AS MANAGER of UCSD Imprints, the 14-employee in-plant for the University of California-San Diego, Larry Fox has spent the past 12 years expanding and digitizing his operation to better serve the university’s 21,000 students and 20,000 faculty and staff. The university has taken notice. For the past five years, the in-plant has been awarded the Business Affairs Customer Satisfaction award for its copier management and printing services. Born and raised in eastern Colorado, Fox attended Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Okla. He earned a degree in Theology with a Biblical Studies major and a minor in German. After college, he spent a
Kristen E. Monte
IF AN in-plant’s success is measured by its growth, Auburn University’s CopyCat operation is a big winner. Much of this can be attributed to Glenda Miley, who has grown the shop into a full-service, state-of-the-art facility in her 13 years there. “Every year we have done better than the year before,” she attests. “We are always innovative, never stagnant. We stay on the cutting edge.” Born in Montgomery, Ala., and raised in that area, Miley started her graphic arts career while still in high school. She worked summers as a copyreader with Books Inc., a company that turned hardcover books into paperbacks. After studying
TWENTY-THREE YEARS ago, Keith St. Clair got a tip that a local print shop was looking for an employee. Knowing nothing about the printing business, he thought it sounded like an advantageous career path and took the job. “I didn’t know what to expect,” says St. Clair, now print shop production manager at Grocery Supply Co., in Sulphur Springs, Texas. “I thought I would just stand around and the machines would do all the work.” He quickly learned he would not be doing a lot of standing around. Born and raised in Sulphur Springs, about 80 miles east of Dallas, St. Clair graduated high school and entered
ONE OF an in-plant manager’s greatest fears is a shutdown. Walter Leonard has felt the power of that threat three times during his tenure with Sonoma State University General Services. But proving its worth has kept him managing for 17 years. Born and raised in San Francisco, Leonard attended a local college until his father passed away, then he went to work full time. He took a position with San Francisco-based distributor WJ Lancaster. Starting as a clerk in the mail room, he occasionally filled in for the duplicator operator. The company eventually purchased a MultiLith 1250 and he started doing full-color work. Leonard grew
WORLDWIDE PRINTING experience is not something many mangers can put on their resumes. Tony Seaman can, though. Now director of the Publishing Center at the University of Mississippi, in Oxford, Seaman was born and raised in Binbrook, England. He took an early interest in printing because of his father, who was a lithographer for 50 years. In 1961, Seaman started as an apprentice camera operator at W. Heffer & Sons, in Cambridge. He spent seven years doing rule and paste work and converting line art and pictures into film. He graduated from the London College of Printing in 1967, and went on to be a
