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Article: AFS Gold Medal Awards. (CastExpo '02).
- Article from:
- Modern Casting
- Article date:
- June 1, 2002
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Joseph S. Seaman Gold Medal
The 2002 Joseph S. Seaman Gold Medal was bestowed upon Alan P. Volkmar, retired, "for 50 years of pioneering and innovative efforts which have resulted in significant improvements in green sand control test technology."
Volkmar joined AFS in 1949 and was a founder and chairman of the AFS student chapter at Northwestern Univ. and vice chairman of the AFS Northern Illinois/Southern Wisconsin chapter. He has authored and presented over 30 technical papers for AFS chapters on the local and regional levels. In 1978 he was awarded the AFS Award of Scientific Merit and the AFS Service Citation in 1992. He has been a CMI Instructor ...