William A Lansing

William A. "Bill" Lansing is the former President and CEO of Menasha Forest Products Corporation headquartered in North Bend, Oregon. He and his wife, Ann, have made their home in North Bend since 1969, and there they raised two sons, Brent and Kurt. Bill grew up in a rural part of northern California and was in the first four-year graduating class of Colfax High School. From there, he went on to receive college degrees from Sierra College, Humboldt State College and Yale University. Since...See more

William A. "Bill" Lansing is the former President and CEO of Menasha Forest Products Corporation headquartered in North Bend, Oregon. He and his wife, Ann, have made their home in North Bend since 1969, and there they raised two sons, Brent and Kurt. Bill grew up in a rural part of northern California and was in the first four-year graduating class of Colfax High School. From there, he went on to receive college degrees from Sierra College, Humboldt State College and Yale University. Since retirement, he has devoted his time to researching and writing local history books on numerous topics about southwestern Oregon. The Author recalls: "Remembering my early introduction to the family doctor in Nevada City, California, in the late 1940s and early 1950s brings forth the memory of getting a penicillin shot in the posterior-and for not crying I got a lollipop. I still recall the smell of the alcohol dip the nurse used to sterilize the mercury thermometer and the eternity required to hold it under my tongue for one minute without opening my mouth to breathe. How things have changed." See less