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Mayer was engineering dean's assistant
Margaret L. "Peggy" Mayer, 49,
executive assistant to the dean of the Case School of Engineering,
died of complications from cancer July 14 at Lakewood Hospital.
She served as a home training consultant
for the Summit County Board of Mental Retardation, working with
parents and individuals with developmental disabilities from 1974-78,
and as coordinator of the Parent Education program for the Cleveland
Public Schools Family Life Program.
During the 1980s, Mayer worked part time
at Cleveland State University as an administrative assistant in
the dean's office in the College of Education. From 1988-91, Mayer
served as secretary in the department of materials science and
engineering at Case Western Reserve University, assisting the
editor of the Journal of American Ceramic Society with office
management.
She also worked for three years for the
Booksellers chain of bookstores and then returned as secretary
to the CWRU department of materials science and engineering in
1994, where she had extensive contact with other universities
in the United States and abroad and supported a large researcher
group in course preparation, correspondence and bookkeeping.
She was named administrative coordinator
in the dean's office in 1999 and was promoted to executive assistant
to the dean in 2001.
Mayer enjoyed reading and quilting. Mayer
was born in Pittsburgh and moved to Ohio in 1954. She was a graduate
of Barnesville High School, 1970, and received her B.Sc. in home
economics summa cum laude from The Ohio State University in 1974.
Troiano retired as metallurgy department
chair
Alexander Troiano, retired chairman of the
metallurgy department at CWRU, died last month at University Hospitals.
He was 94.
Troiano, who joined CWRU in 1949, served
as the first endowed Republic Steel Professor at CWRU from 1967
to 1979. He retired in 1980 but continued to work at the University
as a consultant through 1995. He also was a consultant for several
corporations, including Republic Steel, International Nickel Co.,
Armco Steel Corp. and Grumman Aircraft Corp.
Internationally renowned as a professor,
research scientist and consultant in metallurgy, Troiano wrote
more than 150 research papers and articles in the field.
He was recognized with several awards,
including one from the American Society of Metals in 1957 and
the French Metallurgical Society Le Chatlier Medal in 1980.
Troiano received bachelor's degrees in physics
and mathematics, a master's degree in metallurgy engineering and
a doctorate in science degree in engineering, all from Harvard
University.
He has taught at Harvard, Middlesex College
and the University of Notre Dame.
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