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IN MEMORIAM
IN MEMORIAM
John T. Venard
passed away
May 11 at age 78. Born in Indi-
anapolis on July 10, 1937, he
grew up near Zionsville, Ind.
In 1961, Venard began grad-
uate training in metallurgical
engineering at Oak Ridge and
Knoxville, Tenn. He was the first
of his family to attend college
and trained as a metallurgical
engineer at Purdue Univer-
sity and the University of Tennessee, with a master’s
degree conferred in 1967. In 1978, he earned an MBA
through the Executive Program at the University of Chi-
cago. Before his 1999 retirement, Venard spent his pro-
fessional career as a research engineer, manager, and
technology transfer program administrator at both Oak
Ridge and Argonne National Laboratories, and later at
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. In addition to
ASM, he was a member of Sigma Xi, Aircraft Owners and
Pilots Association, Sigma Gamma Epsilon, Technology
Transfer Society, Licensing Executives Society, and the
Association of University Technology Managers. Venard
joined ASM in 1957 and was a Life Member.
Man H. Yoo, FASM,
passed
away on August 12, 2015, at
80 years old. After graduating
from the famous Kyunggi High
School in Korea, he traveled
to the U.S. in 1956 to advance
his studies, earning multiple
degrees from Michigan State
University. After receiving his
Ph.D. in materials science,
he joined Oak Ridge National
Laboratory in 1967 and retired in 2003. His accom-
plishments include significant contributions to the
fundamental understanding of plastic deformation,
radiation damage, and high temperature flow and
fracture. His pioneering achievements substantially
increased the understanding of both intermetallic
materials and hexagonal close-packed metals and
alloys. Yoo received the Humboldt Research Award for
senior U.S. scientists and the Mathewson Gold Medal
in 2002. After retirement, he finally satisfied his desire
to teach by joining the faculty at KAIST in Daejon,
South Korea, and later received an appointment to
Seoul National University in 2005.