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PMA board personnel and members rally in opposition to the Section 201 steel tariffs in Washington, D.C., in 2003.
PMI Becomes AMSA
Jefferson D. Keith became the asso- ciation’s managing director in 1961, and PMI formally became AMSA to more accurately describe the industry it served. Under Keith, increasing membership became the top priority, which at the time numbered a bit less than 200 companies. By 1972, mem- bership would more than double. Also in 1961, AMSA incorporated the Small Lot Institute as a division of AMSA.
At that year’s annual meeting, the association’s first networking group was created, the 20 Year Breakfast Club, comprised of companies that had belonged to AMSA/PMI for 20 years or more. Networking would become part and parcel of the association’s opera- tions in coming years. Clem Caditz, owner of Northern Stamping in Chica-
go, IL, and one-time chairman of AMSA, had founded the Quarterly Club, a sep- arate organization counting many prominent AMSA members among its ranks. Caditz and the Quarterly Club
sored by the Worcester Pressed Steel Company, Worcester, MA, in memory of its founder, was created to recognize a metal stamper for excellence in prod-
uct design. It lived on for decades as the Higgins-Caditz Design Award, one of nine awards presented annually by PMA through 2019.
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