I went the refractories way, instead. (I've always been something of a
pyro...)

My first job out of school was with Corning, in product development.
Started out working on stuff for glass plant melters, developing products
that we fused-cast at as much as 2700°C, and later went metallurgical
(you've never been so nervous as when you've got to walk into an electric
arc steel melter just after it's been poured to inspect the
refractories...don't fall down!).

Coincidentally though, the girlfriend (now wife) of a roommate at school
when I switched majors to CerE became interested in teeth, and she now makes
a large percentage of the prosthetic teeth in the southeast in her basement
workshop.

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Ray Barkalow - First Rays Orchids - www.firstrays.com
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"K Barrett" wrote in message
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So how'd you avoid becoming a dentist, Ray? Two of the biggest lecturers
on
the dental circuit are PhDs in ceramic science and engineering...Ray
Bertolotti and Alton Lacy.

K Barrett

"Ray" wrote in message
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[snip]
(My father thanks you all for letting me use my degrees in ceramic
science
and engineering)

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