2006 PRINTING INDUSTRY HALL OF FAME — KEEPER OF THE FLAME

“When you’re that age, you have visions of sailing around and collecting specimens,” Quadracci says.

Then he got a call from Uncle Sam. Even though the war was winding down, Quadracci’s country (and the U.S. Army) needed him. Or so it seemed.

Quadracci went home to the Milwaukee suburb of Wauwatosa, WI, and waited for his marching orders. During that wait, he helped his older brother, Harry, get the ball rolling on a startup printing business called Quad/Graphics. Tom Quadracci had worked at another printing plant, W.A. Krueger, with his father every summer during high school and college, so it was hardly foreign territory to him.