Employment is up to seven and sales are increasing. The company fills a need for customized short-run production of silicon carbide industrial components. William G. Hanson lives in California with his wife and three children. After he practiced law for 10 years as a trial attorney in Chicago, he and his wife have started their own herbal wellness company and are able to spend far more time with their children. Corning Inc. His current responsibilities involve developing substrate packaging and system durability technology for use in near-engine mounted catalytic converters, which are used to meet the tighter auto emissions levels signed into U.S. law in 1990.
Locker holds six patents and has filed for five more.
Paul Willsea and Carol O'Brien have returned to the Naples, NY, area, where together they run Willsea-O'Brien Glass. He is also fire chief in Cooperstown and town supervisor in Otsego, but both terms expire in 2000, and he says he plans to concentrate on the principal's job. Along with his wife Ellen Tillapaugh, Kuch received this year's Public Service Award from the League of Women Voters of the Cooperstown Area. She has been director of nursing systems at the hospital since 1994 and will continue in that role. She is an assistant professor and coordinator of the ceramic area in the art department at the Ohio State University.