Doing Well While Doing Good

Already set on a life in print, Torone received his first training at the New York School of Printing, a vocational high school in his native Brooklyn. As was its custom, the school found Torone a job during his senior year, but that job merely pointed out the weakness of his initial training.

"All of my classes were in letterpress," he says, "and by the time I graduated in 1960, letterpress was on its way out."