AS FILED WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION ON JUNE 30, 2003
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                                  UNITED STATES
                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             Washington, D.C. 20549

                            SCHEDULE 14A INFORMATION
                    PROXY STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 14(a)
                     OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
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NEWS RELEASE
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Hercules Shareholders' Committee For NEW Management * 17 State Street *
New York, New York  10004

Contact:   Chris Hayden
           212-440-9850

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

NEW  YORK--June  30,  2003--  The  Hercules  Shareholders'   Committee  For  NEW
Management  announced today that it sent the following letter to Hercules (NYSE:
HPC) employees and retirees who own the Company's stock:

             THE HERCULES SHAREHOLDERS' COMMITTEE FOR NEW MANAGEMENT
                       17 State Street, New York, NY 10004

                                                                   June 30, 2003

Dear Hercules Employee Plan Participant:

         You should  know that we have  received  numerous  calls from  Hercules
employees and retirees who own Hercules stock and have expressed support for our
nominees.  Others have called to ask very  legitimate  questions  with regard to
issues involved in the proxy contest.

         While we have attempted to spell out our strong  disagreement  with the
way in which Joyce has managed the Company, The Hercules Shareholders' Committee
for NEW  Management  believes  that both parties owe you the courtesy of a fully
informative  meeting which would provide you with the  opportunity  to hear from
both  sides.  To this  end,  in a June  16th  letter to  Joyce,  we  proposed  a
discussion  between Joyce and a representative of our Committee,  which would be
open to all Hercules  Employee Plan  participants,  in  Wilmington.  APPARENTLY,
JOYCE  BELIEVES THAT HE IS  ACCOUNTABLE  TO NO ONE - NOT EVEN YOU - BECAUSE,  AT
LEAST AS OF THE DATE OF THIS LETTER, HE HAS NOT RESPONDED.

         While we have all been adversely  affected as Hercules  shareholders by
Joyce's  mismanagement  of the  Company  in our  view,  we know  that you have a
special  interest  in the  outcome  of the proxy  contest  either  as  employees
concerned about the future of your Company and your jobs or as retirees in terms
of your pensions and other benefits.

         ASK YOURSELF: ARE YOU BETTER OFF TODAY THAN YOU WERE WHEN JOYCE CAME TO
THE COMPANY TWO YEARS AGO? In doing so, we ask you to consider what has happened
at Hercules over the last two years:





     o    More than 1,800 employees have lost their jobs.

     o    Many remaining  employees  have had their  salaries  frozen or capped,
          while Joyce and senior  executives  continue to receive huge salaries,
          bonuses, stock grants, and golden parachutes.

     o    Hercules has sold one of its best  businesses in our view at the worst
          possible time - reducing the size of our Company almost in half.

     o    Under  Joyce,  the  Company's  pension  funds  have been  invested  in
          accordance  with an  inappropriate  and unduly risky asset  allocation
          policy.  As a result,  the  Company was  required  last year to take a
          charge to equity of almost $570 million.

     o    Joyce is essentially a caretaker CEO, with no business strategy and no
          vision,  who is unwilling to make  investments for the future in terms
          of human resources, R&D, and capital expenditures.

     o    The  Company  under  Joyce  is in  our  view  in a  virtual  state  of
          stagnation, and employee morale is at an all-time low.

         You  should be aware of Joyce's  history  as a manager,  for he did the
same thing to Union  Carbide that he is now doing to  Hercules.  We believe that
voting for the Board's  nominees  and  allowing  Joyce to remain at Hercules for
another  year is like  renewing  his  driver's  license on the basis of his poor
accident record.  Please help end the long nightmare  Hercules  shareholders and
employees have experienced under Joyce and his predecessors.

         Your vote is all the more important  because of the Company's  director
election Bylaw,  which the majority directors claim requires an affirmative vote
of a majority of ALL OUTSTANDING  SHARES to unseat an incumbent  director.  This
means in effect that A VOTE NOT CAST is the  equivalent  of A VOTE TO PERPETUATE
JOYCE'S TEAM IN OFFICE. Regardless of the number of shares you own, we urge you,
in your own best interest,  to support our shareholder  nominees for election as
Hercules directors. PLEASE SIGN, DATE AND RETURN OUR WHITE PROXY CARD TODAY!

                                   Sincerely,

             THE HERCULES SHAREHOLDERS' COMMITTEE FOR NEW MANAGEMENT
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/s/ Samuel J. Heyman      /s/ Harry Fields    /s/ Anthony T. Kronman      /s/Sunil Kumar
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Samuel J. Heyman          Harry Fields        Anthony T. Kronman          Sunil Kumar


/s/ Gloria Schaffer       /s/ Vincent Tese    /s/ Raymond S. Troubh       /s/ Gerald Tsai, Jr.
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Gloria Schaffer           Vincent Tese        Raymond S. Troubh           Gerald Tsai, Jr.



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