Paul H. Vishny, A Man of Quiet Integrity, AICC’s Guiding Light for 40 Years BY STEVE YOUNG
Paul H. Vishny, former General Counsel and Secretary of AICC, The Inde- pendent Packaging Association, passed away on Wednesday, April 22, in Beachwood, Ohio, following a long illness. He was 89. Paul was born in Chicago in 1931. He was a graduate of University of Illi- nois and DePaul University School of Law. He was also an ordained Rabbi, having received his rabbinical degree in 1957 from Hebrew Theological
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College in Chicago. Over the course of his legal career he was a partner in several Chicago firms, including Kopstein & Vishny, D’Ancona & Pflaum, and later Seyfarth Shaw. Paul served as General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of AICC for 40 years – from the day of the Association’s found- ing in 1974 until his retirement from legal practice in 2014. I first met Paul in 1983, when I began working for the Association in its Alexandria, Virginia, office. In those early days of the Association, when the corrugated industry was rocked with antitrust suits and unethical deal- ings on seemingly every front, it fell to Paul to be the voice of calm amid the storm. He was the attentive, sometimes assertive, presence at the meetings of the Board of Directors and its various committees of the day. He acted as secretary, parliamentarian, umpire and even father-confessor. He was the moral compass for the Association’s actions. Paul’s role made him a confidante and close collaborator of AICC’s elected leadership, and many have come forward with special memories and tributes. Past Chairman Greg Tucker (2013-2014), CEO of Bay Cities in Pico Rivera, California, knew Paul for more than 35 years and remembers him as the “ballast” and the “conscience” of the Association. Echoing that theme, Past President Jim Davis (1999-2000), formerly of DeLine Box Co., said, “His rabbinical sense of justice kept us on the straight and narrow.” Chuck Fienning, former owner of Sumter Packaging, in Sumter, South Carolina, and AICC Chairman in 2012-2013, said, “In all the years I knew him, he demonstrated the professional demeanor, knowledge, integrity and concern for AICC that helped guide our leadership over the decades.” CONTINUED ON PAGE 14 Steve Young, right, visited Paul Vishny and his wife, Michele, in Beachwood, Ohio, on December 27, 2018.
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