SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
AMENDMENT NO. 1
TO
FORM S-3
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
WESTVACO CORPORATION
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Delaware
(State or other jurisdiction of Incorporation or organization)
13-1466285
(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)
299 Park Avenue
New York, New York 10171
212-688-5000
(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including
area code, of registrant's principal executive offices)
JOHN W. HETHERINGTON, Vice President and Secretary
WESTVACO CORPORATION
299 Park Avenue
New York, New York 10171
212-688-5000
(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number,
including area code, of agent for service)
Copy to: Wendell L. Willkie, II, Esq. Senior Vice President
and General Counsel, Westvaco Corporation
Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public:
From time to time after the effective date of this Registration
Statement
If the only securities being registered on this Form are being
offered pursuant to dividend or interest reinvestment plans,
please check the following box. [ ]
If any of the securities being registered on this Form are being
offered on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under
the Securities Act of 1933, other than securities offered only in
connection with dividend reinvestment or interest reinvestment plans,
check the following box. [x]
If this Form is filed to register additional securities for an
offering pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, please
check the following box and list the Securities Act registration
statement number of the earlier effective registration statement
for the same offering. [ ]
If delivery of the prospectus is expected to be made pursuant to
Rule 434, please check the following box. [ ]
The Registrant hereby amends this Registration Statement on
such date or dates as may be necessary to delay its effective
date until the Registrant shall file a further amendment which
specifically states that this Registration Statement shall
thereafter become effective in accordance with Section 8 (a)
of the Securities Act of 1933 or until this Registration
Statement shall become effective on such date as the
Commission, acting pursuant to said Section 8 (a), may
determine.
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933,
Westvaco Corporation has duly caused this Amendment No. 1 to
Form S-3 Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by
the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of New
York, State of New York, on this 4th day of May 1998.
WESTVACO CORPORATION
By John A. Luke, Jr.
Chairman, President and Chief
Executive Officer
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933,
this Registration Statement has been signed below by the
following persons in the capacities and on the dates
indicated.
Principal Executive Officer:
John A. Luke, Jr. Chairman, President and
Chief Executive Officer May 4, 1998
Principal Financial Officer:
James E. Stoveken, Jr. Senior Vice President May 4, 1998
Principal Accounting Officer:
John E. Banu Comptroller May 4, 1998
Constituting At Least A Majority Of The Directors:
Samuel W. Bodman III Douglas S. Luke
W. L. Lyons Brown, Jr. John A. Luke, Jr.
Thomas W. Cole, Jr. William R. Miller
David L. Hopkins, Jr. Jane L. Warner
Rudolph G. Johnstone, Jr. Richard A. Zimmerman
By James E. Stoveken, Jr.
Attorney-in-Fact May 4, 1998
