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Micciche  \nWhalesno Iasgignreeeddtoonbteoheedit thiad arcshouvisnaofl infor2t0y-1o3n,eIdidnyears’rfeapliuzbelitshht I hadng history. Not even when I received the thirty or so cardboard boxes shipped by previous editor Jennifer Clary-Lemon from the University of Winnipeg in Canada to the English department office at the University of Cincinnati in Ohio.  \nNo, my first thought was how to move these towering boxes to my office. After retrieving a rolling cart from a supply closet, I loaded as many boxes as I could while still being able to push the cart down the hall. Three trips later, I had unloaded the entire boxed history of Composition Studies in my suddenly cramped office.  \nAs I opened the boxes and poked around, I began to feel uneasy. Shouldn’t this material be in a library somewhere, not in a second-floor office of the charming but shabby McMicken Hall? Inside was a complete print archive. I found a photocopy of the first issue, when the journal was called Freshman English News. A three-columned newsletter published in 1972 by founding editor Gary Tate at Texas Christian University, it looked like something I might have produced in my Desktop Publishing class in 1987. I later read on the journal’s website that the inaugural issue was “pasted together on [Tate’s] dining room table and distributed for free”(“History”) . The more I explored the contents of those boxes, the more I could see the professionalization of the field in the format of the journal itself. It began as a stapled series of 8.5” x 11”pieces of paper and over time became a bound 6” x 9” journal with cardstock covers, and later glossy covers, most in off-white or beige. Simultaneously, the journal morphed from being a site for teacher exchange to one that hosts abroad range of scholarly and pedagogical work in writing studies.  \nBrowsing the stuff in those boxes, I could see, too, how the logo for the journal name was refined from a neat cursive line to the current design: “composition” in lower case, and “STUDIES” just underneath in all caps. About the creation of that refined logo, Peter Vandenberg, editor from 1996 to 2003, described in an email to me how he and his assistant (and future editor) ClaryLemon fiddled to get it right: “I will never forget the fumbling around with new-to-us design software that Jen and I did to get that ‘p’ in composition to line up with and breach the ‘u’ in studies (which we worried about for quite awhile for the obvious reasons) .”  \nVandenberg told me that when he assumed the editorship in 1996, he drove from Chicago to Fort Worth to pick up the entire archive and then  \nComposition Studies 50.1 (2022): 163–166  \ndrove it back across the country to his home institution, DePaul University. Wanting to ensure that the journal would be safely stored and made accessible to future readers, he donated a complete set of issues to his university’s library. As it turned out, that set never made it to the stacks or anywhere else. It was likely thrown away when the librarian’s office was cleaned out upon death or retirement, Peter didn’t know which.  \nLuckily, that wasn’t the only set of issues. The boxes I inherited included the full print archive, yes, but also copious evidence of how the journal was made over time and where it had traveled. Among my discoveries: personal correspondence between editors and authors, receipts for bills long since paid, three-ring binders overflowing with correspondence from subscription companies like EBSCO and JSTOR, microfilm reels in acid-free storage boxes, promotional pens from Texas Christian University, a vintage-looking stapler, and an embossed stamp bearing the journal’s name. 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