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Weyerhaeuser and ASCC announce Industry Alliance Scholarship winners MONROEVILLE- Alabama Southern Community College and Weyerhaeuser Company recently announced Ms. Cheryl Woodard, 1986 graduate of Washington County High School and the daughter of Franklin and Bettie Johnson, as the 2007 scholarship recipient for the Alabama Southern Industry Alliance for a Technologically Advanced Workforce. The 2007 Alliance companies include Boise, Alabama River Pulp, Temple Inland, Weyerhaeuser, Olin Chemical, Rock Tenn, Gulf States and Louisiana Pacific. Alabama Southern Community College's Industry Alliance for a Technologically Advanced Workforce was selected as one of the top ten national Bellwether Finalists for the prestigious 2006 Bellwether Award for Workforce Development by the Community College Futures Assembly. This Scholarships- Internships-Jobs partnership was pioneered in 1995 between Alabama Southern and CIBA Specialty Chemicals. Since then, the American Chemical Society has described the partnership as a "workforce development model for the nation." The National Science Foundation has described it as a "national model for technical training" and awarded Alabama Southern a $5 million grant as the National Center for Pulp and Paper Technology Training to promote similar partnerships nationwide. "This industry alliance reflects the visionary leadership of our local industry leaders," said Dr. John Johnson, Alabama Southern President. "They know that a technologically advanced workforce is the key to their success. They value their new manufacturing technologists so much that they provide better scholarships than we give our top athletes." The National Science Foundation has described it as a "national model for technical training" and awarded Alabama Southern a $5 million grant as the National Center for Pulp and Paper Technology Training to promote similar partnerships nationwide. Weyerhaeuser Company (NYSE: WY), one of the world's largest integrated forest products companies, was incorporated in 1900. In 2004, sales were $22.7 billion. It has offices or operations in 19 countries, with customers worldwide. Weyerhaeuser is principally engaged in the growing and harvesting of timber; the manufacture, distribution and sale of forest products; and real estate construction, development and related activities. Additional information about Weyerhaeuser's businesses, products and practices is available at http://www.weyerhaeuser. com. In Alabama, Weyerhaeuser manages 584,000 acres of forestland, all certified to the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI®) standard. At its largest operation at Pine Hill, Ala. in Wilcox County, Weyerhaeuser operates containerboard, lumber and veneer operations and timberland offices and a seed orchard and nursery. Elsewhere in the state, the company has a lumber operation in Millport, a Bardcor packaging operation in Huntsville, a building materials service center in Tuscumbia, and a Trus Joist engineered wood products operation near Evergreen. For more information concerning Alabama Southern Community College and the Alabama Southern Industry Alliance for a Technologically Advanced Workforce, contact: Stephanie P. Etheredge, Director of Public Information, (251)575-3156, ext: 265.
For more information concerning Weyerhaeuser Company, contact: Jackie Walburn, Weyerhaeuser Region Communications Manager, (334) 963-2270.
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