Yearbook Students Visit Walsworth Plant
by Melissa Schmidli
November 07, 2008
Nine yearbook staff members toured the Walsworth Plant at Brookfield and Marceline on Tuesday, November 4. The Brookfield plant houses the department for receiving materials, computer support services, creative services, and customer service representatives. Marceline, the boyhood home of Walt Disney and the headquarters of the Walsworth Company, is the location where yearbooks are actually printed and assembled.
In 1937, three brothers, Don, Ed and Bill Walsworth, settled in Marceline to print playbills with a borrowed typewriter and a mimeograph machine. Soon the product line was expanded to include cookbooks and, following World War II, memorial books to honor those who had served their country. In 1947, Walsworth began to produce yearbooks, which have been the company's mainstay ever since.
Staff members also worked with a Walsworth artist to design endsheets and folio art. They enjoyed lunch at the China Gardens with customer service representative Jill Fowler and tour guide Joe Sportsman.
Yearbook staff members are Charmaine, Tori, Jessica, Jake, Sarah, Kayla, Whitnie, Brogan, and Elizabeth.
