The Final Stretch

Well, I leave for Kansas City next Monday! Yesterday was my last day at American Color Graphics. I really appreciate all the help they have been. As I told Mr. Mooney, the staff there is incredible. He's got a company full of very knowledgeable people who are dedicated to quality, and they did everything in their power to help me.

Today I met Mitch Bright at Heidelberg, and he trained me some more on the Printmaster 46. We printed two 4-color process jobs. Mitch was also very helpful, and i learned a lot from him.

Throughout this competition training in the past month I have met so many people, and everyone has been incredibly warmhearted and helpful. But some people have gone above and beyond, and I would like to thank them in this post.

• Sue Rodman, and everyone at PIAG, who pretty much put this whole thing together.

• Mr. Campagna, who has answered my endless questions and spent hours at school over the summer helping me.

• Mr. Butch Mooney who opened up his shop to me so I could learn all I wanted to learn.

• Paul, Joe, Kevin, Kenny, Tim and Barry over at American Color Graphics, who helped me along the way, taught me everything they know, and answered my many questions.

• Tim over at Semper International, who helped me prepare for the interview portion.

• Paul Davis at DeKalb Technical College who spent his Fridays helping me with prepress

• Mitch Bright, and everyone else helped me at Heidelberg, for spending time to help in the printing portion of the competition.

I know there are some people I'm forgetting and I apologize. But thank you to everyone who helped me I really do appreciate it.


Alyssa