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Exhibit 24
POWER OF ATTORNEY
KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose
signature appears below hereby constitutes and appoints each of Albert P.L.
Stroucken, Raymond A. Tucker and Richard C. Baker, with full power to each
act without the other, his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent,
with full powers of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and in
his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign a
Registration Statement on Form S-8, and any and all amendments (including
post-effective amendments) thereto, relating to the offering of 1,500,000
shares of Common Stock of H.B. Fuller Company pursuant to the H.B. Fuller
Company Year 2000 Stock Incentive Plan, and to file the same, with all
exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto each such attorney-in-fact
and agent full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and
thing requisite or necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully
to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby
ratifying and confirming all that each such attorney-in-fact and agent, or
his or her substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
Dated: October 19, 2000
Signature: Title:
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/s/ Albert P.L. Stroucken
------------------------------------ Chairman of the Board,
Albert P.L. Stroucken President and Chief Executive
Officer and Director
(principal executive officer)
/s/ Raymond A. Tucker
------------------------------------ Senior Vice President,
Raymond A. Tucker Chief Financial Officer
(principal financial officer)
/s/ David J. Maki
------------------------------------ Vice President and Controller
David J. Maki (principal accounting officer)
------------------------------------ Director
Anthony L. Andersen
/s/ Norbert R. Berg
------------------------------------ Director
Norbert R. Berg
/s/ Edward L. Bronstien, Jr.
------------------------------------ Director
Edward L. Bronstien, Jr.
/s/ Robert J. Carlson
------------------------------------ Director
Robert J. Carlson
/s/ Freeman A. Ford
------------------------------------ Director
Freeman A. Ford
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------------------------------------ Director
Gail D. Fosler
/s/ Reatha Clark King
------------------------------------ Director
Reatha Clark King
/s/ Walter Kissling
------------------------------------ Director
Walter Kissling
/s/ John J. Mauriel, Jr.
------------------------------------ Director
John J. Mauriel, Jr.
/s/ Lee R. Mitau
------------------------------------ Director
Lee R. Mitau
