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John Fred Facer ’36

John Fred Facer ’36, August 2003. Fred received a BA in chemistry from , and then attended the University of Michigan and Oregon State College (OSU), from which he earned an MS in chemistry in 1940. After graduation, he accepted a position with the Solvay Process Company in Virginia, where he utilized a great deal of ingenuity to modify processes and products affected by shortages during World War II. After the war, he worked as a research chemist at the Apache Powder Company in Arizona, assisting mining companies in their transition from using dynamite to using ammonium nitrate explosives. There he met Margaret Faye Crum; the couple later married. Fred then took a position with Krishell Laboratories in Portland, producing biochemicals from materials native to the Pacific Northwest. He was incapacitated for a year following a chemical fire in the lab, after which he took a position as a chemical engineer with General Electric at the Hanford Project in Richland, Washington. In 1958, he took a position as a metallurgical engineer with the Raw Materials Division of the Atomic Energy Commission in Grand Junction, Colorado. He retired in 1980. As in his years at , Fred enjoyed outdoor activities, including skiing, hiking, backpacking, and mountain climbing. Survivors include his wife, and brother Gordon C. Facer ’41.

Appeared in magazine: February 2006