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2008 Annual Conference and 40 Year Celebration We invite you to the Washington Pulp & Paper Foundation’s Annual Conference to be held on May 22nd, at which time we will also celebrate the Foundation’s 40th Anniversary! The WPPF is proud to continue its long tradition of creating a forum for students, faculty, alumni and paper industry members to re-connect and dialogue on issues shaping the industry’s future. We begin at noon with our luncheon and a brief business meeting. At our afternoon program, join us for a poster session featuring our students and their projects, followed by a tour of our pilot lab.
For more details and registration information, click here. Highlights from the 2007-08 Academic Year
RECRUITING
We are very happy to report that nineteen PSE freshmen enrolled in fall 2007, fifteen of whom are receiving WPPF scholarships, bringing our total undergraduate level to over 60 as we make steady progress toward our five-year goal of eighty undergrads with fifteen graduates per year.
This year we received scholarship applications from a wider portion of the state from Lynden to Spokane, the Tri-Cities to Monsanto as well as the standard areas. We look forward to seeing greater diversity in our student population.
Look for our first ever WPPF Recruiting DVD on our website this summer!
New Endowed Scholarships for PSE Students
“The future of our country lies in the education and knowledge of our young people.” Bob Guide in his comments at the 2007 WPPF Annual Banquet
If you would like to donate to the Guide and/or Stacie Endowed Scholarships, please click here for the pledge form.
Membership
As the number of students on scholarship increases, so does the demand for contributions to the scholarship fund by our member companies. In fact, the FY2008 budget calls for scholarship spending to increase to outpace our income. To help offset the deficit and to encourage new membership and existing members to increase their level of contribution, Dean Bruce Bare and the College of Forest Resources have agreed to a new Matching Fund Agreement which will extend to June of 2011 with a maximum match of $25,000. Thus, the Foundation will receive a 50% match for new membership donations and any increased level of donation from existing members. Thank you Dean Bare!
In September, the Awareness Committee held its second annual membership telethon which brought in $12,800 in membership renewals, a new membership from Grays Harbor Paper, and grants from BPA and the Nalco Foundation.
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Thank you for your support of the Washington Pulp & Paper Foundation and the
Paper Science & Engineering program.
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Thanks
to our Recruiting Committee, high school and community college
recruiting was strong as recruiting teams conducted regional information nights
in Moses Lake, Spokane, Tri-Cities, Longview, and Vancouver. In addition,
Campus Day on December 1, 2007 connected several students and parents
with our faculty, staff and facilities. Recruiting has been aided with a growing
interest in bio-refining and other pulp mill based energy research being
conducted at the University and by the PSE faculty. 
The Wollenberg Foundation has had a long history
of recognizing achievement of its employees by allocating funds to a named
scholarship at the Washington Pulp and Paper Foundation to support PSE students.
At the request of Rick Wollenberg, we are pleased to announce the Robert G.
Guide and James H. Stacie Endowed Scholarships. Both Bob and
Jim had outstanding careers at Longview Fibre where Jim was VP of Production
and Bob was VP of Manufacturing Services. 
