Philadelphia Liberty Bell Chapter Monthly Newsletter for Thursday, October 16, 2003

Chairperson's Message, October 16, 2003, Young Members Night

As I write this it is Labor Day, and we are still two weeks away from the September meeting. You should have received your September newsletter, and by the time you read this we will have had the September meeting. This is our kick off for the year, and my first meeting as your Chairperson. I hope you are as excited about the meeting and the speaker as I am.

One of the highlights of the Sept. meeting will be the presentation of ASM's Five Star Chapter award to last year's Chair, Don Jordan. Don did a great job, and I look forward to upholding the high standards he set. The Five Star award was presented to the Philadelphia Chapter at this year's leadership days in Cleveland in August. Scott Nyce and I accepted the award on your behalf. Roger Jones was also at the meeting as an invited speaker. Roger's topic was Membership Development. During one presentation our web site was held up as an example of a very professional site.

The power blackout occurred during the meeting. The staff and the hotel did a great job, and the inconvenience was minimal. Scott lost some sleep. Roger and I arrived after power was back on, but you could not drink the water. I had to brush my teeth with Pepsi. One gentleman who came from Europe was stranded in New York and arrived Sunday as the meeting was ending.

Many people have been working hard through the summer to get everything set up for the chapter year. Fred Klock and Roger Jones put together the seminar which will take place at SPS in November - "Training Your People and Getting Paid for It." Bob Rich and Fred Klock are moving ahead with plans for this year's MEI course on Failure Analysis. John Janiszewski put together the program for the year. Don Jordan took care of all of the year end paperwork for ASM International. Mike Drakeley and Ed Mazieka moved the Yearbook along. We had a great planning meeting in June and a very good Finance meeting in August.

Unfortunately our September meeting is the same week as the ASM Heat Treat Show in Indianapolis, and October is the same week as the ASM Materials Solutions Expo in Pittsburgh. If you would like free tickets for the Pittsburgh expo, we will be giving them out at the September meeting, but I expect to still have some available. Give me a call if you need any. We'd love to have all of you at our chapter meetings, but if you are at one of these functions we will certainly understand.

We hope to be doing more communication in the future by e-mail, so please check your membership listing at asminternational.org to see if they have your correct listing. It should be another outstanding year for the Philadelphia Chapter of ASM International.

Respectfully submitted,

Jim Watters
Chairperson 2003-04

This Month's Meeting Features...

Dinner Menu - Buffet - choice of: Roast Top Sirloin of Beef Bordelaise, Italian Meatballs, Rolled Baked Stuffed Flounder, Sliced Virginia Baked Ham, Caesar Salad, Broccoli au Gratin, Parslied Red Skin Potatoes, Fresh Fruit Watermelon Boat, Beverage & Rolls and Strawberry Sundae.

Social Hour -- 6:30-7:00 p.m., Dinner -- 7:00 p.m.

Price -- $22.00, Retirees -- $15.00, Students -- $10.00

Technical Chairperson: Rick Bottari, Stork MMA Laboratories

Topic: Radiography of the Liberty Bell

Speaker: VINCENT F. RODING

Vince Roding has a long and distinguished career in nondestructive testing. He was formerly the director of training for the Stavely Schools for Nondestructive Testing. He is a past chairman of the greater Philadelphia Section of the American Society for Nondestructive Testing and has been honored as a fellow of the Society. Mr. Roding is an American Welding Society (AWS) Certified Welding Inspector and a member of the Philadelphia Section of AWS. He also serves on the Radiation Protection Advisory Committee (RPAC) for the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection. He currently heads his own training and consulting firm specializing in NDT.

Topic: Radiography of the Liberty Bell

The October meeting will be a joint meeting with the Greater Philadelphia Section of the American Society for Nondestructive Testing (ASNT). The Liberty Bell may be the most "touchable" symbol of our nation's ideals of freedom. As part of continuing programs to ensure that the Liberty Bell remains intact and accessible to future generation of Americans, Vince Roding has been called on to provide nondestructive inspection and evaluation services. Vince's presentation, "Ensuring the Preservation of one of our Nation's Symbols of Freedom-RADIOGRAPHING THE LIBERTY BELL," presents the techniques and results of a series of inspections done over a quarter of a century. The presentation will discuss both the original inspection, done in 1976 prior to a move of the Bell, and the inspection done after the recent vandalism attack by a disturbed man.

Spouses and guests are invited and welcome. This meeting will be held at Williamson Restaurant, Easton Road, Horsham, PA. Reservations are necessary - Call: (215) 643-3369 (OH-DE-FOX), or you may register using our online form. Please don't call if you have already reserved via this web site LINK.

Meeting Sponsors: Material Resources, Inc., Ramball Testlab, Inc., Stork MMA Laboratories

Training Your People and Getting Paid For It

The Greater Philadelphia Section of The American Society for Nondestructive Testing and The Philadelphia "Liberty Bell" Chapter of ASM International is presenting a Seminar titled "Training Your People And Getting Paid For It".

