People

Raymond was most recently employed as a senior scrap metal buyer by Wabash Alloys LLC at its East Syracuse, N.Y., facility. He has also acted in purchasing roles at Wabash facilities in Guelph and Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, as well as at East Syracuse.

Raymond has been involved with industry associations including NARI, ISIS and ISRI as a member of national committees and as a Roundtables moderator. He also has served as a board member and officer of ISRI’s Empire Chapter.

Greenwich Metals Inc. is a 10-year old worldwide merchant-trading company specializing in the trade of nonferrous metals including scrap, secondary aluminum alloys and primary metallurgical grade metals such as magnesium and silicon.

FEDERAL ENVIRONMENTAL EXECUTIVE

Howard has worked in the environmental and natural resources field for nearly 15 years, most recently having served as senior associate director for the White House Council on Environmental Quality.

Howard has also worked as director of environment and natural resources policy for the George W. Bush administration in Texas.

He replaces Fran McPoland, a Clinton appointee who stepped down from the post in 2000.

IN MEMORIAM

Long-time recycling equipment engineer Wallace M. Thompson, who worked for Harris Press & Shear for more than two decades, passed away in June. He was 90.

Thompson joined Harris in the early 1950s and was instrumental in designing Harris’s first hydraulic scrap shear, introduced in 1952. Thompson, a graduate of the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), was also instrumental in designing above-ground baler models that replaced earlier generations of below-ground pit balers.

After having helped design the TG line of Harris balers, Thompson retired from Harris in the mid-1970s as its VP-engineering. He is survived by two daughters, Kim Settles and Judy B. Phillips, and four grandchildren.