Data Published on Selective Service BECAUSE of the wide interest in this subject and the need for obtaining trained men for our Production Army, we give below references to information we have published on occupational deferments, including those of men in training, and the need for technically trained persons. Future developments will be brought t o the attention of our readers. Chemical and Engineering News ( N E W S EDITION previous to 1942)
Vol. 18 (1940), pages 890, 1127 Vol. 19 (1941), pages 129, 311, 457, 459, 489, 520, 587, 681, 797, 1164, 1412, 1464 Vol. 20 (1942), paces 110, 157, 472, 579-80, 788, 812, 837-39, 985, 1099, 1100, 1219, 1294, 1370 Current issue, page 1514, 1536
Chemical Industry M e d a l Presented to Howe THE Chemical Industry Medal, one of the highest honors within the gift of chemical science, was presented to Harrison E. Howe, for more than twenty years editor of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry at a joint meeting oftheNew York Sections of the Society of Chemical Industry, the AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCI-
ETY, and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers held a t The Chemists' Club in New York on November 6. Foster D . Snell, chairman of the New York Section of the Society of Chemical Industry, presided at the medal presentation ceremonies, as well as at the dinner which preceded them. After the presentation, which was made by Lincoln T. Work, research director of the Metal and Thermit Corp. and immediate past chairman of the New York Section, Society of Chemical Industry, Gustavus J. Esselen, consulting chemist of Boston, spoke on the personal side of the medalist and Watson Davis, director of Science Service, told of Dr. Howe's professional achievements. A feature of this part of the program was a motion picture film that showed views of the medalist, most of them taken at scientific meetings, and ended with reproductions of several of the New Year's cards which he had distributed during the past few years. Dr. Howe discussed chemistry in international affairs, calling particular attention to the contributions of chemists in making America strong for war and prosperous in peace, and withal, a better place in which to live. He spoke of the chemist's part in perfecting new raw materials to replace those which are now scarce or inadequate. He cited the work in vitamin fortification of foods and in food 1506
dehydration, and recalled such chemical triumphs of the past as the breaking of the Japanese camphor monopoly through the development of synthetic camphor, the release from dependence on German potash deposits through the opening up of American potash resources, and the discovery of a cheap process for the production of toluene from crude oil.
Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Vol. 33 (1941), pages 1, 135, 283. 561 Vol 34 (1942), pages 2, 131, 259, 648, 1134
Leopold Weil, previously research biochemist for the Biochemical Research Foundation, Franklin Institute, is now associate chemist a t the Eastern Regional Research Laboratory, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Philadelphia, Penna. -^jr
A . C. S. Student Membership Awards for 1942 DONOR
RECIPIENT
GAMMA SIGMA EPSILON FRATERNITY
These memberships are awarded annually by the fraternity to the most outstanding student in each chapter. Delta Beta Chapter, University of Alabama. Mu Beta Chapter, University of Georgia.
James J. Dwyer James A. Johnson, Jr.
SILVERMAN, ALEXANDER
Annual award to the student at the University of Pittsburgh who is a candidate for the B.S. degree in chemistry and who received the highest average rating for his first three years.
CHEMICAL
Ernest S. Elyash
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