The centrality of The Christian Science Monitor to the Cause that shares its name is not always apparent even to church members. It came into sharp focus, however, during the Monitor New England Field Meeting held in The Mother Church Extension Saturday, June 6, before the Annual Meeting of The Mother Church.
“I think sometimes the Monitor can be seen as tangential to the movement,” said Yvonne Zipp, the Monitor’s deputy national news editor. “It’s not, it’s bedrock,” she continued. Her perception of this significant role was what led her, with her family’s full support, to answer a call to return to Boston from her Michigan home when an urgent newsroom need suddenly arose. Zipp explained, “I wouldn’t have done it for another newspaper, but for the Monitor there was no hesitation.”
In a free-flowing panel discussion moderated by Margaret Rogers, a member of the Board of Trustees of The Christian Science Publishing Society and the Christian Science Board of Directors, Zipp was joined by three newsroom colleagues—Editor Marshall Ingwerson, National News Editor Mark Sappenfield, and Books Editor Marjorie Kehe.
