Samuel B. Cupp

Sam Beck Cupp Sam was born and raised in New Bloomfield, PA on March 27, 1918, the son of the late Lawrence E. Cupp and Sara (Beck) Cupp. He attended New Bloomfield High School, graduating in 1935. He graduated from Dickinson College in 1939 as a chemistry major and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He also earned a graduate degree in chemistry from Boston University. He worked at the 200 East Area at Hanford during the Manhattan Project and spent the rest of his business career with the DuPont Company, beginning in 1941. His early positions were in munitions and plutonium production. He was a research chemist in Deepwater, NJ, until 1953 when he transferred to Wilmington DE where he was named the Development Manager in the Dyes and Chemicals area of the Orchem Department. He retired from DuPont in 1982.