Teaching The Trade

Ruprecht has been married for 35 years ("To the same woman!" he exclaims), and is the proud father of two grown sons, one of whom has two children of his own. But in the summer of '52, he was just a kid who chanced upon a way to make a quick buck, working a new job beside peg-legged "Old Clem."

"The first thing I did was set a business card for myself for fun," he remembers, "and when I got home—there was a salesman who lived next door—he asked me how much to print him some."