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Edward I. Minson has been named the 2005 recipientof the American Association of Candy Technologists’Stroud Jordan Award.

Minson is currently national accounts manager atSPI Polyols.

He has held positions of president, first and secondvice president and councilor with the AACT. He is

also the group’s scholarship coordinator. In addition, Minson is an officer inthe Milwaukee section of the AACT.

Prior to his post at SPI, Minson worked as flavors sales manager at EskimoPie Corp. Before that he served as technology and legal information managerat Grace Cocoa, after managing research and product development at Grace.

He began his career in food technology as a research assistant at the Uni-versity of Wisconsin, followed by a position as research chemist at RalstonPurina.

Minson has served on the American Cocoa Reseach Institute (ACRI) tech-nical committee, cacao research working group, safety working group andhealth working group, as well as the standards subcommittee.

He has served on the NCA’s technical committee, also serving as its chair-man, and in the PMCA’s technical committee.

Minson has given presentations and assisted in workshops for AACT, theNational Confectioners Association, the American Association of CerealChemists, IFT, the American Chemical Society, PMCA and the AmericanInstitute of Baking.

His list of publications includes several articles in the Manufacturing Con-fectioner, Journal of Food Science and Cereal Foods World. In addition, he has achapter in S. Beckett’s book, Industrial Chocolate Manufacture and Use.

This award is presented by the AACT in honor of the late Dr. Stroud Jor-dan, a pioneer candy technologist. The purpose of the award is to recognizeoutstanding contributions to the field of confectionery technology.

AMERIC AN ASSOCIATION OF CANDY TECHNOLOGISTS

Ed Minson to receiveStroud Jordan award

Edward I. Minson

2004 Tim J. Murphy2003 Ron Bixler2002 Reg Ohlson2001 Melvin O. Warnecke, PhD2000 Ed Seguine1999 Jack Collins1998 James McGovern1997 Richard Schier1996 Reg Groves1995 Joachim (Joe) H. von Elbe, PhD1994 Carl O. Moore1993 Allen R. Allured1992 Patrick J. Huffman1991 Walter Vink1990 Patrick Hurley1989 Maurice Jeffery1988 John Kitt1987 Odvar Solstad1986 William N. Duck1984 George Jenkins1983 George Richardson1982 Silvio Crespo1981 Bernard Minifie1980 Donald Mitchell1979 John A. Kooreman1978 Robert P. Allen1977 Bart Siebers1976 Lloyd Latten1975 Gerald Doolin1974 Horton Corwin1973 Simon O. Schnitzer1972 Fred Janssen1971 Elwood W. Meyers1970 Gordon R. Maybee1969 L. Russell Cook1968 Herbert Knechtel1967 Jay C. Musser1966 Rodney Welch1965 John W. Vassos1964 Prudence W. Allured1963 Archie B. Cramer1962 W. Tresper Clarke1961 Samuel F. Hinkle1960 Katherine E. Langwill1959 Otto H. Windt1958 Horace B. Cosler1957 Norman Kempf1956 John M. Krno1955 C. Rudolph Kroeckel1954 Justin J. Alikonis1953 Hans F. Dresel1952 James P. Booker1951 James A. King

Past Recipients of the Award

The Stroud Jordan award will be presented at the Stroud Jordan Award Banquet September 20, 2005.