This April marked the end of our time leading the Register Forum. We’d like to thank the RF’s readers, our team of editors, and our advisors, Ms. Walker and Mr. Scott, for helping us create a year of the Register Forum that, we hope, will be remembered fondly.
This year, we’ve made a lot of changes to the paper. In 1982, the RF’s former advisor, Mr. Stephen Surette told the Cambridge Chronical: “Each year the paper is different because it reflects the personalities of the students.” This sentiment has become something of a mantra for us. Behind every change, there was tireless discussion and trial and error. We made each change to create a nuanced, diverse newspaper—one we think will foster discourse. Because, ultimately, what makes the Register Forum interesting is the students who create it, the students who read it, and the conversations it creates.
Without the Cambridge Public Library (CPL)’s Register Forum archive, these changes wouldn’t have been possible. Our new nameplate is a reconstruction of one used in the 1950s and 1960s. And the crossword competition we ran in February was inspired by a competition the Register Forum held in the 1980s.
CPL’s archive contains editions dating back to the RF’s founding in 1891. But, before this year, the archive stopped in 2003. We, with the help of the RF’s former advisor, Mr. Steven Matteo, and CPL’s archivist, Ms. Alysa Pacy, organized and donated over twenty years worth of Register Forum editions to make CPL’s archives up to date. We hope that RF editions will continue to be donated!
Again, thank you for a great year! On to the 136th!
Hazel & Sinead
This article also appears in our April 2026 print edition.
