IPG attends the In-Plant Printing & Mailing Association's Harrisburg chapter meeting, then tours Hershey Printing Services.
Harrisburg
You can't avoid chocolate in Hershey, Pa. Even the streetlights are shaped like Hershey's Kisses in this erstwhile company town about 14 miles east of Harrisburg. Named for local hero Milton S. Hershey, who opened his chocolate factory there in 1904, the town grew up around chocolate, flourishing thanks to Milton Hershey's passionate investment in the community.
IPG attends the In-Plant Printing & Mailing Association's Harrisburg chapter meeting, then tours Hershey Printing Services.
Anyone who has ever attended an Association of College and University Printers (ACUP) conference knows what an exciting event it can be. The camaraderie of attendees combined with the quality of the sessions make this one of the premier in-plant events of the year.
The Central Pennsylvania Chapter continues to attract new members to its meetings. “It seems if I keep them centralized in the Harrisburg area, most of the members that are within the local region are able to make it,” says Chapter President George Kaufman. He also adds that members are very dedicated to the chapter and enjoy each others’ company.
As director of the Bureau of Publications for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania’s Department of General Services, Audrey Marrocco is both a devoted public servant and a dynamic publishing master. In her 22-year tenure with the Keystone State, Marrocco developed one of the government’s first Intranet sites, as well as its first Web-to-print application. She is currently seeking to centralize the majority of its printing and publishing services within a newly upgraded in-plant. Marrocco grew up near Harrisburg, the state capital. After high school, with no opportunity to attend college, she began her career in 1986 as an entry-level clerk typist for the Commonwealth. She