Obituaries.Andrew "Andy" Brooks, Rancocas, N.J. died in March. He was 58. Brooks was a 28-year veteran employee of Inductothenn Corp., first as the west coast service manager and later as service manager for the entire company, a post he held for 11 years. Lyle Jenkins, Decatur, Ill., died May 11. He was 83. Jenkins was technical director of the 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, North Olmsted, Ohio North Olmsted is a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 34,113. History The entire area containing North Olmsted was originally part of the Connecticut Western Reserve. , from 1983-2000 and served as vice-president-technical at Wagner Castings Co., Decatur, Ill., before retiring in 1983. Jenkins was the recipient of an 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 and AFS Service Citation. He was instrumental in the development of a production process for thin-section ductile iron and the introduction of fracture toughness and dynamic tear testing to the malleable and ductile iron industries. |
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