John Shields:  

After graduation I went to Case Institute of Technology (now Case Western Reserve University) in Cleveland, and obtained a bachelor's degree in metallurgy. I met Pat Greszler of Oberlin the summer of 1967 at Cedar Point, where I worked evenings, and we were marriedin July of 1968. I worked at ALCOA in Cleveland for a year but realized I didn't want a career in quality assurance, so went back to Case to complete Master's and Ph.D. degrees in Materials Science (fancy word for metallurgy), finally leaving in 1974. We had two kids while I was in grad school. We moved to Idaho Falls, ID in 1974 the day after Evel Knievel almost jumped the Snake River canyon, and worked for Argonne National Laboratory at the Experimental Breeder Reactor-II Project. Our youngest daugnter was born in IF. Then on to Detroit in 1979 where I taught for two years at Wayne State University. Went to work for Climax Molybdenum in Ann Arbor in 1981, and stayed with them through countless organizational changes and owners for 25 years, moving from Detroit to Milford CT in 1984 and back to Cleveland in 1989. I retired Nov 2006, and am now consulting for my previous company and a few others, focusing on refractory metals (Mo, W, Ta, Nb, Re). Believe it or not, there is a living t...Expand for more