ACS AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY Board of Directors Arthur C. Cope, Chairman M. H. Arveson Robert W. Cairns Ralph Connor Lawrence T. Eby Robert C. Elderfield Henry Eyring W. O. Milligan John H. Nair Charles G- Overberger Charles C. Price Byron Riegel F. T. Wall National Officers Arthur C. Cope, Chairman of Board M. H. Arveson, President Charles C. Price, President-Elect Alden H. Emery, Executive Secretary R. V. Mellefont, Treasurer OFFICE OF EXECUTIVE SECRETARY 1155 16th St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036 Alden H. Emery, Executive Secretary B. R. Stanerson, Deputy Executive Secretary Frances S. Sansbury. Assistant to the Executive Secretary Basic Journals Division Richard H. Belknap, Director Harry I. Hoffman, Assistant Director Louis Locatell, Assistant to the Director Chemical Abstracts Service Division m (The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210) Dale B. Baker, Director Fred A. Tate, Assistant Director L. T. Capell, Director of Nomenclature Kenneth H. Zabriskie, Jr., Director of Research and Development Richard H. Belknap, Business Consultant Financial Division R. V. Mellefont, Treasurer Kenneth C. Barnes, Controller Thomas E. Foley, Assistant Treasurer Membership Activities Division R. E. Henze, Director Frances Benner, Local Section Speakers' Tours Lois Jenkins, Admissions Pauline Caron, Records Marshall W. Mead, Local Section Activities Phyllis Powers, Employment Clearing House R. L. Silber, Educational Secretary R. M. Warren, Membership Secretary A. T. Winstead, National Meetings Operational Services Division E. G. Harris, Jr., Director Charles M. Gallienne, Fulfillment Manager Charles S. Decker, Assistant to the Director Public, Professional, and Member Relations Division James H. Stack, Director Robert K. Neuman, Information Services David A. H. Roethel, Professional and Government Relations ACS News Service (733 Third Ave., New York, N.Y. 10017) Roy Avery, Managing Editor John F. Henahan, Radio and Television Research Grants and Fellowships Division Karl Dittmer, Director Joseph H. Boyer, Assistant Program Administrator, PRF ACS APPLIED JOURNALS See page 2 this issue. ACS LOCAL SECTIONS, DIVISIONS, AND COMMITTEES See C&EN-March 23 (officers of local sections and divisions) and Feb. 17 (committee members).
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The Society's 165th local section was chartered by the Council at the ACS national meeting in Philadelphia last month. To be known as the South Plains Section, it will encompass 18 counties in western Texas and one in eastern New Mexico. Headquarters for the new section will be in Lubbock, Tex.
The name of the Division of Water and Waste Chemistry has been changed to the Division of Water, Air, and Waste Chemistry. The Council approved the change at the request of division members "to provide recognition of the activity of the Air Pollution Committee within our division structure."
The Council voted to eliminate Bylaw VI, Sec. 5,4, which gives the Society first right to publish papers presented at major ACS meetings. Deletion of the bylaw is subject to confirmation by the Board of Directors.
Four new student affiliate chapters were chartered by the Council at its meeting last month, and the approval of 10 other chapters by ad interim action of the Council Policy Committee was confirmed. The new chapters and their faculty sponsors are: California State College at Los Angeles, Dr. Harold Goldwhite; Clarion ( Pa. ) State College, Mary Bechtold; Eastern Kentucky State College (Richmond, Ky. ), Prof. Meredith J. Cox; Elizabethtown (Pa.) College, John P. Ranck; Indiana (Pa.) State College, Dr. Ronald L. Marks; LaSalle-Peru-Oglesby Junior College ( LaSalle, 111. ), John R. Samlin; Limestone College (Gaffney, S.C.), Dr. A. Louise Agnew; Marymount Manhattan College (New York City), Mother M. St. Jose Sheridan; McMurry College (Abilene, Tex.), Dr. W. L. Magnuson and Dr. Roy W. Sonntag; Odessa ( Tex. ) College, Dr. L. G. Richardson; San Antonio ( Tex. ) College, Robert S. McHardy; Southwestern College (Memphis, Tenn.), Dr. RaymondT. Vaughan; University of California, Santa Barbara, Dr. Bruce Rickborn; and University of Vermont, Dr. Donald C. Gregg. This brings to 420 the total number of student affiliate chapters in colleges and universities throughout the U.S.
A new booklet, Chemistry and Chemists, A Definition of Terms, is now available. The booklet contains a statement prepared by the Council Committee on Professional Relations and Status and endorsed last year by the Council and Board of Directors. Background information on the legal status of the chemical profession and a description of the science of chemistry also are included. Members may obtain copies at no charge from the Office of Professional and Government Relations, ACS National Headquarters, Washington, D.C. MAY
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