The Full Monty…
On April 25, 1925, author F. Scott Fitzgerald published his seminal novel
The Great Gatsby, long considered the “Great American Novel.” Also making
his entrance into this hedonistic Jazz Age of April 1925 was Montfort
Johnsen, SPRAY’s own Technical Editor.
Please join us all in wishing Monty an extremely happy 95th birthday. It has
been an honor to work with Monty all these years—not only is his breadth of
industry knowledge staggering, he is also a consummate professional who submits
his columns before deadline, takes pains to thoroughly and patiently explain
details and continues in his “retirement” to give back to the aerosol industry that
he saw develop from the ground up.
If you’ve never met Monty (or if you have), we bring you on p. 28 a tribute to
his life and industry spirit. His email address is in our masthead at right; please
drop our illustrious Technical Editor a note to let him know that the aerosol
industry—which, while being huge, is still very tight-knit—wishes him well on this
milestone birthday.
COVID-19 disrupts Spring events…
Let’s face it, anything I write right now, as we go to press, about the COVID-19
pandemic will be completely outdated and irrelevant by the time readers receive
SPRAY’s April 2020 issue. Although we are continuing to update content until
the very last minute before we close this issue—most particularly about the many
Spring events SPRAY covers both pre- and post-event— some information presented
in this issue may still eventually be obsolete, so please bear with us.
Our website (spraytm.com) is dedicated to presenting, as they happen, the latest
changes to industry events, whether they be cancellations or postponements. The
homepage is set up so that information can be accessed with ease. Any confirmed
news we receive, we will share with readers immediately via our website, Facebook
page (SPRAY-Technology-Marketing) and Twitter (@SprayTechnology).
This is an unsettling time; stay with SPRAY to stay informed on industry events.
6 Spray April 2020
SPRAY Technology & Marketing
Cynthia Hundley
Publisher
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Ava Caridad
Editorial Director
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Veronica MacDonald Ditko
Assistant Editor
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Montfort A. Johnsen
Technical Editor
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Susan Carver
Vice President, Administration
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Doug Bacile
National Sales Manager
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Donald Farrell
Production
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Miguel Bravo
Graphic Artist
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