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5 0 Years in the ACS Thirty-five men, ACS members for 5 0 consecutive years, will be honored at the spring meeting in Cincinnati 'TpRiBUTE will he paid at the spring -*- meeting in Cincinnati to the men w h o have been members of the A M E R I secutive years. This year 35 'will b e honored with presentation of 50-year membership certificates. Special invitations have been extended to t h e honorees to attend the award session which will take place at 8:30 P . M . April 2 in Hall of Mirrors, Netherland Plaza Hotel, Cincinnati. The m e n to b e honored are: Maximilian C. Albrech, born at Lowville, N . Y., in 1879, taught in t h e public schools winning a state certificate. He graduated from Lowville Academy in 1902 and from Cornell in 1906, receiving an A.B. degree. During his senior year at Cornell he served as an instructor. He joined the Bureau of Chemistry of the U. S. Department of Agriculture in 1906. T h e next year he became chief of t h e Bureau's branch Food & D r u g Inspection Laboratory at Pittsburgh. He resigned in 1914 to become chief chemist for Lutz & Schramm, Pittsburgh. In 1916 he joined R. T . French of Rochester, N. Y. H e became chief of the research department where he remained until his retirement after 30 years of service.
M.S. in 1909. His first position was with the Great Western Sugar Co. Here he realized his greater interest in the equipment than in the analytical control operation. Returning t o teaching for a semester, he took a Bureau of Standards examination, joining its Chemical Division in 1 9 1 0 . I n 1912 he joined University of Michigan's faculty to teach chemical engineering. He became assistant professor i n 1914 and professor in 1918. His efforts here made possible t h e joint project between the university a n d Swenson Evaporator Co. in building Swenson's research laboratory. H e published approximately 40 research papers as a result of this. In 1937 he resigned t o become manager of D o w Chemical's consulting engineering division. T h e division was terminated in 1944, at which time he became an independent consulting engineer. Some of his projects have been revision of Dow's Pittsburg, Calif., caustic finishing department; t h e process engineering plant of Manganese Ore Co., at Las Vegas, N e v . ; design and operation of magnesium chloride evaporators at International Minerals a n d Chemical plant at Carlsbad, N. M. He is currently consultant t o t h e Banco de la Republica, Bogota, Columbia.
W a l t e r L. Badger attended t h e University of Minnesota, receiving the degrees of B.A. in 1907, B.S. in 1908, and
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tor in chemistry at Grinnell College where h e received an M.A. i n 1904. H e was assistant instructor of chemistry at University of Pennsylvania from 1905 to 1906, a Harrison Fellow 1907 to 1908, receiving a Ph.D. i n 1908. H e joined Mallinckrodt Chemical Works i n 1908 as a manufacturing research chemist. From 1909 to 1911 h e was professor of metallurgy and engineering chemistry at Iowa State. He spent t h e years 1911 to 1912 as superintendent of the Andrews Chemical Works in experimental work on making oxalic acid from corncobs. In 1913 he became manager of Mallinckrodt's Eastern plant. H e joined Union Pacific Railroad i n 1916 as consulting chemist where h e later became chief chemical a n d metallurgical engineer; then research and standards consultant. H e retired in 1950. Because of his work on water problems he was clubbed "Veterinarian to the Iron Horse" and in 1926 was awarded a $1000 prize for a paper on corrosion of locomotive boilers. Fred C. Blanck received A.B. and Ph.D. degrees from Johns Hopkins University. H e has held positions as research assistant at Harvard University's school of medicine's physiological chemistry department; as assistant manager with Lipps Soap Co.; as soil scientist, U. S. Department of Agriculture Bureau of Soils; chief, Bureau of Food and Dairy Inspection, Health Department, Baltimore, Md.; organic chemist, U. S. Department of Agriculture Bureau of Chemistry. He also served as Food and Drug Commissioner of Maryland State Department of Health. He later accepted a position as associate in chemistry at Johns Hopkins University. After this he became director of the National Canners Association inspection service and then chemist in charge of t h e food control laboratory, Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Chemistry. H e was later chief of the Research Division of their Bureau of Chemistry and Soils. He joined H. J. Heinz Co., as chief research chemist, and later became an administrative fellow at Mellon Institute of Industrial Research. Frederic Bonnet, J r . , received his Ph.D. from Harvard. H e taught chemistry i n the State University of Iowa's medical school and was later also professor of chemistry at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. During World War I he was chief chemist of the U. S. ammonium nitrate plant which led to his next position as director of t h e experi1225
