HIGHLIGHTS ADVANCED MATERIALS & PROCESSES | MARCH 2024 54 IN MEMORIAM Simon IN MEMORIAM John “Jack” G. Simon, FASM, passed away on January 14 in his Aiken, South Carolina, home at age 83. Simon was a past president of ASM International and a past president of the ASM Materials Engineering Foundation. As vice chair of the Foundation in 2000, he was instrumental in the founding of the ASM Materials Camps, which are weeklong camps to introduce high school students to possible careers in materials engineering. Simon had a challenging career with General Motors at numerous locations, including ChevroletTonawanda (N.Y.), Chevrolet-Saginaw Metal Casting Plants, Chevrolet-Saginaw Manufacturing, Buick Motor Division, and the General Motors Advanced Engineering Staff, where he pioneered getting industry, government, and academia to work together in a partnership called the United States Advanced Battery Consortium. He was selected as a White House Fellow and worked in the Executive Office of the President of the United States under Presidents Reagan, Bush, and Clinton. His next adventure was at the European Office of Naval Research, London. After retirement from General Motors, Simon became vice president of the Idaho Engineering Laboratory. He finished his formal career with an exciting challenge of helping the Savannah River Site National Lab develop a hydrogen car program. He graduated from the executive program at Carnegie Mellon University and obtained his doctorate at La Salle University for industrial engineering. He received many honors for his work including Fellow of ASM and the British Institute of Materials, ASM’s Honorary Membership Award (the Society’s highest award), ASM’s Allan Ray Putnam Award, ASM’s George A. Roberts Award, Vannevar Bush Award, Engineer of the Year Award for the State of Michigan, Distinguished Life Member and past president of Alpha Sigma Mu International Honorary Society, and Distinguished Member Award from the American Ceramic Society. His alma mater, Saginaw Arthur Hill High School, recognized him as their 2010 Honor Alumnus. Arvid “Andy” Neil Anderson, 92, of New Kensington, Pennsylvania, died on February 4. Born on December 11, 1931, in Denver, he was a graduate of Denver South High School. Anderson earned a B.S. in metallurgical engineering from the Colorado School of Mines in 1954 and then served a two-year stint with the Army Corps of Engineers at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Employed by Alcoa, he spent 39 years in Cleveland, Knoxville, Pittsburgh, and Australia, where he specialized in foil rolling and was awarded several patents. Word has been received at ASM Headquarters of the death of John Leask Duncan, FASM, of Albany, New Zealand. He passed away on December 3, 2023, at 91 years old. When named to the 1987 Class of ASM Fellows, his citation read: “For contributions to education and research in sheet metal engineering including the basic theorems of folding, new concept of sheet formability, and the theory of sheet failure in stamping.” Duncan was professor of mechanical engineering at McMaster University, Ontario, Canada, at the time of his induction. Anderson IN MEMORIAM
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