A Look Back at the 20th century...The 20th century proved to be the most revolutionary in metalcasting's history. With the dawn of the new millennium and as a tribute to the people and technological innovations that have shaped our industry's past, present and future, modern casting is taking a look back at some of the most important contributions of the century. AFS A distributed file system for large, widely dispersed Unix and Windows networks from Transarc Corporation, now part of IBM. It is noted for its ease of administration and expandability and stems from Carnegie-Mellon's Andrew File System. AFS - Andrew File System Gold Medal gold medal traditional first prize. [Western Cult: Misc.] See : Prize Winners: 1940-1959 As the metalcasting industry's highest honor, the AFS Gold medals are awarded annually at the AFS Casting Congress to industry leaders who have made the greatest difference through outstanding technical, engineering, research, management, service and education contributions. There are six medals in all--named for William H. McFadden (WHM WHM Web Host Manager WHM White Mage (Final Fantasy, gaming) WHM White Marlin (FAO fish species code) WHM Wireless Host Module WHM Workshop on Human Motion (IEEE Workshop) ), Joseph S. Seaman (JSS JSS Junior Secondary School JSS JICO (Joint Interface Control Officer) Support System JSS Javascript Style Sheets (Netscape) JSS Network Security Services for Java JSS Joint Support Ship ), John H. Whiting (JHW JHW Jamestown, NY, USA - Chautauqua County Airport (Airport Code) JHW John H. Wright Associates (UK) JHW John Henry West (band) ), John A. Penton (JAP Jap n. Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for a person of Japanese birth or descent. Noun 1. Jap - (offensive slang) offensive term for a person of Japanese descent Nip ), Peter L. Simpson (PLS See playlist. ) and Thomas W. Pangborn (TWP TWP Township TWP The Washington Post TWP Tropical Western Pacific TWP True Whig Party (political party in Liberia from 1878-1980) TWP Thomas Weisel Partners Group, Inc. ). Following is a look back at the Gold Medal winners from 1940-59 (and a photo of them at the time of the award). Most biographical information covers accomplishments up to the time of the individual receiving the medal. The entire list of winners is available online at www.moderncasting.com. Note: AFS was known as the American Foundrymaen's Assn. (AFA AFA In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Afghanistan Afghani. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. ) through 1948. 1940 Nathaniel K.B. Patch [*] was awarded the JAP Gold Medal. He was a long-time employee of the Lumen Bearing Co., Buffalo, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , where he retired in 1923. One of the original organizers of the American Brass Founders' Assn., he served as AFA president from 1930-31. Frederick K. Vial [*] was awarded the JHW Gold Medal. A long-time employee of the Griffin Wheell Co. (he became a director and vice president), he had a profitable influence on the improvements in railway appliances and foundry methods. Frederick A. Melmoth [*] Was awarded the JSS Gold Medal. He worked with Brown-Bayleys Steel Works, Lake and Elliott of Braintree, National Steel Foundry and Thos. Firth & Sons, Ltd., before taking a position with Detroit Steel Casting Steel casting is a manufacturing process in which molten metal is poured into a mold, allowed to solidify within the mold, and then the mold is broken and the solid piece is taken out. Co. Harry W. Dietert [*] was awarded the WHM Gold Medal. A Hoyt lecturer in 1954 and AFS president from 1957-58, he began his career with U.S. Radiator Corp. before starting the Harry W. Dietert Co., one of the first companies devoted to foundry sand testing equipment. 1941 Charles E. Hoyt [*] was awarded the JSS Gold Medal. He was elected manager of exhibits at the time of AFA's incorporation and went on to become its secretary-treasurer and executive vice president. The industry's most acclaimed lecture, given at AFS' Casting Congress, is named in his honor. Donald J. Reese [*] was awarded the JHW Gold Medal. As president of the Chicago Foundrymen's Club, he was instrumental in having this organization become AFA's first chapter. Much of is work was dedicated to the improvement of cupola cupola /cu·po·la/ (koo´pah-lah) cupula. cu·po·la n. A cup-shaped or domelike structure. cupola cupula. melting of cast iron. Max Kuniansky [*] was awarded the WHM Gold Medal. He worked with National Malleable Castings Co., American Cast Iron Pipe Co. and Lynchburg Foundry Co. He is noted for his contributions to the gray iron industry. He served as AFA president from 1947-48. Fred L. Wolf [*] was awarded the JAP Gold Medal. He worked for the Ohio Brass Co. and is noted for his contributions to the nonferrous and malleable foundry industries. 