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Association Reports: ACS Division of Chemical Education

Committee Reports, November 2004 photo Morton Z. Hoffman

Secretary’s Report Jerry L. Sarquis

CHED Appointments At the Executive Committee Meeting Diane Bunce was appointed to the Board of Publication and Marcy Towns was appointed to the Examinations Institute Board of Trustees. Each will serve a 2005–2007 term. The appointment of a member of DivCHED as the U.S. representative to IUPAC was made subsequent to meeting (see below). High School Teacher Awards Endowment The Executive Committee also approved the founding document for the Division’s new Regional High School Teacher Award. Glenn Crosby will be initiating a fund drive to raise $100,000 over a two-year period to be matched on a 1:1 basis by CHED. This will provide an endowment for funding Regional High School Teacher Awards in each of the ACS regions. The goal of the drive is to raise $300,000 or more. (A fuller description of this Endowment program, donating to it, and making a donation in honor of a person appears on p 23). Participate in Committee Meetings All CHED members are invited to attend the CHED governance meetings that will be held in conjunction with the San Diego ACS meeting. On Saturday morning, the Executive Committee will meet. The Business Meeting will be held just before the Sunday evening CHED Poster Session/ Social Hour. All members are welcome and encouraged to attend both meetings. Other committee meetings may also be held. Near the time of the meeting, the time and location of open meetings will be posted on the Division’s Web page, http://www.divched.org/. Keep Your Address Up to Date It is important to update your address with ACS whenever you move. Each time a Newsletter or ballot is mailed, there are some who do not receive those items because their address is out of date. CHED gets the mailing lists to generate the mailing labels from ACS. However, the request has to be made at least two weeks before the list is needed so there is usually about a one-month lag time. There are two ways to make changes to your mailing information: • First option: Contact ACS asking that your file be updated. The email address is [email protected]; telephone is 800/333-9511 (U.S. only). • Second Option: Check your information and make any changes online. Go to www.acs.org. If you have never logged on before, or if you have forgotten your login name and password, simply log in as a New User (box at upper left-hand part of the page) and create a login name and password. Once you are logged in, choose the Edit My Profile link to check (and correct, if necessary) the current information.

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Figure 1. Derek Davenport and Uni Susskind, recipients of the Outstanding Service Award, flank Diane Bunce, chair of the CHED Service Award Committee.

Email Addresses Needed! The Executive Committee is planning to have a limited number of communications sent out infrequently. Therefore it is important that your email address be part of the data in the ACS Roster. Check and update your email address (as well as your other mailing information) using one of the options described above. Outstanding Service Award Diane Bunce The Division of Chemical Education Outstanding Service Award was instituted in 2002 to recognize the extraordinary efforts of one or two Division members whose contributions to the Division have been truly outstanding. The annual award is presented at the Division’s banquet at the Fall ACS Meeting. Derek A. Davenport and Uni Susskind were the winners of the 2004 award. A photograph of Derek and Uni taken at the banquet appears in Figure 1, above. Appointment to IUPAC John Clevenger Mort Hoffman, Chair-Elect of CHED, has been appointed by IUPAC as their U.S. National Representative to the IUPAC Committee on Chemistry Education (CCE). The term of the appointment is two years (2004–2006) and is renewable. As representative, Hoffman will attend CCE meetings during the ICCE international conferences (the next will be in Seoul in 2006) and at the IUPAC General Assembly and Conference (Beijing in 2005), considering international issues such as chemical education in the developing world, public understanding of chemistry, and chemical use in weapons and voting on the allocation of funds for projects. As the Journal’s IUPAC reporter, Hoffman will report on the organization’s meetings and conferences in these pages.

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Association Reports: ACS Division of Chemical Education From the Journal of Chemical Education JCE Editorial Staff

JCE Periodical Table

The staff of the Journal of Chemical Education work hard to bring you more value for your subscription dollar. We are always seeking ways to improve your Journal and are proud to report these accomplishments during 2004: • The December 2004 issue was the 100th issue published by the editorial staff at the University of Wisconsin–Madison; Figure 2 shows the covers of all 100 issues. • Volume 81 included 2014 printed pages— more content than has been printed in a single year during the entire history of JCE. • More than 300 articles of interest to high school teachers, including nine hands-on JCE Classroom Activities and a reprint collection, The Chemical Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, were published.