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mental laboratory of Atlas Powder Co. In 1925 he joined American Viscose where he won national recognition in helping the textile industry solve problems in connection with the handling of rayon. In recognition of this work he was awarded t h e Harold DeWitt Smith Memorial Medal in 1952 by the American Society for Testing Materials for "outstanding accomplishments in the field of textile fiber science a n d utilization." H e was for many years director of American Viscose standards department, and after his retirement in 1946 was consultant and technical adviser to the president. As vice chairman of the American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists flammable fabrics committee, he was especially active in the passage of the Federal Flammable Fabrics Act. In June 1951 he was awarded a n honorary degree of Doctor of Textile Science by the University of North Carolina. Born in Lund, Sweden, N. F. Borg was graduated as a chemical engineer from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm in 1897. H e taught organ ? chemistry at Cooper Union, New York, until the beginning of World W a r I when he became chief chemist of t h e Butterworth-Judson Co., Newark, N. J. In 1923, after two years' research on t h e refining of menhaden oil, h e joined the Siegle Corp., N. Y., as chief chemist. His work here was concerned with dry colors and pigments. I n 1927 h e became associated with the Maywood Chemical Works, N. J., and its subsidiary in Niagara Falls, N. Y., w h e r e h e was engaged in the manufacture of acids and ketones from petroleum products. His last position before retirement in 1949 was 1226
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with the Commonwealth Color and Chemical Co., N . Y., manufacturer of chemical specialties for the textile a n d tanning industries, where h e remained 15 years. Arthur D. Camp was g r a d u a t e d from Cornell University in 1905 with a B.A. degree. I n 1906 he was instructor of introductory chemistry at Cornell and registered for a Master's D e g r e e . Before completing the required courses, however, h e w a s lured into industrial practice. His professional career has been largely along chemical engineering lines ranging from laboratory, plant operation, and research work with t h e Link-Belt, New Jersey Zinc, Arthur D . Little, and Williamsport Building Products companies to executive, metallurgical, and sales engineering positions with the Aluminum C o m p a n y of America, Paper Makers Chemical, National Carbon, and Monsanto Chemical. For the past 20 years h e has been with t h e Dorr Co., now Dorr-Oliver, where he has functioned as project engineer, advertising manager, sales engineer, and manager of their technical data department. The development of dry batteries for special applications, the welding of aluminum alloys, magnesia base floor tiling, chemical uses of carbon, and synthetic resin printing plates h a v e been his specialties. Nathan A. Chase, was graduated from the University of Maine, after which h e worked for Westinghouse Airbrake Co. for three years. H e t h e n joined Remington Arms Co., Ilion, N . Y., as chemist and metallurgist where he remained for 3 7 years, retiring in 1943.
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Otto I. Chormann was graduated from Cornell University's College of Arts a n d Sciences in 1906 with the degree of A.B. In 1907 he entered the employ of T h e Pfaudler Co., Rochester, N. Y., where h e established a chemical laboratory in which the first highly acid resistant glasses used as coatings for steel vessels were developed. In 1929 he became vice president in charge of research and was retired on Dec. 31, 1950, after 42 years with the company. John D. Clark received a B.S. from New Hampshire College of Agricultural and Mechanic Arts in 1906 a n d an M.S. in 1907. He later attended Stanford University, and was a w a r d e d a Ph.D. in 1914. In 1907 he became an assistant professor of chemistry a t the University of N e w Mexico, an associate professor in 1908, and h e attained the rank of professor in 1913. F r o m 1919 to 1925 h e was dean of the graduate school and from 1925 to 1927, dean of men. From 1927 to 1929 h e was dean of students. T h e chemistry building at University of N e w Mexico, Clark Hall, is n a m e d in his honor. He served as an associate member of the Naval Consulting Board and as a chemist with the New Mexico Food Administration during World W a r I. D. J. Demorest received a B.Ch.E. in 1907 from Ohio State University with special work in metallurgy. Following graduation, h e was with the U. S. Bureau of Mines. H e later joined Union Pacific Railroad at Omaha, Neb., as chemist. I n t h e fall of 1908 h e returned to Ohio State as instructor in metallurgy; at t h e end of 1908 h e was given the title of assistant professor. In 1913 he was m a d e pro-
