Moving Into Retail

"Our company was 20 years ahead of Bill Gates," Kane says. "Electronic publishing was in its early stages, and we had an advanced system for the publishing marketplace."

After 16 years with the company, the division was sold to R.R. Donnelley & Sons in the mid 1980s.

"As far as experience goes, I spent many good years there," reflects Kane. "The demise left a lot of us in the composition business scrambling for work, and I ended up at Temple because of my background and experience in the industry. I was hired to do something a little different."