All In The Family

Though he didn't see the pressroom as his future, he didn't want to let it go either.

"I decided that I would like to teach, and the only thing I knew anything about was printing, so I decided I wanted to be a printing teacher," he says.

This led him to Illinois State University where he got his undergrad and graduate degrees. While studying, he worked in the school's in-plant, running duplicators and bindery equipment. He got his first teaching job in printing in 1962, and he taught in two schools before the job began to wear him down.