After 30 years at Muskegon Community College, Pete Hoekema looks back fondly on his career.

By Bob Neubauer

Hoekema kept in touch with his instructor at MCC, and when he heard the school needed a new shop manager, he applied. He got the job.

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In February 1976 he started work. One month later he got his pink slip. The college had decided its graphics program—split into instruction and production departments—was too expensive. So Hoekema talked with the instructors and suggested they team up, letting students work on live jobs in the in-plant. The plan was approved.

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Bob has served as editor of In-plant Impressions since October of 1994. Prior to that he served for three years as managing editor of Printing Impressions, a commercial printing publication. Mr. Neubauer is very active in the U.S. in-plant industry. He attends all the major in-plant conferences and has visited more than 180 in-plant operations around the world. He has given presentations to numerous in-plant groups in the U.S., Canada and Australia, including the Association of College and University Printers and the In-plant Printing and Mailing Association. He also coordinates the annual In-Print contest, co-sponsored by IPMA and In-plant Impressions.

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