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SMTA's 1st President Passes
February 27, 2008 |Estimated reading time: Less than a minute
MINNEAPOLIS Norb Socolowski, first president of the SMTA and industry icon, passed away on February 14, 2008. He was 85. Norb is survived by wife Jean, who asks that any donations made in his memory be sent to the SMTA's Hutchins Educational Grant.
Norb endured Parkinson's disease and long-term diabetes. He and Jean lived in Las Vegas and in Little Egg Harbor, N.J. Funeral services will be held April 14, 2008, in Parsippany, N.J. For details on the service, please contact JoAnn Stromberg at joann@smta.org.
Norb was manager of product development at Alpha Metals, Inc., and spent 18 years with the company (now Cookson Electronics) in development and engineering of solder assembly materials, focused on SMT and hybrid package assembly products. He had also worked at Thiokol Chemical Corp. and Curtiss-Wright Corp. Beyond the SMTA, he held industry memberships in ISHM and SME. Norb earned a bachelor's in mining engineering from South Dakota School of Mines and Technology and a bachelor's in industrial engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology. He had remained active in the SMTA throughout his life, including his term as president, and served as chairman of the IPC Solder Paste Specification Committee.