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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 an additional 200,000 shares of
Common Stock of H.B. Fuller Company pursuant to the H.B. Fuller Company
Executive Stock Purchase Loan Program, 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,
---------------------------- President and Chief Executive Officer
Albert P.L. Stroucken and Director
(principal executive officer)
/s/ Raymond A. Tucker Senior Vice President,
---------------------------- Chief Financial Officer
Raymond A. Tucker (principal financial officer)
/s/ David J. Maki Vice President and Controller
---------------------------- (principal accounting officer)
David J. Maki
Director
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Anthony L. Andersen
/s/ Norbert R. Berg Director
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Norbert R. Berg
/s/ Edward L. Bronstien, Jr. Director
----------------------------
Edward L. Bronstien, Jr.
/s/ Robert J. Carlson Director
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Robert J. Carlson
/s/ Freeman A. Ford Director
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Freeman A. Ford
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Director
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Gail D. Fosler
/s/ Reatha Clark King Director
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Reatha Clark King
/s/ Walter Kissling Director
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Walter Kissling
/s/ John J. Mauriel, Jr. Director
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John J. Mauriel, Jr.
/s/ Lee R. Mitau Director
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Lee R. Mitau
