A Quarter Century of Superb Service

When Karl joined the Bethel School District as a technician, she did indeed run presses. She also began managing the shop, which had only two employees at the time, and was awarded a supervisory title a few years later.

Adding A Digital Perspective

During her tenure, she has broadened the in-plant's analog purview (the shop featured a darkroom, vertical camera and Silvermaster platemaker) to add a digital perspective. Around 2000, the shop installed a Kodak 2110 copier. In addition, "I was the first one in the district to get a Mac and [back then] I taught myself how to use PageMaker," Karl relates. "Going from a Linotype typesetter to the computer—it was the start of the whole field changing."