The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-05
Foundrymen To Meet
 At M. l. T. April 9
Five Hundred Engineers to Attend Regional Confer
 Connecticut to Be We'll Represented

England, will bring together about 500 engineers, metallurgists and foundrymen for discussion of prob- lcms in the design and manufacture of various types of castings. Among the associations which will send members to the conference are the Connecticut Foundrymen's Assoc iation and the Connecticut non- Ferrous Foundrymen's Association.
 Morning and afternoon sessions will be held each day with outstand- ing leaders in this important phase of industry contributing and ex- changing information on the latest advances of knowledge in this field. Among the topics to be discussed are casting designs for iron, steel and non-ferrous metals, sand molding, the mechanical testing of cast iron, sand testing technique and cupola melting.
 Members of the conference will also inspect research projects in this field in progress at Technology to correlate further the close relation between laboratory research and in- dustrial application.
 The conference will open on April g with a welcome by Dr. Vannevar Bush, vice-president of the Mass achusetts Institute of Technology. The technical sessions on the first day will include a discussion .on Casting Design-Iron." The chair man of this session will be E. H. Ballard, and paper will be given by E. M. Phillips, General Electric Company, Lynn. Colonel G. F. Jenks will be chairman of a technical ses- sion on Casting Design-Steel," at which V. T. Malcolm, metallurigist of the Chapman Valve Company, Indian Orchard, Mass, will deliver the paper. Casting Design-Non- ferrous" will be the subject of another technical session at which Professor Robert s. Williams of M. I. T. will be chairman, and Harold J. Roast, Vice-President of Canad- ian Bronze, Ltd, Montreal, will be the speaker. At late afternoon meeting Professor J. B. Lessella of M. I. T. will discuss "The Testing of Cast Iron"
 The first day sessions will end with dinner at Walker Memorial at which the speakers will be Dr. Karl T. Compton, president of Technology, Walter M. Saunders, Jr. President of the New England Foundrymen's Association and D. M. Alvey, Secretary of the American Foundrymen's Association. R. F. Harrington of the Hunt-Spiller Manufacturing Company of Boston, will preside, and the program will include the showing of Technology's high speed motion pictures with a description by Merwin Horn of the Institutes photographic staff.
 The sessions of the second day, Saturday, April 10, will include a discussion of 'Molding Sand" by w. J. Reichert, metallurgical engineer of the Singer Manufacturing Co., of the session will be A. s. Wright, and Elizabethport, N. 1.-The chairman of Sand Testing Technique and Dem- onstration" will be the subject of a paper by Earl E. Woodliff, Research Engineer of the Harry w. Dietert Company, Detroit. The technical session in the afternoon at which Charles F. Miller, of Woonsocket, Rhode Island, will preside, will take ation." The speaker will be Donald up the discussion of Cupobla Oper- J. Reese of the development and Re- search Division of the International Nickel Company of New York. Fol- lowing these sessions there will be demonstrations of testing in the h. Stitute'S laboratories.