2006 TAPPI-PIMA Student Summit a success.The 2006 TAPPI-PIMA Student Summit was held January 14-16, 2006 at the Holiday Inn Select Downtown in Memphis, Tennessee For the ancient Egyptian capital, see . Memphis is a city in the southwest corner of Tennessee, and the county seat of Shelby County. Memphis rises above the Mississippi River on the 4th Chickasaw Bluff just below the mouth of the Wolf River. , USA. "With many of our industry leaders set to retire in the next five years, there are many opportunities for those just entering the industry. The Student Summit provides an excellent opportunity for students to learn about subjects that aren't taught in school--negotiation, communication, and behavior styles," noted Willis Potts, chairman of TAPPI TAPPI Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry . Forty students and five faculty advisors representing 17 universities in the United States, Canada, and Finland and 10 industry professionals attended the event. Miami University (Ohio) sent the largest number of students with seven and IPST IPST Institute of Paper Science and Technology, Inc. IPST Internet Professional Sales Training at Georgia Tech and North Carolina North Carolina, state in the SE United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), South Carolina and Georgia (S), Tennessee (W), and Virginia (N). Facts and Figures Area, 52,586 sq mi (136,198 sq km). Pop. State each had five students in attendance. Following the Student Chapter Presidents' meeting, the students were quickly exposed to Memphis with a tour of the Rock N Soul Museum followed by dinner at Rendezvous. The team building began with the Saturday evening photo scavenger hunt through Beale Street and downtown Memphis. INTENSE PRESENTATIONS Sunday was a day full of intense presentations. The morning session focused on negotiation and communication skills. Bob Thompson of Buckman Laboratories, Inc., and Terri Creech of International Paper offered strategies and exercises to reinforce and improve one's negotiating and communication skills. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In the afternoon, the students used the DiSC[R] "dimensions of behavior" tool to determine their behavioral styles. Denny Crumpler of MeadWestvaco then explained the strengths and weaknesses of each style and how to communicate with people whose strengths differ. On Sunday evening, after the banquet After the Banquet (宴のあと, Utage no Ato) is a novel by Yukio Mishima. It follows Kazu, a middle-aged proprietress of an up-scale Japanese restaurant that caters to politicians. , the students met with their teams and competed in an engineering design competition. Utilizing the communication skills learned earlier in the day, each team selected a communicator, the only team member permitted to view, analyze, and measure the model that the team was to reconstruct. The "communicator" had to verbally describe the model to his or her team without touching any of the supplied materials. The overall winning team was "Fame" followed by "Wolf Pack" and "Leafers." Once again, the Summit offered resume critiques. Terri Creech, REACH manager/staffing specialist with International Paper in Loveland, Ohio, reviewed students' resumes and provided feedback from a human resources perspective. FACILITIES TOUR The group toured two facilities on Monday morning, Cascades Tissue Group-Tennessee and Buckman Laboratories. Both organizations went to great lengths to explain their business and share practical solutions to their customers' problems. TAPPI and PIMA wish to thank Cascades Tissue Group-Tennessee, Albany International Corp., AstenJohnson, Inc., BE&K Inc., Buckman Laboratories Inc., Georgia-Pacific Corp. (Green Bay, Wisconsin Green Bay is the county seat of Brown County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The city is located at the head of its namesake Green Bay, a sub-basin of Lake Michigan, at the mouth of the Fox River. ), Hollingsworth & Vose Co., Liberty Diversified Industries, Potlatch potlatch (pŏt`lăch'), ceremonial feast of the natives of the NW coast of North America, entailing the public distribution of property. Corp., and Tate & Lyle for helping to sponsor the Student Summit. Plans are already underway for the 2007 Student Summit which will be held January 13-15 in Charleston, South Carolina South Carolina, state of the SE United States. It is bordered by North Carolina (N), the Atlantic Ocean (SE), and Georgia (SW). Facts and Figures Area, 31,055 sq mi (80,432 sq km). Pop. (2000) 4,012,012, a 15. . Mark your calendar today and visit www.tappi.org for updates on the event. BY LAURA Laura, subject of the love poems of Petrarch. She is thought to be Laura de Noves (1308?–1348), wife of Hugo de Sade, but this has not been proved. Laura Petrarch’s perpetual, unattainable love. [Ital. Lit. FEIX, TAPPI |
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