2004 HALL OF FAME John Bell -- Ethics Really Matter

After the desire to find riches in South America subsided, Bell nonetheless found himself challenged upon joining the family business in 1973. It soon became clear that The Ovid Bell Press was in need of more advanced equipment.

"It was an interesting and exciting challenge, making the transition from being a two-color flatbed letterpress printer to a viable sheetfed offset printer and, ultimately, a web printer," he says. "In my early years, I was pounding the pavement trying to sell flatbed letterpress printing, but no one wanted to buy that. I quickly recognized where we needed to go, but didn't have the capital reserves to make the transition."