Victor Dorman; First to Separate Cheese Slices With Paper

Victor Dorman, 80, the man responsible for putting paper between slices of cheese. Son of the founder of the Dorman Cheese Co., Dorman came up with the innovative idea and in the late 1940s adopted the official trademark “The Cheese With the Paper Between the Slices.” He was the first to use a process called “interleaver,” created by the U.S. Slicing Machine Co., which cut a slice of cheese, placed it on a conveyor belt and with mechanical fingers laid down a sheet of paper or parchment. Dorman, a native of Brooklyn, was educated at New York University and served in the Navy during World War II. On March 4 in Delray Beach, Fla., of heart failure related to muscular dystrophy.