Collective Weekly
The Triangle edition · Issue of December 26, 2024
What organizations in the Triangle published in the week to Dec 26, and where to turn up in the seven days after. Their words, their pictures, their bylines.
This week
1 story from 1 organization, found on their own sites between Dec 19 and Dec 26. One pick, then every one of them by the day it went up.
Remembering Westvaco's Christmas Classics Book Series
In 1958, the West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company started a holiday tradition that lasted half a century. Company CEO David Luke initiated the American Classics Series (also known as the Christmas Classics), published annually through 2007. According to Scott Wallinger, a former Westvaco company officer, “the Luke family favored being a producer of non-commodity products and focused on paper grades that others found more difficult to make.” In an era when books were on paper and held in personal libraries, Scott continued, the company was a leading producer of a wide array of quality, unique printing papers that it sold to most of the leading book publishing companies. Privately published, the book was presented to major publishing companies and their purchasing staffs at the end of the year to show the company’s wide-ranging capabilities. Officers of the paper company also received a copy. The name of the series changed when the company changed names: it became Westvaco American Classics Series in 1969 and the MeadWestvaco American Classics Series in 2002.
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