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KEYSTONE CHAPTER

AMERICAN FOWRVMEWS SOCIETY, INCL

AGENDA FOR 6-21 -01 ANNUAL

REORGANIZATION MEETING

MINUTES OF APRIL 10 MEETING

TREASURER'S REPORT

KEYSTONE CHAPTER BOARD 2000-2001

OFFICERS: Craig Weidenhammer Paul Stoudt Greg Hollenbach Secretary-Treasurer

KEYSTONE CHAPTER BOARD 2001-2002

OFFICERS: Paul Stoudt Greg Hollenbach Mark Bidoli Secretary-Treasurer

CURRENT BOARD MEMBERS:

Chairman Vice-Chairman 2' Vice-Chairman Rick Boyd

Chairman Vice-Chairman "

2 nd Vice-Chairman Rick Boyd

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Expiring - 2001 2002 2003 New - 2004

Ed Freiwald / Rick Field v Tom Kaag j Al Ebling

Steve Ducharme 1 Ron Kaiser , Wayne Vaupel Ed Freiwald

OPEN Roy Heffner " George Fngm Steve Ducharme

COMMITTEE CHAIRMEN'S REPORTS

Advisory/Nominating

Jim Kelly

Auditing

Mark Bidoli

Constitution and By-laws

Charles Bernhardt

Education

Rick Field

________ American Foundry Society, Inc. Keystone Chapter

Officers, Directors and Committee Members I 1Tm, Director ProgramCha i rman

Paul Stoudt McConway & Toriey Corp, Kutztown Foundry Div.

Buyer/Receiving Supervisor 230 Railroad St.

Phone 610-683-7351

Fax 610-683-5199 Kutztown PA 19530-1117 E-mail paul.stoudt@mcconway.com

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Greg Hollenbach Foseco, Inc.

Account Executive 20200 Sheldon Road

Phone 570-617-6522

Fax 570-385-5454

2nd Vice-Chairman

Cleveland OH 44142

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E-mail gkh1988pottsvilIe.infl.net

Mark Bidoli Hickman, Williams & Co.

Sales Engineer P.O. Box 251

Phone 215-628-2686

Fax 215-542-7524 Blue Bell PA 19422 E-mail bidols@aol.com

Nova Precision Casting Corp. Rick Boyd

President 12 Hickory Drive

Phone 570-366-2679

Fax 570-366-2448 Auburn PA 17922-9801 E-mail nckboyd@early.com

Past Chairman

Craig D. Weidenhammer IFS Industries, Inc.

VP-Sales 400 Orrton Ave.

Phone 610-378-1381 P0 Box 1053

Fax 610-378-5080 Reading PA 19603-1053 E-mail cdwhamrner@telocity.com

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Ed Freiwald Boyertown Foundry Company

Asst. Plant Manager 9th and Rothermel Street, Box G

Phone 610-473-1014

Fax 610-473-1031 NewBerlinville PA 19545-0220 E-mail

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Stephen Ducharme H. Kramer & Co.

Technical Sales 1345 West 21st Street

Phone 312-226-6600

Fax 312-226-4713 Chicago IL 60608 E-mail none

History Chairman -

George Frigm Heraeus Electro-Nite Co.

Product Manager 9901 Bluegrass Rd.

Phone 215-464-4200

Fax 215-464-7646 Philadelphia PA 19114-1080 E-mail gfngmelectro-nite.com

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Tom Kaag Conestoga Foundry Supply, Inc.

Director of Sales/Marketing

Hill Drive & West State Street

Phone 610-562-3836

P.O. Box 464

Fax 610-562-0726

Hamburg PA 19526 E-mail tkaagmsn.com

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American Foundry Society, Inc. Keystone Chapter

Officers, Directors and Committee Members 715irector (Term Expires 2003)

Wayne Vaupel McConway & Torley Corp, Kutztown Foundry Div.

Foundry Superintendent 230 Railroad St.

Phone 610-683-7351

Fax 610-68375199 Kutztown PA 19530-1117 E-mail wayne.vaupelmcconway.com

Director (Term Ex'p'ires 2002) Education Cha- ir- man

Rick Field . Red Hill Grinding Wheel Corp.

Territory Manager 335 Dotts St.

Phone 215-679-7964 P0 Box 150

Fax 215-679-3715 Pennsburg PA 18073 E-mail raf409@aotcom

Director (Term Expires 2002)

Roy Heffner Tray-Pak Corp.

