The Georgia Review honors the passing of Betty L. Sargent, who died on 12 March 2009 in Scottsdale, Arizona, two months shy of her ninety-seventh birthday. An international and then domestic journalist during the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s, Betty worked for eighteen years with The Georgia Review—as business manager from 1964 to 1977 and (under then-new editor Stanley W. Lindberg) as assistant editor from 1977 until her retirement in 1982. Her presence under five editors gave the journal critical continuity during the two decades when it went from being a regional to a national publication.
A lifelong activist for human and civil rights, Betty showed that side of herself to Review readers with “The Desperate Mission of Stefan Lux” (Winter 1989), a moving essay about the nearly forgotten Czech reporter who committed suicide “on the crowded assembly floor of the League of Nations in Geneva” in 1936 to protest the League’s failure to take strong enough action against the rise of Hitler. We reprinted this important work in the Review’s fiftieth-anniversary essay retrospective (Winter 2001/Spring 2002).
The Georgia Review honors the passing of Betty L. Sargent, who died on 12 March 2009 in Scottsdale, Arizona, two months shy of her ninety-seventh birthday. An international and then domestic journalist during the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s, Betty worked for eighteen years with The Georgia Review—as business manager from 1964 to 1977 and (under then-new editor Stanley W. Lindberg) as assistant editor from 1977 until her retirement in 1982. Her presence under five editors gave the journal critical continuity during the two decades when it went from being a regional to a national publication. 
