Daughters honor their father with ASME scholarship

Daughters Marilyne Masino and Gerardine Fisco are paying tribute to their father's lifelong involvement with ASME by establishing the Frank and Faye Masino Scholarship Fund.

The fund, established in April 2004, consists of five $2,000 scholarships to be awarded, one each year, to deserving ASME undergraduate or graduate student members from the Brooklyn, N.Y., or Milwaukee, Wis., area.

Faye and Frank Masino

The fund is named for the sisters' parents, one of whom was a long-time ASME member. Since Frank Masino was a lifetime member of ASME, the women thought it fitting that the award support people who plan to carry on the work of mechanical engineers.

The 2004 scholarship has already been awarded to Michael Belger, a graduate student majoring in materials at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Masino, who passed away on Dec. 28, 2002, was a member of ASME for 65 years, joining the then-Machine Shop Practice Division in 1934. He was also an active member of Rotary International, becoming the president of the Rotary Club in Watchung, N.J.

Born in Brooklyn, Masino started his career as a die cast and tool engineer with Mergenthaler Linotype Co. He also worked for the Eclipse-Pioneer Division of Bendix Aviation, the Crescent Die Corp., and Alcoa Corp., all in New Jersey.

For scholarship information, go to www.asme.org/education/
enged/aid/index.htm.

To learn more about how to establish a scholarship fund or to hear about other planned giving opportunities through ASME, call Warren Leonard at (212) 591-7846 or e-mail leonardw@asme.org to arrange a consultation.

 

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