When: Tuesday 11 November 2003 -- 7:30 AM Breakfast - 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM Seminar

Where: SPS Technologies -- Highland Ave. Jenkintown, PA

Cost: $20.00 -- Includes hot breakfast

Speaker: Bernice Steigerwalt, Contract Training Specialist, DeSales Univ., Easton PA

Topic: "State-Funded Training Reimbursement Programs Available to PA Companies"

Speaker: Jeff Lee, Project Manager for American Westech of Harrisburg PA

Topic: "Guidelines and Benefits of The OSHA Voluntary Protection Program (VPP) for Small, Midsize, and Large Companies"

Speaker: Rich Hixon, Engineered Lubrications/OSHA Trainer, Bangor PA

Topic: ÒOSHA Training Initiatives Reimbursed Through Training Grant Programs in PA"

Speaker: (TBD)-Dale Carnegie-Corporate Solutions-Valley Forge PA

Topic: "Management/LeadershipTraining Initiatives Reimbursed Through PA Training Grants"

NOTE: Speakers will allow 10-15 minutes for Questions and Answers at the end of their respective presentations.

For more information call Fred Klock or Bob Rich at 215 572 3485 or e-mail

MEI Course

"Principles of Failure Analysis" - starting Nov. 18
The Greater Philadelphia Section of The American Society for Nondestructive Testing and The Philadelphia "Liberty Bell" Chapter of ASM International is presenting the MEI course Principles of Failure Analysis.

When: Tuesday evenings 18 November 2003 through 9 March 2004, 6:30 to 9:00 PM

Where: SPS Technologies -- Highland Ave. Jenkintown, PA

Cost: $350.00 includes the 15 lesson course with 3.2 CEUs, Qualified ASMI instructors and a video presentation each week. Each student after the first one from the same company will cost $300.00. ASMI offers an equivalent in Materials Park for over $1000 additional cost.

Who should attend:
People who are new to failure analysis or for those who want an update. Technicians. Those interested in understanding how knowledge of failure analysis can lead to better productivity.

What you will learn:
Learn what failure analysis can mean in terms of profitability and liability. Understand general procedures, techniques and precautions in failure analysis. Learn how to identify designrelated failures. Be able to analyze the factors that cause failure. Understand what environmental sources are responsible for failures and ways to prevent them. Learn how stress systems relate to fracture of ductile and brittle materials. Learn about typical fatigue characteristics. Grasp the many inter-related factors involved in examining a fracture. Understand the basic fracture modes and their characteristics, including the factors affecting ductile-brittle relationships. Become knowledgeable about typical fatigue characteristics and learn how to identify them. Learn how to read fatigue fractures. Learn how to separate material (chemistry, microstructure) causes for failure from non-materials causes.

For more information call Fred Klock or Bob Rich at 215 572 3485 or e-mail

Williamson Trade School Tour

The Professional Development Committee will be sponsoring a tour of Williamson Trade School in Media, Pa. The date of the tour is Tuesday November 25th 2003. More information will follow in the October newsletter. For further information please contact Roger A. Jones at Solar Atmospheres Inc. 215-721-1502 Ext. 201 or send e-mail to raj@solaratm.com.

UPCOMING EVENTS

10-16-2003  Thursday  Young Members Night -- Radiography of the Liberty Bell
Speaker: Vincent F. Roding -- Williamson Restaurant, Horsham, PA  6:00 pm

11-11-2003  Wednesday -- "Training Your People and Getting Paid For It Seminar, SPS Technologies  Jenkintown, PA  8:00 a.m.

11-19-2003  Wednesday -- Continuing Education Night -- History, Research, Myths & Applications of Cryogenic Processing
Speaker: Frederick J. Diekman -- Williamson Restaurant, Horsham, PA  6:00 pm

11-25-03  Tuesday -- Williamson Trade School Tour, Media PA TBA

01-15-04  Thursday -- National Officers Night -- Thermal Spray Processes and Coating

Changes To Your Membership Information

Any Chapter Member who needs to make a change to their membership listing or to their company affiliation listing must call Membership Service, ASM International at 1-800-336-5152 or use the ASMI website at www. asminternational.org. This will permanently update your information.

We depend on ASM International to receive our updated mailing list for this newsletter. So please do not sent information to the return address on this newsletter.

Meeting Cancellation Notification

In the event of cancellation of a meeting due to inclement weather, we will broadcast the news as part of KYW News radio's (1060AM) Storm Center Service. ASM cancellations will be specifically announced when KYW airs community cancellations at :20 and :50 past each hour during the afternoon of the day of the meeting; ASM's name will be specifically mentioned, so listen for the name rather than an organization number as is used for schools.

Do you have news...

that should be shared with the other members of the "Liberty Bell" Chapter? If so, please email your info to Anna Whitehead at awhitehead@att.net. Be sure to add the phrase "Item to add to the ASM Chapter newsletter" in the subject line. We'll be sure to include it in the next monthly Chapter newsletter.

Click [HERE] to download a Portable Document Format (PDF) file of this newsletter. To access a document in this format, you must have Adobe Acrobat installed on your computer. If you can't view PDFs, click [HERE] to get the free Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Click [HERE] to view back issues of our newsletter.