Figure 2. The Journal of Chemical Education Periodical Table of Covers celebrates 100 issues with 100 covers.

• As has been true every year since JCE Online began, more content was published on the Web this year than in any previous year. • JCE Online served 8.32 million pages, a 25% increase over 2003.

JCE DigiDemos—chemical demonstrations done digitally

• Through the JCE Index online you can find and read full text of an additional 21 years of back issues, 1976– 1996, which have been scanned and uploaded to the Web.

JCE QBank—homework, quiz, and exam questions online

• Keywords used for searching the JCE Index online have been revised, categorized, and extended to more completely cover the field; keywords have been applied to many more articles, and our database of reviewer interests has been updated via an online form.

JCE WebWare—Web-based learning aids

• The JCE Digital Library ( JCE DLib), a collection of exemplary digital resources for teachers, opened in January with four initial collections:

Figure 3. Certificate recognizing JCE contributions to National Chemistry Week 2004.

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JCE SymMath—Mathcad and other symbolic mathematics explorations for students • The ACS has recognized with a certificate of appreciation the number, quality, and broad range of resources the Journal staff identified and published in support of National Chemistry Week (see Figure 3). Look for even more and better resources next fall for NCW 2005 when the theme is the Joy of Toys! • You can now subscribe to JCE, extend a subscription, order JCE books, and purchase JCE Software and Chemistry Comes Alive! digital video through the JCE Online store at http://store.jce.divched.org, which opened this month (see p 176). There’s even a special, moneysaving offer at the store to celebrate its opening. The offer is good through February 28, 2005, so don’t delay.

The JCE editorial staff in Madison looks forward to another productive year and to providing you with interesting and useful information, ideas, and materials. We continue to strive to be, in the words of former editor W. T. Lippincott, “a perpetual and dependable learning source for chemists who teach”. We also aim to provide learning materials and experiences that engage the students of those “chemists who teach”. This Journal is your Journal! Help us to make it better serve your needs by sending your comments and suggestions to [email protected].


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Solicitation Committee: DivCHED Teaching Excellence Endowment Campaign Begins Glenn Crosby and Kathleen Thompson Are you ready to support great science teaching? If so, then plan to join the DivCHED and other ACS members who have already made contributions to the Division of Chemical Education Teaching Excellence Endowment. Glenn Crosby, chair of the Endowment Task Force, has kicked off the fund-raising campaign at the Southeast Regional Meeting in Research Triangle Park in November by announcing that more than $30,000 has been already been collected toward the goal. A total of $300,000 will ultimately be needed to ensure that a teacher in each region will receive the minimum $1000 that accompanies the honor each year. The endowment was established by the division to fund annual awards to teachers of chemistry and the chemical sciences in each of the ten regions of the American Chemical Society. At the 2004 ACS spring national meeting, the divi-

sion agreed to match the first $100,000 in contributions to the fund. Crosby hopes to obtain gifts from many individuals to demonstrate to the high school teacher community that there are many influential scientists and engineers who appreciate excellence in science teaching and wish to reward those who excel in that demanding profession. In addition, the intent of this award program is to establish a firm presence of the Division of Chemical Education in all ACS Regions and to promote greater involvement of high school teachers in the activities of the ACS. Contributions to help fund the award, to be known as the Division of Chemical Education Regional Award in High School Teaching, can be made by sending a check, payable to the American Chemical Society, to the ACS Department of Meetings and Expositions Services, c/o CHED HS Fund, American Chemical Society, 1155 16th Street NW, Washington, DC 20036. Please visit chemistry.org/meetings/regional or www.divched.org for a downloadable contribution form or call 800/227-5558 ext. 8072.

