A Sweet Career

That changed when Hershey representatives came to his school and tested students for co-op jobs. They picked him as one of the five brightest, he says, rewarding him with a mail room job at the plant.

Thus Wamsher began his career at one of the world's most popular chocolate companies. For his first eight months, he sorted and delivered mail, learning his way around the facility. Then an opportunity opened up in the print shop. Wamsher remembers that the in-plant comprised two small Multigraphics 1250 duplicators "and a lot of ladies typing stencils," which were the masters used on the duplicators.