Reading Crest Avenue

Phone 610-926-5800

Fax

Chairman ritertainment

Reading PA E-mail rrheffner@aoicom

AdvisoryINominating Chairman

James B. Kelly REQ International, Inc.

CEO 1569 Medical Drive

Phone 610-718-1177 Suite 102

Fax 610-718-1770

C6nstitijtion and airman

Pottstown PA 19464 E-mail jkelly@castrnetalrfq.com

Charles Bernhardt Geo. Snyder Contractors

Sales Manager 1250 Clarion St.

Phone 610-375-4422

Fax 610-375-6331

Reading PA 19601

E-mail http://www.arner-refr.com

6/21/01

American Foundrymen's Society Keystone Chapter Reorganization Meeting

June 21, 2001

I

Meeting called to order at 5:54 PM by Chairman Craig Weidenhammer

II A- Roll Call Present Craign Weidenhammer Paul Stoudt V-Ch Rick Boyd Sec-Tr Jim Kelly Rick Field Roy R. Heffner Greg Hollenbach V-Ch-H Stephen P. Ducharme Chuck Bernhardt Ed Freiwald Mark Bidoli Tom Kaag Ed Zeeb

Absent George Frigm Al Ebling Wayne Vaupel

B- Membership; AFS membership is mandatory to be Keystone Chapter Officer or Board member.

III

Minutes from previous meeting were reviewed and unanimously accepted..

IV Treasurers Report Rick Boyd reported that we are solvent, as he distributed a comprehensive Financial Statement. Copies of this statement are available for review.

V Committee Reports A) Auditing; Mark Bidoli

Mark reported that everything was in order. This report was accepted unanimously

B) Advisory/Nominating; Jim Kelly Craig Weidenhammer ran the meeting because Jim was detained at work. Main topic of discussion was the abysmal attendance at our regular chapter meetings. Many suggestions were presented to help alleviate this situation, they are as follows;

1-Have a ball player speak 2-Invite a high level manager/CEO, from a local foundry to speak. 3-Unite with other foundry associations. 4-Have a ball player speak.

V Committee Reports (continued)

B) Advisory/Nominating (continued) 5-Politicians, as speakers, always drew a good crowd. 6-Have at least I non technical meeting. 7-Have a ball player speak. 8-Have one meeting as foundry training topic for non foundry personnel. Speaker(s) could be operating foundrymen. Like an introduction to metalcasting night. 9-High lite a Company/Foundry of the month. Or perhaps honor all corporate members. 10-Have a ball player speak. 11-Create a Program Committee whose functions would include;

a) Establish the program. b) Market the program. c) Solicit members to come to the meetings.

C) Constitution & Bylaws; Chuck Bernhardt No report.

D) Education; Rick Field Greg is working on a CMI Course for spring 02.

E) Entertainment; Jim Kelly 1- Jim provided a financial statement to all present, copies are available upon request. 2-Christmas Party

a) Ticket price will be $34.00, up $2.00 from last year. 3-Golf Outing

a) Golden Oaks Country Club is out, Schukyll Country Club is in as the second course. b) Jim submitted an itinerary for the days events. All events are scheduled to start earlier than last year. This is an attempt to have everything end at a reasonable time so that more people will stay. C) Golf ticket prices will be $30.00 which is the same at both course. This is up $2.00 from last year. D) Jim announced that he would need volunteers to cover most of the functions. E) Raffle tickets were distributed for sale. F) Female entertainment produced a plethora of discussion. It was decided that a vote was necessary to settle this issue. The final disposition was as follows;

2-yes 7-no 3-abstain No girls.

V Committee Reports (continued)

F) History; George Frigm No report

G) Membership; Ed Freiwald Ed informed us that as of last March we have 209 members.

H) Program 01/02; Greg Hollenbach Greg submitted a tentative schedule. This will be published in the monthly meeting notice when everything is finalized.

I) Program 02/03 Mark Bidoli No report.

J) Publicity; Paul Stoudt Paul reported that everything is set up.

K) Scholarship; Mike Buyarski was re-appointed, Tom Kaag is now Chairman, committee members are as follows;

Ducharme(02), Hill(03), Kaag(04), Buyarski(05) Weidenhammer(past chairman)

VT Old Business

A) Officer's and Director's liability insurance; No interest B) East Coast Regional 2001; George Frigm

No report. C) COC conference-August 15-16, 2001

To be determined

VII New Business A) Keystone Chapter web page;

There was some discussion, Jim Kelly and Rick Boyd will investigate and report back to the Board at the next meeting.

