People

Elwood J. (Woody) Rice retired January 31 as group vice president, paper technology group, Hercules Inc. He had joined the firm 35 years ago, in 1957, not long after the invention of Aquapel, and spent most of those 35 years in the paper chemicals field.
Barbara Wortley recently retired as General Chemical's manager of Pulp and Paper Technical Service; she continues her association with the company as a technical consultant.
Norman S. Peters, vatman for over 50 years at Hayle Mill in Maidstone, Kent, died in January at the age of 80. He had retired in 1982; the mill closed down in 1987. it is estimated that he made a quarter million sheets by hand, which were sought by artists, bookbinders and fine printers.