By Russell Harris, President, Auburn Pulp & Paper Foundation Pablo Picasso said “Planning is the foundational key to all suc-cesses.” There’s no doubt that strategic planning is a valuable process that brings people together to develop goals and objec-tives. I’ve experienced the satisfying results and positive impacts when plans are accomplished, but I realize that a plan is just a use-less piece of paper unless people are involved to carry it out. Action, time, effort, and funding are required. And you need the involvement of people to provide these essential resources. I am pleased to be part of a successful organization that proves it-self through commitment and action—not just words. The Au-burn Pulp & Paper Foundation is fortunate to have active mem-bers who care and get involved so that deserving students can be educated and prepared to enter our industry and keep it productive and competitive As a graduate of this program, I appreciate what the APPF’s partnership with the University truly means. Let’s continue to invest in the future through APPF because the students are worth it!

Dr. Marko Hakovirta has been named director of the Alabama Center for Paper and Biore-source Engineering (AC-PABE) and a professor in the Department of Chemical Engineer-ing at Auburn University. Dr. Hakovirta comes from the Georgia Institute of technology, where he was associate director of research at the Institute of Paper Science and Technolo-gy and holds an adjunct professorship in the School of Materials Science and Engineering.

Dr. Hakovirta spent five years as the Chief Technology Officer of Metso Corporation (Corporate Vice President for Technology, Environment and Quality), and worked as a fellow at European Center for Particle Physics, Geneva, Switzerland and at LANL (Los Alamos National Laboratory), New Mexico, as a director’s funded post-doctoral fellow. Hakovirta held a faculty position at the University of Helsinki, Department of Physics where he cur-rently holds an adjunct professorship. Among his many awards is the Outstanding Innovation of the Year from LANL. Dr. Hakovirta’s research interests are in novel forest-based biomaterials, nanomaterials applications and materials synthesis using plasma techniques. He is especially interested in sustain- (continued on page 2)

People & Planning yield Success

Marko Hakovirta to lead Alabama Center for Paper and Bioresource Engineering

AUBURN PULP & PAPER FOUNDAT ION

Foundation Focus S E P T E M B E R 2 0 1 2 2 0 1 2 A N N U A L R E P O R T

Alabama Center for

Paper & Bioresource

Engineering

Missions:

The missions of AC-PABE are to pro-vide undergradu-ate, graduate and continuing educa-tion in science and engineer-ing rele-vant to the needs of the pulp, paper and bio-resource

industries, to con-duct fundamental

and applied re-search in line with the industry’s re-search agenda, to develop and trans-fer technology to the industry con-sistent with the

industry’s technol-ogy vision and to

provide timely technical infor-

mation to the oper-ating sector of the

industry.

AU Pulp & Paper

Foundation

Auburn University,

308 Ross Hall,

Auburn, AL 36849

View our website: http://wp.auburn.edu/appf/

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F O U N D A T I O N F O C U S

AUBURN PULP & PAPER FOUNDATION FINANCES

Operational/ Scholarship

Funds Fund Rais-

ing Activities Total Unre-

stricted Endowment

Funds Grand Total

Support and Revenue

Corporate and other contributions $92,100.08 $55,092.04 $147,192.12 $89,000.00 $236,192.12

Total Contributions $92,100.08 $55,092.04 $147,192.12 $89,000.00 $236,192.12

Endowment Earnings $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00

Other Revenues $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00

Total Revenues $92,100.08 $55,092.04 $147,192.12 $89,000.00 $236,192.12

Expenses

Guests/ Fundraising Activities $0.00 $10,134.35 $10,134.35 $0.00 $10,134.35

Printing and Promotion $0.00 $1,269.95 $1,269.95 $0.00 $1,269.95

Scholarship Grants to AU (actual YTD 2009) $171,132.00 $0.00 $171,132.00 $0.00 $171,132.00

Total Expenses $171,132.00 $11,404.30 $182,536.30 $0.00 $182,536.30

Excess of revenue over expenses ($79,031.92) $43,687.74 ($35,344.18) $89,000.00 $53,655.82

Interfund Transfers $38,030.09 ($38,030.09) $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 Net assets, July 1, 2010 $254,462.65 $13,234.97 $267,697.62 $963,289.70 $1,231,137.32

Net assets, June 30, 2012 $213,460.82 $18,892.62 $232,353.44 $1,052,289.70 $1,284,793.14

(Hakovirta, from Page 1) ability research related to global business, and how it affects the pulp and paper industry in particular. Department chair Dr. Christopher Roberts said, "The Department of Chemical Engineering at Auburn University is extremely pleased to have Dr. Hakovirta providing leadership to the Alabama Center for Paper and Bioresource Engi-neering, particularly given his wealth of experience and tremendous accomplishments in both the academic and indus-trial sectors. He has already forged a clear vision for AC-PABE, and the broader pulp and paper community, at this critical time for the industry." Dr. Hakovirta succeeds Dr. Harry Cullinan, who provided strong leadership to AC-PABE over the past 20 years until his retirement last year, and Dr. Steve Duke, who served as interim director following Dr. Cullinan's retirement. The Alabama Center for Paper and Bioresource Engineering provides undergraduate, graduate and continuing edu-cation in science and engineering relevant to the needs of the pulp, paper and bio-resource industries, conducts funda-mental and applied research in line with the industry's research agenda, develops and transfers technology to the in-dustry consistent with the industry's technology vision and provides timely technical information to the operating sec-tor of the industry.