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American Chemical Society Dear Colleague: Why are you a chemist? Many of us would agree with Eli Pearce, Past President of the American Chemical Society (ACS), when he said “my excellent high school teacher was definitely responsible for my choosing chemistry as a career.” And now you can join the effort to ensure that the great teachers who launch so many scientific careers are recognized and rewarded by their professional society! The ACS Division of Chemical Education has stepped forward to establish an endowment that will support awards for high school science teachers in every Region of the ACS. By establishing an effort to solicit funds for the Division of Chemical Education Teaching Excellence Endowment, the Division is making a firm financial commitment to high school science teaching, ACS Regions, and the profession of chemistry. But the project will not be successful without your help. Our goal is to raise $300,000 for the endowment. With these funds, each region will be able to award $1000 annually to an outstanding high school teacher. To encourage contributions and underscore its commitment, the Division of Chemical Education Executive Committee has authorized a challenge grant through which the first $100,000 in contributions will be matched on a 1:1 basis. Our goal is not just a financial one; we are anxious to assemble a lengthy list of donors containing names, of both individuals and collective entities, that will demonstrate to the secondary education community that there is a large number of science professionals who appreciate the value of good science teaching in the Nation’s high schools and who are willing to reward it. Various ways to contribute to the Division of Chemical Education Teaching Excellence Endowment are enclosed. We urge you, as an individual, to join us and give generously to this project. It is a unique, one-time event. Once the Endowment is established these teaching awards will be conferred in ACS Regions every year. President-Elect Bill Carroll has put increasing ACS attention to secondary education, particularly high school teachers, on his agenda for his presidential year in 2005. He agrees with our members when he states “teachers make the difference and I’m a big fan of honoring them”. Join Bill and become a fan! Use the enclosed form and join other individuals and organizations that have already contributed $35,000 to the campaign—before its official beginning. Most of all, join what will be thousands of people who know, without that special teacher, their future would look very different. John V. Clevenger Chair

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Association Reports: ACS Division of Chemical Education From the Exams Institute, Assessment Products Thomas A. Holme The Exams Institute continues to explore new assessment products. A committee is currently forming to write an exam for the first term of the full-year Organic course with a projected publication date of fall 2006. A partnership with educators from Brigham Young University has been established to build a Computer Adaptive Testing (CAT) system for assessment, utilizing Exams Institute items. Work on new laboratory assessment concepts is also being piloted. Finally, the Exams Institute is working with a task force from the ACS Society Committee on Education (SOCED) to consider ways to provide more flexible assessments that maintain the advantage of nationally calculated statistical norms. As always, the development of new materials relies on dedicated volunteers from the Chemical Education community. If you are interested in working with the Exams Institute on these or other assessment products, visit our Web site at http://www.uwm.edu/chemexams/ and click on the volunteers link to find more information about getting involved. Outreach Office Salutes 2004 Ambassadors Betty Moore The Outreach Office salutes the 131 volunteers who participated in outreach efforts through the CHED outreach office during 2004. These efforts connect teachers and students with chemistry content and with the larger chemical educaiton community. Jerry Bell, Emie Breyer, Stacey Lowery Bretz, Sharon Brewer, Diane Bunce, Paul Charlesworth, Beverly Chalk, Stuart Chalk, David Collard, Mike Condren, Wayne Cooper, Jim Cortez, Alex Dickison, John DioDato, Iyad Dkeidek, Boyd Earl, Amina K. ElAshmawy, Arthur Ellis, Celia Fallon, Keena Finney, Dave Finster, Shirley Ford, Christina Forsback, Cheryl Baldwin Frech, John Gelder, Amit Ghosh, Kevin Gilbert, John Glushka, Thomas Greenbowe, Lori Hanson,

