Three members known to be among the missing in WTC wreckage

At least three ASME members were among the thousands who were killed on Sept. 11 in the South Tower of the World Trade Center.

Robert J. Ferris, P.E., 63, of Garden City, N.Y., was a senior vice president at Aon Corp. in the company's risk consultants department. He had been working on the 102nd floor of 2 World Trade Center at the time of the attacks. Ferris, a member of the Society's Long Island Section, had been a member of ASME since 1965.

Frederick Kuo, Jr., P.E., 53, of Great Neck, N.Y., was a senior consulting engineer for Washington Group International Inc. His office was on the 91st floor of 2 World Trade Center. Kuo, a member of ASME's Long Island Section, had been a member of ASME since 1974.

Susan J. Miszkowicz, 37, of Brooklyn, had worked as a civil/ transportation engineer for 13 years. She was a member of ASME's Metropolitan Section.

Miszkowicz, also a New York section representative for the Society of Women Engineers, was working for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey on the 64th floor of 2 World Trade Center when the towers were attacked. This was her first year as a member of ASME.

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