Obituaries.Richard W. LeVan, 68, chairman of Wescast Industries, Inc., Brantford, Ontario Brantford is a city located on the Grand River in southwestern Ontario, Canada. This single-tier municipality was once part of Brant County. , Canada, died in April. In 1961, LeVan joined a small firm producing iron stoves and transformed it into Wescast, one of the world's largest suppliers of cast exhaust manifolds for passenger cars and light trucks, He was a recipient of the William Grede Award, a past president of both the Gray Iron Foundry Assn. and Canadian Foundry Assn., and a past director of 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 . LeVan had served as chairman at Wescast since 1994, retiring in March due to illness. W. Tom McKee Tom McKee is an American politician. A member of the Democratic Party, McKee is a state representative from Kentucky's 78th district. McKee, a tobacco farmer and resident of Cynthiana, Kentucky, was first elected to the house seat in 1996. , 57, president of Centrifugal Casting Machine Co., Inc., (CCMCO) Tulsa, Oklahoma, died in April. McKee, who purchased CCMCO in 1980, received a civil engineering degree from the Univ. of Kentucky and a MBA MBA abbr. Master of Business Administration Noun 1. MBA - a master's degree in business Master in Business, Master in Business Administration from Case Western Reserve Univ, Cleveland. |
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