Growing With The Changes

Once discharged, he struck out for Long Island, managing a large chain grocery store there from 1971 to 1974. On a visit to his grandparents in Shamokin, Pa., his uncle, who is about his age, introduced Beck to a classmate who ultimately became Beck's wife.

Beck returned to Pennsylvania and took a mailroom supervisor's position at Geisinger. Three months later, the mail and printing operations were combined under Beck's direction.