Here is an update on my efforts.  
1. I updated the haskell platform and Pandoc on my RHEL 6 to the latest 
versions.
2. I used the following filter code to replace "\newpage" with the pgBrkXml 
which draws on the contributions above.  This was not successful.  The 
'\newpage' entries were removed but the pgBrkXml was not inserted.
import Text.Pandoc.JSON
import Text.Pandoc
import Text.Pandoc.Walk (walk)

pgBrkXml :: String
pgBrkXml = "<w:p><w:r><w:br w:type=\"page\"/></w:r></w:p>"

pgBrkBlock :: Block
pgBrkBlock = RawBlock (Format "openxml") pgBrkXml

insertPgBrks :: Block -> Block
insertPgBrks (RawBlock (Format "tex") "\newpage") = pgBrkBlock
insertPgBrks blk = blk 

main = toJSONFilter insertPgBrks
Question:  Are the opening imports necessary?

3. I also tried the following filter code replacing "PAGEBREAK" with the 
pgBrkXml which was successful.  The result was a word file with the 
pagebreaks in the correct places.

import Text.Pandoc.JSON
import Text.Pandoc
import Text.Pandoc.Walk (walk)

pgBrkXml :: String
pgBrkXml = "<w:p><w:r><w:br w:type=\"page\"/></w:r></w:p>"

pgBrkBlock :: Block
pgBrkBlock = RawBlock (Format "openxml") pgBrkXml

insertPgBrks :: Block -> Block
insertPgBrks (Para [Str "PAGEBREAK"])  = pgBrkBlock
insertPgBrks blk = blk 

main = toJSONFilter insertPgBrks

4. In both instances, pandoc-word-pagebreak.hs was compiled as
$ ghc --make pandoc-word-pagebreak.hs
and the .md file was processed as:
$ pandoc --filter ./pandoc-word-pagebreak input.md -o output.docx

5.  Ideally, the first version replacing '\newpage' would work streamlining 
the ability to output in different formats.

Thanks for everyone's help!
Joel


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