Duncan Avery has retired

[John Cornelisse]

On the 29th of November of the year 2021, and after over seventy-five years of service on the board of Monotype Hot Metal and the Type-Museum, Duncan Avery decided to take a back seat and retired.

[Keri Szafir]

It's perfectly understandable. I hope someone sensible took his place

75 years working for the Type Archive? Isn't that a little... exaggerated? That would date back to 1947! Monophoto was not there yet, the transistor was invented, you were born, so was Paweł Tryzno, David Bowie and my father...

[interrobang]

For what it's worth, so has Rainer Gerstenberg.

We're at the end of another era.

Who carries on?

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[Keri Szafir]

Time for my generation to take over. There's some interest among young people in learning the manual and hot metal typesetting, but it's rare. Time runs out for the old hands, so it's even more important to learn while we still can.

[John Cornelisse]

Duncan Avery was not involved with operating the machines... He was part of the board for many years. He was involved with Monotype for sure, and kept the museum running.

Garry Drayton, the last living teacher of the Monotype-School, he is still living... but as far as I know, his health is questionable. And with the corona spread... It's a dangerous world.

[David Bolton]

Does anyone have an e-mail address for Duncan? The one at the Type Archive obviously does not go to him anymore.

David

[John Cornelisse]

This is what I have on Duncan:

monotype-AT-typearchive.org  • Work
duncan-AT-littlecanterbury.co.uk  • Home
00442077350020  • Work
00 44 20 7735 0055  • Work
Little Canterbury, The Haven, Billingshurst, West Sussex, RH14 9BJ

I did not try to contact Duncan since the last email I got from the typearchyve...