1942 Alfred L. Boegehold [*] was awarded the JHW Gold Medal. He worked for Remington Arms Remington Arms is a major American manufacturer of rifles, shotguns, other firearms, revolvers and ammunition. They also license the Remington name to hunting apparel, Arctic Cat ATV's, and other hunting and shooting products manufactured by other companies. & Ammunition Co., Bridgeport Brass Co. and General Motors Research Corp. He directed numerous research projects on malleable iron (Metal.) iron sufficiently pure or soft to be capable of extension under the hammer; also, specif., a kind of iron produced by removing a portion of the carbon or other impurities from cast iron, rendering it less brittle, and to some extent malleable. , cast iron, steel, nonferrous parts and powder metallurgy powder metallurgy Fabrication of metal objects from a powder rather than casting from molten metal or forging at softening temperatures. In some cases the powder method is more economical, as in making metal parts such as gears for small machines, in which casting would . John E. Galvin [*] was awarded the JAP Gold Medal. He worked with Illinois Steel Co., Peru Steel Casting Co., American Steel Foundries and Ohio Steel Foundry Co., of which he became president in 1918. 1943 Rufus F. Harrington [*] was awarded the JAP Gold Medal. He spent his career with the Hunt-Spiller Manufacturing Co., where he became foundry superintendent and chief metallurgist. Dedicating most of his work to foundry sand control, he helped inaugurate in·au·gu·rate tr.v. in·au·gu·rat·ed, in·au·gu·rat·ing, in·au·gu·rates 1. To induct into office by a formal ceremony. 2. the AFA's sand research program. Carl F. Joseph [*] was awarded the WHM Gold Medal. He was well-known for his contributions to the development of pearlitic malleable iron. He was employed with Saginaw Malleable Iron Co., the Bureau of Aircraft Production and General Motors Research Laboratories. 1944 William G. Reichert [*] was awarded the JSS Gold Medal. He was known for his work with foundry sand control. After more than 20 years with the Singer Manufacturing Co., he became general foundry metallurgist at the American Brake Shoe Co. He maintained metallurgical control in more than 40 other foundries. Alfred W. Gregg [*] was awarded the JHW Gold Medal. He worked with Bucyrus-Erie Co. Latrobe Steel Co., American Managanese Steel Co., Bonney Floyd Co., Farrell Cheek Foundry and the Whiting Corp. He championed the verter process for making steel castings. 1945 Robert E. Kennedy Robert E. Kennedy may refer to:
stalks of maize plants from which mature corn cobs have been harvested as grain, or grain sorghum plants from which heads have also been removed. The stover is usually fed by turning the cattle into the field and is subject to fungal infection, sometimes causing mycotoxicosis. Gas Engine Works, Central Foundry Co., Dunham Co. and Western Electric Co. He was involved in developing sand control, pattern standardization and improvement of foundry refractories. Clarence E. Sims [*] was awarded the JAP Gold Medal. He worked with Anaconda Copper Anaconda Copper Mining Company (until 1915 known as the Amalgamated Copper Mining Company), one of the largest trusts of the early 20th century which owned all the mines on Butte Hill, Montana, USA. Mining Co., Michigan Electrochemical electrochemical /elec·tro·chem·i·cal/ (-kem´i-k'l) pertaining to interaction or interconversion of chemical and electrical energies. e·lec·tro·chem·i·cal adj. Co., R.W. Hunt Co., Aluminum Co. of Niagara, American Steel Foundries and Battelle Institute. He was a recognized authority on thermodynamics thermodynamics, branch of science concerned with the nature of heat and its conversion to mechanical, electric, and chemical energy. Historically, it grew out of efforts to construct more efficient heat engines—devices for extracting useful work from expanding in the making of iron and steel. 1946 Hyman Bornstein [*] was awarded the WHM Gold Medal. A long-time research director at Deere and Co., AFA president from 1937-38 and a Hoyt Lecturer in 1957, he was regarded as one of the nation's leading metallurgists and an authority on cast iron. Peter Blackwood [*] was awarded the JHW Gold Medal. He is known for his work on the centrifugal casting Centrifugal casting or rotocasting is a casting technique which has application across a wide range of industrial and artistic applications:
