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66 MARCH 2017 MATERIALS PERFORMANCE NACE INTERNATIONAL: VOL. 56, NO. 3 NACE NEWS other standard would," says Rick Southard, senior editor of Technical Activities at NACE. "Two years to completion is quite fast for a standard of this magnitude. We witnessed excellent coordination and coop- eration among the participants. NACE looks forward to being involved in similar joint efforts in the future." Editor's Note: The new NACE/SSPC standard, "Corrosion Prevention and Control Planning," is designated as NACE SP21412- 2016/SSPC-CPC 1. It can be downloaded from the NACE Store, nace.org/store, Item no. 21412. Continued f rom page 65 I t is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Dr. Roger Washburne Staehle, an inter- national giant in the field of metal- lurgy and corro- sion. Roger made enormous scientific and engineering con- tributions to these fields, but was best known for his friendship, generosity, and drive to support and recognize the work of others—no one "out-gave" Roger. Roger became ill after a fall during his morning walk in the snow and ice. He died several weeks later, on January 16, 2017, with members of his family at his bedside. He is survived by his brother, George, and his children, Elizabeth, Eric, Sara, Erin, and William. Staehle studied metallurgical engineer- ing at The Ohio State University (OSU), graduating in 1957 as the president of his senior class. After college, Roger fulfilled his Navy ROTC obligation on the staff of Admi- ral Hyman Rickover, who was the father of the U.S. nuclear Navy. Following this exten- sive education in nuclear technology, he returned to get his Ph.D. at OSU under the distinguished guidance of Prof. Mars Fon- tana. He graduated in 1965 and immedi- ately joined the Metallurgical Engineering faculty. Roger founded the Fontana Corro- sion Center (FCC) and built it into one of the largest and most influential academic corrosion laboratories in the world. By the end of the 1970s, he had a group of over 40 people in the FCC, with a major focus on materials degradation in commercial nuclear power. He left OSU in 1979 to become Dean of the Institute of Technology at the University of Minnesota (College of Science and Engineering), a position he held until 1983. Roger remained very active to the end as a consultant specializing in the degradation of materials in nuclear reactors. Roger received many awards for his accomplishments. He was a fellow of NACE International and The Electrochemical In Memoriam Society, and received the W.R. Whitney Award from NACE. He was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering (NAE) in 1978, when he was 44 years old, one of the youngest to be elected to NAE at that time. Roger served as the editor for CORROSION journal from 1973 to 1981. Roger devoted enormous energy to coordinating and supporting research throughout the world. He made hundreds of trips to many countries, including Rus- sia, Japan, China, Korea, Europe, South Africa, South America, the Middle East, etc., investing consistently and heavily in pro- moting international collaborations. He was sufficiently proficient in Russian at one time to be able to lecture in that language. Among the early examples of his efforts to develop international collaborations was his organization of major international conferences. Roger also promoted international col- laboration by inviting and hosting innu- merable prominent experts, as well as early-career scientists, to OSU, and it had a dramatic impact on the thinking and prog- ress throughout the world (including the United States), in addition to fostering the careers of many dozens of international scientists. Roger was heavily engaged in the Inter- national Cooperative Group on Environ- mentally Assisted Cracking, whose charter is to promote international exchange of information, emerging data, and the best experimental techniques for addressing cracking in high-temperature water envi- ronments. In the last 20 years, Roger focused considerable efforts to build col- laborative interactions in China, aimed pri- marily but not exclusively on issues related to materials degradation in commercial nuclear power reactors. He initiated and organized four major symposia in China, the first of which was "Materials Problems in Light Water Nuclear Power Plants: Sta- tus, Mitigation, Future Problems" in 2005. Roger was single-handedly responsible for attracting the best of the world's experts in each aspect of each symposia, and each symposium attracted about 200 engineers and scientists from throughout China. In 2008, Roger conceived and organized a conference on stress corrosion crack (SCC) initiation in Beaune, France involv- ing about 130 scientists. The week-long conference was designed to exchange ideas, define critical experiments, and discuss experimental technique. Many similar efforts were instigated by Roger in areas such as lead and sulfur effects in steam gen- erators, alloys with improved SCC resis- tance, etc. In 2010, Roger undertook a massive effort to bring together world experts in diverse fields who could speak to the issues of fundamental understanding and modeling of SCC. The series of four annual meetings brought together about 40 international experts for a week-long work- shop. Roger realized the importance of such a meeting, defined the content, identified and invited the experts, and solicited sup- port from about a dozen agencies and companies. These are but a few examples of Roger's selfless, energetic efforts to promote inter- national collaboration, which are in turn but a fraction of his efforts in consulting, educating, lecturing, mentoring, writing award nominations and references, etc. It is difficult to imagine a world without Roger's presence, friendship, vision, and energy. (—Peter L. Andresen, Ron Latanision, and Gerald S. Frankel)