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February 20, 2007
Dear NAMF members,
I am extremely saddened to inform you that Jim Oldshue passed
away on January 16, 2007. Jim was one of the founding fathers of our
organization. He was the first NAMF president, and instrumental in
setting NAMF up as the first Forum of AIChE. Jim will be greatly
missed by all (well beyond the mixing community). The NAMF council
will be discussing venues to honor Jim’s achievements and awards to
commemorate his contributions to the mixing world and pass on his
legacy. Jim would have been 82 in April.
Jim’s family is holding a memorial service in Sarasota, Florida,
on March 24th 11 AM at Siesta Key Chapel. If you plan to join in
this celebration of Jim's life, please let Mrs. Oldshue know by
contacting her directly at (941) 349-0257. A reception will follow
the service.
Siesta Key Chapel
4615 Gleason Avenue
Sarasota, Fl 34242
Church Office# (941) 349-1166
Parking -- Betty said that you can park under the Palm trees
Midey Chang-Mateu, President
North American Mixing Forum,
affiliated with AIChE
With Mrs. Betty Oldshue’s permission, I am sharing Jim’s obituary
from the family:
James Young Oldshue, Ph.D. died January 16, 2007 at Sarasota
Memorial Hospital after a brief illness. He was an internationally
known chemical engineer with more than a hundred publications in
scientific journals, numerous book chapters in textbooks and
manuals, many patents, and an important textbook of his own, Fluid
Mixing Technology published by McGraw Hill in 1982.
Dr. Oldshue completed his B.S., M.A., and Ph.D. at the Illinois
Institute of Technology in Chicago although his education was
interrupted by service on the Manhattan Project from 1944 to 1945.
From 1950 to1992, he worked as Vice President and Director of
Research at Lightnin' Mixers of Rochester, New York and gave his
time to both national and international engineering societies,
winning numerous engineering awards and honorary degrees including
service as President of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers
in 1979 and election to the prestigious National Academy of
Engineering in 1980.
In addition, Dr. Oldshue gave extensively of himself to his
church and the Y.M.C.A. He served on the North American Alliance of
Reformed Churches and was a member of its Board of Foreign Missions.
He worked locally for the Y.M.C.A. in Rochester and visited more
than forty different Y's in other countries as part of his work for
the national Y organization and its efforts to support and stabilize
Y's in the Middle East and Africa. In his last years, he continued
to teach highly sought after technical seminars and committed
himself to teaching his fellow seniors through the O.A.S.I.S.
program funded by Lord and Taylor, offering a course called "Science
Made Simple" that he taught in Rochester, Sarasota, and Portland,
Oregon. He is survived by his wife, Betty, his three sons, Paul,
Richard, and Robert, and seven grandchildren.
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