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Robert Fulton to Chair 2015 Nominating Committee
In This Issue
Members of the 2015
Nominating Com-
mittee have been
selected and Robert J.
Fulton, FASM, president
(retired), Hoeganaes Corp.,
Bonita Springs, Fla., was
elected to serve as chair by
the ASM Board of Trustees.
Fulton has been a member
of ASM International since
1966 and served as ASM
Treasurer and Chair of the
ASM Finance Committee
from 2010-2014. He con-
tinues to serve as a member of the Finance Committee and
Investment Committee, and was active in the ASM Lehigh Val-
ley Chapter in the 1960s and 1970s serving as chapter chair.
He received the Philadelphia Liberty Bell Chapter’s Eisenman
Award, ASM Distinguished Life Membership (2007), and is an
ASM Fellow (2013). Fulton is also amember of SAE and ASPMI.
ASM Officers Appoint Members
In accordance with the ASM International Constitution,
ASM president Dr. Sunniva R. Collins, FASM, vice president
Mr. Jon D. Tirpak, FASM, and immediate past president
Prof. C. Ravi Ravindran, FASM, appointed nine members
to the Nominating Committee from among candidates pro-
posed by chapters, committees, councils, and ASM Affiliate
Society boards. The committee is responsible for selecting
a nominee for vice president-trustee (one-year term) and
for nominating three trustees (three-year terms). Members
do not select a candidate for president of the society, be-
cause Article IV, Section 3 of the Constitution states that
the office of president shall be filled for a period of one year
by succession of the vice president. The 2015 Nominating
Committee’s nominee for vice president will serve as ASM’s
president in 2017.
Nominating Committee members
for 2015 include:
Beth Armstrong, research staff member, Oak Ridge
National Laboratory, Tenn. (nominated by Volunteerism
Committee); Prabir Chaudhury, global technical director
designate, Metals Technology, Exova, Santa Fe Springs, Calif.
(nominated by Phoenix Chapter);Susan Hartfield-Wunsch,
technical fellow, General Motors, Livonia, Mich. (nominat-
ed by Detroit Chapter); John Hayden, chairman, Hayden
Corp., West Springfield, Mass. (nominated by Thermal
Spray Society); John Marcin, FASM, manager, United Tech-
nologies-Pratt & Whitney, East Hartford, Conn. (nominat-
ed by New Products and Services Committee); Michael
O’Brien, senior project leader, The Aerospace Corp., Los
Angeles (nominated by Los Angeles Chapter); Anthony Pet-
ric, FASM, professor, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontar-
io (nominated by Ontario Chapter); Marissa Reigel, senior
engineer, Savannah River National Laboratory, Aiken, S.C.
(nominated by Savannah River Chapter); Maria Winnicka,
senior staff R&D engineer, Fabricated Products Group, H.C.
Starck Inc., Cleveland (nominated by Chapter Council).
The Nominating Committee will meet on April 16-17
and its recommended slate of officers will be published in
the June issue of ASM News.
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