MEETING MARCH 11th 2009
We are Pleased to Welcome
SPEAKER Richard W Connelly President MagneGas USA
DETAILS:
Summary: Waste-to-Energy
The PLASMA ARC FLOW(TM) process gasifies a number of liquid wastes into usable byproducts
Schedule:
5:30pm – Board Meeting for the Philadelphia Section American Welding Society
6:30pm – Dinner and Presentation By Richard W Connelly
Location: Villari's Lakeside Inn
2375 Sicklerville Rd
Gloucester Township NJ 08081
For Direction click here www.villarislakeside.com
COST: $20.00
Come as you are.
Bring a guest!
Limited seating. Please email Reservations to
Frank@excelweld.com
Speaker: Richard W Connelly
Richard W Connelly, proven experience in the management, distribution, with 37 years experience sales and marketing of specialty gases including welding gas, medical/specialty gases and industrial products. Additional expertise in the heavy metal working industrial sector and related engineering and process management.
MagneGas is a cost competitive and clean burning fuel that is essentially interchangeable with Natural Gas or it can be mixed with Natural Gas. It has the lowest Green House gas emissions when compared to fossil fuel. The refinery has no odor or noise pollution as it runs quietly in a completely sealed environment. The fuel can be used for metal cutting, cooking, heating, or powering natural gas bi fuel automobiles.
GO TO http://www.magnegas.com for more info
Vallari's is a great and relaxed venue for our meeting.
PLEASE FOLLOW LINK to say you are coming so we can have the proper number of dinners.Frank@excelweld.com
Chairman' Message
Greetings,
I would like to start this months chairman’s message with a thank you to Dan Roskeiwich for putting together the student welding competition. He and the other instructors did a great job as usual. The welds that I saw turned in will result in some well paying jobs after graduation. First place in the competition was earned by Matt Degeralamo from GCIT. He opted to take Lincolns offer of a trip to their home office and attend their welding school for one week.
At our last meeting Robert Murray from the diver’s academy discussed how commercial diving offers a career of excitement, adventure, rapid advancement, and variety. Dan Roskeiwich has been in contact with Tammy Brown of Divers academy to have our student night at their new school in Sicklerville.
I would like to remind you that our next meeting is being held at Villari’s Lakeside Inn
2375 Sicklerville Rd Gloucester Township, NJ 08081
Respectfully
Gary Atherton
Philadelphia Section Chairman AWS
ANNOUNCEMENTS
All Chair persons please have up coming event information sent to the Section Secretary no later that the 20th of each month. Thank You
CWS Seminar and Exam in Philadelphia Aug. 31 - Sep. 5, 2009
CWI Seminar and Exam in Philadelphia Aug. 2 - Aug. 8, 2009
FabTech & AWS Welding Show in Chicago Nov. 15-18 2009
Contact the National AWS web site. for more information
We Hope that you find this electronic newsletter to be an added benefit to your membership to the American Welding society as well as to provide some tools that you can use on a daily basis.
The American Welding Society (AWS) was founded in 1919 as a multifaceted, nonprofit organization with a goal to advance the science, technology and application of welding and related joining disciplines.
The careers that stem from welding as well as the projected shortages of welders in the near future provide a wonderful forum to give back to an art and trade that we all have benefited from.
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AMERICAN WELDING SOCIETY
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EDUCATION CORNER
Twenty-one students representing 8 schools from South Jersey participated in the annual Section student welding contest. The schools and respective instructors in attendance are as follows:
Gloucester County Institute of Technology; Dan Roskiewich
Camden County Gloucester Township Campus; Jim Rynex
Camden County Pennsgrove Campus; Rick Zadroga
Cumberland County Technical Education Center; Doug Bonner
Salem County Vocational Technical; Mel McCullum
Burlington County Institute of Technology; Jack McDade and Jay Lloyd
North Montco Career Technical Center Rich Schmidt
Although all of the students were winners, the top three finishers and their respective schools were:
First: Matthew DeGeralamo, GCIT
Second: Justin Wigglesworth, Cumberland County
Third: Anu Abdul-Whid, GCIT
The generous table full of prizes were donated by Diamond Tool (represented by Lou Martelli), and Lincoln Electric (represented by Bob Sommer). With the judging nearly completed, Bob Sommer announced that an alternate first prize was available. Earlier in the morning he had been able to obtain a free week-long trip to Lincoln Electric’s manufacturing facilities and school in Cleveland, OH for the contest winner, if so desired. Naturally, DeGiralamo did not hesitate in accepting the offer. Sommer indicated that he was still working on including the expenses in the tour as well. Wigglesworth was not unhappy with DeGeralamo’s decision, as he was able to walk away with the original first place award in the form of a Lincoln 140C/180C MIG machine! Our thanks to both Lincoln and Diamond for their kind support and generosity. To recognize the accomplishments of all, no contestant went home without a generous prize.
The very capable judges had their hands full! They were:
Jim Korchowsky (Sunoco and AWS Philadelphia Past Chairman & current board member)
Pat Thomashefsky (Quality Management Company, Inc. and AWS Philadelphia Past Chairperson)
Tom Brown (Iron Workers LU-399)
LINK OF THE MONTH
JAY LENO PROMOTES WELDING This is a great link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PASEG5xLlRo
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