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Briefly noted at press time...
. . . On Monday, June 17, Walthers announced that Terry
Thompson is the new Vice President of Proprietary Products.
Thompson will succeed the late Michael Stevens in this posi-
tion, and be responsible for directing Walthers' proprietary
brands such as Walthers Proto, Walthers Trainline, Corner-
stone, and Walthers Mainline.
He joined Kalmbach Publishing in 1996 as an associate editor
for Classic Trains magazine. In 2005 he was named publisher
of five Kalmbach publications: Model Railroader, Classic Toy
Trains, Garden Railways, FineScale Modeler, and Scale Auto. He
also became publisher for Model Railroader Video Plus when it
was created recently. He is a past president of the Model Rail-
road Industry Division of the Hobby Manufacturer’s Associa-
tion.
Kalmbach has appointed Kevin Keefe, the vice president of edito-
rial, to succeed Thompson as publisher of Model Railroader.
MRH-Jul 2013
