At the ripe old age of 19, Bob Davis answered a help wanted newspaper ad from the International Paper research center in Tuxedo, New York.
An aptitude test showed Davis to be pretty smart, and in the early 1970s, the company started him out in a pilot plant, a scaled-down version of paper mill equipment found in the field. He moved on to a succession of roles with increasing responsibility in that industry before making a career change to the wastewater treatment profession in 2009. Today, he is the recycled water supervisor at the Hilton Head Public Service District in South
