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Stephen G. Michaelides
Founder, Words, Ink
Following two years (1958-1960) in the Armed Forces where
he helped prepare infantry and tank strategy lesson plans for junior
officers assigned to Command & Staff (Fort Knox, KY), Michaelides,
in 1962, joined Muskingum College (New Concord, OH) as associate
dean of the college and instructor in English literature and creative
writing.
In 1966, he joined Penton Media (Cleveland) as an assistant
editor. Later that year, he was named editor of Management Personal
Time, a mini-publication appearing in every magazine published by
the company. MPT advised executives of ways to spend their away-
from-horneloffice time productively.
With the move of Restaurant Hospitality from Chicago to
Cleveland in the summer of 1970, Michaelides was named editor, a
position he held until 199 1, when he was named associate publisher.
January 1998 saw him leave the company he had been with for
32 years to pursue other business interests as a freelance writer,
speaker, and foodservice consultant. His articles have appeared in
Food Arts, the Ritz-Carlton magazine, Hotel Food & Beverage
Executive, Lodging Hospitality, and Nation's Restaurant News; and
they continue to appear in Restaurant Hospitality. His company,
Words, Ink, is a business-to-business communications company.