A True Blue Printer
In 2000, inspired by a new company education reimbursement program, he started going to night school at the University of Phoenix. Over the next seven years, Bethel earned not only his bachelors degree in business management, but his MBA.
"I stayed up till 2:00 and 3:00 writing papers," he says.
His tuition payments were aided when he twice won the James M. Brahney scholarship from the In-Plant Printing and Mailing association (IPMA), an organization he has belonged to for many years. He has served as president, vice president, treasurer and secretary for IPMA's Louisiana Bayou chapter.
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.
