74 JANUARY 2013 Thomas A. Ferri has been elected to serve a second term as District 1 director. He is a CWI and has been an AWS member for more than 30 years. He is district manager New England for Victor Technologies. He served four terms as Boston Section chair, certification chair for seven years, and most recently as education chair. He serves as a welding consultant to many companies in Massachusetts and is a member of the advisory committees at five vocational technical schools. Stewart A. Harris has been elected to serve as District 4 director. He is a CWI and CWE, is quality assurance group leader and leader of the Weld Solutions Team at Altec Industries, Creedmoor, N.C. He has held all executive posts at the Triangle Section, and served the past four years as deputy District 4 director. He has received many awards, most recently the District nomination for the National Dalton E. Hamilton Memorial CWI of the Year Award. Uwe W. Aschemeier has been elected to serve as District 7 director. He is a CWI and an IIWcertified International Welding Engineer, and is with Miami Diver. Earlier, he was with H. C. Nutting, A Terracon Co., in Cincinnati, Ohio. He has served as chair of the Cincinnati Section, deputy Dist. 7 director, and member of the B1 Committee on Methods of Inspection and several Structural Welding Code subcommittees. He has received the District Meritorious and the District Dalton E. Hamilton Memorial CWI of the Year Awards. Robert E. Brenner has been elected to serve as District 10 director. He is a CWI and a QC inspector at CnD Industries, Inc., Canton, Ohio, where he has worked since 1991. At the facility, he has coordinated the safety program, established the OSHA library, and conducted safety training sessions for the employees. For ten consecutive years, he spearheaded and won the OSHA Sharp Award for the company. Earlier, he was weld shop supervisor at Republic Steel in Massillon, Ohio. John A. Willard has been elected to serve as District 13 director. He is a CWI, serves at Kankakee Community College, Kankakee, Ill., administering the DOT Highway Construction Careers Training Program, and is also studying for a degree in welding. Until last year, he co-owned Accurate American Inspecting and Consulting. He has 35 years’ experience at Ironworkers Local 465 in Kankakee as an apprentice coordinator, and has served as chair of the JAK Section for ten years where he remains active. Dennis A. Wright, who has fulfilled David Landon’s term as District 16 director, has been elected to his first full term. He is an AWS Distinguished Member, CWI, and CWE. He owns his own business, Wright Welding Technologies. He also works in the general job shop at Zephyr Products, Inc., Leavenworth, Kan., training penitentiary inmates to weld using the AWS SENSE program. In the U.S. Navy he served as a journeyman welder/fitter in a shipyard. Ken L. Johnson has been elected District 19 director. He has served 31 years in the welding trades, primarily at Todd Pacific (now Vigor) Shipyards. He began as a structural welder and is currently in the welding engineering department. For the past 15 years, he has been a welding supervisor for the U.S. Navy and commercial projects, and has taught evening welding classes at Renton Technical College for the past 17 years. Johnson has held officer posts at the Puget Sound Section and chairs the D3 Committee on Welding in Marine Construction. Kerry E. Shatell has been elected District 22 director. He is a CWI and CWEng, and holds a master’s degree in welding engineering. Currently, he is a senior welding engineer for Pacific Gas & Electric Co. Earlier, he was a welding engineer for Procter & Gamble Co., a welder trainer for Precision Castparts Corp., and a pipefitter apprentice for UA Local 598. He has served most officer posts at the Sacramento Section. His awards include the District Dalton E. Hamilton Memorial CWI of the Year Award. Ken L. Johnson District 19 director Dennis A. Wright District 16 director Kerry E. Shatell District 22 director John A. Willard District 13 director Robert E. Brenner District 10 director Uwe W. Aschemeier District 7 director Stewart A. Harris District 4 director Thomas A. Ferri District 1 director
Welding Journal | January 2013
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