Hal Harris, David Harwell, Jan Hayes, Al Hazari, Greg Helms, Richard Hermens, Patricia Hill, Holly Hirst, Larry Hockenberry, Morton Hoffman, Kathryn A. Hollar, Tom Holme, Jon Holmes, Erica K. Jacobsen, Allene Johnson, Kenneth Johnson, B. Kane, Katherine Kantardjieff, Lawrence Kaplan, Kerry Karukstis, Paul Kelter, Daniel Ketcha, Kathy Kitzmann, John Koellner, Ivan Korendovych, Stephen Larson, M. E. Del Ray Lenero, Eileen Lewis, Norm Lewis, George Lisensky, Ellen Loehman, Steve Long, Cary Lyle, Ted Lyon, Uday Maitra, Ladie Malek, Joe March, Lee Marek, Diana Mason, Manuela McClary, Anne McWilliams, Gerald Meccariello, Lynn Melton, Meridian Park School, Clyde Metz, Cathy Middlecamp, Mark Midland, Gholam A. Mirafzal, Jonathan Mitschele, John W. Moore, Aaron Monte, Karen Nordell, Mary Virginia Orna, Joyce Oakdale, Rebecca Owen, Kimberly Pacheco, Linda Padwa, Josephine Parlagreco, Gabor Patonay, Mary Jae Paul, Larry Peck, Donivan Porterfield, Jim Prestegard, Jodie Psoter, Eric R. Punzalan, Ponnadurai Ramasami, Herb Retcofsky, Matt Riggs, Paul Rillema, Arlene Russell, Dawn Rickey, Jerry Sarquis, Mickey Sarquis, Maureen Scharberg, A. Truman Schwartz, Jim Schneider, Joseph Sencen, Bob Shaw, David Shaw, Marie Sherman, Jerry Smith, Silvia Solis, Michael Stabosz, James Stevenson, Cathy Stewart, Bradley Stone, Uni Susskind, Virginia Tancioco, Ruth Tanner, Dave Tanis, Richard Taylor, Vernon Theilmann, Kanet Thomas, Lydia Tien, John Varine, James G. Vogel, Debbie Waite, Kathy Warner, Eric Weber, Rodney Whetzel, Carol White, Donald Wink

Become an Outreach Ambassador—it’s easy. To take part in this very successful outreach program of making JCE, CHED, and Examinations Institute materials available at workshops, conferences, award nights, seminars, or educational courses, just contact the CHED Outreach Office at [email protected].

A special offer from the CHED Exams Institute CHEM ED EXAMS

If you are not now a CHED member but become one, you are eligible for a special discount on the purchase of Exams made within two months of your becoming a member. When you join the Division, you may also want to become involved with the Institute by volunteering your services. It’s a great way to get to know some fine people as well as contribute your expertise. Information about standardized examinations, general and organic chemistry study guides, test-item banks, small-scale laboratory assessment activities, and other Exams Institute products is available at http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/chemexams/. Contact Examinations Institute, UW–Milwaukee Chemistry Department, 3210 N. Cramer Street, Milwaukee, WI 53211-3029; phone: 414/229-5680; email: [email protected].

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Regional High School Teaching Awards Announced The winners of the ACS Regional Award in High School Chemistry Teaching for 2004 have been announced by the American Chemical Society. The awardees were honored at their respective annual regional meetings during 2004. Central Region. The winner of the Central Region’s Outstanding High School Teacher for 2004 is Jesse Bernstein of the Hawken School, Gates Mills, Ohio. Bernstein has been successfully mixing chemistry with National Mole Day, Halloween, forensics, and inquiry lab experiments for more than 30 years. As chair of the High School Affairs Committee of Jesse Bernstein the ACS Cleveland Section, he organized and led workshops for other chemistry teachers in the Cleveland area. He has developed a wide range of inquiry lab experiments and served as a mentor in the Chemistry Olympiad. Most recently he has been presenting National Chemistry Week programs to elementary school students at local libraries, and is rewarded by the joy and excitement of his young charges. Southwest Region. Dwan Garrison is the winner of the Regional Teaching Award for the Southwest Region. This effervescent educator proudly announces that she is a “Flippin Chemistry Teacher” from the high school and city of that name in Arkansas, where she has taught since 2003. Before that she was with Friendswood High School, Friendswood, TX. In 2003 she was presented the Thomas Aczel Dwan Garrison Award for Excellence in Chemical Education by the ACS Greater Houston Local Section. She has wisely used the excitement of demonstrations to bring home a learning point

