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For information about the Dallas Litho Club, please call:

Ed Riggs at 910-575-0399

History

A meeting was held at Century Printing Co. on October 28, 1949, to discuss plans for organizing a Dallas Litho Club. Thirty-four eager and interested men attended that night and were rewarded with a demonstration program on albumin platemaking. It was conducted by Joe Miller of the Ansco Corporation, and proved to be the first of many successful programs to follow.

On that night plans were made for organizing the club on a permanent basis, and it was suggested that membership should be open to men from all firms in Dallas and the surrounding area that were interested in the progression of the lithographic industry. The next meeting was set for December 7, at the Adolphus Hotel, and it was decided that officers would be elected at that meeting and other various details would be brought up and voted on by those attending.

So on October 28, 1949, the Dallas Litho Club was born. Its growth and success in that first year was remarkable, and every member of this club should be duly proud of the part that he played in helping the Dallas Litho Club to advance in the way that it has.

No one could possibly visualize that the 34 men who attended the first meeting would grow to a membership of 152 within a year's time. Included in the year's activities were several speakers and visitors who were outstanding in the lithographic industry. Every program was helpful to someone. The first year was successful, of that we are sure, but it took much hard work and many thankless hours to make it so. The second year of any organization is always a big hill to climb and requires a lot of struggling to reach the top. With everybody pushing just a little bit we reached it easily.

On December 7, 1949, about 80 members of the lithographic trade in Dallas met in Parlor G of the Adolphus Hotel and voted to organize the Dallas Litho Club on a permanent basis. They elected the following men to guide the activities of the litho club for the first year: Waiter Tew - president, Tommy Monk - vice president, Thomas R. Masters - secretary, and A. W. Hudgins - treasurer. That their selections were wise has definitely been borne out since. These men worked hard and long to raise the Dallas Litho Club from its infancy in 1949, to the very industrious and still growing organization that it has become in 1994.

On April 3, 1950, something new was introduced. The meeting was in the form of a symposium - an interchange of ideas. Questions pertaining to plate making, plate graining, stripping, and camera operation were answered by a panel of capable men, consisting of E. L. Deever, Joe Miller, Herschel Wren, Les Monzingo, Fain Parks, and Tommy Monk.

W. D. Cunningham served as chairman of the panel.

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