HOF 05 Groomed for Success -- Thomas Engdahl

Engdahl's earliest memories of the bindery include watching female workers sew the backbones of the books together, and watching folders make signatures out of the flat sheets that came from the printer. As an early teenager, Engdahl worked the bindery on weekends.

However, this wasn't the road that led Engdahl into a career in the printing industry. Alfred died when his son was only 16 years old, and his mother sold the bookbinding business.