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The Museum would like to acknowledge with appreciation the Kim Pickard - Newburyport, MA following members and friends who so generously contributed Thomas Quirk - Charlestown, MA to the Roof Repair Fund. The roof has been repaired and the Charles Rheault - Dover, MA library stacks are safe. Thank you all. Louis Rosenblum (Crossroads Community Foundation) - Belmont, MA ROOF REPAIR FUND DONATORS Richard Rubenstein & Eric Kurtz - Arlington, MA Linotype Hell AG - Frankfurt, Germany** Mrs. George Sausele - Lynnfield, MA Sally & Dan Abugov - Andover, MA Carl Schlesinger - Rutherford, NJ John & Margaret Adams - Boxford, MA Frank A. Seamans - Leeds, MA Leslie Altobelli (Leslie & Company) - Atkinson, NH Paul Shaw (Paul Shaw Letter Design) - New York, NY Susan Anastasio - Bellingham, WA Joshua Simons - Sharon, MA Gail Annis - South Orleans, MA Richard A. Simons - Canton, MA Jocelyn G.T. Anthony - Philadelphia, PA Harry E. Slade, Jr. - Manchester, MA NEWS Eugene R. Bailey - Westborough, MA Ronald K. Smeltzer - Princeton, NJ Curtis Balduf - Walpole, MA Harry Spence (Sleepy Hollow Enterprises) - Norwood, MA Georgia Barnhill - Oakham, MA Bill Soucy - Hinsdale, NH James & Mary Beaudry -Burlington, MA Mark J. Sterns - Methuen, MA William Bonser - Rochester, NH Kathy Stevens - North Andover, MA The Museum as school Richard Boylan - Holliston, MA William Streeter - South Deerfield, MA Douglas V.D. Brown - Groton, MA* Jim Tepper - Westborough, MA The Museum as meeting place Lawrence F. Buckland - Stark, NH George E. Thompson - Glenview IL VISITORS TO THE MUSEUM Heather & Mike Bussell (Children’s Garden) - Ashby, MA Irene Tichenor - Brooklyn, NY Paul Capadanno, (Partnership Resources) - Bedford, MA Richard W. Tonachell - Cambridge, MA DEAR FRIENDS Robert Charlton (Goosefish Press) - Boston, MA Robert Trapp (Rio Grande Sun) - Espanola, NM he Museum of Printing is more than a collec- Connecticut Valley Litho Club - North Haven, CT Jere Turner - Concord, NH Al Cooper (Atlas Press of Worcester) - West Boylston, MA James Van Pernis - Swan’s Island, ME tion of old machines. It is a place where many Margie Dana (Dana Consulting) - Chestnut Hill, MA Ralph Vetters - Somerville, MA people, especially students, come to learn Elizabeth Denlinger - New York, NY Lawrence Vincent - Manchester, MA aboutT the roots of printing and communication. In Kathleen Doubleday - Amesbury, MA Robert S. Webber - Stoneham, MA support of these student visits, the Museum has a John & Victoria Duffy - Newton, MA Alden Westerlund - Chelmsford, MA growing and quite extensive library. We finish every Harold Dushame - North Andover** Patrick Weyer & Ling Zhang - Walpole, MA Richard S. Fine family - Carlisle, MA Walter Williams (Williams & Partners) - North Reading, MA tour with a visit to the Richter library room. Please HE Museum of Print- Murray Franklin -Wollaston, MA Wai Man Yeung - Sleepy Hollow, NY* consider the donation of any books, periodicals, sam- ing hosted the annual Bill Freeman & Caroyln Robbins - Bellingham, WA Mark Zurolo (SML Graphics) - Hamden, CT ples, or other material on printing that you may have. Tmeeting of the New Eng- Gerald Gaebel (Arthur H. Gaebel, Inc.) - Boxborough, MA * designates a donation of $500 or more. This issue is dedicated to our many visitors. land Chapter of the Ameri- Jess Giffin - Concord, NH ** designates a donation of $1000 or more Most of the teachers at area high schools, colleges, can Printing History Morris Greenbaum - Cambridge, MA and universities bring their classes to the Museum on Association. John Greenwald - Lowell, MA THE FRIENDS OF THE John Gulbrandsen - Burlington, VT a regular basis. The Museum is now an integral part Outgoing president MUSEUM OF PRINTING Elton W. Hall - South Dartmouth, MA of many graphic arts, design, and communication Alice Beckwith (pictured Norman & Jean Hansen - Newburyport, MA GARDNER