TAPPI division awards.
Bellanca awarded Environmental Division Leadership and Service AwardMichael A. Bellanca is the recipient of the 2004 TAPPI Environmental Division Leadership and Service Award. The award recognizes exemplary service to the Environmental Division by which the strength and well being of the Division is demonstrably enhanced.
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A TAPPI member since 1989, Bellanca has been active in several Environmental Division Technical Committees including Residuals Management, Air Quality, Water Quality, and Environmental Management. He also served on the Technical Program Committee for the Environmental Conference. Bellanca' held many leadership roles within the Division.
Bellanca earned a Bachelors degree in Civil Engineering from Manhattan College in 1961 and a M.S. in Sanitary Engineering from Cornell University in 1963. He began his career as a Regional Engineer for Northern Virginia for the Virginia Department of Health. In 1969 he joined the Virginia Water Control Board as Assistant Director of the Enforcement Division. Two years later, Bellanca was named Director Technical Services Division--Laboratory and Field Studies Programs and was promoted to Deputy Executive Director in 1976. While employed by the Virginia Water Control Board, Bellanca chaired the Kepone Task Force, and the Chesapeake Bay Oil Spill Task Force. He also served as Virginia's Member of the Chesapeake Bay Program's Management Committee from 1976 - 1981 and directed the Occoquan Basin Nutrient Study with Dr. Clair Sawyer and the Watershed management Study of the James River. In 1978 He participated in a three-man exchange with the USSR under the US/USSR Cultural Exchange treaty on the Environment.
Bellanca joined Chesapeake Corporation in 1987 as Manager Environment, Safety and Industrial Health for the West Point Mill. He was promoted to Director Environmental Affairs for Chesapeake Corporation in 1991 and retired from that position in 2001. Currently, Bellanca does part time consulting for Chesapeake Corporation and others.
Burgess awarded the Environmental Division Technical Award and Roy F. Weston Prize
Thomas L. Burgess is the recipient of the 2004 TAPPI Environmental Division Technical Award and Roy F. Weston prize. The award recognizes outstanding technical contribution in the area of environmental control in the pulp, paper and allied industries. Burgess is the President of Tom Burgess Consulting, Limited, which is based in Parksville, BC, Canada. He obtained a B.A.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from the University of British Columbia in 1966. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the Province of B.C. Most of his professional career has been involved with developing, designing and starting up kraft mill pollution control systems, especially NCG systems and stripping systems and he is considered a leading authority on these systems. Burgess played a key role in the development of ejector based concentrated NCG systems, improving safety and reliability. He also played a role in the development of foul condensate stripping systems, especially those integrated in evaporators and other mill processes. His work helped to make stripping systems economically viable. He has also been at the forefront in the development of stripper off gas into liquid methanol.
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Burgess is the author of the chapter on Non-Condensible Gas Systems in Chemical Recovery in the Alkaline Pulping Processes, Third Edition, TAPPI PRESS, 1992, and is authoring chapters on both NCG and stripping for the upcoming Fourth Edition of this text. Tom has published many papers on NCG and Stripping systems including "The Explosive Nature of Non-Condensible Gases" which was recognized as the Best Paper at the 1992 Environmental Conference.
A TAPPI member since 1979, Burgess has been active in the Air Quality Committee and the Southeast Local Section. He also served on the Environmental Conference Technical Program Committee. Burgess has shared his expertise with the industry as an instructor of the TAPPI Kraft Recovery Short Course since 1986. He taught a TAPPI Virtual Seminar on Non-Condensible Gasses in 2002.
Matthew Receives the Paper and Board Division Technical Award
John B. Matthew is the 2004 recipient of the TAPPI Paper and Board Division Technical Award and Harris O. Ware Prize in recognition of his outstanding technical accomplishments. Matthew is an active member in several technical associations including TAPPI, AWS and ASM, and he is a Registered Professional Engineer.
