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Debbie Pavletich, director of Graphic Services at Briggs & Stratton, in Milwaukee, Wis., is the new president of the In-plant Printing and Mailing Association (IPMA). She assumed the new office on Monday, taking over for former president Mike Loyd, who retired September 30 as director of Graphic Services at Louisiana State University. “I feel very privileged to be at the helm of an organization that provides such a variety of support and resources to its membership,” she says. “Mike has done a fabulous job of guiding this association through a very critical period of change. I am looking forward to working with not only IPMA’s

The In-plant Printing and Mailing Association (IPMA) has appointed six regional coordinators to provide the organization with information on in-plant activities and opportunities in different parts of the country. The coordinators are: • Susan Aschim, supervisor of Graphic Services and Mail Services at Mt. Hood Community College, in Gresham, Ore. • Margaret M. Kling, Graphic and Production supervisor with EMC Insurance Companies, in Des Moines, Iowa. • Debbie Pavletich, manager of Graphic Services at Briggs & Stratton, in Milwaukee, Wis. • Bob Wamsher, printing manager at the Hershey Co., in Hershey, Pa. • Tonya Demerson, manager of Reprographics for the City of Denton, Texas. • Glenda Miley, manager of

Working in a maximum-security in-plant has its challenges and rewards. By Mike Llewellyn A YOUNG kid, 10 years old, is wandering the halls of a local Boys Club when someone motions to him from beside a set of closed doors. "Hey," says the stranger. "You want to see something pretty neat?" The kid shrugs apathetically and walks over. But when he looks past the doors he sees one of the oddest sights of his young life: a noisy old platen press and, working quietly beside it, busily making adjustments, an even older man with a wooden leg. It's the summer of 1952 in Milwaukee,

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