and Employment Services need to be strengthened and combined under a director reporting directly to the executive director and the board. • ACS work closely with the chemical industry through Corporation Associates and the Corporate Liaison Board to persuade industrial leaders that it is in their best interests to avoid multiple terminations—that their future lies in R&D. • An ACS award be given with full publicity to chemical companies that do not engage in multiple terminations. Let us emphasize and encourage the positive. As chairman of the Division of Professional Relations, I organized a symposium, "Good Guys in Tough Times, or Alternatives to Multiple Terminations" (Joint Central/Great Lakes Regional Meeting, Indianapolis, 1991), featuring speakers from industry. A member of the board has asked us to present a sequel. • As an invited and active participant in the ACS Presidents Conferences on Professionalism (1988) and on Membership for the Year 2000 (1989), I subscribe fully to the conference recommendations and will work to implement them. • Federal retraining funds should be available to chemists and other scientific professionals caught in multiple terminations, just as they are for blue-collar workers caught in plant shutdowns. I advocate that the board put this matter high on the ACS Federal Policy Agenda. Professional status and needs of B.S. and M.S. chemists. Most ACS services are aimed at the needs of Ph.D. chemists. ACS studies have demonstrated that the needs of non-Ph.D.s are addressed inadequately. The Office of Industry Relations and the new Probationary Division of Chemical Technicians are good steps forward. Much needs to be done promptly lest we witness a catastrophic exodus of B.S. chemists from ACS. Interaction with members, local sections, divisions. In an organization as large and multifaceted as ACS, members can get the feeling that they are but numbers in the computer. The local sections and divisions are the heart and soul of ACS. It is in these smaller, more homogeneous bodies that members can interact as individuals. I shall keep in close contact with the 40 local sections in Region II and be
available to help them. As a past division chairman and member of the Division Activities Committee, I can interact similarly with division officers within the region. Methods to do so include: • Visit local sections to listen and to learn what the needs of the members really are. • Help with ACS membership campaigns within local sections: I have served successfully as membership chairman in two sections and one division. • Send written reports to all the sections in the region at least twice annually. Women chemists. That women chemists deserve equal pay and equal opportunities for advancement with their male counterparts is axiomatic. We need to listen better to the many talented, active women chemists in the society. We need to recognize and utilize their talents to effect changes within ACS. I hear that women do not get the difficult assignments that often result in big pay raises and promotions. Dues and fiscal responsibility. I am a fiscal conservative, especially in spending other peoples' money. If we are to have new programs we have to pay for them; most of this money comes from dues. We need a sunset
provision to remove outdated programs. When dues soon exceed the $100 mark, this may cause a large exodus of members. We must create more tangible values for ACS members and communicate them more effectively to our members. Staff. Our greatest assets are our people: our professional staff, our members, and our dedicated volunteers. We cannot expect corporate employers of chemists to treat us professionally if we do not treat our own professionally. I know ACS, particularly CAS, is addressing the job concerns of staff. I applaud the appointment of Clayton Callis as (interim) director of Chemical Abstracts Service. There are many things ACS does very well—including CAS, journals and books, national and regional meetings, and National Chemistry Week. We can all take pride in these accomplishments. But there are problems that demand attention, in some cases, immediate attention. In the past I have enjoyed good working relations with the majority of board members. As a member of the board, I believe we can work together to begin solving our problems. Now I seek your vote; down the road I shall ask for your input and assistance in carrying out these programs. •
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CAS restructures management staff Chemical Abstracts Service, the Columbus, Ohio-based division of the American Chemical Society, has reorganized its management staff in three of its five divisions, creating two new director positions in editorial operations and reducing management positions in information systems and personnel. Editorial operations, the largest operating unit at CAS with more than 800 employees, has been reorganized into three units, each headed by a director. Patton Giles Jr. has been appointed to the new position of director of registry and editorial services, overseeing numerous editorial activities including the building and maintenance of the CAS Chemical Registry System. Roger L. Moody has been appointed to the other new position of director of editorial analysis, overseeing the analysis,
abstracting, and indexing of documents for the CAS database. The third editorial director, David W. Weisgerber, who for the past several years has been editor of CAS databases and director of editorial operations, continues in the position of editor, determining database policies and the future direction of CAS databases. The three editorial directors report to the director of CAS, along with director of information systems Nick A. Farmer and director of marketing and corporate development James V. Seals. Additional staff reorganization in the information systems and personnel divisions involved eliminating a level of management and, in the case of information systems, reducing the number of managers through staff reassignments. Continued on page 54 FEBRUARY 17,1992 C&EN 41
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Continued from page 41 According to Clayton Callis, interim director of CAS, 'The restructuring allows for closer management of both financial and human resources and permits CAS to be more responsive to the needs of its clients and to the advances in information technology/' Q
Papers wanted for student symposium The ACS Western New York Section, in conjunction with industry and academe, is sponsoring the 10th Annual Graduate Students Symposium at the State University of New York, Buffalo, May 20-21. The symposium was created by graduate students to provide a forum for presenting their research to their peers. It often provides graduate students their first opportunity to sharpen their professional communication skills. Abstracts will be accepted from graduate students in all areas of chemistry, and should not exceed 250 words. Include the title, authors' names (with speaker's name underlined), department, and institution. Send abstracts by April 3 to Allen Salerno, Department of Chemistry, State University of New York, Buffalo, N.Y. 14214, phone (716) 831-2311. For further information, contact Gregory E. Agoston at the above address, phone (716) 831-2298. Q
Travel grants for chemistry conference The National Science Foundation has made funds available for supplemental travel grants to the Xllth International Conference on Phosphorus Chemistry, July 6-10, in Toulouse, France. Grants will range from $800 to $1250 to encourage and assist the attendance of American phosphorus chemists and to offset some of the costs associated with the international air-travel expenditures. To be eligible for a travel grant, the applicant must be a member of the professional staff of an educational institution or a nonprofit organization. Participation in one of the following program activities will receive priority in the selection process: serving on a key committee, chairing a technical session, or
