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IN MEMORIAM
Stephen Kenneth Tarby
passed away on November 2,
2016, at age 82. After receiving his
B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in metallur-
gical engineering from Carnegie
Institute of Technology, and serv-
ing in the U.S. Army Corp of Engi-
neering Nuclear Power Program
at the Atomic Energy Commis-
sion, he taught at Lehigh University for 41 years. During
that time, he served as interim chair twice, in addition to
20 years as associate chair in the department of materials
science and engineering. Tarby’s leadership was recog-
nized by his appointment to the R.D. Stout Professorship
in 1995. In 1984 and 1998, his dedication to teaching and
his positive and caring influence on his students were
acknowledged by receiving the College of Engineering
Teaching Excellence Award. He retired as Professor Emer-
itus in 2002. He also served on ASM’s Journal of Phase
Equilibrium Committee from 1991-1994.
Calvin R. Cupp, FASM,
died
on January 4 at age 92. He was
born in Toronto and educated
at Wilkinson Public School and
Riverdale Collegiate before join-
ing the Canadian Army in 1943 at
age 18. He served in the United
Kingdom and Northwest Europe
in the 11th Field Regiment, Royal
Canadian Artillery. He returned home in June 1946, and
studied metallurgy at the University of Toronto from
1946-1950. In 1953, he completed his Ph.D. in metal
physics. After graduation, Cupp worked for many years
at International Nickel Co., where, among other things,
he introduced x-ray fluorescence as an industrial analyt-
ical tool. From 1957 to 1961, he was seconded to Atomic
Energy of Canada at Chalk River, where he worked with
W. Bennett Lewis conducting studies in radiation dam-
age to high-temperature alloys—research critical to
nuclear submarine safety. After retirement, Cupp and
an army comrade helped create the Canadian-Nether-
lands Memorial Park in Groesbeck, Holland, and shared
the dedication of the park with Princess Margriet of the
Netherlands on May 5, 1998.
Merle L. Thorpe, Jr., FASM,
passed away on January 13 at age
87. He grew up in rural New York,
attending a one-room school-
house and graduating high school
in Kingston. He worked his way
through Dartmouth College earn-
ing a degree in physics and a mas-
ter’s in engineering science and
mechanical engineering. His Dartmouth education helped
him break the family’s poverty cycle engendered by the
Great Depression and a three-year stint at Union Carbide’s
Linde Laboratory helped him realize that he needed to
work for himself. He returned toDartmouth’s Thayer School
of Engineering as an assistant professor of engineering and
physics. While serving as assistant dean of Thayer in 1956,
he co-founded his first business, Thermal Dynamics. This
risk involved cutting his salary, borrowing money, working
long days, and traveling internationally. He built a number
of international companies in arc metal cutting, high tem-
perature chemical and ceramic production, high tempera-
ture research tools, and thermal spraying of metals and
ceramics. These included Thermal Dynamics Corp., Thorpe
Corp., Ionarc Smelters, Humphrey’s Corp., Arc Corp., and
TAFA Inc., all based inNewHampshire. Hewas a Fellowand
trustee of ASM, received The Rotary International Paul Har-
ris Fellow Award, was inducted into the first class of ASM’s
Thermal Spray Hall of Fame, was awarded the NH Council
High Tech Entrepreneur Award in 1989, and received ASM’s
WilliamHunt Eisenman Award in 1999.
IN MEMORIAM