The Job He Was Waiting For
Cooper's first supervisory job was in a plastic factory in Mt. Vernon, Ky., printing lids for butter bowls. After a year there, he moved to Corbin, Ky., where he was a second shift supervisor for the business forms division of NCR Corp. He eventually became day shift prepress manager, where he oversaw the implementation of an electronic prepress system, before being promoted to order entry manager.
"In 1994, they closed the plant," he says. That's when he made his prophetic declaration to the career counsellor, never expecting to really end up at Berea College. He had known about Berea's in-plant for years, since it was only a dozen or so miles from Eastern Kentucky University. Instead of moving closer to Berea, though, his next job took him far away, out to Lord Fairfax Community College, in northern Virginia. There, he taught graphic arts for a year.
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.
