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MEMBERS IN THE NEWS
MEMBERS IN THE NEWS
Rosei Honored by Chinese
Chemical Society
Federico Rosei, FASM,
of the INRS
Énergie Matériaux Télécommunications
Research Centre, Canada, was named
Honorary Fellow of the Chinese Chemical
Society. He is the only Canadian researcher
to make this list. Rosei also received the
Chang-Jiang Scholars Award this year, presented by the Chi-
nese government in recognition of his research in the field
of organic and inorganic nanomaterials.
ATI Promotes Dalton and Witheford
Allegheny Technologies Inc. (ATI), Pittsburgh, recently
announced several management changes.
Hunter Dalton
was named executive vice president, strategic growth ini-
tiatives. In this new role, he will be responsible for helping
develop ATI’s additive manufacturing business strategy and
other growth-focused strategies. ATI also announced that
Thomas Witheford
will succeed Dalton as president of ATI
Specialty Materials, part of the high performance materials
and components segment. Dalton joined ATI in 1981 as an
industrial engineer for ATI Specialty Materials, and Withe-
ford joined the company in 1988 as a product engineer at
ATI’s melt operations in Latrobe, Pa.
IN MEMORIAM
Robert Dale Halverstadt, FASM,
passed away on September 13 at age
95. He was born in Warren, Ohio, on
January 25, 1920, and served in the
Coast Guard during WWII, taking part in
the D-Day invasion of Normandy. After
the war, he worked as a machinist at
Republic Steel and enrolled at Case
Institute of Technology to earn his engineering degree.
He went on to work at General Electric, where he was a
development engineer, laboratory supervisor, and man-
ager of the Thomson Engineering Laboratory. At GE,
Halverstadt received three patent awards for his work,
including the electrochemical process used to manufac-
ture its first production air-cooled turbine blades. After
GE, he served as group vice president of Booz, Allen and
Hamilton Inc. and ran several divisions. In 1974, he
became president of Special Metals Corp. and then
chairman of the board in 1987, a role he filled until 2002
when he became Chairman Emeritus. Halverstadt
served as Trustee of ASM from 1982–1985 and as Trea-
surer from 1988–1991. He joined ASM in 1957, was a Dis-
tinguished Life Member (2002), and received Honorary
Membership in 2008. He served on the ASM Materials
Education Foundation as Trustee from 2007–2015, was a
Pillar Society member since 2004, and Chair of the Fund
Raising Committee from 2010–2013.
Floyd “Casey” William Wood,
of
Gainesville, Fla., died on August 24 at
age 89. He was born in Eugene, Ore., on
May 31, 1926, and grew up in Eugene
and Portland. Wood received his engi-
neering degrees from the University of
Oregon and Oregon State University
and was training to be a Navy pilot in
the V5/V12 program when WWII ended. He worked for
the U.S. Bureau of Mines in Albany, Ore., and the Jack-
sonville, Fla., Naval Air Station as a metallurgical engi-
neer. Wood joined ASM in 1966.
Harry Waldron Weart
died on August
18 at age 88. He was born in Seneca
Falls, N.Y., and graduated as valedicto-
rian from Mynderse Academy High
School in 1945. He received a bachelor’s
degree in metallurgy from Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute in 1951, and a mas-
ter’s and Ph.D. from the University of
Wisconsin at Madison. Weart served in the U.S. Army as a
member of the Military Police in the Panama Canal Zone
from1945–1947. He later served as amember of the engi-
neering faculty at several universities, and was chairman
of the Metallurgy Department at the University of Mis-
souri–Rolla from 1964–1992. Weart joined ASM in 1948.