People

David Grattan was elected for a three-year term as Chairperson of the International Council of Museums Committee for Conservation (ICOM-CC) at the Edinburgh meeting last September. He is the Manager of Conservation Processes and Materials Research for the Canadian Conservation Institute (CCI). IIC-CG Bull. Dec. 96
W. Howard Rapson, Professor Emeritus, passed away March 16, 1997, at the age of 95. He did pioneering work on processes to manufacture chlorine dioxide, and was instrumental in development of pulp bleaching technology for using chlorine dioxide. He was also very well known for his landmark concept of eliminating all effluent from bleached kraft pulp mills by internal recycling. This process was first used in a commercial setting in 1977 in Thunder Bay, Ontario. Readers who attended the TAPPI Paper Preservation Symposium in Washington, DC, in 1988, may recall his paper (with Bertil Anderson and A. Magued) entitled "Natural Aging of Laboratory Bleached Pulps."