The Volunteer Leader Award
Celebrating Service
In 2009, PPC established the Volunteer Leader Award of Excellence for exemplary dedication and service to PPC, its members and mission, and the paperboard packaging industry.
Click here for the Award Nomination Form (pdf). (Please email Ben by April 15.)
The 2010 Recipient: Richard E. DePaul
From the 1950s until 1986, DePaul was the Container Corporation of America’s (now Graphic Packaging) corporate representative to PPC and served on PPC’s Technical Committee. Since 1994, DePaul has participated as a judge for PPC’s national Paperboard Packaging Competition and later, helped judge PPC’s Student Carton Competition. In 2000, he authored PPC’s successful publication Ideas and Innovation, a comprehensive handbook for designers, converters, and buyers of paperboard packaging. In 2004, he expanded the handbook into a second edition.
Although DePaul currently acts as a design and development consultant to the packaging industry—and holds over 20 U.S. patents—he also volunteers locally. DePaul and his wife were named Volunteers of the Year in 2004 for organizing Art on the Vine, an art show and wine-tasting fundraiser for the Williamsburg Land Conservancy. They are currently working on a similar project for the Peninsula Pastoral Counseling Center, titled ArtWorks 2010.
DePaul also donates artwork to numerous charities, such as the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, Heritage Humane Society, Williamsburg Rotary, and the Kiwanis Club. Moreover, he regularly volunteers at the Hospice House of Williamsburg, VA, Yorktown Arts Foundation, and United Way.
Past Winners
2009 Richard O. Garber
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