Lot's Wife Edition 1 2017

edition one
Letters to the
lot’s wife
Editor...
Hi, I just came across reference to Lot’s
Wife when looking up something else.
I’m glad to see the old rag is still going! I
was on the staff in 1969-1970 as a writer of
articles, an official Lot’s Wife Photographer
(maybe the only one? Memories are vague),
and I wrote at least one of the Jacquette
cartoon strips (the racy adventures of an
innocent freshette). I remember we used to
dag Molly Meldrum heaps. The Editor was
a bloke who sadly ended up a paraplegic, or
quaddie? due to a water skiing accident, and
the office manager was a lovely lady called
Margaret-Rose Dunphy.
Monash was politically seething at the
time, what with Albert Langer and Michael
Hyde (??) being the top student activists
back then. I vividly remember covering the
first Moratorium for LW, and was almost
pulled limb from limb by about 200 extreme
Lefties after one student occupation of the
Administration Offices, but was saved when
a Channel 2 (0r 7??) news team turned up
with cameras rolling.
Of course, I had so much fun working
for Lot’s Wife that I failed my second year
exams and never completed my Degree, but
it all worked out for the best. I haven’t seen
the campus since 1971, I used to park my
motorbike in a gravel yard outside the Law
Faculty. I doubt I’d recognise anything now.
Even the Ming Wing has a new bit grafted
on. I spent many hours on the tenth floor
drinking coffee from the vending machine
there.
Ahhhh, memories!
– Kim White
Don’t forget to write letter’s to the editors for
future editions.
Covers of Lot’s Wife from the 1970’s