ACS News Project SEED (named for Subcommittee on Education & Employment of the Disadvantaged) as an "other" committee of the council. The group previously had been in limbo since termination of the experimental Education Commission, of which the group was a subcommittee. Councilors also approved a name change for the joint board-council Committee on Patent Matters & Related Legislation to the Committee on Patents & Related Matters. The council decided to keep ACS student affiliate dues at $7.00 per year, defeating a motion to increase them to $10. And councilors approved full divisional status for the heretofore probationary Division of Geochemistry; chartered a new local section, called the Southwest Georgia Section, with headquarters at Albany; approved annexation by the San Antonio Section of three previously unassigned Texas counties; approved an advance registration fee of $65 for members at both national meetings next year (with a $75 on-site registration fee for members); and approved a formula for distributing the allotments to ACS divisions from income derived from national meetings and expositions. Ernest Carpenter, Washington
Board acts on variety of issues in Atlanta Discussion of finances, especially setting of 1982 dues, occupied considerable time during the ACS Board of Directors' day-long meeting in Atlanta. Board members voted to recommend to the council that dues be set at $59, $7.00 over the 1981 level. This increase would have allowed resumption of some dues-supported activities that have been cut in 1981. However, the council later decided on a $6.00 increase. This will provide for essentially a breakeven budget for dues-supported programs for 1982 but will not allow for restoration of any programs. Board members also expressed concern over rapidly escalating costs of mailing C&EN subscriptions to members in foreign countries. Funds for the postage required are derived from all members' dues, as specified in board regulations, and amount to about $170,000 this year. Board regulations also specify that members overseas pay the same amount for dues as those in the U.S. The board has the authority to assess foreign members the additional postage costs 62
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Chinese-American Chemical Association inaugurated ACS president Albert C. Zettlemoyer (left) and ACS executive director Raymond P. Mariella (center) delivered congratulatory messages at the inaugural meeting of the Chinese-American Chemical Association, held during the ACS national meeting in Atlanta. CACA is an independent professional society for ethnic Chinese chemists and chemical engineers in the U.S. The group's programs will be directed toward professional betterment and career counseling of its members and toward interactions with other scientific communities, particularly in China and Taiwan, and with ACS. Officers of the new organization include Jesse C. H. Hwa, president (second from left); Samuel J. Huang, vice president (second from right); and Peter W. Kwan, secretary. Those interested in CACA should write to Kwan at Ameron, 4813 Firestone Blvd., South Gate, Calif. 90280.
for mailing C&EN but was reluctant to do so without first hearing comments from appropriate committees. Consequently, it referred this problem to the committees on International Activities and on Membership Affairs as well as to the Society Committee on Publications. The board also received the final reports of the experimental Science and Education commissions (both of which were terminated at the end of 1980) and the first reports of the commissions' successor bodies—the joint board-council Committee on Science, chaired by former Science Commission chairman Warren Falconer, and the Society Committee on Chemical Education, chaired by Stanley Kirschner. Among other matters, the board approved: • $12,000 from the ACS general fund to finance activities honoring the 100th birthday of California chemist and 1955 ACS president Joel Hildebrand. • ACS cosponsorship (with Lehigh University) of a symposium in August honoring the 75th birthday of chemist and 1962 ACS president Karl Folkers. • Increase to $10,000 from $5000 the amount that the Society Com-
mittee on Chemical Education may commit from its contingency fund, if it so chooses, for underwriting costs of the 6th International Conference on Chemical Education, cosponsored by ACS and to be held in August at the University of Maryland. • Establishment of an ACS Award in Applied Polymer Science, sponsored by Phillips Petroleum Co., with first presentation in 1983. • Expansion from four to five the number of categories for ACS Awards for Outstanding Performance by Local Sections—small (less than 200 members), medium small (200 to 399), medium (400 to 799), medium large (800 to 1999), and large (2000 or more). Also, more than one award can be made in these categories. • Termination of two of Chemical Abstracts Service's computer-readable services—REG/CAN and CA BIBLIO—because of lack of customer response. • Proposal that ACS withdraw from the Council on Postsecondary Accreditation's programs if COP A takes action (scheduled this month) that would require ACS to adopt much more extensive and costly visiting procedures to evaluate undergraduate chemistry programs seeking ACS approval. D
