People Going Places
Duncan McCallum, Inc., of Santa Rosa, California, is now representing Friesens. Friesens is a full-service book manufacturer located
five miles over the North Dakota
border in Altoona, Manitoba. Duncan, who will continue to also represent Braum-
Brumfield, may be reached at (707)539-6162.
Deborah Bruner has been named production and design manager at Cornell University Press. Deborah has been with Jossey-Bass,
Inc., of San Francisco for the past four and one-half years as senior manufacturing manager.
Gwen Larson, former executive managing editor at Benjamin/Cummings Publishing, is now representing York Graphic Services
and York Production Services as California sales executive. She is located in Mountain View, California, and can be reached at
(800) 569-5163, ex. 4602; fax (415) 961-7848.
Merlyn Holmes has moved on from Mayfield Publishing to explore the possibilities in educational multimedia and is currently
freelancing with the 1996 NewMedia Invision Awards. She vows she will never leave book publishing entirely behind, though, and in June
she will be looking for additional freelance work in print and/or multimedia publishing. She can be reached at (415) 424-1159.
Departures from Wadsworth Publishing Company after a reorganization: manufacturing manager Bill Ralph; designers Carolyn Deacy,
Andrew Ogus, and Ann Butler; art editors Kevin Berry, Laura Murray, Beth Okurowski, and Bobbie Broyer; Quark compositors and
multimedia developers Alan Noyes, Brandon Carson, and Steve Bolinger; and design secretary Barbara Odone. Most are now consulting and
you can reach them at:
Bill Ralph, (510) 651-8928; Carolyn Deacy Design, (415) 585-4773; Andrew Ogus/Book Design, (415) 661-0990;
Ann Butler Design, (415) 856-8549; Kevin Berry, Art coordination & production, (415) 952-2332;
Roberta Broyer, Art editing, photo research & permissions, (415) 341-3153; Beth Okurowski, (415) 574-0852;
Alan Noyes, Electronic prepress consulting, (408) 723-1496;
Brandon Carson, Media & Web development, (415) 566-7375, bcarson@earthlink.net, http://home.earthlink.net/~bcarson;
Steven Bolinger, S.B.E.R.M. Productions, (415) 562-3489, sbolinger@sbermprod.com, http://www.sbermprod.com
Passings
Arnold S. Abrams (March 3). Arnie was owner of Reprographex, Inc., and a long-time resident of Palo Alto, California. He was active
in Bookbuilders during the 1980s and moved to Florida in 1992.
Richard P. Ettinger, Jr. (April 26). Richard Prentice Ettinger, Jr., with Charles Jones and James Leisy, was one of the founders of
Wadsworth Publishing Company in 1956. In 1988, inspired by Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, he established a college preparatory
school for Native Americans in San Ysidro, NM.
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