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NAPW Annual Luncheon Our annual luncheon is scheduled for Monday, April 11, 2005 from 12:00 p.m. until 1:30 p.m. in the Vanderbilt Room at the Marriott East Side Hotel in New York City. Mr. Ethan Hershman of Canusa Hershman Recycling is our keynote Speaker. Cost is $100.00 per person ($20.00 of this is tax deductible). Invitation is attached. New Arrival Former member of past VP, Caroline Bell and her husband Glenn Grossman welcomed their second child on February 10th - Aaron Craig Grossman. Announcement: Barbara Hudson (Director) has changed jobs. She has left Grief and has joined PCA as a Recycle Procurement Manager at the Counce, TN mill. Her new contact info is: 6715 Hwy 57, Counce, TN 38325, 731-689-1237 Happy Birthday to: Linda Birtel/Allied Waste – Feb. Michelle Rurka/Solvay Paperboard – Feb. Rebecca Dean/Southern Waste Paper – Feb. Charles Stone/The Neward Group – Feb. Cheryl Sloan/Tri-County Recycling – Mar. Volunteers Wanted We are looing for volunteers (personal or businesses) that would like to be featured in our monthly newsletter. Please notify Pam Edwards at (804) 232-2386 x 204 or pam.edwards@weyerhaeuser.com ***Reminder*** Don't forget to reserve your place for the Annual Luncheon in New York 2005 Scholarship for the University of Quebec Three Rivers awarded to Claudine Delisle Personal Profile of Claudine: Since I was young, I always had interest for the environment and chemistry. It is for those reasons that I graduated from the UQTR (University of Quebec) with a degree in chemical engineering. I did my final design project during a thermomechanical pulp mill start-up. This was my first contact with the pulp and paper industry. After this, I worked in waste water treatment. I was in sales and a service representative. I also worked in the computer environment as a consultant. This was mainly installing an archive data base system for the pulp and paper mill. I decided to start, in the fall of 2004, working on a master in pulp and paper sciences. In fact, for this moment in my career, my masters represents the ideal return for practicing engineering. With this clear mandate, I can learn the scientific knowledge that I am looking for. Furthermore, with my family situation, it let me to be autonomous, it gave me the ability to manage my time efficiency. This is the perfect continuity of my degree in chemical engineering and my work experience. Why did I choose pulp and paper? It is a sphere that I had the opportunity to work in many mills (ACI Belgo, ACI Port Alfred, ACI Kenoa, Tembec Matane, Kruger Trois-Rivie’res) in my home area. It is a dynamic environment, an interesting process where there is place for improvement such process control, the process itself and the environment. In fact, this knowledge will be helpful in a work circle. The theorical knowledge is complementary to the practicals, one that we often see in the industries. It gives a different approach to see things that most people in a paper mill don’t have. Receiving the NAPW award is for me a motivation source. It helped me to concile my family life and the continuation of my studies. |