VIII The meeting was adjourned at 8:26 PM

Respectfully submitted,

Stephen P. Ducharme

AFS Keystone program for 2001 and 2002

Dates

Program Topic/Location

Dinner Location

Meal Type 9/7/2001

Golf outing

Heidelburg CC

10/9/2001

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Plant Tour Reading Alloys Robesonia, PA

Gating & Risering Foseco Inc. Holiday Inn Denver,PA

Ozgood's Banquet room Buffet

Robesonia,PA

Holidaylnn Buffet Denver. PA P~

12/7/2001

Christmas Party Ladies Night

1/15/2002

No program Boarding meeting

2/12/2002

No-bake molding Core &Molding coatings Shell sand process

3/12/2002

AFS course

4/9/2002 Furnace Practices

5/10/2002 Family night Reading Phillies

Lincoln Plaza Reading,PA

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Sheraton Hotel Wyomissing,PA

TBA

Picnic area Reading,PA

Buffet

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MEMBERSHIP REPORT - APRIL 2001 Current Membership 11,178

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New Corporate Members as of April 1, 2001: Foundry Service Corp, Vinelarf.4)qj. / Armetale, Mt. Joy, PA

Re-Entered as of April 1. 2001: Ball Brass & Alum Fdy, Auburn, IN, Belgium Foundry, Belgium, WI, Metalcast Engineering, Oakland, CA, Score Inc, Pevely, MO

Expired Corporate Memberships as of April 30, 2001: Alcoa (Aluminum Co of America), Knoxville, TN, Atchison Casting Corp/Penn Steel Fdy, Hamburg, PA, Atchison Casting Corp/Empire Steel Cstg, Reading, PA, Citation Crop/Southern Alum Cstg, Bay Minette, AL, Delvest Inc, West Chester, PA, Hubbell Power Systems, Leeds, AL, Maca Supply Co, Springville, UT, Rosebud Syn Coal Partnership, Billings, MT

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CHAPTER. OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS A reminder.., according to law, the names of all 2001-2001 AFS Chapter Officers and Directors must be reported to the Internal Revenue Service in order to maintain a group exemption. AFS, as well as all AFS chapters, is incorporated as 'not for profit' and is exempt from the payment of federal income tax. To maintain this exemption, the forms for the listing of Chapter Officers and Directors must be completed and returned by June 15, 2001.

The names of all AFS Chapter Officers and Directors will also be printed in the September issue of modem casting and on the AFS web site. Please type the information exactly as you want it to be listed.

The forms may be returned in the envelope that was provided or faxed to Lynn Moskal at 847/824-7848. We certainly appreciate your assistance in helping us meet our deadlines.

NEW MEETING DATE FOR CHAPTER OFFICERS CONFERENCE Begin planning now to have your chapter represented at this year's CCC. The dates for this year's conference will be August 15-16. Mark Levin, last year's first day keynote speaker, received outstanding ratings for his presentation. We are pleased to announce that we have secured Mark's services for this year's conference and are looking forward to another motivational, thought-provoking and informative presentation. Please return your Chapter's COG attendee forms to Lynn Moskal by mail or fax (8471824-7848).

BEGIN PLANNING NOW FOR AN ADOPT-A-SCHOOL PARTNERSHIP! Don Gaertner did a great job of focusing our attention on how important the cultivation of an active dialogue and relationship with our educational institutions is to the future of our industry. It is up to each of our chapters to develop a plan for establishing such vital relationships. I encourage you to begin now to develop a strategy to pursue the Adopt-A-School concept with a school in your area. We have a large job ahead of us - and a very important one - to educate and inform tomorrows workforce (and their parents) about the vital role the metalcasting industry plays in our economy and quality of life. Equally important, as Don Gaertner would point out, is changing the image of our industry in the minds of our youth, educators, government officials and citizenry as a whole. It is imperative that we get our message across that today's metalcasting industry is one of environmental responsibility, safety consciousness, technological innovation and continuous improvement.

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American Foundrymen's Society Keystone Chapter Board Meeting

September 24, 2001

Meeting called to order at 8:07 AM by Chairman Paul Stoudt

II A- Roll Call Present Paul Stoudt Cli Rick Boyd Sec-Tr Rick Field Greg Hollenbach V-Ch Chuck Bernhardt Torn Kaag

Absent Ed Fnewald Roy Heffner

Wayne Vaupel Tim Kelly

George Fiigm Stephen P. Ducharme Mark Bidoli V-Ch U Ron Kaiser

Al Ebling Craig Weidenlwnmer

ifi Minutes from previous meeting were reviewed and unanimously accepted.

