‘Short while’ became 51 years for Review staffer
Submitted on April 22, 2009
Joseph Kenny
Margaret Lavin came to the St. Louis Review in 1957 intending to work there for a short while.
“I was just going to get experience and take it somewhere else. But I liked it and kept working there,” she said.
Lavin recently retired from the Review after 51 years, working for seven editors and five archbishops, who serve as publisher of the Review. “Little did I ever think I’d be there this long,” she said with a laugh.
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