CAROL ELEVITCH REMEMBERS LOIS MCCOY
When Lois lived in Palisades, she was a free-lance writer - with a new idea. Some of us looked to her in our concern about problems around us in Palisades: a small library needing funds and space; an elementary school threatened with closure and the property sold and built upon; a community center needing repair, or the town might take it; a triangle of land opposite the post office which could be sold and built upon.
Lois’s answer was to start a newsletter to bring issues to the attention of Palisadians. And so in 1977 it began, with an all-volunteer staff - writers, editors, and layout - one page, eight and a half by fourteen inches, mailed every month. All that remained was naming it. Finally, after much back and forth, an exasperated Johanna Lo said, “Oh, call it 10964.” The rest is history.