Professor J. Newell Stephenson, who is to assume the editorship of
The Pulp and Paper Magazine on the first of January, 1917, when it
changes from a bi-monthly to a weekly publication, is at present head
of the paper making department in the University of Maine, Orono, and
assistant professor of chemistry in the same university. Like so many
paper-makers from south of the Line, Mr. Stephenson realizes that the
future of the industry lies north of the 49th parallel, and in casting
in his lot with the Pulp and Paper Magazine, he is but following a
natural development.
[Illustration: PROF. J. NEWELL STEPHENSEN, New Editor Pulp and Paper
Magazine.]
The new editor was born at New Rochelle, N.Y., and educated in the
schools of that city and Great Barrington, Mass. After graduating
from the high school, he was employed as foreman in the Stanley
Instrument Company’s Watt Meter Factory. Later an opportunity to learn
paper-making presented itself and was taken advantage of by the subject
of this sketch. Encouraged by his employers, the B. D. Rising Paper
Company, Mr. Stephenson decided to go to college, and in 1905 entered
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from which he graduated four
years later as a Chemical Engineer. The year following graduation was
spent at Lawrenceville, N.Y., as a teacher of drawing, then came a
post in the Chemical Engineering Department of the Rose Polytechnical
Institute of Terre Haute, Indiana. Three years later the University
of Maine established a Pulp and Paper Course, and Mr. Stephenson was
given charge of the Paper-Making Department. Two years ago he was made
assistant professor of chemistry. While he has never been in actual
journalism, Mr. Stephenson was associate editor to his college paper,
and has done considerable writing for the various paper trade journals
in Canada and the United States, as a matter of fact, the work he did
in this connection, led to his appointment as chairman on the Committee
on Abstracts of the Technical Committee of the American Pulp and Paper
Association.
Mr. Stephenson takes up his duties on January first.
TECHNICAL SECTION MEETING NOVEMBER 24th.
The Annual Meeting of the Technical Section of the Canadian Pulp and
Paper Association will be held in Montreal on Friday, November 24th.
Arrangements are being made for a most interesting meeting. The
business to be considered is very important, and there will be in
addition a programme of papers by experts which should be unusually
instructive and also should evoke good discussion. Dr. J. S. Bates,
Chairman of the Section has received assurance from Mr. Ellwood Wilson,
Forester to the Laurentide Company, of his being able to attend and
present a paper on “Forestry in Connection with Pulp Mill Operation.”
Mr. O. F. Bryant of the Forest Products Laboratories will discuss “Pulp
Wood Measurements.” Three other papers are expected concerning which
announcement will be made in the next issue of Pulp and Paper Magazine.
The original intention was to hold a two day meeting but the members of
the Council feel that the extreme activity of pulp and paper mills at
the present time precludes the absence of technical men from the mills
for longer than one day.
With the papers forthcoming it is expected that this will be one of the
very best of the Section meetings. Technical men are strongly urged to
make preparations now to be in Montreal for the occasion.