Domenic Vallone

Merging your in-plant with your organization's mailing operation will bring increased efficiency and savings—and more responsibility. One way to ensure the future of your in-plant is to make your shop a more integral part of your parent company—and perhaps the most obvious place to look for new responsibilities is the mail room. After all, that's where a great percentage of your print work ends up after you finish with it. Why not take command of the entire chain of events from printing to delivery? "You don't want to suggest that you'll take over someone else's job," says Domenic Vallone, manager of the production department

In his 18 years with the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia, Domenic Vallone has consolidated and strengthened the printing and mailing operations. When he started at St. Joseph's College in Philadelphia in 1971, Domenic Vallone had never given printing much thought. But since he was attending school on a work scholarship, he willingly accepted his assignment to the print shop. "I would go to classes, and then I would go there and spend three hours a day collating and delivering," he recalls. He didn't mind the work, but he admits "I don't think I would have picked printing if I had been given a