Walker Rumble

Walker Rumble was born in Iowa City and grew up in nearby Tipton.[1-Notes are at end of page] He graduated from Coe College (Cedar Rapids) and the University of Iowa. Daughter Courtney and son Patrick arrived. He moved Terry Millar Rumble, Courtney, and Patrick to suburban D.C. He completed the Ph.D. degree in history at the University of Maryland. Daughter Susan arrived. He taught U.S. history, mainly at the University of Bridgeport. In 1973-1974 he held a Fulbright Lectureship at the University of Islamabad, Pakistan. He moved to Pennsylvania. At Lehigh University he taught his last class and, apparently, drove his last bus. In 1978 he began a printing career at Hamilton I. Newell, Inc., in Amherst, Massachusetts. He joined the original staff of New England Monthly magazine as Typesetting Manager.[2] In 1985, Karen Donovan and he invented Paragraph magazine on the porch of the Mill River Cafe in Haydenville, Massachusetts. Upon the demise of NEM, he spent a year at the Book Arts Program of the University of Alabama and forty consecutive weekend allnighters at Northport (Alabama) Amoco. Karen and he got married.[3] He found a Vandercook 317 cylinder letterpress in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, and a site for Oat City Press in the Riverside section of East Providence. In 1993, he began publishing journal articles and offering lectures on printing history. He has four grandchildren. Their names are Kyle, Max, Katelyn, and Stella. In 2003, the University of Virginia published The Swifts: Printers in the Age of Typesetting Races.