Don Shepherd discusses Howard Ben Tré setting up an annealing oven at Blenko. Interview with Don Shepherd by Paul Hollister, June 10, 1981. (Rakow title: Don Shepherd interview [sound recording], BIB ID: 168505) Clip length: 01:02.

Paul Hollister (PH): You and Howard Ben Tré are gonna set up an annealing oven—

Don Shepherd (DS): —Oven at the Blenko Glass Works.

PH: —at the Blenko works.

DS: I—

PH: For what? I mean, don’t they have one anyway?

DS: Not really, none of the type that we’re talking about. It would be that would be one that would be tied to a digital computer—the one that Andrew Magdanz developed, which would [inaudible] twenty—it’s on a twenty-eight day annealing cycle which you could program any—any time period within that, you know, frame, and do some large glass castings right out of the large Blenko [inaudible].

PH: Take that along with you—

DS: Can I do that?

PH: Yeah, maybe you’ll find somebody who’d like to join our glass club.

DS: Fine.

PH: You get four of these—

DS: Yeah—

PH: —a year. Still working at Blenko, he’s been there since ‘75, okay.