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ACS NEWS fessor and w a s head of t h e department, 1914 to 1 9 1 5 . In 1916 he was comm a n d i n g officer of t h e toxic gas plant a t E d g e w o o d Arsenal, M d . , with t h e rank of major. H e r e t u r n e d to Ohio State i n 1919 a n d retired in 1952 as professor emeritus. H e retains his office a n d laboratory, however. H e has also practiced as a consultant i n t h e fields of metallurgy a n d chemistry. H e is president of t h e U t a h Alloy Ores Co., a n d a trustee of t h e Tin Research Foundatic i. G e o r g e S. Forbes received a n A.B. from Harvard ( s u m m a cum laude) in 1902, an A.M. in 1904, and a Ph.D. in 1905 under t h e guidance of t h e late Theodore William Richards. H e spent t h e year 1906 to 1907 at t h e Universities of Leipzig a n d Berlin as a John Harvard Fellow. After two years as a n associate in chemistry at Bryn Mawr College, h e returned t o Harvard, b e coming professor in 1926 a n d professor emeritus i n 1 9 4 8 . H e was department chairman from 1944 t o 1947. Since 1948 he h a s been a professor of chemistry, part time, at Northeastern University a n d also active in industrial consultation work. H e was chairman of t h e Division of Physical and Inorganic Chemistry of t h e ACS, 1926-27. I n 1951 h e w a s t h e first recipient of t h e Norris Award of t h e Northeastern Section "for outstanding achievement in the teaching of chemistry." William J . Hale attended Miami University w h e r e h e received a n A.B. and A.M. in 1897, a n d a n L L D i n 1947. At Harvard University he received an A.B. in 1898, A.M. in 1899, and a Ph.D. in 1902. During 1 9 0 3 he was a Harvard traveling fellow at Universitat. zu Gottingen. Returning t o the U. S. h e became a n instructor in chemistry at University of Michigan where he attained t h e rank of professor. Leaving there in 1919, h e became director of organic chemical research with D o w Chemical. I n 1934 h e w a s made research consultant, a position he n o w occupies. Since 1951 h e has also been president of t h e Verdurin Co., of Midland, Mich. H e is author of a number of organic chemical research publica-
tions, a few text books, and six volumes on chemurgy. Murray Arnold Hir.es attended St. Lawrence a n d Harvard Universities, receiving his Ph.D. from Harvard. He was an assistant and teaching fellow at Harvard, later joining Mallinckrodt Chemical Works as a chemist. Subsequently he was professor and chairman of the department of chemistry a t Northwestern University's college o£ liberal arts. He is author of a paper on revision of the atomic weight of cadmium, of manganese, and of chromium and a "Study of the Correlation of High School Chemistry to Chemistry of the First College Year." Since retirement in 1942, he has been occupied in Florida in raising citrus and other semitropical trees and fruits. Receiving his early schooling i n Downers Grove, 111., Charles H. Jones was graduated from Massachusetts Agricultural College (now Amherst) with a B.S. degree. He is also a. graduate of Boston University and the University of Vermont and State Agricultural College with an M.S. He worked as chemist with the Massachusetts Experiment Station from 1890 to 1893. H e spent the year 1894 t o 1895 studying phosphates in the Caribbean Sea area, after which he returned to the Experiment Station. He has been with the Vermont Experiment Station as chemist since 1896. His professional interest has been in study of maple sap; he is author of publications on "Maple Sap Flow/' "The Carbohydrate Contents of the Maple Tree," and "Detection of Adulteration in Maple Syrup." Harry E. Jordan received a B. S. from Franklin (Indiana) College i n 1903 and a D.Sc. in 1938. Joining Indianapolis Water Co. in 1903, h e remained until 1936 as chemical engineer. He served as president of t h e American Water Works Association from 1934 until 1935 and has been executive secretary of the association since 1936. He has also been editor of the association's journal for this same period. In 1932 he was general chairman for the ACS convention a t
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attended the University of Pennsylvania, receiving a B.A. in 1903 and an M.A. in 1905. After graduation he went to Canton, China, where h e taught at the Can-
