Exhibit 24(b)


                                   GREIF, INC.

                                POWER OF ATTORNEY
                      For Form S-8 Registration Statements

         The undersigned, a director or officer of Greif, Inc., a Delaware
corporation (the "Company"), hereby constitutes and appoints Michael J. Gasser
and each of his successors to the office of Chief Executive Officer of the
Company, and each of them, my true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with
full power of substitution and resubstitution, for me and in my name, place, and
stead, in my capacity as director or officer of the Company, to execute any and
all of the Company's Registration Statements on Form S-8, and any and all
amendments thereto (including post-effective amendments), to register under the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), any shares of Class A
Common Stock of the Company for sale under, and pursuant to, any and all of the
Company's current or hereafter adopted or approved stock option plans or other
"employee benefit plans" (as such term is defined under Rule 405 promulgated
under the Securities Act), as such plans are currently amended or shall
hereafter be amended, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto and other
documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission,
granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, full power and authority to do
and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in
and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as I might or could
do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact
and agents, or their substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue
hereof.


         The undersigned has executed and delivered this Power of Attorney on
May 16, 2003.



/s/ John C. Kane                         Director
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John C. Kane                             Position(s) with the Company



/s/ Patrick J. Norton                    Director
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Patrick J. Norton                        Position(s) with the Company



/s/ William B. Sparks, Jr.               President and Director
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William B. Sparks, Jr.                   Position(s) with the Company