J. LEPOER curriculums. above) chaired the election Anna Hogan - Lawrence, MA Executive Director The Museum’s annual meeting was honored to of the group’s officers for Darrell Hyder (Sun Hill Press) - North Brookfield, MA have Carl Schlesinger, printer and historian, as its Virginia M. Jackson - Peabody, MA B OARD OF DIRECTORS AND TRUSTEES 2008—incoming president JOHN ADAMS keynote speaker. Carl showed his renowned film Robert Soorian, vice presi- Jeffrey Jampel - Brookline, MA OHN ARRETT J B “Goodbye ETAOIN SHRDLU” which documented the John Michael Kittross - Seattle, WA MURRAY FRANKLIN dent Philip Weimerskirck, Rebecca Krzyzaniak - Waltham, MA BRIAN FRYKENBERG, Secretary last edition of set and printed treasurer Alice Beckwith, Stanley Kuperstein - New York, NY HOWARD HANSEN, Curator from hot metal. Carl is in the middle of the photo and secretary David Hall JOHN IVAS, Vice President John Lancaster – Williamsburg, MA below, flanked by Gardner (left) and Howard Hansen Theodore Leigh (Acorn Companies) - Beverly, MA REBECCA KRZYZANIAK were elected. THEODORE LEIGH, Treasurer Gardner LePoer - Ashby, MA (right). Photo by Joan Buschmann The group celebrated WILLIAM V. LIVOLSI Kent Lew - Washington, MA LARRY OPPENBERG the birthday of J. Ben Stan Limpert - North Andover, MA ALSTON PURVIS Lieberman, founder of William Livolsi - Woburn, MA JOHN ROGERS APHA, with birthday cake Arthur A. Maranian Sr. - Belmont, MA FRANK ROMANO, President Mr. & Mrs. Paul McNutt - Springvale, ME LOUIS ROSENBLUM and the ceremonial “Let THOMAS THOMSON Richard Minutillo - Roslindale, MA freedom ring” bell ringing. JEFFREY UPTON Carolyn Muskat - Somerville, MA The group was able to Brian O’Brien - Quinebaug, CT WILLIAM E. BONSER, DIRECTOR EMERITUS get up close and personal Larry Oppenburg (Galapagos Design Group) - Andover, MA with the Frey Collection of Michael Parraella - Medway, MA 800 MASSACHUSETTS AVE. ORTH NDOVER printing ephemera and see Anthony R. Penny - Paxton, MA N A , MA 01845 978-686-0450 new museum additions. Richard W. Peters - Marlborough, MA WWW.MUSEUMOFPRINTING.ORG K.M. Peterson - Brookline, MA James M. Pfeiffer (Black Cat Graphics) - Providence, RI MOP3.qxp:Layout 1 12/14/07 9:50 AM Page 2

The Typographers Association of New York ended was rampant. Many of the firms they owned or man- Professor Donna Catanzaroa brought her Hesser Col- The same was true for students from Bridgewater after over 75 years of existence, but 50 stalwarts have aged began with Linotype/Ludlow hot metal typeset- lege design history class (and some of their family mem- State College (below). Bridgewater State College is a held an annual reunion for the last five years. This year ting and migrated to . bers) to the Museum one Saturday (above). public liberal arts college located in Bridgewater, Mass- the group journeyed to Boston for an open house at For over 40 years, former executive director John Hesser College is a private college with locations achusetts. It is the largest of the state’s nine state col- Frank Romano’s home in the South End and a banquet Trieste took slides of every meeting and weekend event in five New Hampshire cities and offers two-year asso- leges outside of the University of Massachusetts system. at the Westin Hotel in Copley Square. where members brought their families. At the “Passing ciate degrees. The students were fascinated as the evo- The Museum of Printing has fulfilled a unique role On the Saturday of their weekend visit, a charted Parade” presentation of 400 photos, the group watched lution of mechanized print and electronic in the introduction of printing to high school and col- bus brought them to the Museum, where the nostalgia as technology changed and their children grew up. were explained. For many of them, it was their first in- lege students. It is a proactive program to help students troduction to the printing industry. understand the role of print throughout history.