The Magic of Hugo, before your eyes Both entertains and mystifies FUN * MYSTERY * LAUGHS  Magic * Balloon Animals

Summary
An experienced performer having entertained in the Niagara area for over 45 years.

Magic Experience and Accomplishments

• MERLIN, at Henry VIII Banquets at Buttery Theatre Restaurant Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario
• First resident magician Houdini Magical Hall of Fame, Niagara Falls, Ontario
• Member of International Brotherhood of Magicians

Ring 12 Buffalo
Ring 49 Hamilton
Ring 294 Fonthill
Order of Merlin
• Junior Chamber of Commerce

Past President Thorold Jaycees
Lifetime JCI Senator

One of the first newspapers to be produced on computers
using Desktop Publishing (Pagemaker)

Started with a Bally, 1K - all entries made from a keypad
(i.e. A was Green and 1; B was red and 1; C was Blue and 1, etc.)
Graduated to a Commodore 64 which I still have.
It had a program called GEOS which had a GUI interface
which made it easy to make the transition to Pagemaker.
Then I found the Mac - what a machine.
Started with a 512, then a Mac Plus, now have a Quadra 800.
Retired from newspaper business but now set type for CREATIVE OFFSET, Thorold.

Belong to a private club that are all buddies from Commodore days.
I am the only Mac user, the rest are all IBM'ers.
It allows me to keep abreast of what's happening in the other world.
It looks like Windows 95 might bring them into the reality of the Mac experience.

Member of the NAMUG Club, the Niagara Region Mac Users Group.
Meets at Ridley College the last Wednesday of each month, except July and August.
I am currently putting out the newsletter.

• Have six children and 12 grandchildren.
• Like fishing, have a bass boat

but can't seem to find the time to use it as often as I'd like.
• Volunteer at MacKenzie Print Museum, Queenston, Ontario

Help out once in a while to give regular staff a day off.
I've worked in the printing industry for over 40 years.
Started after school, then attended Western University, Graduating in Journalism in 1952.
Have seen many changes in the printing industry.
I've set type by hand, linotype and then the computer.
My main program is Pagemaker. Just ordered upgrade to Pagemaker 6.
Have a nodding acquaintance with Photoshop (my scanner driver),
and Adobe Illustrator.
Had brief encounter with Quark Express, but found it cumbersome,
maybe because I started and was comfortable with Pagemaker.

I can be reached by E-mail at

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    November 1997