WOA 50th ANNIVERSARY -- Sowing The Seeds

While the WOA helped to move the industry toward increased acceptance of the web offset process, it also earned a reputation over the years as being a rather "wild and wooly" social organization, as well.

Social Club

"Quite franky, in the early 1970s the association meetings were quite social," admits John Tiffany, a past WOA president and a retired senior Banta executive. "There were a lot of attendees who never attended the sessions. All they did was socialize with each other."