Squires, Arthur M.

Arthur M. Squires, University Distinguished Professor (Emeritus), Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, died on Friday, May 18, 2012, at his home in Blacksburg, after a long illness. He had served industry 25 years as a chemical engineer; in the first four, participating in design, construction, and start-up of the Manhattan Project’s gaseous diffusion plant at Oak Ridge, Tennessee; in the remainder focusing primarily on fossil fuel technologies. He then spent 19 years on chemical engineering faculties at The City College of New York and Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University. He also sang professionally with the New York Pro Musica Antiqua for nearly 20 years. Arthur Squires was born in Neodesha, Kan., on March 21, 1916, son of Charles Loren and Vera Moore Squires. A 1938 graduate of the University of Missouri, he obtained a Ph.D. in physical chemistry at Cornell University in 1947. Dr. Squires is survived by his partner and loving companion, Jussi Korzeniowski, and will also be much missed by his many nieces and nephews and their extended families, Shirley Wilhelm Jondro, of Carlyle, Ill., Conrad Squires, of Nahant, Mass., Jenny Wilker, of Asheville, N.C., Robert Andrew Squires, of Berlin, Vt., Mary Ann Grassit, of Everett, Wash., Beverley McKeeman, of Simsbury, Conn., Donald Squires, of Boston, Mass., Michael Squires, of Los Angeles, Calif., David Bess, of New Orleans, La., William Bess, of Albuquerque, N.M., and Gordon Bess, of Fenton, Mo. Dr. Squires’s scholarly papers are held in Special Collections, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24062-9001.