Dr. Page Crouch inducted into FTA’s Flexo Hall of Fame

The self-professed ‘student of printing’ taught for 30+ years and later started his own consulting business—Print Education & Training LLC. Flexography and every other form of printing has been one of his passions—decade after decade—totaling some 50 years.

Page Crouch graduated from San Diego State College, where he served for two years as a graduate assistant. He moved on to a high school position for two years in Columbia, Missouri, while pursuing his doctorate (EDD) at the University of Missouri. Page migrated to Clemson in 1968.

To this day, he is widely credited with leading the development of the school’s graphic communications program. He dedicated a career to preparing students for the printing and packaging industries, and was responsible for the development of the university’s hands-on industry training programs used by employers across the globe.

Under his tutelage, Clemson University developed a flexo capability that it describes as ‘second to none in an American educational setting.’ Offset, gravure and screen printing were also found on Dr. Crouch’s list of courses and syllabi that he assembled.

Service to FTA
Speaker, committee member, researcher, judge, instructor, author and member of the board of directors—all are roles that Page Crouch filled in volunteer service to FTA over the course of his career. In 1984, Page launched his ‘Educators’ Challenge’, a two week scholarship funded seminar that he led to motivate other instructors, expose them to real world situations, get them and keep them excited about flexography and what it had to offer to their students. It was an early workshop in a long line. Other examples include 1989’s ‘Process Printing by Flexography’ and 1993’s ‘Corrugated Graphics and Color Symposium’.

Co-sponsored industry workshops, involving Clemson University’s Graphic Communications Department and FTA became a mainstay of both Crouch’s legacy and resume.

Page was an active member of FTA’s Process Color Standards Committee, FlexSys Advisory Committee and served as an Excellence in Flexography Awards competition judge and a two-term member of FTA’s Board of Directors and its Foundation’s Board of Trustees (1987-1993).

At one point or another, Page Crouch has been honored by the International Association of Printing House Craftsmen, National Association for Printing Leadership, International Publishing Management Association, Printing Industries Association of the Carolinas, Printing Industries Association of Georgia, Education Council of the Graphic Arts and Graphic Arts Sales Foundation.