Howard F. Taylor [*] was awarded the PLS Gold Medal. After working at the Naval Research Laboratory Noun 1. Naval Research Laboratory - the United States Navy's defense laboratory that conducts basic and applied research for the Navy in a variety of scientific and technical disciplines NRL , he became a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at Cambridge; coeducational; chartered 1861, opened 1865 in Boston, moved 1916. It has long been recognized as an outstanding technological institute and its Sloan School of Management has notable programs in business, . The award given to the best AFS Casting Congress paper is named in his honor. 1947 Henry S. Washburn [*] was awarded the JSS Gold Medal. AFA president from 1940-41,he worked for the Plainville Casting Co. Russell J. Allen [*] was awarded the JAP Gold Medal. He worked for Worthington Pump & Machinery Corp. Harry M. St. John [*] was awarded the WHM Gold Medal. A Hoyt Lecturer in 1959, he spent the majority of his foundry career with Crane Co. as superintendent of its brass foundry. He is known for his research in nonferrous castings. Richard A. Flinn, Jr. [*], was awarded the PLS Gold Medal. He worked for the International Nickel Co Central Research Laboratory, American Brake Shoe Co. and the Univ. of Michigan. He assisted in the development of high-chromium abrasion-resistant irons, copper alloy research and a cast steel car wheel that now is a standard. He was a Hoyt Lecturer in 1981. 1948 Egbert H. Ballard [*] was awarded the WHM Gold Medal. He worked for Thomson-Houston Electric Co and Massachusetts Steel Casting Co., which later was purchased by General Electric Co. (GE). AFA president from 1931-32, he became general superintendent General Superintendent can refer to more than one thing:
Peter E. Rentschler [*] was awarded the PLS Gold Medal. He joined Hamilton Foundry & Machine Co. in 1920 and became its president in 1927 and chairman in 1966. He is known for his work in promoting better housekeeping and safety practices in the foundry. R.G. McElwee [*] was awarded the JAP Gold Medal. He worked for Muncie foundry & Machine Co., General Motors Truck Co., American Car & Foundry Co. and Ecorse Foundry Co. He is known for his efforts on behalf of AFA's Cupola Research Project. 1949 Russell J. Anderson [*] was awarded the PLS Gold Medal. Works manager for Belle City Malleable Iron Co., he was chairman of the AFS Wisconsin Chapter and was instrumental in establishing the foundry exhibit at the Wisconsin State Centennial Exposition The Centennial International Exhibition of 1876, the first official world's fair in the United States, was held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia. . Gosta Vennerholm [*] was awarded the WHM Gold Medal. He spent 25 years with Ford Motor Co., and is the co-discoverer of many cast alloys and casting methods in the ferrous field. Silvio C. Massari [*] was awarded the JHW Gold Medal. He worked for the Illinois Zinc Co., the Assn. of Manufacturers of Chilled Car Wheels and Hansell-Elcock Co. A long-time AFS technical director, he was a Hoyt Lecturer in 1956. Richard Schneidewind [*] was awarded the WHM Gold Medal. A former professor at the Univ. of Michigan, he is known for his contributions to the advancement of research, education and consultation in the foundry industry. He conducted extensive research on malleable and gray irons See under Fire, n. os> See also: Iron . 1950 Clarence H. Lorig [*] was awarded the JSS Gold Medal. He worked for Wisconsin Appleton Co., French Battery Co. and the Univ. of Wisconsin. He spent 35 years with the Battelle Institute before retiring in 1965. 