Article: Company adds letters to school spirit While football T-shirts are the most lucrative, even the chess team gets a discount.

BEAVERCREEK -- Steck and Stevens may sound like a law firm, but it's not a law firm and there is no one there named Steck or Stevens.

Mike Blankenship and his brother-in-law Tim Roark own the nearly 44-year-old Beavercreek custom lettering business, which they purchased in 1996 from the original owners -- Blankenship's aunt Katherine Stevens and her business associate June Steck.

The women started the operation out of their basements in 1963 and primarily did silkscreening. They also did a lot of business designing bowling shirts.

While Blankenship and Roark still do some bowling shirts, the meat of their trade is schools -- and they've created the kind of positive relationships that keep ...

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