and later became a managing editor. In 1934, a fifth edition was added for the fifth and sixth grades. The price was twenty cents per semester. Circulation continued to rise, passing two million in 1942. Many people still fondly remember the papers they read as children and how they looked forward to Friday afternoons when their teachers handed out the latest issue. In 1949, the American Education Press was sold to Wesleyan University and became American Education Publications, a division of the Wesleyan University Press. Editorial offices were moved to Middletown, Connecticut, but printing continued to be done in Columbus, Ohio. There were then six editions, one for each elementary grade, with a total circulation of 4,269,000. Total circulation of AEP papers was 5,605,000. In 1965, Wesleyan sold American Education Publications to the Xerox Corporation. By then, there was also a kindergarten edition. Eleanor Johnson was editor-in-chief of all editions. In later years, there were other owners, including the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company and Field Publications. A pre-kindergarten edition was added in 1980. There were also curriculum-specific magazines for middle and high school students, including areas such as health, science, careers, reading, and writing. Weekly Reader Publishing, which began with the publication of the first Current Events on May 20, 1902, celebrated its 100th birthday in 2002. At various times through its publishing history, the magazine was known as My Weekly Reader or Weekly Reader. In 2007, Weekly Reader Corporation became part of The Reader's Digest Association, based in Chappaqua, New York. Weekly Readers main office was relocated from Stamford, Connecticut, to Chappaqua at the end of May 2007. Financial difficulties marred the publication during its time under Reader's Digest ownership; the magazine made efforts to launch an online presence for the magazine but were unable to secure the funds from the parent organization to do so, a factor in the magazine's decline. In February 2012, Weekly Reader was acquired by Scholastic, which operated the competing Scholastic News. Scholastic announced that it would be shutting down Weekly Reader publication and moving some of its staff to Scholastic News. Following the completion of the merger, the merged magazines are: Let’s Find Out / Weekly Reader Pre-K Let’s Find Out / Weekly Reader K Scholastic News / Weekly Reader Edition 1 Scholastic News / Weekly Reader Edition 2 Scholastic News / Weekly Reader Edition 3 Scholastic News / Weekly Reader Edition 4