Roy Rowan '41,

Roy Rowan '41, until recently Assistant Managing editor of Life, has taken the plunge into magazine publishing on his own. He and a staff made up largely of editors and advertising personnel from Time, Inc. brought out last month the first issue of a new monthly magazine, On theSound, devoted to the special interests and pleasures of four million residents rimming Long Island Sound.

The masthead carries Roy as editor, and the 114-page first issue, filled with articles, color photographs, and departmental features, has the flavor of the sea. The new publishing company is called Seascape Publications, Inc., and one of its novel features is an editorial houseboat, "The Office," based at Byram, Conn., but ready to travel anywhere on the Sound. One of the five directors and investors in the firm is Bruce Friedlich '41, advertising executive.

Rowan, who has a waterfront home in Byram, has always loved the sea, and as a Dartmouth undergraduate he spent his vacations shipping out with the merchant marine. One of the ads in the first issue of On the Sound is a bon voyage greeting from Roy's friends at Life. It shows the editorial houseboat riding the waves and surrounded by floating mines labeled deadlines, paper costs, postal rates, closing dates, newsstand sales ($2.00 the copy), and rival publications.