![]() ![]() “She had been in the trenches, so she whipped us into shape,” Tracey said.Īt that time, there were no computers. The adviser for the paper was Pulitzer Prize winner, Kathy Mitchell. She was on staff for three out of her four years at SRJC. Tracey thought that sounded like fun, so she joined the paper as a staff writer in the fall semester of 1981. ![]() “I was randomly passing a friend of mine, over there,” she pointed across the courtyard, “ and she said, ‘I’m on the Oak Leaf.’” Julia Park Tracey met me at the benches near the Santa Rosa Junior College Bookstore and told me how she discovered she wanted to be a writer. Shortly after I took the job of Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Oak Leaf Newspaper, I had the pleasure of meeting a former Oak Leaf writer with a successful career as a journalist and author. It’s like saying: I’m going to be a rock star or an actor. When I tell people I’m an English major, the response is usually, “What do you want to do, teach?” No, I want to write. ![]()
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