When Opportunity Knocked, He Answered

Solo Act

Leake was a one-man band at the in-plant upon his arrival, with a high-speed copier and one offset machine but not much in the way of binding. He had to hand collate booklets, dropping them into the bookletmaker one set at a time.

"It was a small shop, with not a lot of room to move," Leake says, figuratively and literally. "But I made the job more than it was when I came in. The amount of work, responsibility and importance of the work increased over time."