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Industry Mourns Charles R. "Ron" Bird Bird graduated from Ohio State University with a BA in Metallurgical Engineering. He began his career two weeks later at Stainless Foundry & Engineering in Milwaukee. He retired in 2014 after 50 years of service. He held many memberships throughout the years. He was a member and chair of American Foundry Society of America committee on Mold/Metal Interface Reactions. He also was a member of the Ceramics Committee of the Investment Casting Institute for the Steel Founder’s Society of America. He also was a long time member of their High Alloy Research Committee and later chaired the committee for several years. He was awarded the Society’s Charles W. Briggs Memorial Technical and Operating Medal in 2002 for “outstanding contributions towards the technical and operating development of the Steel Casting Industry.” Bird also was a member of The American Society for Testing and Materials (now ASTM International) of their committee on Steel, Stainless Steel, and related alloys in which he received their Award of Appreciation for his work on the sub committee on Steel Castings in May, 2003. In 2015, the society granted him an Award of Merit and the honorary title of “Fellow” for significant and highly productive service in the standardization of castings and the Corrosion Testing of Stainless and Related Alloys.