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Matthew began his career with Beloit Corporation, working as a co-op student while attending Northeastern University. During his nearly 20 years with the company, he worked in a variety of capacities in manufacturing, research and development, and engineering. While with Beloit, Matthew received more than a dozen patents, mostly in the stock preparation area, and including the Multi Disc refiner and refiner plates made from composite materials. In 1980, while on leave from Beloit, Matthew obtained an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He was Vice President of Marketing, Sales and Engineering for Beloit's Fiber Systems Division when he left the company following the sale of Beloit to Harnischfeger Industries.
He subsequently formed Matthew Associates for the purpose of acquiring or developing an independent business venture. In 1997, following several years of product development, NIC FINEBAR was formed to commercialize a new fabrication technology for the manufacture of refiner plates. Matthew is co-founder of NIC FINEBAR of Manchester Connecticut. Prior to starting FINEBAR, Matthew worked as an Industrial Technology Consultant.
Stryker awarded the Paper and Board Division Leadership and Service Award
Lynden J. Stryker, retired Director of Minerals Technologies Inc., received the 2004 TAPPI Paper and Board Division Leadership and Service Award. This award recognizes an individual's outstanding service and leadership for the TAPPI Paper and Board Division.
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A TAPPI member since 1980, Stryker has been actively involved in the Papermaking Additives Committee and its sizing, retention, and wet end additives sub committees for many years. Stryker served as Papermaking Additives Committee Secretary, Vice Chairman, and Chairman. He served as Paper and Board Division Secretary, Vice Chairman, and Division Chairman. Stryker also served the division as Session Chair, Panel Session Moderator, and Panelist at several TAPPI Papermakers Conferences. He was awarded the Division Chairman's Award for Vision and Energy in Initiating Joint Conferences.
Stryker earned a Bachelor of Science and Ph.D. in Chemistry from Clarkson University in 1964 and 1968 and was a Post Doctoral Fellow at Brunel University in the U. K. from 1968 until 1970. Stryker began his paper industry career as a Senior Research Chemist for Westvaco Corporation in 1970. He served as Associate Professor at the Institute of Paper Chemistry from 1977 through 1979 when he joined Hammermill Paper Company as a Research Scientist. Stryker worked as Program Manager for International Paper from 1986 until 1993 when he joined Minerals Technologies Inc.
Thurman wins the Process and Product Quality Division Leadership and Service Award
R. Gary Thurman is the 2004 recipient of the TAPPI Process and Product Quality Division Leadership and Service Award. The Award recognizes an individual for outstanding leadership and exceptional service to the division.
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A TAPPI member since 1986, Thurman has devoted much of his time to the work of the TAPPI Product and Process Quality Division. He is a member of the Pulp Properties, Physical Properties, Chemical Properties and Optical Properties Committees and was a member of the former Collaborative Testing Subcommittee. He served as Chairman of the Pulp Properties and Chemical Properties Committees. At the Division level, Thurman has been Secretary, Vice Chairman, and Chairman of the Product and Process Quality Division as well as Conference Chairman and Technical Program Chairman. He's also been involved in TAPPI's Delaware Valley, Metropolitan, Southeastern, and Gulf States Local Sections and served on the Board of Directors' Meeting and Exhibits Committee as well as the Technical Operations Council and its associated committees.
Thurman earned Bachelors and Masters degrees in Chemistry from New Mexico State University. After serving two years as a Captain in the U.S. Army, Thurman earned his Ph.D. and served as Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the University of Arizona. He joined the faculty of the University of Nebraska at Omaha in 1971 as Assistant Professor of Chemistry and was later named Associate Professor. Thurman began his paper industry career in 1978 when he went to work for Union Camp Corporation. In 1999, after working as a Sr. Research Scientist and Group Leader for Union Camp, Thurman was named Voice of the Customer / Quality Function Deployment Coordinator for International Paper. He retired from that position in 2003.
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| Title Annotation: | TAPPI Association News |
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| Publication: | Solutions - for People, Processes and Paper |
| Date: | Jun 1, 2004 |
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