Dear Colleagues, I am sorry to forward the sad news below, from Nick Peppas. One of our own has passed away... Arvind From: Peppas, Nicholas A [mailto:peppas@che.utexas.edu] Sent: Friday, December 10, 2010 1:11 AM To: Arvind Varma; Arvind Varma Subject: Robert Vaughn dead Hi Arvind Professor Robert Vaughn, former professor of Purdue ChE, passed away on August 4, 2010. Vaughn was best known as the 1958 recipient of the AP Colburn Award In my history (pp 116-117) I write The first faculty member hired by Golding was Robert Donald Vaughn (1930- , B.S. '51 Purdue University, M.Ch.E.53, Ph.D.'56, both from the University of Delaware) who joined Purdue in September of 1960. At Delaware he had worked on non-Newtonian fluid mechanics under the direc- tion of Arthur B. Metzner. Along with Metzner, he received the Allan P. Colburn Award of AIChE in 1958. From 1955 to 1960 he worked for Shell Development. A brilliant researcher, Vaughn did significant work in polymer rheology. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1962 and left Purdue in 1964, disil- lusioned by the events of those days. He was subsequently employed by W.R. Grace & Co. (1964-67) and Wyandotte Chemical Co. (1967-79). He is now Manager of Development for Exxon Company In fact, he retired from Exxon in 1985 and then served as a consultant. You will find his photo on page 122 Right: Robert G. Squires (left) and Robert D. Vaughn in September 1963. He received (p 231) the 1963 Shreve Prize for research The Shreve Prize for Chemical Processing The Shreve Prize for Chemical Processing was established by R. Norris and Eleanor B. Shreve in 1960 to recognize outstanding research contributions in the area of chemical processing by a ChE faculty member. The recipient was selected by a committee consisting of Shreve, two alumni of the School working in industry, the Dean of Engineering, and one of the officers of the Indianapolis Section of AIChE. The award was accompanied by a check for $500. Consider- ing that the typical salary of an Assistant Professor in 1960 was about $7,800 a year, the amount of $500 was significant. The recipients of this award were the following: ........... 1963 Robert D. Vaughn Most prominent among his former students was Gary Poehlein who did his MS with Vaughn in 1963. When Vaughn left, Gary continued with Jack Woods Please tell the colleagues. I know Squires and Albright remember him well Nicholas