study Christian Science.
