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The 2002 Joseph S. Seaman Gold Medal was bestowed upon Alan P. Volkmar, retired, "for 50 years of pioneering and innovative efforts which have resulted in significant improvements in green sand control test technology."

Volkmar joined 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.

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 in 1949 and was a founder and chairman of the AFS student chapter at Northwestern Univ. and vice chairman of the AFS Northern Illinois/Southern Wisconsin chapter. He has authored and presented over 30 technical papers for AFS chapters on the local and regional levels. In 1978 he was awarded the AFS Award of Scientific Merit and the AFS Service Citation in 1992. He has been a CMI (Computer-Managed Instruction) Using computers to organize and manage an instructional program for students. It helps create test materials, tracks the results and monitors student progress.  Instructor in the areas of sand control practices, testing and quality control. He has presented over 15 papers at various AFS Casting Congresses. His sand muller Mul·ler , Hermann Joseph 1890-1967.

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Mül·ler , Johannes Peter 1801-1858.
 studies over the years have contributed heavily to the foundry industry's technology.

Volkmar received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Northwestern Univ. and is a registered professional engineer in the state of Wisconsin.

William H. McFadden Gold Medal

Paul L. Barker, Jr., director-industrial engineering, Dalton Corp., Warsaw, Indiana Warsaw is a city in, and the county seat of, Kosciusko County, Indiana, United StatesGR6. The population was 12,415, as of the 2000 census.

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, received the William H. McFadden Gold Medal "for outstanding contributions in the development, application and dissemination dissemination Medtalk The spread of a pernicious process–eg, CA, acute infection Oncology Metastasis, see there  of sound engineering principles, and his lifelong dedication and leadership to the foundry industry and AFS."

Barker joined AFS in 1967 and has had a long history of active involvement. Barker received the AFS Westover Award in 1994, the 1995 AFS Service Citation and in 1998 was awarded the Distinguished Service Award from the Engineering Div. He served as an AFS national director, class of 1998, and represented the AFS Board of Directors on the Cast Metals Coalition executive committee from 1995-1998. He also has held many chair positions on the AFS Midwest Regional Executive Committee.

Barker earned an AAS degree from Erie Technical Institute, a B.S. in Management from Syracuse Univ. and an M.S. in Management from Indiana Wesleyan Univ.
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Date:Jun 1, 2002
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