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Welding is Like Writing Poetry with Fire

About the Author: Mario Meier CWI/CWE Welding can be: A Weld can be:
Mario is the lead Vocational Welding Instructor Hard work Junk or Gorgeous!
at the Mount Academy in Esopus, NY. He loves Dirty Smut or Rainbow!
to pass on the highly skilled trade of welding Tough Spatter or Smooth!
to youth who then will then take this vital Difficult to master. Too hot, too cold, or just right!
vocation with them into life. Hotter than …. Hell! Temporal or Eternal!
Mario states “A person can be a skilled
welder and yet lack the ability to communicate
technique to students who may be eager but A Welder needs: Welding is:
easily frustrated. I can demonstrate technique Competence and mental alertness. Like writing with Fire.
and teach machine settings, but it’s far more Dexterity and expertise. For it is a thing of Beauty….
important for the student to fully understand Knowledge of metallurgy. The greatest Craft in the world.
the fundamentals behind a quality weld. I
use a variety of tips, tricks , and phrases to The ability to work in the dark. The Melding of two things Metal,
convey method and fundamentals that I have The steady hand of a surgeon. Nothing Welded, Nothing Gained!
learned over many years also from other senior
welders. My students remember very simple
mantras : “Lean into that weld … , It’s a Welding is: Oh to Weld:
dance -you are conquering gravity…, Up your An Art form. The intensity of the brilliant Arc in the twilight,
amps and tighten your arc!” And not least,
“Strive for excellence in all things! – including A Permanent Bond. The moment when solid metal melts and flows to bond,
cleanup.” A Passion! The subsiding red glow as molten metal solidifies,
A highly skilled Trade. Every weld your very own signature wrought upon the plate
It is my hope that some of my students will A true Vocation. Oh to Weld: The JOY of mastering a skilled profession!
be the teachers of the next generation of real
welders.

In Memoriam
Former HIWT Welding Instructor Passes Away

Douglas D. Warner
Age 80, of Pleasant Hill, passed away Saturday, May 9, 2020, at Spring Hill Singing
Woods. He was born August 27, 1939, in Pleasant Hill, Ohio, to his parents Ralph
Emerson & Margret Lucile (Layer) Warner. Doug graduated from Newton High School
class of 1957. He retired from Hobart Brothers after 32 years as a welding instructor.
He was a US Army veteran and was a former member of the the Pleasant Hill
Kiwanis. He will be missed and remembered by his wife Barbara Ann (Buchmeier)
Warner of West Milton; children and their spouses Theresa & Randy Behm of Tipp
City, Christina Warner-Michels of Lexington, Kentucky, Michael Dean & Jen Warner
of Vallejo, California; step-daughters and their spouses Wendy & Richard DeBar
of Horner, West Virginia, Karen & Russell Webb of West Milton; 10 grandchildren,
5 great grandchildren; brother and sister-in-law Dennis & Mary Jane Warner of
Indianapolis; sister and brother-in-law Jean & Harold Melvin of Troy. He was preceded
in death by his parents and brother Darrell Warner.
A graveside service will be held 1:30 PM Wednesday, May 13, at Pleasant Hill
Cemetery. If so desired, memorial contributions may be made to the American Cancer
Society. Online memories may be left for the family at www.jackson-sarver.com
To send flowers to the family or plant a tree in memory of Douglas D. Warner, please
visit our floral store.

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