Archie Bernard Japs

Background

Japs, Archie Bernard was born on June 2, 1913 in Hopkins, Minnesota, United States. Son of Albert William and Mathilda (Roth) Japs.

Education

Bachelor Chemical Engineering with distinction, University Minnesota, 1933.

Career

Control chemist, Benjamin Franklin Goodrich, 1933; chemist. assistant to head general chemical laboratories, Benjamin Franklin Goodrich, Akron, Ohio., 1935; junior research engineer koroseal research department, Benjamin Franklin Goodrich, Akron, 1935-1937; research chemical engineer vinyl chloride synthesis, Benjamin Franklin Goodrich, Akron, 1937-1938; supervisor vinyl chloride pilot plant development, research department, Benjamin Franklin Goodrich, Akron, 1938-1940; project head Koroseal product development, research division, Benjamin Franklin Goodrich, Akron, 1940-1942; director chemical engineering research center, Benjamin Franklin Goodrich, Akron and Brecksville, Ohio., 1942-1957; member of staff solid propellant project, Benjamin Franklin Goodrich, Akron and Brecksville, Ohio., 1957; technical manager rocket motor plant, Benjamin Franklin Goodrich, Rialto, California, 1957-1964; staff project engineer research center, Benjamin Franklin Goodrich, Brecksville, 1964; section leader special products, Benjamin Franklin Goodrich, Brecksville, 1964-1973; senior research associate advanced tire materials department, Benjamin Franklin Goodrich, Brecksville, 1973-1975; retired, 1975.

Achievements

• Achievements include patents for polyvinyl halide composition, preparation of vinyl halides, polyvinyl halides, drying polymeric materials, process for preparing anhydrous alpha-beta unsaturated carboxylic acids, process for making permeable sheet material, process for coating impregnated textile substrates with polymeric coating free of pits, air bubbles and blisters, gas generator and solid propellant with burning rate modifiers.

Membership

Councilman City of Rialto, 1959-1964, mayor, 1962-1964. Member American Institute of Chemical Engineers (chairman Akron section 1953-1954), American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (president Arrowhead section 1962-1963), American Chemical Society, Alpha Chi Sigma, Tau Beta Pi, Phi Lambda Upsilon.

Interests

• Avocations: golf, travel, attending Elderhostels, historical reading.

Connections

Married Doris Alene Burcaw, May 2, 1936 (deceased October 1988). Children: David E., Robert B. Married Edith Voss Larson, 1989.

Father:

Albert William Japs

Mother:

Mathilda (Roth) Japs

Spouse:

Doris Alene Burcaw

Spouse:

Edith Voss Larson

child:

Robert B. Japs

child:

David E. Japs