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Article: Company adds letters to school spirit While football T-shirts are the most lucrative, even the chess team gets a discount.
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- Dayton Daily News
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- February 1, 2007
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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 ...