ton Christian College (changed to Lingn a n University i n 1 9 2 6 ) . Teaching various snbjeets a t first, he later restricted h i s teaching to chemistry alone. H e served as bursar during t h e periods 1907 to 1914 and 1938 to 1941. H e was dean of the college of arts a n d sciences from 1921 to 1923 a n d again 1927 to 1 9 3 5 , ' a n d vice provost 1937 t o 1942. W h e n w a r broke out i n Hongkong in 1941 he was interned at Stanley, Hongkong. H e joined t h e Foreign Economic Administration in Washington in 1943. In 1944 he was professor of chemistry a t Roberts College, Istanbul, Turkey through 1947, J o s e p h A. Le Clerc received a B.S. from Worcester Polytechnic Institute i n 1895 and a P h . D . from University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle A/S in 1903. Immediately after graduation he became assistant chemist with t h e Worcester Sewage Purification Works. Subsequent positions h a v e been widi the N e w York State Agricultural Experim e n t Station as assistant chemist ( 1 8 9 5 t o 1901) ; U. S. Department of Agriculture's Bureau of Chemistry ( 1 9 0 3 t o 1 9 1 9 ) ; a n d Miner-Killard Milling Co. (19L9 to 1921). In 1921 he was a m e m b e r of a U . S . Department of C o m m e r c e special t r a d e commission t o E u r o p e . U p o n h i s return in 1922, h e b e c a m e specialist with t h e Comm e r c e Department on cereals and cereal products. H e spent t h e years 1928 until retirement in 1943 as chief of t h e cereal laboratory of t h e Bureau of Agricultural Chemistry a n d Engineering. Born of American parents in Yokoh a m a , Japan, Henry JV1. Loomis came to t h e U n i t e d States in 1890. After graduation from M I T in 1897, he joined Mathieson Alkali Works at Niagara Falls as chemist, later becoming superintendent o f their bleacning powder division. Subsequent to this h e was employed b y Acheson Graphite. In 1904 he was chemist with the Pennsylvania Dairy and Food C o m mission. In 1907 H e was appointed food inspection chemist with the XJ. SDepartment of Agriculture's B u r e a u of Chemistry, w h e r e h e was successively chief of the Galveston, Seattle, and San Francisco laboratories. H e served as member of t h e Board of Food and D r u g Inspection, 1913 to 1914. H e left the Covernment service i n 1916 to u n d e r t a k e inspection of t b e M a i n e sardine canning industry for National Canners Association. He later w a s appointed assistant secretary of the association, nntil retiring in 1946. Kenneth L. M a r k received, an A.Bfrom Harvard i n 1 8 9 8 , an A.M. i n 1900, a n d a Ph.D. i n 1903. H e was 122T
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assistant in chemistry at Harvard from 1900 to 1903. H e joined Simmons College as an instructor in 1903 w h e r e he attained the rank of professor in 1907. From 1905 to 1941 h e was director of the school of science. He has been professor emeritus since 1941. H e was a Captain in the U. S. Army Medical Corps, division of nutrition 1917 to 1918. He is author of various papers on physical and analytical chemistry and is author of "Laboratory Exercise in Inorganic Chemistry." A. Lloyd M e a d e r was graduated from the University of Cincinnati in 1902 with an A.B. degree. After graduation he became chemist with the Henderson Tobacco Extract Works and its successor, the American Nicotine Co., where he spent the years 1902 to 1917. Subsequent positions were with the Aetna Explosive Co.; junior chemist with the U. S. Food & Drug laboratory at New Orleans; chemist with the Trahern Tobacco Co., Clarksville, Tenn.; food chemist with Public Service Laboratories, University of Kentucky, from September, 1922 to July, 1954. Since 1954 he has been assistant chemist emeritus with the university's feed and fertilizer department. William C. Moore received a B.S. degree from t h e University of Nashville in 1903 and a P h . D . from University of Chicago in 1910 where he was a Loewenthal Fellow in Chemistry ( 1 9 0 7 - 0 9 ) . After a tour of teaching, first at Nashville and later at Columbia University, he became a research chemist for National Carbon Co., in 1913. H e reentered the academic field for a year in 1919 as an associate in immunology at Johns Hopkins' school of hygiene and public health. From 1920 until his retirement in 1949 he was a member of the research staff of U . S. Industrial Chemicals and its predecessor companies. H e served as consultant to the U. S. Bureau of Mines during World W a r I a n d during World W a r II w a s with the W a r Production Board. H e is author of more t h a n 20 articles o n chemistry; in 1918 h e was coauthor, with Alexander Smith, of "Calculations in Chemistry." Sidney J. O s b o m entered t h e University of Pennsylvania in 1898. H e b e c a m e interested in chemistry and was awarded a scholarship for a year's graduate work. H e received a n A.B. i n 1902, and an M.A. in 1903. H e was employed by Spreckels Sugar Refining Co. (1903 to 1907) as research chemist o n beet sugar problems. From 1907 to 1910 h e was with Great Western Sugar Co. as traveling chemist. 1228
