TAPPI Board of Directors slate announced.

The annual election of new members to TAPPI's Board of Directors is coming up. TAPPI's Nominating/Honors Committee recently submitted a slate of candidates for five director positions beginning in May 2004. By letter ballot or by electronic voting later this year, the Association's members will elect five of the 10 nominated candidates to fill openings on the Association's fifteen-member Board of Directors. The Committee selected these candidates from the Association's member groups and from individual TAPPI members. Each of the candidates will be listed in one of five categorized slates on the ballot. The candidates are:

Slate A: Operations

Gurvinder P.S. (Paul) Kochar, technical marketing, E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. Richmond, Virginia, USA.

Jeffrey J. Siegel, president, Mica Corporation, Shelton, Connecticut, USA.

Slate B: International

Guy Goldstein, vice president, Georgia-Pacific France, European Technology Centre, Kunheim, France.

Hans Mueller, president and CEO, Voith Paper Holding GmbH & Co. LLC, Heidenheim, Germany.

Slate C: Operations

Roger H. Brear, senior vice president pulp & paper manufacturing, Domtar Industries Inc., Ashdown, Arkansas, USA.

Asko Hyttinen, senior vice president strategy, investments, M & A, Stora Enso North America, Des Plaines, Illinois, USA.

Raymond H. Barrows, plant manager, Finch, Pruyn, & Company Inc., Glens Falls, New York, USA.

Gene R. Canavan, manager energy & training, International Paper, Prattville, Alabama, USA.

Slate D: Supplier

Katherine Buckman Davis, chairman of the board, Buckman Laboratories International Inc. Memphis, Tennessee, USA.

Sally E. Love, president, Paragon Management Consulting, Greenville, South Carolina, USA.

The TAPPI Bylaws specify that other nominations may be submitted to the Executive Director's office before November 1, 2003, provided that each nomination is signed by at least 1% of the voting members and provided further that each nominee specifies in writing his or her willingness to accept the nomination. In the event that no other nominations are made in this manner, the ballot distributed to the voting membership will be limited to the above-mentioned candidates provided by the Nominating/Honors Committee. The Nominating/Honors Committee members for 2003 are:

Michael D. Wallace, Chair

Hou-Min Chang

Robert J. Eamer

J. Philip E. Jones

Robert B. Kinstrey

Mark J. Rawlings

Delmar R. Raymond

Wayne H. Gross, Secretary

Your vote is very important. Look for your ballot in the mail in early December. For the first time this year, you have the option to vote electronically. Please refer to the ballot for online voting instructions. The results of the election will be reported in the March 2004 issue of Solutions! For People, Processes, and Paper.