Nostalgia

This historic shot was taken in September of 1979. The picture and the story behind it was sent to us by Dennis Kaliser.

It was the first “formal” R-300 AE training class made up mostly of new hires.
The only previously trained AE’s were R-200 vets Ruthi Gahtan, Uri Lebowitz, and Melene Follert. Uri and Melene were already in the field doing the first customer trainings when this picture was taken. Ruth Gahtan was working with R&D as I recall.
The class was supervised by Reuven Treep seen sitting in the foreground. He taught the class all the concepts carried over from the R-200. He was part instructor, part student teacher of the printing stuff and some of what I knew of the R300 to date. Most of the hands on instruction was done by R&D people. I don’t remember everyone’s full name but here is who is who from left to right in the picture.

1. Dennis Kaliser (with the afro cut)
2. Jonathan Mayshar (Long career with Scitex and Scitex users worldwide)
3. Javier Kassel (Later became Demo center manager in STE and worked in sales at STA)
4. Mark Levinson (not an AE. He was the only R300 technical and marketing writer at that time.)
5. Reuven Treep (R200 vets), worked for Scitex as an AE and later worked for users in South Africa, the Far East, Italy, Spain Russia, Holland and many other countries around the world.
6. Avi Ben Arzi X pilot, left Scitex shortly after training.
7. Eli Friedlander (another long career with Scitex and Scitex users worldwide)
8. Tzachi Krelenstein (became AE in Europe for about one year)
9. Judith (forgot her last name) (Left Scitex before end of training)
10. Dan (or Don, I forgot which) Sharon (became AE in Europe for about two years).

Editorial comment:
This is how we like to get information submitted to us by our ExScite users. Thank you Dennis for the meticulous research.
Aharon Nizani, ExScite Contact Editor.

Denice DePalma (STA Trainer), Igal ( STIL scanner specialist, last name?) and Moshe Keydar (STIL color specialist) in one of the ICS classrooms for the Advanced Scanner Course in September 1995.
The picture was sent by Laura DeLaurentis.

STA’s StarCruiser Crew [Left to right]- Bob Holt, Dawn Link, Paul Willis, Allicia hagen and John Ialachi. 
The picture was sent to us by John Ialachi who has had the poster hanging in his office for 10 years. He wrote:

The “StarCruiser” was a full blown Scitex demonstration center on wheels complete with A/C and heating, self generating power, and a fully loaded a/v conference room.Complemented with all the Scitex toys from input on a Smart 340 to output on a Dolev 200. Through in were some Macs, an Iris proofer, a ton of Scitex software apps, a Star PS workstation, and off we went. Every stop we had to fix just about everything as these toys didn’t like traveling in an unpackaged state! We had a great time and showed Scitex technology in a wonderful way to a lot of people in the publishing industry. We even took the whole damn trailer and tractor inside a trade show as our booth and ending up winning an award of some kind. I logged a lot air miles the first year, but on occasion rode in the cab an saw the US from a whole different perspective. It was a great time for me!
After my two years at Scitex I helped launch a new company in the US market, Eskofot US (the Monoscan manufacturer) with the help of another former Scitex engineer, Steve Nelson. I left there to manage USA TODAYs’ massive transition to CTP at 36 print sites while working for Pitman, then moved on to help establish ProImage America which is owned by other exScitex members Dov Rainis and Ilan Vinner. I’ve been President & CEO of ProImage for more then six years, and just yesterday the assets of ProImage were acquired by Agfa. I’ll continue on with the new company under Agfa ownership, but we’ll operate as a completely separate entity.?

Following a successful sale of a Scitex system to one of Robert Maxwell?s companies, , the British mogul decided to invest in Scitex.
The picture (circa 1986) is of a signature ceremony in Herzlia Israel, with Mr. Robert on the left and Mr. Efi on the right.

The recent picture posted here (Aug 10) was taken at Creo/Scitex Herzlia, at the permanent picture exhibit near the main entrance in Building One.
I have discovered in the ExScite nostalgic picture archive another interesting angel of that same corridor exhibit.
In the picture you can Ronny Fogel, Creo’s director of Intellectual Property holding the walls from caving in.

On a recent nostalgic visit (July 2004) to Scitex in Herzlia (some people call this place Creo?) Efi posed for a picture. Scitex founder Efi Arazi is standing next to his own picture at the permanent picture exhibit near the main entrance in building 1.

Special thanks to assaf.lahav-radlmesser@creo.com and emil.menashe@creo.com who sent us this, and many other pictures, that we will post here on a regular basis.

For those ExScite’s who feel nostalgic about eating at the employees dinning room in Herzlia, here is the menu (in Hebrew), as photographed last winter on location.

This picture was taken in 1982.
Scitex, the crown jewel of the Israeli industry, was invited by the Israeli President Chaim Herzog for export industry prize award ceremony at the president’s residence in Jerusalem.
Representing Scitex at the ceremony were in front row (click for the big picture view) were: Scitex CEO Efi Arazi (on the right), Elsy Menko (between Arthur and Efi), EVP Arthur Low (third from the right, wearing glasses) invited to the 1982  Also  Kobi Stern (second from the left), and  sitting on the left Tanya Shneider.
The picture was sent to us by Elsy Menko from Holland.

In 1978 Samuel (Sami) Tof from Stork Screens, Boxmeer, the Netherlands sold the first Scitex Response 220 system to the Soviet Union.

Meir Levi sent us this picture that goes back to the very early days when Scitex was still called Scientific Technology Ltd. and was located in the research campus of Weitzman Institute in Rehovot, Israel.
As an electronic technician, Meir was one of the 25 employees “We were a small group, so we knew each other very well. Much like a small family headed by dady Efi Arazi” he says. In the picture (circa 1969) you see Meir smiling with Rachel, a lovely English lady. who was the secretary of the engineering staff.