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Clarence Hanford died July 22, 1992, at the age of 65. He had been Aquapel Product Manager at Hercules in the 1950s, when AKD was a new product. He knew William J. Barrow and attended the 1960 conference on permanent/durable book paper in Washington, D.C., sponsored by the American Library Association and the Virginia State Library. He had been the owner of Horizon Technologies in Lake Oswego. In the late 1980s he sold his business to Vinings West in Washougal, Washington, and was Executive V.P. of Vinings Industries at the time of his death.
Dr. W. Howard Rapson, who spoke on natural aging of pulp at the TAPPI Paper Preservation Symposium in 1988, was awarded the John S. Bates Memorial Gold Medal on January 28 by the Canadian Pulp and Paper Association in recognition of his long-term contributions to the industry. These included the introduction of chlorine dioxide to the pulp bleaching process, development of technology for producing it onsite at the mill, and development of the Rapson-Reeve closed cycle mill, which eliminates the principal cause of pulp mill water pollution. He holds over 175 patents in 45 countries and has been awarded a number of national and international honors.