1951 Alfred A. Boyles [*] was awarded the JHW Gold Medal. He worked for U.S. Steel The United States Steel Corporation (NYSE: X) is an integrated steel producer with major production operations in the United States and Central Europe. The company is the world's seventh-largest steel producer ranked by sales (see list of steel producers). , Battelle Memorial Institute The Battelle Memorial Institute is a private not-for-profit applied science and technology development company headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. The institute opened in 1929 but traces its origins to the 1923 will of Ohio industrialist Gordon Battelle which provided for its and U.S. Steel, Battelle Memorial Institute and U.S. Pipe and foundry Co., where he spent more than 25 years. In addition to his studies on the mechanism of graphitization of gray cast iron, he obtained several patents pertaining to methods for the centrifugal casting of cast iron pipe. Victor A. Crosby [*] was awarded the JAP Gold Medal. He worked with Dodge Brothers, Packard Motor Car Co., Studebaker Corp. and Climax Molybdenum molybdenum (məlĭb`dənəm) [Gr.,=leadlike], metallic chemical element; symbol Mo; at. no. 42; at. wt. 95.94; m.p. about 2,617°C;; b.p. about 4,612°C;; sp. gr. 10.22 at 20°C;; valence +2, +3, +4, +5, or +6. co., where he spent al most 25 years. He was active in formulating new ferrous foundry techniques. Thomas W. Curry [*] was awarded the PLS Gold Medal. He worked for Danville Iron & Steel Corp., Kennedy Van Saun Foundry, York Corp. and Lynchburg Foundry Co., where he spent 25 years, becoming vice president of technical services. He is a former president of the Foundry Educational Foundation. Albert Portevin [*] was awarded the JSS Gold Medal. He is known for his study of steels and their heat treatment, the theory of alloys, their properties and the study of their structure, and investigations on pig iron pig iron: see iron. pig iron Crude iron obtained directly from the blast furnace and cast in molds (see cast iron). The crude ingots, called pigs, are then remelted along with scrap and alloying elements and recast into molds to produce and foundry practices. He was a professor at the Ecole Superieure de Fonderie. 1952 Albert P. Gagnebin [*] and Keith D. Millis [*] were awarded the PLS Gold Medal. As co-recipients, they are known for their work in the commercial development of ductile iron Ductile iron, also called ductile cast iron or nodular cast iron, is a type of cast iron invented in 1943 by Keith Millis[1]. While most varieties of cast iron are brittle, ductile iron is much more ductile, as the name implies. in the Research and Development Div. of INCO INCO International Cooperation INCO International Nickel Company INCO Instrumentation & Communications Officer (NASA Mission Control Flight Controller) INCO Installation & Checkout INCO Infanteriecompagnie (Dutch) . Millis was a Hoyt Lecturer in 1972, Foundry Educational Foundation president from 1967-68 and executive director of the Ductile Iron Society from 1975-90. Henton Morrogh was awarded the WHM Gold Medal. He is well-known for his work on the solidification and structure of cast iron and was an important contributor to the development of ductile iron. A Hoyt Lecturer in 1962, he was director of the British Cast Iron Research Assn. The announcement of his 1948 research on ductile iron by rare earths prompted the INCO announcement by Gagnebin and Millis. Frank G. Steinehach [*] was awarded the JAP Gold Medal. In a career that spanned 45 years, he was the editor and publisher of Foundry magazine and a Foundry Educational Foundation president. William Romanoff [*] was awarded the JSS Gold Medal & Co. He is known for his knowledge of brass and bronze foundry practices and his work with the American Society of Testing Materials in standardizing workable specifications for copper-base casting alloys. 1953 James H. Smith [*] was awarded the PLS Gold Medal. He began his career with General Motors Corp. moving from the Saginaw ProdLecturer in 1953, he was an AFS director and president of the Malleable Founders' Society. William J. Grede [*] was a warded the WHM Gold Medal. A Hoyt Lecturer in 1960, he was the first foundryman to serve as president of the National Assn. of Manufacturers and was influential in the development of foundry cost accounting methods. He founded Grede Foundries, Inc., which comprises 12 plants all over the world. Daniel E. Krause [*] was awarded the JHW Gold Medal. He worked with Sivyer Steel Casting Co., Brillion Iron Works I´ron works` a. 1. See under Iron, a. os> , Battelle Memorial Institute and the Gray Iron Research Institute. He developed methods for improved control of metallurgical characteristics of cast irons. 