TAPPI Young Professionals Gather for Summit Meeting

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On March 20, young paper industry professionals met at TAPPI to give feedback on their needs and how to best structure the newly fomed TAPPI Young Professionals Committee. Sarah Muzzy from O'Neil Inc. volunteered to chair the committee and John Vanderklok from AstenJohnson will be the vice chair.

Muzzy said that "I am looking forward to working with the Young Professionals Committee. I think there are many wonderful opportunities to make the Young Professionals a strong and meaningful group of TAPPI. I am glad that there are others that share the vision and drive to help this group take shape".

The committee decided to start with four core interest areas: Programming and New Technology, Networking and Local Sections, YP Awards and Recognition, and YP Ambassadors that will focus on committee development and student connections. In addition to the leadership listed above, Austin Sickle from Stickle Steam agreed to chair the Networking interest area and Andrew Reep from Ashland agreed to chair the Programming and New Technology interest area.

TAPPI has purchased s new communities module for tappi.org and hopes to have it functional by early April. The communities module will imrpove the member online experience and add new functionality for sharing information. The Young Professional committee will act as beta testers for this new software so that it can be rolled out to all TAPPI members.