Buckeye CEO is APPF Banquet Speaker P A G E 3 2 0 1 2 A N N U A L R E P O R T

John B. Crowe was elected as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Buckeye in July 2006. He served as President and Chief Operating Officer from April 2003 until July 2006. He was elected as a director of Buck-eye in August 2004. He served as Senior Vice President, Wood Cellulose Division from January 2001 to April 2003. Crowe joined the company in December 1997 serving as Vice President, Wood Cellulose Manufacturing until January 2001. Prior to joining the company, Crowe was Executive Vice President/General Manager of Alabama River Pulp and Alabama Pine Pulp Operations, a division of Parsons and Whitte-more, Inc., and was Vice President and Site Manager of Flint River Operations, a subsidi-ary of Weyerhaeuser Company. From 1979 to 1992, he was an employee of Procter and Gamble. A graduate of Florida State University, Crowe holds a Master’s degree in Mathematics. He attended Florida State University on an athletic scholarship and is a mem-

ber of FSUs Sports Hall of Fame. Prior to starting his business career, Crowe served in the United States Air Force as a senior pilot and Vietnam Veteran, retiring from the U.S. Air Force Reserves in 1997 with the rank of Lt. Colonel. Crowe has been active in Forest Prod-ucts Industry trade associations. He serves as the chairman of the executive commit-tee and board of governors of the National Council for Air and Stream Improvement. He is also on the board of directors of the America Forestry and Paper Association and on the board of the Sustainable Forest-ry Initiative. Crowe and his wife, Betty, have two sons and two granddaughters. They reside in Germantown, Tenn. Crowe serves on the board of directors of United Way of the Mid-South and also on the board of

directors of the National Civil Rights Museum. He is a director of Myers Industries Inc., a public traded company listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

John B. Crowe Chairman and Chief

Executive Officer Buckeye Technologies

By Charles Sewell

2012 Membership and Development

The APPF welcomed Avid Solutions, Jedson, Mo-tion Industries, and Advanced Industrial Resources as new members in the 2011 – 2012 fiscal year. The dues from our 30-plus corporate members provide a majority of the funds needed to operate the foundation and pay for the annual scholarships we sponsor. This past year, the foundation awarded scholarships to 51 students totaling approximately $180,000! None of this would have been possible without the dedicated support of each of our member companies. If you know of any companies that may be interest-ed in joining the Foundation, please have them contact a board member for information. For those wanting to get personally involved, especially those with a pen-chant for fundraising, we can always use the help on the Membership and Development Committee. Thanks to Tom Couture and Scott Childress for their roles in organizing the Spring Golf Tournament along with Mark Nichols and Peggy Jaye for their ex-ceptional job of putting together and organizing the Fall Silent Auction. The work of these individuals and the many volunteers who give time, manual labor and financial support make APPF successful!

Spring Golf Tournament

The Spring Golf Tournament proved to be another very successful year. Once again weather cooperated and we were blessed with a warm sunny day. We had some great additions to the tournament this year mak-ing it even more enjoyable for participants. To kick things off Yates provided Lunch at the club house. KBR sponsored a drink cart, which was a huge hit and helped to keep everyone a little cooler throughout the afternoon. This was a welcomed addition on a hot day. Thank you to KBR and Yates for these two great additions to our tournament. We matched 2011 with 28 paid teams and 112 golfers participating in the tournament. The number of corporate sponsors was a new record this year at 14. Gross proceeds for the tournament were $36,787 netting $30,260 to be ap-plied to scholarships. Once again we have raised the bar for our 2013 tournament by setting a new record. We had fantastic participation with some very low scores this year. The IP Selma team was finally de-throned by the Yates team after winning the tourna-ment the two years prior. Following is a list of the winning teams:

APPF Committee Reports

1st Gross Yates 2nd Gross KBR 3rd Gross IP Selma 1st Net RockTenn Demopolis 2nd Net Honeywell 3rd Net American Flow Control Scott Wilson with Advanced Industrial Resources (AIR) provided golfers with an excellent BBQ dinner. This is the third year that Scott has cooked for our tournament and it seems to get better every year. AIR also sponsored the put-ting contest with the donation of a 47 inch Vizio Flat Screen TV. Thanks again to Scott and his team for the great meal and donations. As the tournament grows so do the responsibilities. Thanks go out to those who helped me in organizing, plan-ning and working the tournament: Scott Childress, Martin Stap, Krislyn Harbin, Allyson Dozier and Jordan Moseley. This event has grown to become a major source of scholar-ship dollars for the engineering department. Also, a special thank you goes out to all the companies that support this event with their sponsorship. It wouldn’t be the success it is each year without them. Make sure to mark April 18, 2013 on your calendars for next year’s event. Thank you for your continued support!

Fall Silent Auction

The challenge delivered to the Silent Auction Team this past year was to collect more than the $25,000 raised by the Spring 2011 Golf Tournament. Not only did we deliver on this challenge, we surpassed the total by $1,000! All total, the silent auction brought in about $10,000 more than the previous year. The golf committee has again challenged the silent auction committee to beat the spring 2012 total of over $30,000. In order to do this, we will need everyone present and in a very generous mood. We look forward to having a large crowd at our fall meeting and I am sure that auction chair Mark Nichols will have once again organized an abundance of great items to bid on. If you are interested in donating an item to the silent auction, please contact Mark, Peggy or Charles atMWNichols@Buckman.com , Peggy.Jaye@GaPac.com or Charles.Sewell@Albint.com. ThanThanks to all of the organizers, donors and bidders for making last year’s auction the most successful ever. The challenge now is to once again raise the bar so we can make our foundation even stronger! Come bid on some the items for sale such as beach condos, Bahamas cruise, week-end trips to Savannah and Ashville NC, rounds of golf at TPC Sawgrass in Jacksonville, Southwinds in Memphis, Masters practice round tickets, hunts, Auburn prints, and many other great items.