1997-98 was an interesting year. The national and California economies were improving in spite of El Nino and the recession in Japan. California did not flood but Florida burned and President Clinton's visit to China promised to be historic. In your local chapter, membership is steady and chapter activities were well supported. The speakers at our meetings were from diverse backgrounds and they spoke on a wide range of interesting topics. The chapter also offered support in George Binczewski's effort to have the town of Heroult (under Lake Shasta) declared a National Historic Site, the first such site on the west coast. Heroult was the first place the Heroult process (aka Hall process) was used. The Heroult process is an electrically driven extraction technique that is widely used on aluminum but in this case it was used on iron ore! Sadly, Earl Parker died on May 9. He was 85. Earl was a long-term member of this chapter and was very involved in its activities.
Below is a summary of your chapter's activities for 1997/98. We have compiled the main features of each chapter meeting along with the winners of various awards, other activities and events which took place outside of regular meetings, the names of persons serving on the executive committee as well as other persons and organizations that played a prominent role in this year's activities.
| Meetings | Officers | Membership | Events | Obituaries |
September 10, 1997 - Regular Meeting
Sponsors: NDT and Inspection Auditing, Schwien/Christensen Laboratories, Inc.
Location: Spenger's Fish Grotto, Berkeley
Speaker: Fred Hafner, Napa Pipe Corporation, High-Strength Low-Alloy (HSLA) Steel LinepipeOctober 8, 1997 - Joint Meeting with NACE
Sponsors: Buehler, Ltd. and R.J. Lee Group
Location: Spenger's Fish Grotto, Berkeley
Speaker: Jerry Fritzke, PE, Independent consultant, Consulting in Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon)November 12, 1997 - Regular Meeting
Sponsors: Coulter Steel and Forge, Co. and FTI Anamet
Location: Spenger's Fish Grotto, Berkeley
Speaker: Professor Daniel Walsh, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, Recent Advances in Applied Joining Research. What's New at Cal Poly?January 14, 1998 - Regular Meeting
Sponsors: Failure Analysis and Metallurgical Consultation
Location: Spenger's Fish Grotto, Berkeley
Speaker: Thomas A. Cahill, Professor Emeritus, Physics Department, University of California Davis, Applications of PIXE (Particle Induced X-Ray Emission)February 11, 1998 - Joint Meeting with NACE
Sponsor:
Location: Spenger's Fish Grotto, Berkeley
Speaker: Speaker-Name, name of company, organization, Corrosion of Copper PipeMarch 13-15, 1998 - Monterey Seminar
The Monterey Seminar is our weekend seminar which features speakers from all over the country and representatives from companies from northern California. The topic of this year's seminar was Failure Analysis and Materials Assessment. It was held at the Holiday Inn Resort in Monterey, CA and the whole affair was organized by Lisa Thomas.
 | First Session: Larry Hanke, Founder and Principle Engineer, Materials Evaluation and Engineering, Plymouth, MN, A Primer in Failure Analysis Methodology |
| Second Session: Paul R. Spencer, Allied Signal, NASA Johnson Space Center, White Sands Test Facility, NM, Failure Analysis Case Histories in Aging Aircraft |
| Third Session: Dr. Steven Stafford, Associate Dean of Engineering, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso TX, Structural Integrity of Rotating Components in Land-Base Gas Turbines |
| Fourth Session: Dr. John Daniel Olivas, Program Element Designer, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, Nondestructive Evaluation Tools for Materials Assessment of NASA's Microspacecraft |
April 8, 1998 - Regular Meeting
Sponsors:
Location: Spenger's Fish Grotto, Berkeley
Speaker: William Walden, McClellan AFB, Sacramento, CA, The Foundry of the Future
May 13, 1998 - University and Community College Awards Night
This is our annual meeting when we honor the accomplishments of our university
and community college students. (Actually, the university and community college
events are normally held on separate evenings but due to delays in getting started on this
project we combined them into this one evening.) It gives us a chance to meet these
exceptional students and to personally welcome them into the materials community.
Sponsor: Applied Materials and Engineering, Inc.
Location: Spenger's Fish Grotto, Berkeley
Speaker: Stephen Woortman, Materials Laboratory, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio
(McClellan AFB, Sacramento, CA), State-of-the-Art Windshield Design for Jet Aircraft
June 10, 1998 - Spouse's Night and
Membership Awards Meeting
This is our annual end-of-the-year meeting where we honor our long-term members
and past members of the executive committee. Spouses are also invited and the
featured presentation is usually one which would appeal to a broader, even non-technical
audience.
Sponsor: California Saw and Chain Works
Location: Shenanigan's Restaurant, Jack London Village, Oakland
Speaker: Jerry Fritzke, Independent consultant, The Drake Plate
The executive committee for 1997/98 was:
Chair: Chuck Morones
Vice-Chair: Lisa Thomas
Secretary: Paul Tibbals
Treasurer: Christine Gibney
Membership: Rich Seals
Publicity: Christine Gibney
Career/Education: Bill Keyser
Planning: Jerry Fritzke
Student Affairs: Mike Meier
Program: Gordon Lakso, Mike Meier
Attendance: Ken Pytlewski
University Student Awards
Community College Awards
City College of San Francisco: Dennis S. Lee, Georgina Higgenbotham
Diablo Valley College: Ignacio Aguilar, Jr., Michael Dustin Green
Los Medanos Community College: Stephen P. Coelhe, Donald J. Best III
Solano Community College: Maria Weidenmeyer
Annual Membership Awards: Each year at the end of our season we recognize the various achievements of members from our chapter. This year the following awards were presented during the June meeting:
| 5 Years: Thomas Albert, Nicholas E. Aloi, Jr., Hossein Arbabi, John T. Bali, Mark S. Caldwell, Oscar Camposagrado, Stephen S. Greer, Robert A. Haffner, D. Henry, Roy L. Howell, Neal C. Nordstrom, Wilfred K. Taylor, Mike Powers, Peter N. Skarpelos, Wilfred Wheaton, William E. Thomford, PE |
| 15 Years: Theodore E. Anvick, Joseph R. Battenburg, Robert W. Boyd, Annette Brahms, Joel Fritz, Alan F. Jankowski, John C. Jensen, Richard M. Kruger, Carolann B. Laughlin, Steven Lockert, Michael L. Meier, Paul Nickerson, Ronald M. Scanlan, Robert S. Turk, Thomas H. Via |
| 25 Years: Carl F. Cline, John A. Johnson, C.J. Long, Zuhair A. Munir FASM, Robert M. Paufler, Richard A. Simanek, Thermo-Fusion Inc., Robert B. Waite |
| 60 Years: James B. Hess |
| Life Awards: Roger J. Austin, Gary L. Boerman, Albert G. Imgram, Harold H. Scott, Donald W. McGrath |
Earl Parker, 1913-1998, 85 years, Professor Emeritus, U. C. Berkeley
John D. Ewing, 1940-1998, 58 years, President of USS-POSCO
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