Name:  Eric Metzger

Department:  Sales Service

Position title: Sales Service Manager

Number of years with Faber-Castell: 3

Favorite color: green

Favorite food:  lobster and crab

Favorite type of music:  classic rock

Favorite pet:  dog

Favorite CFK kit of all time:  do art kits

Reason you like Cleveland: good place to raise kids

Place you’ve always wanted to travel to:  Europe

What is your favorite childhood memory:  playing pick-up football, baseball and hockey games with the other kids in the neighborhood

As a child, what did you want to be when you grew up?  Garbage man so I could ride on the back of a truck

What do you think inspires children most:  just being a kid and creating with their hands or playing instead of watching TV or video games

My favorite recreational activity as a kid ide and seek on bikes in a two to three square mile area.

Name: Bill Benda

Department: Sales

Position title: Director of Sales – Children’s Products

Number of years with Faber-Castell: 11

Favorite color: Blue

Favorite food: Italian

Reason you like Cleveland: No quakes, no forest fires, no hurricanes and we have all 4 seasons

Place you’ve always wanted to travel to: Grand Canyon

What is your favorite childhood memory: playing in the snow

As a child, what did you want to be when you grew up? Fireman

What do you think inspires children most: freedom to make mistakes

My favorite recreational activity as a kid: Football and basketball

Name: Edie Marie Fish  

Department: HR

Position title: “Director of First Impressions” (Receptionist/switchboard)

Number of years with Faber-Castell: 4

Description of photo: 6 ½, I love the ocean!  You just never know what you are going to see next!

Favorite color: varies on mood, but most commonly pink or light yellow

Favorite food: junk food

Favorite type of music: all kinds… swing, jazz, country, 70’s, big band, top 40, blues, some classic rock.

Favorite pet: our family dog we got for Christmas one year, her name was Daisy.

Favorite CFK kit of all time: I like the tie dye kits

Reason you like Cleveland: I was born and raised here.

Place you’ve always wanted to travel to: Anywhere, I love adventure! First to mind would be Australia, but anywhere there is ocean is fine by me.

What is your favorite childhood memory:  I remember a non stop fun filled vacation to Florida.  It was a whirl wind trip that included all the hot spots; Bush Gardens and their water park, swimming with Dolphins in the keys, Snorkeling on the reef, and ended with camping at the Disney World Fort Wilderness and 3 day passes to Disney and Epcot Center (MGM wasn’t built yet).  We had already been up late the night before to see the laser show at Epcot and we had just witnessed the Parade of Lights and the fireworks for the Magic Kingdom.  I was holding my dad’s hand (I was approximately 10) as we were walking out of the park and I looked up at him weary from the days activities and said, “Daddy, can we go home now?  I’m tired of having fun.”

As a child, what did you want to be when you grew up? I don’t know, I’ll have to let you know when I get there.

What do you think inspires children most: the great outdoors

My favorite recreational activity as a kid: definitely roller skating, I still go as often as possible.