Former Head of Pulmac Remembered
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Wavell Cowan, formerly of Pulmac, passed away suddenly in October. Throughout his life, papermaking was Cowan’s main interest. He joined his father Elijah Cowan’s consulting engineering company, E & B Cowan, in the early 1960s; he later took over Pulmac, which had been established by his father to hold patents in papermaking and transformed it into an instrument company to help paper mills diagnose PM breaks caused by the furnish. Cowan retired in the late 1990s. He was a long-time member of TAPPI and received the PIMA Division’s Thomas F. Sheerin Sr. Service Award. He also enjoyed many years as an active member of the Friends of Dard Hunter (now called North American Hand Papermakers). He is the author of books on papermaking, small business, as well as on his perspective on the evolution of business, economics, and society.
