A lot of people are not aware of know this, but every edition of the Community Communique in our possession from 1971 to the present is archived online. Where? Right here at communitycommunique.net.
If you go into the “From the Archives” category under “SPECIAL REPORTS” and click on the last page in the archives, you will be taken to the earliest dated post in our online archive: October 1971. There you will find a facsimile copy of the “Cosolargy Report” from that month, which you can read online or download and print. From there, through a series of links, you will be led through every edition of the communiques we have all the way up to 2009.
The “Community Communique” has been published in several different forms over the years. And some years, not at all. Here is a quick rundown:
From 1971 through 1992, you will find PDF facsimiles of all the print editions we have in our archive.
From 1971 to April 1972, the communiques were one-page monthly reports.
After that, four-page news reports were published under various names until 1974, when the name “Community Communique” appeared for the first time. This has been the title of our Community newsletter since that time.
But the form of the Community Communique has changed over the years. The newsletter was first published as a four- page newsletter from 1974 through Spring 1982.
Then in Fall 1982, the publication expanded. More pages were added as time went on. Along with that came more pictures and longer, more detailed articles. The print edition went on in this format for ten years, from 1982 through 1992.
From Spring 1993 through Winter 1994, the Communique was not printed in any format. We have tried to make up for that in our online edition by providing electronic remakes of articles for those years that never appeared in print. You will find them in the archives marked with a photo of Bishop Gene Savoy Sr in vestments and with this notice:
NOTICE: The Winter 1992 edition was the last Community Communique published until the Spring 1995 edition. From Spring 1993 through Winter 1995, the quarterly publication of The Community Communique was on hiatus, picking up again with the Spring 1995 issue. For this reason, you will not find archive copies of the print Community Communique from Spring 1993 through Winter 1994. However, we are providing coverage of Community events for this season in the collection of articles you will find below.
In 1995 the print edition of the Communique was again published for about another year, until Summer 1996.
The Summer 1996 edition was the last Community Communiqué published until the Winter 2007 edition. For this reason, you will not find archived copies of the Community Communiqué from Fall 1996 through Fall 2007. For these years you will find major events from each season of those years described briefly in a short post.
The Communique appeared in a print edition again from Winter 2007 to Winter 2008, and this time with color photographs.
Since 2009 the Community Communique has been published as an online weekly newsletter. In its present form, we publish five or six posts weekly for an annual total of about 200-300 posts per year. To date nearly 2000 articles of various kinds and lengths are posted online. Every one of them is accompanied by photos, and a number of them are photo galleries. We have also published longer articles in serial form from week to week. These you will find in the Insight and Perspective sections. And we welcome submissions from Community members.
However, we do have one problem with our archive of past editions of the Communique: We do not have every single edition in our possession. This is where some of our long-time Community members, particularly those who have been members since the early 1970s, can help to fill the gaps. Our archive is missing a number of editions from 1971-1975. If you are a long-time Cosolargist, check your collection and if you find an edition we do not have please send us a copy of what we are missing.
