Kotzin, Rasmussen to Retire from AFS With a Combined 103 Years in the Industry: Proud to be a Foundryman. (Industry News).The career of Ezra L. Kotzin may be best summed up by a statement he made during his 1997 Charles Edgar Hoyt Memorial Lecture at the 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 Casting Congress: "I'm proud to be a foundryman." After 60 years in metalcasting (32 at AFS), Kotzin has decided to "hang up his rammer" and retire from AFS next month. Kotzin's foundry career began in 1942 at Buffalo Metals, 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 , as a metallurgical engineer recently graduated from the Univ. of Rochester. After stints at several Buffalo-area foundries, including Buffalo Pipe and Foundry, Curtiss-Wright Corp., Allegheny Ludlum Steel Foundry and Pratt & Letchworth Kotzin joined the Bonney Floyd Co. (Shenango Corp.), Columbus, Ohio Columbus is the capital and the largest city of the American state of Ohio. Named for explorer Christopher Columbus, the city was founded in 1812 at the confluence of the Scioto and Olentangy rivers, and assumed the functions of state capital in 1816. , in 1957 as a metallurgist where he took part in one of the first production successes of castings for nuclear applications (submarine and power plant). In 1964, Kotzin became technical director for the 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., Arlington Heights, Illinois Arlington Heights is an affluent village in Cook County, Illinois and a northwestern suburb of Chicago. It is located about 25 miles northwest of downtown Chicago. A 2003 Census recount gave the village a population of 76,422, the largest for a village in the United States , and then moved to Howard Foundry Co., Chicago, in 1969 as vice president of technical operations. After a brief stint with Howard, Kotzin then joined AFS in 1970 as vice president of engineering services, remaining with the Society in this position until his retirement next month. Through his career, Kotzin has received numerous honors, including the AFS special Award of Recognition in 1990, an induction into Foundry Management & Technology's Hall of Honor in 1997, and the AFS Molding Methods & Materials Div.'s Silver Anniversary Lecturer in 1993. To his friends and colleagues, this recognition doesn't begin to describe the impact of Kotzin on the metalcasting industry. "Ez is an unparalleled source of theoretical and practical metalcasting knowledge," said Lyle Jenkins, former 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. Society technical director who worked with Kotzin for more than 25 years on AFS committees; "He has been at the forefront of promoting the transfer of knowledge to industry." "When you are talking to Noun 1. talking to - a lengthy rebuke; "a good lecture was my father's idea of discipline"; "the teacher gave him a talking to" lecture, speech rebuke, reprehension, reprimand, reproof, reproval - an act or expression of criticism and censure; "he had to Ez, he makes you feel as if you are the most important person in the world," said Jack Pohlman, AFS past president and vice president of, Taylor-Pohlman, Inc. "Ez is a man of incredible class." To Kotzin, however, what is important is not what he did for the industry, but what the industry did for him. "It is a privilege to be a foundryman and to have worked with people dedicated" to the art and science of metalcasting," said Kotzin. Kotzin and his wife, Margaret, have three sons, David, Brian and Mike, 10 grandchildren GRANDCHILDREN, domestic relations. The children of one's children. Sometimes these may claim bequests given in a will to children, though in general they can make no such claim. 6 Co. 16. and two great grandchildren. |
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