Josiane Smith
Dave Smith
Rita Krauth
Fabian
Julie Stevens
Anna Stephan
Arthur Blumberg
Steven Joel Zeve
Michael Keller
Thomas Atkinson
Ken Isbell
Richard Grainger

Josiane Smith is the office manager and production coordinator. Her ability to keep track of countless steps, items, tasks and orders is a gift. More than once, though, we caught her writing memos in ink on her palm, to remember to take home. "Slips of papers can get lost," says the supreme organizer. She runs the gamut from gluing to sewing in turning components into finished products. In the shipping department, Josie wields the tape-gun with the gusto of an Annie Oakley. After seeing to it that all others are assigned their particular projects, "everything else" is done by moi, the French-born Mrs. Smith notes. When not tackling Kadon stuff, Josiane does yoga, works in her lush garden, and converses with her two huge felines, Cato and Taffy. She lost her beloved husband, Dave, in May 2002.


Josie in our spacious split-level workroom,
lining Quintillions boxes with felt.





In memoriam
Dave Smith
Our dear friend and helper passed away on May 20, 2002. He was Josiane's husband. Dave's strength, courage and cheer will always be an inspiration to us. He was a truly good man, a wonderful husband, father and friend, and is sorely missed.







Rita Krauth is on the Board of Directors of Kadon and the Counselor Troi of this enterprise. Her gentle guidance, keen insight, incomparable listening skills and soothing voice have a healing and balancing influence in all corporate concerns.

Rita sews some of the fabric bags in which so many of Kadon's gameboards are packaged, and pitches in with other production as needed, helping us heroically to meet deadlines and rush jobs.

There is a marvelous view from her kitchen across the rolling farmlands of Carroll County, Maryland, serene and fertile. A warm, old-fashioned family feeling permeates Rita's home, populated variously by up to 9 cats, her husband, Tony, an extended family of sisters, cousins, brother, grandparents, friends and neighbors, and occasional visits by a son, a daughter, and two grandchildren. In the summer the action moves to the large swimming pool and patio out back. Permit us to name-drop: Rita's son, Steve Krauth, has his name on the credits of the animated film, "Prince of Egypt," for doing computer magic for Steven Spielberg's Dreamworks in California.

A graduate of the Baltimore School of Massage, Rita has many tools of holistic healing, and the wisdom to use them well.   Photograph by Angelika Petrik






"Fabe" has been a family friend for decades. He's the best guy to have around in any emergency, from floods in the basement to squirrels in the attic, and any construction project, from our patio to the final stages of the Renaissance pavilion. He's been our benefactor so many ways over the years that it can't even be counted. He's super at explaining the games at shows and solving some of our hardest puzzles. He's also the author of a 500-page book about his family's genealogy, Fabian Families of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, available on this website.  Photograph by Angelika Petrik