I went to work for one of the State offices, but for the life of me I can't remember which office it was. There were branch offices all over the state, and my boss was the supervisor of the branch offices.

One of my duties was to publish a monthly newsletter. The managers of the various branch offices would send articles telling about what had happened during the month in their sectors, and I would copy (and edit) for the newsletter. The Director of the office would dictate to me his monthly wisdom which I also edited (very subtly) and formatted for the newsletter.

I had to arrange the branch news so that everything fit nicely on a page, without any large blank spaces and no crowding. I also did some little illustrations within the newsletter, and designed the newletter cover each month. Then when everything was all put together, it got sent downstairs to the print shop.

Does anyone remember offset printing? I learned how to do that. It wasn't part of my job description, but I was interested in seeing how the printers put everything together. This was in the days long before computers were available, so I had to type everything on some special paper, then the printers ran the pages through their offset print machines, collated, and bundled my lovely newsletters for mailing.

Somewhere in the boxes I have in storage, I still have a collection of the newletters I put together during the two years I worked in that office. Wonder which box they're in?

Shalom