How I Got Involved in Letterpress Printing:
Took printing in Junior High School. Got hooked. My dad got me a 5x8 Kelsey and some used type in 1939. Went crazy. Didn't want to
do anything but print. Ordered more equipment, cases, type, cabinet, etc. from Turnbaugh Service in Pennsylvania. Moved. Lost printing
equipment. Took it up again in the 1960s.
Presses & Equipment: 8x12 C&P (1903), old ordinary Vandercook proof press,
nothing fancy. All kinds of type. Specialize in foreign languages. Can do about 200-plus languages including some in non-Latin alphabets:
Hebrew, Yiddish, Aramaic, Russian, Ukrainian, Greek, etc. Can set text in almost all European languages that use our alphabet.
Work
History: Advertising and public relations. Had own advertising agency. Later served as Director of Information Services, Department
of Public Works, City of Baltimore for about 22 years. Established world's first Public Works Museum in Baltimore, served as its executive
director in addition to public information duties for the Department of PUblic Works.
Education: BS, Business Management, University
of Maryland, College Park, MD
Other Interests/Hobbies: Music. Specifically, baroque and renaissance music on original or reproduction
instruments. Had a old music group, Musica Antiqua, in Baltimore playing this kind of stuff. Built a psaltery, clavichord and had
a small pipe organ built for me which I designed tonally. Language study is now main interest. Have studied Russian, Yiddish, Ukrainian.
Do fairly well in French. Fascinated by grammar texts and studies which bore most people to death.
Group Memberships: APA
#600, AAPA, NAPA, ATF
Birth Date: August 28, 1927
