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The Scepter Newsletter Guidelines

Only articles meeting the criteria below will be published:

 Email your submissions to regina.dickson08@yahoo.com.
 Indicate in the subject line of your email: “The Scepter” volume, edition, chapter name

and category of all electronic submissions (i.e. The Scepter, Summer Edition, Rose City
Chapter, Top Ladies News)
 Chapter newsletters, flyers and end of year reports are not accepted.
 All documents must be submitted using Microsoft Word. PDF format not permitted.
 Use Garamond font, 11-point font.
 All articles must be 250 words or less.
 Include chapter name, area, city and state and headline of article.
 One photo per article. Include photo captions (i.e. name the people featured in the pho-
to.)
 All submissions are subject to editing and potential exclusion based on timeliness of con-
tent.
 Submissions must be written in reporter format, excluding words such as “we”, “our” and
“us”.

 For the “Chapter News” section, submit an article for your chapters proudest Five
Star program.

 All photos must be submitted in a jpeg, png or any other high resolution format without
borders around the photos.

 Leave photos in the original format. Please do not place borders, outlines, frames or
effects around photos. Photos with borders and effects will not be published.

 Articles should be newsworthy. Opinions and comments are not allowed.

Deadline to Submit Articles

The Fall/Winter Edition submissions for Chapter News, Top Ladies
in the News, Memoriam and other newsworthy articles are
due no later than March 7, 2017.

The Fall/Winter Edition submissions for Area Conferences are
due no later than 3 weeks after the close of each Area Conference.

Submit all articles and photos to
Lady Regina Dickson, National Editor of the Newsletter

at regina.dickson08@yahoo.com