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 | N O V E M B E R / D E C E M B E R 2 0 2 2 6 2 David “Dave” Krashes, FASM, 97, an ASM past president, died peacefully at home in Princeton, Mass., on September 30. He was born and raised in Woodmere, N.Y., the son of David and Jennie (Goldman) Krashes and lived in Princeton for more than six decades. Krashes graduated fromWoodmere High School and, following a brief stint at Ohio State playing football for Coach Paul Brown, enlisted in the Army in 1943. He served in the 393rd Infantry Regiment, 99th Infantry Division, as a rifleman and earned a Bronze Battle Star and a Purple Heart fighting in Europe. He returned home in early 1945 following injuries received at the Battle of the Bulge. When the war ended, he went back to Europe to hike and climb in the Alps for a year. After completing his military service, Krashes attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute where he earned a bachelor’s in physics, master’s degree, and a Ph.D. in metallurgical engineering in 1958. He then worked as a professor and lacrosse coach at Worcester Polytechnic Institute for several years. In 1961, he founded Massachusetts Materials Research Inc. Krashes led the company to successfully acquire Connecticut Metallurgical Inc. and Lehigh Testing Laboratories Inc. before his retirement in 1998. He was a leader in showing the metallurgical profession that microscopy and electron microscopy were primary tools to use in evaluating failed products, and was a pioneer in the techniques of failure analysis still practiced today. In 1970, he was named to the first class of ASM Fellows. Between 1981 and 1982, he served as president of ASM International. He was a leader in both the ASMMaterials Education Foundation’s “Pick up the Pace” fundraising campaign and the Roberts Challenge and was a member of the ASM Foundation’s Pillar Society. Roger Joseph Fabian, FASM, 82, an ASM past president from Wethersfield, Conn., passed away on October 11 after a brief illness. Born in Elmsford, N.Y., on July 16, 1940, he was the son of the late Renato John Fabian and Anna Fabian. He received his B.S. in metallurgical engineering in 1962 and his MBA in 1980 from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Fabian began his career with Lindberg Corp. in 1962 as a plant manager at Lindberg’s Boston Division, and in 1964 transferred to the Berlin Division, where he was named chief metallurgist and quality control manager. He was promoted to division manager at Berlin in 1979 and named vice president of Lindberg Heat Treating Company in 1992. When Lindberg was purchased by Bodycote Thermal Processing in 2001, Fabian was named Eastern Region sales manager and finally retired in 2010 after 48 years. Fabian had many professional accomplishments, including serving as president of ASM International (2008-2009) and president of the ASM Heat Treating Society (2000-2001). He was a longtime member of both societies. Fabian chaired the ASM 100th Anniversary Committee, which planned celebrations held in Montreal in 2013. He also served as a president for the Metal Treating Institute and as chair of the ASM Technical Programming Board. He was instrumental in the development of the Center for Heat Treating Excellence (CHTE) at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and served as its director-at-large and industrial liaison. The family requests that donations in his memory be made to the ASM Materials Education Foundation, asmfoundation.org/ asm-donate/. IN MEMORIAM (cont’d) Krashes Fabian IN MEMORIAM
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