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HIGHL IGHTS A D V A N C E D M A T E R I A L S & P R O C E S S E S | M A Y / J U N E 2 0 1 8 5 6 IN MEMORIAM David Arthur Chadwick passed away on March 2 at age 63. He was a metallurgical lab technician with FPM Heat Treating, Cherry Valley, Ill., for more than 22 years. Chadwick was intrigued with the process of heat treating a variety of metals that are used every day in man- ufacturing industries. He was an active member of the ASM Chicago Chapter with oversight responsibility for members in the Rockford area. He was also a member of the ASM Heat Treat- ing Society (HTS) and served on the HTS Membership Committee (2012-2018). John R. Ogren, FASM, died on December 11, 2017, in Playa del Rey, Calif. He was born in Calumet, Mich., to first-generation Finnish immigrants. He received his B.S. from Northern Michigan College of Education and his M.S. and Ph.D. from Iowa State University. His long career at TRW focused on R&D in space exploration and energy research and included par- ticipation in the analysis of the first moon rocks brought back to Earth by Apollo astronauts. He taught at Northern Michigan University, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, Loyola Marymount University, El Camino College, and California State University, Dominguez Hills. Ogren also was a visiting researcher for the Finnish Meteorological Institute in Helsinki and served as dean of the engineering department at the Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences in Pakistan. He served as editor for the ASM publications Materials for Advanced Energy Systems and the Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance. He also served as education chair for the ASM Los Angeles Chapter for many years. Ogren received the Distinguished Alumni Award in Engineering from Iowa State University and was awarded over 30 patents. Kenneth F. Packer, FASM, age 93, passed away on April 4 in Naperville, Ill. He was born on August 12, 1924, in Grand Rapids, Mich. During WWII he was accepted into Naval flight school and became a Marine Corps aviator piloting Corsairs and Hellcats. He attended the University of Mich- igan and Purdue University , earning his Ph.D. in engineering. He went on to found Packer Engi- neering in the basement of his Naperville home. He was most proud of his work with the Packer Education Foundation that included Packer Wings, which taught aviation and technology to high school students and teachers. Packer was a driving force in a team from DuPage County that built a flyable period replica of the Spirit of Glen Ellyn Wright Flyer on the 100th anniversary of the historic 1903 flight. He served as an ASM trustee, 1989-1992. Amit Prakash, FASM, passed away in March. He was born in India in Sept 1948. Prakash was a respected pillar for the communities he touched: Indian diaspora, materials scientists and engineers, researchers, and entrepreneurs. Prakash received his engineering degree from Banaras Hindu University and then immigrated to the U.S. in 1972 as a research scholar at the University of Wisconsin. He earned his doctorate from the University of Cincinnati. During a 19-year career with Goodyear Tire in Ohio, he was awarded several patents and concurrently served as an adjunct professor in mechanical engineering at the University of Akron. His entre- preneurial spirit led to him founding WireTough Cylinders LLC (based in Bristol, Va.) and secur- ing a number of patents andmultimillion-dollar Department of Energy grants for the company. Prakash served on the executive committee of the ASM Akron Chapter. Packer Ogren Prakash  IN MEMORIAM Chadwick