IV Treasurers Report Rick Boyd reported that we are solvent We currently have approximately $22,000 in the Secratary/Treasurer account. This is up because of the advertising revenues,

V Committee Reports A) Auditing; no report B) Advisory/Nominating; no report C) Constitution & Bylaws; no report- D) Education; no report E) Entertainment; Jim Kelly reported

1-Golf outing; a- was a huge success even though the attendance numbers where down. b- will follow the same format for next year, c- suggestions and volunteers will be graciously accepted. d- A P&L statement was issued to all present, copies available upon request (written, in triplicate and notarized)

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V Committee Reports (continued)

E) Entertainment (continued) 2) Christmas Party

1-Everything is in place for the December 7th event at the Lincoln Plaza Hotel. 2- Ticket prices are up. 3- A mailing will be sent out in October.

F) History; no report G) .Membership; no report H) Program 01/02; Greg Hollenbach reported;

1-a copy of the 01/02 program was provided for all present_ This will be published in our monthly meeting notice. 2- Greg has been in contact with Dick McMin regarding a managemeut luncheon/meeting in January_ This created much discussion and several topics, and possible speakers, were bantered about. Such as a Politician, Economist, or education. Greg will report on the final disposition at the next Board meting_

1) Program 02/03; no report. J) Publicity; no report. K) Scholarship; Tom Kaag reported;

1-He had been appointed Temporary Chairman because Mike Buyarski could not, due to new job responsibilities, continue on as Chairman.. Permanent status will be voted on at the next Scholarship meeting. 2-due to the constraints of his job Mike was not able to send out correspondences on time. The notification was finally sent out and Tom extended the deadline to October 1st. Due to the circumstances, late applications will be considered provided these are received prior to the scholarship meeting. Final disposition must be determined before the November Board meeting_ 2-the committee will meet in the very near future_

L) Government Affairs/Political Action; Stephen Ducharme reported; 1-Rough overview on the terrorist activities and some potential solutions. 2-when things settle down he intends to embark on a letter writing campaign to seek the resignation of all elected idiots for their failure to adhere to their Constitutional mandate which requires them to protect the citizens of these United States. The Sept. 11th attack was predictable and preventable. The complete decimation of our armed forces and the incompetent Foreign Policy, of the past ten years is a national disgrace.

VI Old Business

A) Officer's and Director's liability insurance; No interest, therefore remove from agenda_

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I Meeting called to order at 7:49 by acting Chairman

Greg Hollenbach.

A- Roll call 1-Present- Rick Boyd,George Frigm, Ron Kaiser

Greg Hollenbach, Stephen Ducharme,

Chuck Bernhardt, Mark Bidoli,

Craig Weidenhammer, Allen Ebling,

Maureen Lynn. 2-Absent- Ed Freiwald, Roy Heffner,Jim

Kelly, Wayne Vaupel, Rick field, Tom Kaag B- Paul Stoudt has resigned from his Chairman

and Board responsibilities. All present reluctantly accepted his letter of resignation. He will be missed Ill Minutes from previous meeting were reviewed and

unanimously accepted

IV Treasure r's Report Rick Boyd reported that we are solvent. There was very little change from the last report. Rick did cover the scholarship awards from the general fund, however he will be reimbursed from the scholarship fund in the very near future.

V Committee Reports A) Auditing; No report B) Advisory/Nominating; Maureen Lynn was appointed to fulfill the balance of Wayne

Vaupel,s term. This was accepted by all present. C) Constitution & Bylaws; No report D) Education; Greg Hollenbach reported that on March 14-15 we will be co-hosting, with the

Penn York chapter, a CMI course on supervisory skills. This was done because both chapters requested the same topic.

E) Entertainment; Greg Hollenbach recommended that Jim Kelly should be commended for ajob

well done. Although a final report is not yet available it appears that the Christmas party may be $1,000 in the red. A complete report is forthcoming.

F) History; George Fngm suggested that the Board consider producing a history brochure for the next Regional Conference. This idea was well accepted and George will pursue and

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VI Old Business (continued)

B) East Coast Regional 2001; George Frigm Reported; The registration for the upcoming event is worse than abysmal. As of two weeks ago there were only 36 registrants. For comparison,, at the last Regional, 150 had registered There is concern that this fiasco will drain the regional fund, which has approximately $15,000 in it. Inducto is footing a large portion of the expenses and there is concern that this could sour their thoughts and turn them off to future endeavors. The committee will meet next week to decide on what to do. A motion was made that the committee should seriously consider postponement, until next year, or cancellation as options. The motion was seconded and passed unanimously.

