Robert A. Kirchner Elected to Board of Longview Fibre Company -- NYSE: LFB.To download high-resolution, print-ready JPEG JPEG in full Joint Photographic Experts Group Standard computer file format for storing graphic images in a compressed form for general use. JPEG images are compressed using a mathematical algorithm. images, click on the thumbnail image above. WARNING: these images are very large (800K+) Click here for caption Business Editors MULTIMEDIA AVAILABLE: http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/mmg.cgi?eid=4634084 LONGVIEW, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 5, 2004 Robert A. Kirchner, a former Longview, Washington, industrial leader, was elected to the 10-member Longview Fibre Company Board of Directors by shareholders at the Company's recent annual meeting. He also has been appointed to serve on the Board's Audit and Compensation Committees. For half of his 36-year career in the private sector, Kirchner was president of Kalama Chemical, which manufactured and marketed specialty and fine chemicals. He led the company and its subsidiaries from 1980 until the plant at Kalama, Washington, was purchased by B.F. Goodrich in 1998. He continued with B.F. Goodrich as general manager of the Kalama facility until his retirement in 2000. Kirchner first worked in industry for Dow Chemical at Rocky Flats, Colorado, where the company was an Atomic Energy Commission Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), former U.S. government commission created by the Atomic Energy Act of 1946 and charged with the development and control of the U.S. atomic energy program following World War II. (AEC AEC US Atomic Energy Commission Noun 1. AEC - a former executive agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States Atomic Energy Commission ) contractor. After two years as a technical specialist in health physics, Kirchner transferred to Dow's Pittsburg, California, facility where he worked several years in economic evaluation. In 1969 he was transferred and promoted to Dow's Kalama operations as assistant plant manager. Kirchner and two other employees purchased the Kalama plant in 1971 and formed Kalama Chemical. Kirchner currently serves on the governing board of St. John Hospital and Clinic in Longview, and is a member of the boards for the Community Foundation of Southwest Washington and the Toutle River Ranch (Youth and Family Link Program). He has a B.S. degree in chemical engineering from Villanova University which he attended on a Navy ROTC scholarship, and was commissioned in the U.S. Navy and assigned to the Defense Atomic Support Agency in Albuquerque, New Mexico “Albuquerque” redirects here. For other uses, see Albuquerque (disambiguation). Albuquerque (pronounced [ˈæl.bə.kɚ.kiː], Spanish: [al.βu. . Following four years of Naval service he attended the University of Rochester The University of Rochester (UR) is a private, coeducational and nonsectarian research university located in Rochester, New York. The university is one of 62 elected members of the Association of American Universities. , New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , on an AEC fellowship, graduating with a M.S. degree in radiation biology Radiation biology The study of the action of ionizing and nonionizing radiation on biological systems. Ionizing radiation includes highly energetic electromagnetic radiation (x-rays, gamma rays, or cosmic rays) and particulate radiation (alpha particles, beta . A Lancaster, Pennsylvania, native, Kirchner has lived in Longview since 1969. He and his wife Pauline have three grown children and nine grandchildren. MULTIMEDIA AVAILABLE: http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/mmg.cgi?eid=4634084 |
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