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IN MEMORIAM
IN MEMORIAM
W. Stuart Lyman
passed away on
November 23, 2015, at age 91.
He
was a registered professional engi-
neer and recognized as an expert in
copper metallurgy. Lyman spent
most of his career at the Copper
Development Association (CDA). He
began his career at the National
Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
before enlisting as a naval intelligence officer in WWII.
After the war he continued his metallurgical work at the
Engineering Research Institute of the University of Cali-
fornia, Berkeley, and served as a staff metallurgist for the
Materials Advisory Board of the National Academy of Sci-
ences. Prior to joining CDA in 1964, Lyman was division
chief at Battelle Memorial Institute where he led research
and development programs in metalworking. As senior
VP of CDA, he supervised the technical aspects of their
development work as well as market research, statistical
analysis, and the Copper Data Center. Lyman held
degrees in metallurgy from the University of Notre Dame
and the University of California, Berkeley, and
was an
ASM member since 1947.
Henry M. Rowan
passed away on
December 9, 2015, at age 92. A native
of Ridgewood, N.J., Rowan was the
founder and chairman of Ranco-
cas-based Inductotherm Group. He
and his late wife, Betty, started the
business in 1953, building the com-
pany’s first furnace at home in Ewing
Township, N.J. A graduate of the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, Rowan donated $100 million—the largest
gift todate toapublic collegeor university—to then-Glass-
boro State College with the request that it build a top-
notch school of engineering. The school was named
Rowan College in 1992 and became Rowan University in
1997. Mr. Rowan and the Henry M. Rowan Family Founda-
tion have donated to numerous other organizations as
well, including generous gifts to the ASM Materials Edu-
cation Foundation over the past three years. Rowan was
a WWII veteran of the Army Air Corps, member of the Avi-
ation Hall of Fame, and competed in the 1992 Olympic
sailing trials. He published his autobiography “The Fire
Within” in 1995. Among numerous honors, Rowan
received the William Hunt Eisenman Award from ASM’s
Philadelphia Chapter in 1997, was inducted into the
National Academy of Engineering in 1998, inducted into
Foundry Management & Technology
magazine’s Hall of
Honor in 2003, and received the Distinguished Life Mem-
bership Award from ASM in 2014.
Walter L. Riggs, II,
passed away on Dec. 25, 2015, at age
64. He was recently diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease,
but continued to work as a metallurgical Enegineer. Riggs
earned his bachelor’s degree in engineering from the Uni-
versity of Missouri and his master’s in engineering from
the University of Illinois. His work took him to many parts
of the world as he developed metal coatings for various
companies. Riggs also made significant contributions
involving the topics of testing and characterization in
ASM Handbook,
Volume 5A,
Thermal Spray Technology,
published in 2013.
Oleg Dimitri Sherby, FASM,
died on
November 9, 2015, at age 90. He was
born in 1925 in Shanghai to parents
who had fled Russia one year earlier
amidst the Russian Revolution.
Sherby attended the University of
California, Berkeley, and after brief
service in the U.S. Army earned his
bachelor’s and master’s degrees and
doctorate in metallurgy. He was a National Science Foun-
dation Fellow at Sheffield University in 1956-57 and then
scientific liaison officer in metallurgy with the U.S. Office
of Naval Research, London, in 1957-58. In 1958, Sherby
joined the Stanford University faculty in the department
of materials science and engineering, where he taught for
30 years until he was named professor emeritus in 1988.
He was a pioneer in discovering the atomic mechanisms
controlling creep and was well known in the field of
superplasticity. Elected to the National Academy of Engi-
neering in 1979, Sherby received numerous awards and
honors. An ASMmember since 1948, Sherby won the ASM
Gold Medal Award in 1985 and the Albert Sauveur
Achievement Award in 2000.