Obituaries.Jack Huggins Schaum, Silver Spring, Md., died May 2, 2007. He was 88. Schaum was editor and later editor and publisher of MODERN CASTING from 1956 to 1982. However, his education and background were in metalcasting engineering and research. He earned a bachelor's degree in metallurgical engineering from 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, in 1940 and went on to a research position 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 , Washington, D.C., during World War II. Following the war, Schaum became director of metalcasting research at the National Bureau of Standards National Bureau of Standards: see National Institute of Standards and Technology. National Bureau of Standards - National Institute of Standards and Technology . While working for MODERN CASTING, Schaum was known for the humor, optimism and eloquence Eloquence Ambrose, St. bees, prophetic of fluency, landed in his mouth. [Christian Hagiog: Brewster, 177] Antony, Mark gives famous speech against Caesar’s assassins. [Br. Lit. of his editorials. He visited more than 1,000 metalcasting operations throughout the world while working for the magazine. |
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