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M embers of the 2014 Nominating Com-
mittee have been selected and
Richard Blackwell, FASM, business man-
ager, Buehler Canada, Whitby, Ontario, was
elected to serve as chair by the ASM Board
of Trustees. Rick has been a member of
ASM International since 1975 and is cur-
rently president of the International Metal-
lographic Society (IMS), having served as director and in
all officer positions since 2001. In addition, he has been a
member of the Ontario Chapter since 1975, serving on the
Executive Committee and holding all chapter positions
since 1993. Rick became a Fellow of ASM in 2007, and has
served on a number of selection committees as well as the
ASM Nominating Committee in 2001.
ASM Officers Appoint Members
In accordance with the ASM International Constitution,
ASM president Prof. C. Ravi Ravindran, FASM; vice
president Dr. Sunniva R. Collins, FASM; and immediate
past president Dr. Gernant E. Maurer, FASM, appointed
nine members to the Nominating Committee from among
candidates proposed by chapters, committees, councils,
and ASM Affiliate Society boards. The committee is re-
sponsible for selecting a nominee for vice president-trustee
(one-year term) and nominating three trustees (three-year
terms). Members do not select a candidate for president of
the society, because Article IV, Section 3, of the Constitu-
tion states that the office of president shall be filled for a
period of one year by succession of the vice president. The
2014 Nominating Committee’s nominee for vice president
will serve as ASM’s president in 2016.
Nominating Committee members
for 2014 include:
Richard Berryman, lead engineer, Northrop Grumman
Electronic Systems Div., Azusa, Calif. (nominated by Chap-
ter Council); Margaret Bush, senior materials engineer,
Medtronic, Minneapolis (nominated by the Minnesota
Chapter); Pradeep Goyal, managing director, Pradeep
Metals Limited, Mumbai, India (nominated by the India
Council); Aaron Hall, principal member of Technical
Staff, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, N.M.
(nominated by the Thermal Spray Society); William
Loewenthal, FASM, lab manager/engineer, Tensile Test-
ing Metallurgical Laboratory, Cleveland (nominated by the
Cleveland Chapter); Manish Mehta, director, Collabora-
tion Programs, NCMS, Ann Arbor, Mich. (nominated by
the Detroit Chapter); Joseph Newkirk, associate profes-
sor, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla,
Mo. (nominated by the Technical Books Committee);
Mark Robinson, FASM, owner, MTL Technologies LLC,
Reading, Pa. (nominated by the Lehigh Valley Chapter);
and Chirag Shah , Engineering Services Manager, Exova
Inc., Glendale Heights, Ill. (nominated by the Chicago Re-
gional Chapter).
The Nominating Committee will meet on April 24-25
and its recommended slate of officers will be published in
the June issue of ASM News.
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Richard Blackwell to Chair
2014 Nominating Committee
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ASM Board of Trustees
Nominations due March 15
It’s time to nominate candidates for ASM vice president and trustee.
Qualifications include: materials professionals with broad experience in
ASM, business, and management; experience in ASM committee and ASM
chapter work; managerial experience (budgets and policy making) is most
desirable; is an individual or chapter sustaining ASM member; understands
the duties and responsibilities required and is willing to serve if elected;
understands ASM’s strategy and objectives; has knowledge of the field of
materials and information technology. Vice presidential nominees must
have previously served on the ASM Board of Trustees. Contact Leslie Tay-
lor at 440/338-5151 ext. 5500, or . Visit
website for rules and nomination form at
about/governance/nominating-committee.