1954 Roy A. Gezelius [*] was awarded the PLS Gold Medal. He worked in government research and industry before joining General Steel Castings Corp. He is known for his contributions to the steel casting industry, particularly in the development and production of cast armor plate. Thomas E. Eagan [*] was awarded the JSS Gold Medal. He worked with Simonds Saw & Steel Co., Crucible Steel Co. of America, Midvale Co. and the Cooper-Bessemer Corp. He participated in the first commercial heat of ductile iron at Cooper-Bessemer in 1949. Walter E. Sicha [*] was awarded the WHM Gold Medal. He spent his entire career with the Aluminum Co. of America. A noted researcher of light metals casting alloys, he was a Hoyt Lecturer in 1963. 1955 John B. Caine [*] was awarded the JHW Gold Medal. Known for sand research, he was a technical consultant to the foundry industry and a member of several societies and AFS technical committees. He was a Hoyt Lecturer in 1961. John E. Rehder was awarded the PLS Gold Medal. He worked for Walker Metal Products, Bowmanville, Ontario Foundry Co., Grinnell Co. of Canada and Canada Iron Foundries, Ltd. He devoted much of his research to producing malleable iron. Robert F. Thomson was awarded the JAP Gold Medal. He worked for Republic Steel Co., Chrysler Corp., International Nickel Co. and General Motor Corp.'s Research Laboratories Div., where he spent 27 years. He is a co-holder of 27 patents relating to metallurgical processes and materials. 1956 Charles C. Sigerfoos [*] was awarded the TWP Gold Medal. He worked at New York Central Rail Road Foundry and Williams Brothers Brass Foundry before becoming a professor at Purdue and Michigan State Univ. James S. Vanick [*] was awarded the WHM Gold Medal. The first technical director of the Ductile Iron Society, he worked for the British Ministry of Munitions mu·ni·tion n. War materiel, especially weapons and ammunition. Often used in the plural. tr.v. mu·ni·tioned, mu·ni·tion·ing, mu·ni·tions To supply with munitions. and the International Nickel Co He is recognized for his promotion of the development of NiBral for ship propellors, which reduced cavitation cavitation Formation of vapour bubbles within a liquid at low-pressure regions that occur in places where the liquid has been accelerated to high velocities, as in the operation of centrifugal pumps, water turbines, and marine propellers. damage on the U.S. transatlantic speed-record-holding liner. Harold F. Bishop [*] was awarded the JSS Gold Medal. During a long-lasting career with the Naval Research Laboratory, he contributed to castings research. 1957 Charles K. Donoho [*] was awarded the PLS Gold Medal. Chief metallurgist and technical director at American Cast Pipe Co., he is known for his contributions to AFS and to the ferrous casting industry, especially in gray and ductile iron and steel. Clyde A. Sanders [*] was awarded the JHW Gold Medal. A former president of American Colloid colloid (kŏl`oid) [Gr.,=gluelike], a mixture in which one substance is divided into minute particles (called colloidal particles) and dispersed throughout a second substance. Co., he was an AFS president from 1970-71 and a Hoyt Lecturer in 1973. He contributed heavily to sand practice and foundry technology. Johannes C.A. Croning [*] was awarded the JAP Gold Medal. He is credited for inventing the shell molding process. 1958 Ralph A. Clark was awarded the JAP Gold Medal. Known for his contributions in the field of gray iron metallurgy, he worked with Cadillac Motor Co., D.J. Ryan Foundry Co. and Lakey Foundry Co. before joining Electro Metallurgical Co. Howard J. Rowe [*] was awarded the WHM Gold Medal. He spent several years working with Aluminum Co. of America's Castings Div. He contributed to the light metals branch of the casting industry. William W. Maloney [*] was awarded the JSS Gold Medal. He was an established journalist in the foundry industry. He was induced by AFS to publish Transactions and Bulletins, its first magazine and the forerunner to American Foundryman and modern casting. He also was AFS' general manager. 1959 Harold W. Lownie, Jr. [*], was awarded the JHW Gold Medal. He worked for Battelle Memorial Institute and was known for his contributions in gray iron. John A. Rassenfoss [*] was awarded the PLS Gold Medal. A Hoyt Lecturer in 1977, he spent 42 years working for Amsted Industries, Inc. Fred J. Walls [*] was awarded the JAP Gold Medal. He worked with Wilson Foundry & Machine Co., Eaton-Erb Foundry, Engineering Castings, Inc. and International Nickel Co., where he spent 24 years. An AFS president from 1945-46 and a Hoyt Lecturer in 1955, he is well-known for his contributions to gray iron metallurgy. (*.) Deceased |
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