"Music Educators Journal" is the profession's oldest continuously published journal, and it has grown to encompass the largest worldwide readership of any music education publication. It did not start that way. The journal began as an informal pamphlet known as "Music Supervisors' Bulletin" in 1914, changed its name to "Music Supervisors' Journal" a year later, and became "Music Educators Journal" in 1934. This essay chronicles the recorded conversations about the journal's birth and the material printed in the first volume as a frame for viewing its centennial year in 2013-2014. It continues with an examination of related passages from articles appearing in the volume years that bookend the journal's first century of publication.