ISSUE ONE

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

Hello Middle and Upper School!

Belles Lettres is so excited to announce our very first issue of Belles Clochette (which is French for "Beautiful Little Bell")! A lot of hard work and love has gone into it, so we hope you love it as much as we do! For a long time, it’s been a dream of ours to connect with the student body outside of the end-of-the-year print magazine. We have so many talented artists and writers in the St. Mary’s community, and they deserve to be recognized year-round, and we hope this issue does just that. Of course, I must start with a huge thank you to our Belles Clochette editor Mollie Wexler! There is absolutely no precedent for your position, yet you have stepped up to the challenge and paved the way for future issues of our online magazine. This issue would not exist without you. Thank you to our wonderful Belles Clochette readers Alistair Mu, Lily Saavedra-Willet, and Afifa Shah for your dedication to all things judging and interviews! Thank you to our incredible Managing Editor Maya Iyengar for being our calm in the storm, and thank you, of course, to our wonderful sponsor Ms. Love! None of this would have been possible without your help and guidance. And now, without further ado, the first issue of Belles Clochette!

Editor-in-Chief,

Elizabeth MacQueen