Until retirement in 1949 h e remained with this company, serving in turn as research chemist, assistant to the general superintendent, and as general chemist. M u c h of his work has been concerned with perfecting methods for laboratory control of t h e beet sugar manufacturing process a n d of methods for evaluating the operating efficiency of beet sugar factories. H e has p u b lished various papers on methods of sugar analysis. In 1921 h e served as chairman of trie ACS Sugar Chemistry Division. Eugene P. Schoch was born in Berlin, Germany. Upon arriving in the United States he settled in Texas, entering the University of Texas in 1891. In 1894 he received a degree in civil engineering and in 1896 an M. A . While at Texas he was awarded a fellowship in civil engineering for the years 1892 to 1894. In 1902 h e received a Ph.D. from University of Chicago. In 1897 he was made a n instructor in chemistry at the University of Texas, becoming an assistant professor in 1905, associate professor in 1908, professor of physical chemistry in 1911, and professor of chemical engineering in 1938. Also from 1928 on he was director of the University's bureau of industrial chemistry. Apart from his teaching career, h e was associate editor of the Journal of Physical Chemistry from 1908 to 1923; in 1913 he participated by invitation in a conference on passivity sponsored by the Faraday Society. H e has had a continuing interest in production of hydrocarbons from methane. In 1948 he was presented the award of the ACS Southwestern Section. Paul F. W e h m e r w a s graduated from the University of Cincinnati with a B.A. degree in 1905. H e was foundry chemist with Laidlaw-Dunn-Gordon Co. for about five years, after which he served for approximately the same length of time as analyst and consultant for Iron Foundry T r a d e in Cincinnati. Following this he was appointed chemist for the City of Cincinnati's engineering department where h e was in charge of inspection and tests of creosoted wood. In 1914 he joined Electrical Testing Laboratories, New York, N. Y., a s a chemist where h e has remained to date. William P. W e r n e r attended Temple University and the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science, receiving a certificate of proficiency in chemistry. After a year with Grasselli Chemical Co. in East Chicago, h e joined t h e Pecora Paint Co. of Philadelphia in 1904. Here beginning as a
laborer, he became chemist, superintendent, chief chemist, technical director, member of the board, vice president and president. Although h e has retired from active service, he remains as a member of its board of directors. Charles
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graduated from Vanderbilt University in 1902 with a B.S. degree. H e received an M.S. in 1903. The same year he served as professor of chemistry and biology at Wofford College, Spartanburg, S. C , and in 1904 was instructor in chemistry at Michigan Agricultural College. H e joined Frederick Stearns & Co. in 1905 where he was concerned with biological and bacteriological work.^ In 1907 he worked as a chemist in Tennessee on problems related to phosphate mining. Subsequently he was assistant professor of chemistry at Alabama Polytechnic Institute (1909 to 1913); and from 1913 to 1917 was professor of industrial chemistry at Tulane University. I n 1917 h e became professor of chemical engineering and then head of the school of chemical engineering at Tulane, from which h e retired in 1945. Since 1907 he has also served as a consulting chemical engineer and chemist and is still active in this capacity. I t is regretted that biographical information was not available for Clarence P. Bearce, Edward F . Buchanan, George H. A. Clowes, A. Coors, Jr., George H . Ellin wood, Edwin J. Roberts, Rafael Del Valle y Sarraga, and Frederick W . Schwartz.
Major Elected Direc to r-at-Large Randolph T. Major, vice president of Merck & Co., has heen elected by the ACS Council as a director - at - large. He will fill out the unexpired t e r m of John C. Warner, ACS Presidentelect, which runs through 1956. Major has b e e n an active member of several local sections—Nebraska, Princeton, and the North Jersey Section—and was chairm a n of the Nomenclature Committee in 1943, and the Budget and Finance Committee, 1948—49. He was also a member of the Committee on Manpower in 1942 and representative to t h e National Research Council Division of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, 1951-54.
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