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Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute (Arlington, VA): Barry Shoulders of BWI Kartridg Pak (Davenport, IA), chairman of the '97 executive committee; other committee members include Fred Erler of Nordson Corp.

(Duluth, GA), vice chairman; and Robert S. Potdevin of Potdevin Machine Co. (Teterboro, NJ), secretary-treasurer. Newly elected PMMI board members are Daniel A. Pollock of Roe Inc. (Perrysburg, OH); Mel J. Bahr of MGS Machine Corp. (Maple Grove, MN); and H. Lincoln Jepson of New Jersey Machine, Inc. (Lebanon, NH).

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