Past Chairmen

Perry W. Lesh
C.P. Lesh Paper Co., Indianapolis, IN
1940-1942

Richard C. Kettles, Jr.
Hubbs Corp., New York, NY
1942-1944

Corwine E. Roach
Capital City Paper Co., Springfield, IL
1943

Richard M. Harris
Alling & Cory Paper Co., Rochester, NY
1944-1946

Gilbert E. Carpenter
Carpenter Paper Co., Omaha, NE
1946-1947

Arthur W. Towne
Blake, Moffitt & Towne, San Francisco, CA
1947-1948

Ralph G. Luff
D. L. Ward Co., Philadelphia, PA
1948-1949

Lester A. Ramaker
The Bouer Paper Co., Milwaukee, WI
1949-1950

Lawrence S. Pollock
Pollock Paper Corp., Dallas, TX
1950-1951

E. P. Magel
Crescent Paper Co., Indianapolis, IN
1951-1952

Robert E. Knox
Knox & Schneider, Chicago, IL
1952-1953

Paul M. Jones
Storrs & Bement Co., Boston, MA
1953-1954

Howard A. Hartinger
The Paper Supply Co., Inc., Minneapolis, MN
1954-1955

Robert S. Johnston
Old Dominion Paper Co., Norfolk, VA
1955-1956

Leslie M. Murphy
Dillard Paper Co., Greensboro, NC
1956-1957

Edward J. Petrequin
The Petrequin Paper Co., Cleveland, OH
1957-1958

Ralph Schnitzer, Sr.
Magnolia Paper Co., Houston, TX
1958-1959

King Wilkin
Zellerbach Paper Co., San Francisco, CA
1959

Floyd H. Blackman
Stone & Forsyth Co., Cambridge, MA
1959-1961

William F. Obear
Tobey Fine Papers, Inc., St. Louis, MO
1961-1962

Gardiner Young
Bancroft Paper Co., Monroe, LA
1962-1963

Roland R. Whiteman
Blake, Moffitt & Towne, San Francisco, CA
1963-1964

Robert L. McCormick
Oklahoma Paper Co., Oklahoma City, OK
1964-1965

Frank P. Leslie, Jr.
The John Leslie Paper Co., Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN
1965-1966

Alfred E. MacAdam, III
A.E. MacAdam & Co., Inc., Melville, Long Island, NY
1966-1967

John D. Williams
D.L. Ward Co., Philadelphia, PA
1967-1968

Norman M. Goldsword
The Globe Paper Co., Cleveland, OH
1968-1969

William J. Zellerbach
Zellerbach Paper Co., San Francisco, CA
1969-1970

W. Noel Evans
Lone Star Paper Co., Inc., Austin, TX
1970-1971

Donald J. Ramaker
The Bouer Paper Co., Milwaukee, WI
1971-1972

Herbert C. Altholz
Inlander-Steindler Paper Co., Palm Beach Gardens, FL
1972-1973

Luther Stanhope
Carter Rice Storrs & Bement, Inc., Boston, MA
1973-1974

C. Ted Lick
Harrisburg Paper Co., Inc., Harrisburg, PA
1974-1975

Richard Harris, Jr.
Alling & Cory Paper Co., Naples, NY
1975-1976

Richard Carr, Sr.
Carr Paper Co., Claremont, CA
1976-1977

F. G. Walker
Butler Paper Co., Port Edwards, WI
1977-1978

Morton G. Epstein
National Paper & Packaging, Pepper Pike, OH
1978

Bruce Smith
Louisville Paper Company
1979-1980

William G. Killhour
W.B. Killhour & Sons, Inc., Hilton Head Island, SC
1981

John F. Church., Jr.
Cordage Papers, Cincinnati, OH
1982

Walter L. Moore
Unijax, Jacksonville, FL
1983

Lionel W. Eltis
Consolidated Marketing, Shreveport, LA
1984

Frank J. Viegas
The Dowd Company, Reading, MA
1985

Richard W. Abrams
West Coast Paper Co., Seattle, WA
1986

Francis J. Houlihan
Fleetwood Paper Co., Chicago, IL
1987

Frederick J. Stabbert
West Coast Paper Co., Seattle, WA
1988

James B. Brame
Brame Specialty Co., Durham, NC
1989

James J. Swearingen
Unisource West, Huntington Beach, CA
1990

Michael K. Olthoff
Nichols Paper & Supply, Muskegon, MI
1991

Jonathan O. Bloom
JB Papers, Inc., Summit, NJ
1992

Brent R. Grover
National Paper & Packaging, Cleveland, OH
1993

Sydney Tucker Jones
Hudson Valley Paper Co., Albany, NY
1994

Rolf Turnquist
Unisource, Minneapolis, MN
1995

Thomas Costello
xpedx, Covington, KY
1996

Barry Perlis
S. Freedman & Sons, Inc., Landover, MD
1997

Charles White
Unisource Worldwide, Key Colony Beach, FL
1998

James Sugarman
The Eastern Bag & Paper Group, Milford, GA
1999-2000

Guy Belew
xpedx, Loveland, OH
2001-2002

Arthur M. Keleher
Frank Parsons Paper Co., Landover, MD
2003

R. James Alexy
Network Service Company, Shaumburg, IL
2004

Michael Keneally
Accutech Packaging, Inc., Foxboro, MA
2005

Fred Towler
xpedx, Loveland, OH
2006

Bill Hirsch
Fulton Paper Company, Atlanta, GA
2007

Thomas Kadien
xpedx, Loveland, OH
2008

John Millin
Midland Paper, Packaging + Supplies, Wheeling, IL
2009