Government Printers Meet in New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS' devastation at the hands of Hurricane Katrina was witnessed on TV screens worldwide. But seeing the aftermath first hand, as attendees of the recent National Government Publishing Association conference did, left a far more poignant impression.
On the second day of last month's NGPA conference, members boarded a bus for a sobering ride through the New Orleans neighborhoods that flooded after the city's levees failed, including the infamous Lower Ninth Ward. Many homes were still boarded up and dilapidated four years after the storm, the high water mark clearly visible on their facades. Gaping holes in roofs showed where residents had chopped their way out of attics in a desperate struggle to survive. Mostly, though, the lots of once thriving neighborhoods were empty and overgrown, the houses long since torn down.
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.
