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IN MEMORIAM
IN MEMORIAM
Donald J. Wulpi, FASM,
passed away
September 4 at age 92. Born in Oak
Park, Ill., he was a World War II veteran
and worked as a metallurgical engi-
neer with International Harvester for
30 years, retiring in 1980. During his
career, Wulpi made a name for himself
as a specialist in failure analysis of
metals. He taught classes and wrote books on the sub-
ject through ASM International, which were also used as
college textbooks. “Understanding How Components
Fail,” now in its third edition, continues to sell briskly.
After retiring, he started his own metallurgical consult-
ing business specializing in failure analysis and was
called as an expert witness in court cases worldwide.
Wulpi received his Fellow Award as part of the Fellow
Inaugural Convocation and Rededication of Metals Park.
There were 200members in the first class of Fellows, and
the convocation took place at the Dome on October 18,
1970, when Allan Ray Putnam was managing director.
Joseph Frank Nachman
passed away
on July 27 at age 98. He graduated
from the University of Toledo in 1940.
He worked as a chemist at the Inter-
lake IronCorp. andwas then appointed
powder chemist at the Indiana Ord-
nance Works of the U.S. Army. Before
enlisting in the Navy, Nachman was
employed as a metallurgical chemist for the Electric
Auto Lite Co. In 1943, he was assigned to the Ordnance
Investigation Laboratory in Maryland, where he was
engaged in R&D on the use of cavity charges. As a result,
he developed the “linear cavity charge calculator” for
use by bomb disposal personnel. For this work, he
received a Special Letter and Medal of Commendation
from the Chief of the Navy Bureau of Ordnance. After the
war, Nachman earned a master’s degree in metallurgical
engineering from The Ohio State University and joined
the U.S. Naval Ordnance Laboratory in Silver Spring,
Md., working on magnetic and high temperature alloys.
He was appointed manager of alloy development at the
University of Denver Research Institute in 1956 where he
directed R&D. In 1963, he joined Atomics Intl. in Canoga
Park, Calif., where he served as group leader for develop-
ment of nuclear fuel element and rocket materials. In
1966, he joined Solar Turbines in San Diego as chief of
applied sciences where he worked until his retirement in
1981 and then served as a metallurgical consultant for
several years. Nachman was a Life Member of ASM, join-
ing in 1948.
Kiyoshi Funatani, FASM,
passed away
August 12 at age 82. Born in 1933 in
Japan, he attended school in both
Japan and China. He graduated from
Nagoya Institute of Technology and
joined Toyota in 1955. In 1990, he
joined the Japan Fine Ceramics Cen-
ter. Funatani was a strong supporter of
ASM’s Heat Treating Society, helped organized some of
the early Heat Treat conferences, and served on the
board from 1996-2000. He became an ASM Fellow in
1999 and was also an ASM Life member. In addition, he
was very involved with the IFHTSE, serving on the execu-
tive committee from2000-2015. He co-edited the “Hand-
book of Metallurgical Process Design” and “Handbook of
Mechanical Alloy Design” and was a contributing author
to the “Handbook of Residual Stress and Deformation of
Steel.” Funatani was envied for his restless enthusiasm
in heat treatment technology despite his age. He was
continuously evaluating developments in this field and
always had a strong personal opinion, which he liked to
share in his presentations.
Raymond DeWitt Daniels
passed
away on May 8 at age 88. He earned
B.S. and M.S. degrees in physics and a
Ph.D. in physical metallurgy from Case
Institute of Technology in Cleveland. In
1958, he accepted a faculty position at
the University of Oklahoma (OU). His
colleagues remember him as a true gentleman, good
natured with a cheerful smile. Many of them remember
seeing him in the hallways wearing a bow tie and pocket
protector. For years, he and his students worked with
support from Tinker Air Force Base on issues associated
with rapid startup of jet engines on B52 bombers. Dan-
iels also served as director of the School of Chemical
Engineering & Materials Science and Director of the
Office of Research Administration at OU. In the early
1990s, he became involved in international engineering
education. Working through the U.S. Agency for Interna-
tional Development, he led an effort by OU, the Univer-
sity of Michigan, and Case Western Reserve University to
establish a graduate program in petroleum and petro-
chemical engineering at Chulalongkorn University in
Thailand. That effort was so successful it resulted in an
invitation from the White House to make a presentation
regarding making the project a model for similar initia-
tives. He continued with this project until his retirement
in 1998. Daniels was a Life Member of ASM, joining in
1955.