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Vol. XXXII No. 1 www.asme.org/sections/a-lv/

September 26, 2002 Delaware River/Easton Area Binney & Smith Tour

October 24, 2002 Lafayette College Indy Racing

November 2002 TBA

Hello again and I hope your summer was filled with vacations, bar-b-ques and outdoor activities. Your executive committee has already been at work bringing you some interesting tours and lectures for the coming year. If you have ideas for a tour or event, please forward them to me or your area manager.

I especially wish to thank Joel Derk for joining the executive committee as our webmaster. He has volunteered to upgrade and enhance our website. The executive committee is always accepting of new officers and volunteers. If you need an activity to gain more interpersonal and management skills with little time expended, this is an opportunity you should not pass up.

Our Delaware River Manager, Jeff Daniels, has prepared a tour of Binney & Smith Inc. at their manufacturing facility in Stockertown, PA (north of Easton) on Sept. 26^th. Spaces are limited, so don’t procrastinate. Details follow later in this newsletter.

On October 24^th, our Student Night at Lafayette College features ASME Distinguished Lecturer, Arthur W. Ebeling, presenting "Indy Racing and the Effect of Aerodynamics on the Car". Details will follow in the October newsletter.

Balwin Hardware (Reading Area) has been chosen as this section’s ASME Industry Award recipient for the best tour from the 2001-2002 activity year. If you missed this one, it was an evening full of interesting sights and discussion. The section will arrange the award presentation at a later date.

Voice of Innovation is a new radio program, debuting on Sept. 2 ^nd, being sponsored by the American Association of Engineering Societies to increase public awareness of contributions of engineers to society. Currently, 68 spots will be aired over the next few months. If you wish for more information or would like the program to run locally, please contact me.

The Washington DC Section typically provides one foreign embassy tour per year. The meeting this year will be at the Indian Embassy scheduled for October 2002. There are no details as yet. If you wish to inquire further, please notify me for the DC contact.

If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.

-George Bernard Shaw

--Chair Tom Reilly

1100 Chruch Lane, Easton PA

September 26^th, 2002 5pm

Binney & Smith was formed in 1885 when cousins Edwin Binney and Harold Smith took over the Peekskill Chemical Works, a pigment manufacturing operation owned by Edwin’s father. The early products included charcoal, lamp black, carbon black, and a red oxide pigment for barn paint. The company opened a manufacturing facility in Easton PA in 1900, and three years later, seeing a need for safe and affordable wax crayons, Binney & Smith produced the first box of Crayola crayons.

Binney & Smith, now a wholly owned subsidiary of Hallmark Cards, manufactures crayons, markers, colored pencils, paints, Silly Putty, and other arts & crafts products. They have manufacturing facilities in Easton, Bethlehem, England, and Mexico, and sell their products worldwide. Easton is the home to a large portion of their manufacturing, in addition to Binney & Smith corporate headquarters.

Directions: In the Lehigh Valley, take Rt. 22 to Rt. 33 North. Proceed North on 33 for about 6 miles. Exit at Stockertown (Route 191). Turn right at end of exit ramp onto 191 north. At the stoplight, turn right onto Sullivan Trail/Route 115. Travel about 1 mile (you'll see a cemetery and church on your right.) Make a left onto Church Lane.

Arrival & Registration: 4:50pm Please be PROMPT.

Tour: 5:00pm

Dinner: 6:00pm (B&S Conference Center)

Business Meeting: 7:00pm

Dinner choices: grilled chicken breast or beef tenderloin. Cost: $14 per person.

Due to space limitations, the tour will be capped at 30 people. Please register with Jeff Daniels at DanielsJ1@asme.org no later than noon on Monday Sept 23^rd. You must provide your name, phone number, dinner choice, and your employer .

Plant safety information: No sandals or open-toe shoes.

ASME Distinguished Lecturer Arthur W. Ebeling will speak about Indy Racing at Lafayette College on October 24^th. Art has compiled information on Indy cars for nearly a half-century, covering development and changes to the sport. Engines, suspension, wings, turbocharging and other topics will be covered.

Connectiv’s 1000 MW Combined Cycle Natural Gas fueled Power Plant under construction.

Applebutter Road, Bethlehem, PA.

PPL’s substation under construction next to Conectiv’s power plant on Applebutter Road.

Connects Conectiv’s power plant to electric transmission lines.