C) COC conference-August 15-16, 2001; Wayne Vaupel reported; 1- it was an excellent conference 2-He was very impressed with the National Organization 3-many recommendations were made to augment meeting attendance and on how to run a meeting 4-He will provide a more comprehensive report at the next meeting

D) Keystone Chapter Web Page; Rick and Jim will meet after this meeting and report at the next meeting.

VII New Business A) Funding For The Future of the Foundry Industry

This was a solicitation of funds to sponsor students at the Midwest Regional There was no discussion and no interest in pursuing this issue. Remove from agenda

Vifi The meeting was adjourned at 9:14 AM

Respectfully submitted,

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provide a report at the next meeting.

G) Membership; No report H) Program /2; Greg reported that everything is in place for the balance of the year. The

details were forwarded to Rick

Boyd for publication in the meeting notice. Greg will try to set up a Reading Phillies event for May 31. It was suggested that we involve the Lehigh group at this function.

I) Program 02/03; Mark Bidoli requested; 1-Needs ideas on topics 2-Would like to sponsor a CMI course in March 2003. Greg will forward a list of what was addressed in the past. It was also recommended that he contact Ian Kay

at AFS.

3-Mark was also looking for suggestions regarding a plant tour. Someone recommended a power plant.

J) Publicity; George Frigm volunteered to take over this position. K) Scholarship; Tom Kaag was elected as the new Chairman. The committee had met and

awarded three scholarship awards. This committee must provide a complete report at our next meeting.

L) Government Affairs/Political Action; Ducharme provided an update on a little known fact pertaining to Our War on Terrorism. It turns out that documents and transmission intercepted, over the past 10 years, by the CIA have clearly illustrated that we have had warnings of terrorist attacks prior to the events actually happening. This includes the first bombing of the WTC back in 1993. The only problem is that our intelligence organizations do not have the resources to translate this information. Couple this with the fact that our ignorant elected idiots passing laws which severely curtailed their ability to operate in the field was truly a recipe for disaster. The events which have happened since 1993 clearly indicate that we blew it.

VI Old Business

A) East Coast Regional- George Frigm reported; 1- 2001 Conference; Attendance was abysmal. There were only 90 registrants, with

Inductotherm saving the day. 2- 2003 Conference

a- Peter Quigley is now Chairman, the Keystone Chapter is the host for this conference. b- Possible locations were Baltimore Inner Harbor or Valley Forge. It was recommended that perhaps they should consider Penn's Landing. It would be appropriate that the conference should be held in our chapter location. c- Conferences will now be scheduled every three years rather than every two

years. d- There will be a meeting on January 24th and we should have a report at our next meeting.

B) Keystone Chapter web page; Rick reported that the web site is up and running. If there are any comments they should forward them to Rick. There was talk that we should explore the possibility of electronic advertising. Fees charged should cover all expenses plus raise money for the General Fund.

VII New Business

A) It was recommended that all committee Chairman provide a written report. This report should be provided whether the Chair is present or not. This concept was accepted

unanimously.

VIII The meeting was adjourned at 9:21 AM

Respectfully submitted

Stephen R Ducharme

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QUESTIONS THE QUALITY SYSTEM COMMITTEE WOULD LIKE TO KNOW FROM THE AFS CHAPTER EDUCATION CHAIRMEN:

Please consider the following subjects as you answer questions 1 - 4:

A. Continuous Process Improvement B. Problem Solving & Corrective Action C. Shop Floor Management D. Employee Involvement in Quality E. Advanced Quality Planning F. Improving inspection Methods G. Implementing ISO 9000 Quality Systems H. Implementing QS-9000 or ISO/IS 16949 Quality Systems I. Maintaining Quality Systems J. Documentation Simplification K. Statistical Process Control (SPC) L. Quality Training

1. What topics would generate the most significant interest within your chapter?

What topic, if offered as a class in your area, would generate the largest attendance?

3. What topics are definitely of little or no interest to your chapter?

4. Are there any topics in quality that are not listed above. but would be of interest to your chapter?

How familiar is your chapter to the resources of American Society for Quality (ASQ)?

6. What percentage of your active chapter members belong to companies that are registered to ISO 9000 or the automotive standards QS-9000 or ISO/TS 16949?

7. What percentage of the foundries in your area have sent students to an AFS/CMI course?

8. Are you interested in offering a training course or seminar at your chapter in the future (1 2 years) with a quality focus?