A tribute to Dan W. Manson.The message simply said, "God was merciful and took Dan last night. He passed in peace at 12:05 a.m., Sunday, July 15." My friend, Dan W. Manson, had finally lost his battle to prostate cancer prostate cancer, cancer originating in the prostate gland. Prostate cancer is the leading malignancy in men in the United States and is second only to lung cancer as a cause of cancer death in men. at 68 years of age. Although born in Detroit and brought up in Grosse Pointe Grosse Pointe (grōs point), name referring to five residential suburbs of Detroit, Wayne co., SE Mich. They include the city of Grosse Pointe (1990 pop. 5,681), inc. 1879; Grosse Pointe Farms, city (1990 pop. 10,092), inc. 1893, on Lake St. , MI, Dan was a New Englander New England A region of the northeast United States comprising the modern-day states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. New Eng , and more specifically, a Maine boy at heart. After completing his doctorate at the Institute of Paper Chemistry, there was a short tour of duty at Billeruds Paper Company in Sweden, but after that, most of his life was spent in Maine and New Hampshire New Hampshire, one of the New England states of the NE United States. It is bordered by Massachusetts (S), Vermont, with the Connecticut R. forming the boundary (W), the Canadian province of Quebec (NW), and Maine and a short strip of the Atlantic Ocean (E). . It was the White Mountains White Mountains, part of the Appalachian system, N N.H. and SW Maine, rising to 6,288 ft (1,917 m) at Mt. Washington in the Presidential Range and to 5,249 ft (1,600 m) at Mt. Lafayette in the Franconia Mountains. Crawford Notch separates these two main groups. and then the rugged coast of Maine that first drew him there, and that kept his spirit. The names of the paper companies Dan worked for have been swallowed up in acquisitions--Oxford Paper in Rumford, The Brown Company in New Hampshire, and SD Warren in Westbrook, ME, where he worked for 15 years. When Dan "retired" from SD Warren, he was director of" process research. He said, "I know what I like to do and what I am really good at, and that's what I am going to do." What he liked was making paper machines run better, and he was really, really good at it. After a few years at James River James River or Dakota River River in the U.S. rising in central North Dakota and flowing southeast across South Dakota. It joins the Missouri River about 5 mi (8 km) below Yankton after a course of 710 mi (1,140 km). as an internal papermaking consultant, he formed his own consulting company Noun 1. consulting company - a firm of experts providing professional advice to an organization for a fee consulting firm business firm, firm, house - the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a , spending the next 10 years doing what he liked the most. It was a natural extension of Dan's personality and his love of papermaking to be heavily involved with TAPPI TAPPI Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry . Beyond being a forum for information exchange, TAPPI meant lifelong friends and the ability to share what he knew with others. He joined the Papermakers Committee in 1964 when it was called the Fourdrinier Committee and helped organize the first Papermakers Conference in 1972. He held all the chairs in the Paper and Board Division and served a term on the TAPPI Board of Directors from 1988-1990. He then served as the first Papermaking Contributing Editor for TAPPI Journal from 1986 to 1993. But what Dan enjoyed most was his involvement in training Dan was one of the first "Wet End Operations boys" that took over the wet end operations course in 1977. Almost 5000 students have watched Dan's lectures on formation. Few have forgotten it. Dan also was the editor for the "Paper Machine Operators Training" interactive laserdisc An earlier optical disc used for full-motion video and interactive training. It was introduced in the late 1970s and became obsolete in the 1990s. Videodisc systems based on a stylus were introduced (see CED), but only the optical-based LaserDisc survived, although never very popular. course and contributing editor for "How Paper Is Made" and the new "Practical Papermaking" CD-Rom courses. Dan's awards include the Paper & Board Division Harris O. Ware Prize in 1979, appointment as a TAPPI Fellow in 1985, and a Certificate of Appreciation from the Paper and Board Division in 2000. He also received the Canadian Pulp and Paper Association's I. H. Weldon Award for Best Paper. Dan never "retired" from TAPPI. The last message I had from was "I have some TAPPI business to discuss with you, but I guess it can wait." I guess now it will have to. Dan's wife, Marei, says his ashes will be scattered from the top of the White Mountains and off the Maine coast. I wonder if a few should be dropped into the white water system of some paper machine so that he can continue to make that big loop from the fan pump on to the wire. I know it is where he would love to be. |
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