Packaging Corporation

The Dr. Fred B. Schelhorn Endowed Scholarship was established in 1984 by Packaging Corporation.

Frederick Schelhorn was born in Philadelphia, PA in 1918 and died in June of 2015. Dr. Schelhorn received a BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 1939 and his MS and PhD in Paper Chemistry in 1941 and 1943 from the Institute of Paper Chemistry at Lawrence College in Appleton, WI. Having a career focus in the pulp and paper industry, Dr. Schelhorn joined the Brown Company (Berlin, NH) in 1943. He served as a navigator for the USS Fillmore (APA 83) in the Pacific theatre during WWII, and returned to Berlin, NH at the close of the war to a position as paper division general superintendent. He joined National Container in 1953 managing Valdosta, GA and Jacksonville, FL mills; Owens-Illinois (Toledo, OH) in 1956, serving as the VP of manufacturing and of research and development; and Tennessee River Pulp and Paper (Counce, TN) in 1963 as resident manager, and in 1967 as the TRP&P President. In 1976 he became a VP of the parent company Packaging Corporation of America, and in 1979 a Senior VP in the corporate office (Evanston, IL) responsible for three mills, PCA solid wood operations, and land management. He established the first R&D center for PCA. Dr. Schelhorn had lifelong interests in history, business, technical subjects, the arts, and the varied pursuits of his family. He was active in many civic organizations. He served as the President of the Tennessee Manufacturers Association and the North Carolina State University Pulp and Paper Foundation (1971-73).