His Kind Of Town

So he's stuck around.

Printing first caught Compton's interest when he was still in high school. Mr. Reginald Wagner's shop class introduced him to the trade, and he began his career as a facsimile operator with Chicago's Southtown Economist press in his junior year.

Staying with the company while he attended Moraine Valley Community College, he was eventually promoted to production foreman. Southtown, which handles newspapers like Investor's Business Daily and the New York Times for the Midwest, was Compton's second home for 18 years.