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Miriam Tillman's avatar

A column after my own heart--I love you more than ever! My dad was a graphic designer, so I grew up with this stuff (and those great magazines). My first job was as a production assistant at a (pre-phototypsetting) book publisher. I eventually became a copy-editor. and then went into marketing and branding queendom.

Leslie Fuquinay Miller's avatar

Why do I not know this about you!

Jackie Oldham's avatar

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Miriam Tillman, I was a copy editor too! For Waverly Press and its successors. Fonts and typefaces were as important as grammar and style in my job. One of my cousins was a graphic artist (University of Maryland grad) who worked for several companies before her retirement.

Miriam Tillman's avatar

Small world (more like small town)! I knew of Waverly Press, though I never worked there--I was at Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, then at Baltimore Magazine.

Miriam Tillman's avatar

And I LOVE the SNL skits!

Jackie Oldham's avatar

Excellent article!

sharonmill1's avatar

I am supposed to be getting up and dressed--but here I am--unable to stop reading. Beautiful!

sharonmill1's avatar

My neighbors and friends, Bill and Honey Passano, owned Waverly Press. How did I not remember about this connection?