Letter from the Editors

Delta Winds: A Magazine of Student Essays
A Publication of San Joaquin Delta College
2003

Letter from the Editors

Multiple works originally published in Delta Winds have been reprinted in different editions of a popular composition text, The Compact Reader, by Bedford/St. Martin's Press. This year, we are pleased to report that two more Delta Winds essays have been selected for re-publication, this time in the 4th edition of a textbook entitled Read and Respond, published by Roxbury Press. The two essays, "AIDS in Africa," by Raulyne Kenfack, and "In Defense of the Real American Family," by Kenneth D. Valdez, were first published last year in Delta Winds, Volume 15. This means that the voices of Delta College students will continue to be heard on numerous college campuses around the country.

Furthermore, Delta Winds, through its online site, provides a world-wide audience a chance to read essays by students at this college. One essay, in particular, in this volume will be appreciated overseas since the author is from Stockton's sister city in Foshan, China. "My Relationship with Dad," by Yushan Hu, was written by one of the English teachers from Foshan who studied at Delta College last fall. Delta Winds continues to serve as a vehicle through which individual students share their views and opinions with an ever-growing number of readers.