and stimulate interest; and judging from the science fair awards and the grades in her AP classes, she has been hugely successful. Northeast Region. Jamie Cucinotta, Fayetteville-Manlius High School, Manlius, New York, is the 2004 winner for the Northeast Region. The superintendent of the school district considers her “one of the finest teachers in our country today”. She takes a personal interest in her students and instills in them a love for science, and many have gone on to pursue careers in the sciences. A reJamie Cucinotta gents and honors chemistry teacher, she has been active in many professional organizations and activities. Particularly noteworthy is her long association with the National Science Olympiad. She has served as head coach of the Fayetteville-Manlius High School Team for seven years and in 2004 her team won the national championship. Midwest Region. Rhonda Reist, the Midwest Regional winner, teaches General Chemistry and Advanced Placement Chemistry in Olathe North High School, Olathe, Kansas. A graduate of Kansas State University, she has participated in many summer institutes from Advanced Placement Chemistry to the Chemistry of Pyrotechnics. Reist is deeply involved in The Faraday Rhonda Reist Society, a group of current and former high school students “dedicated to the art of performance science” that organizes 30–40 presentations a year for Children’s Mercy Hospital summer camps, juvenile detention centers, teachers’ workshops, and science centers. They are now also producing exhibits for a traveling science center. She also has been a science consultant for the Kansas City Museum.

What do these elements have in common?

Pb Sn Fe Ni Cu Ag Au Pt Each element is a donor category in the CHED High School Teacher Awards Endowment, which was established to ensure that awards to high school teachers at the ACS regional level continue. Read about CHED’s endowment initiative on p 23, where there is information about donating. You can honor that special teacher, the one who shaped your future. Donations may be made in honor of an individual or in memory of an individual. www.JCE.DivCHED.org

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Association Reports: ACS Division of Chemical Education Innovative Progamming Grant Morton Z. Hoffman The ACS Divisional Activities Committee (DAC) has funded a proposal from CHED for support of two outreach symposia in its meeting programs in 2005: Educating Biochemists for the Future, not the Past, cosponsored by the Education and Professional Development Committee of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) at the Spring Meeting in San Diego; Chemical Education in Europe, cosponsored by the Division of Chemical Education of the Federation of European Chemical Societies (FECS) in Washington, DC. DAC awarded $6500 for the two symposia; CHED provided $1000 of matching funds. Report from ACS Council Mickey Sarquis The ACS Council meeting was held on August 25, 2004 as a part of the Philadelphia conference. Councilors representing CHED were Mickey Sarquis, Carol White, Richard Jones, and Jerry Sarquis.

ACS Council Actions Council actions included electing persons to fill open slots on various Council committees; the results were as follows. Committee on Committees Lawrence Barton, Lissa Dulany, Larry Krannich, Mary Virginia Orna, and Eleanor Siebert. Council Policy Committee Rita Boggs, Dean Cooke, Yorke Rhodes, and Peter Stang. Committee on Nominations and Elections Frank Blum, Michael Doyle, Carol Duane, Ruth Ann Hathaway, Kathleen Schulz, and Ellen Stechel.

Candidates for Upcoming ACS Elections The Council was informed of the candidates for the fall 2004 ACS national election. President-Elect 2005 E. Ann Nalley, Cameron University, Lawton, OK; F. Sherwood Rowland, University of California, Irvine, CA; Isiah M. Warner, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA. Director-at-Large, 2005–2007 David F. Eaton, Light Insights, LLC, Wilmington, Delaware; Judith C. Giordan, Visions in Education, Inc., Pleasanton, CA; Howard M. Peters, Peters, Verny, Jones & Schmitt, LLP, Palo Alto, CA. David N. Rahni, Pace University, Pleasantville, NY. Director, District II, 2005–2007 Thomas H. Lane, Dow Corning Corporation, Midland, MI; Diane G. Schmidt, Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH.

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Director, District IV, 2005–2007 Eric D. Bigham, GlaxoSmithKline, Chapel Hill, NC; Paul R. Jones, University of North Texas, Denton, TX; Robert L. Lichter, Merrimack Consultants, LLC, Atlanta, GA; John L. Massingill, Jr., Texas State University, San Marcos, TX. Candidate Statement Guidelines: President-Elect and Board of Directors. The Council discussed a recent decision by the Committee on Nominations to reduce the allowable length for candidate statements (President-Elect and Board of Directors) from 1000 words to 750. A resolution was defeated at Council that would have allowed candidate statements to be 1000 words or more.

ACS Council Votes At this meeting, Council voted to accept: • The petition to amend the Bylaws to change the membership requirements for pre-college teachers in the society. The change allows experienced qualified chemistry teachers, who may not have previously fully met the requirements, to become members based on their status and experience. With the change, fully certified, licensed, or otherwise qualified pre-college teachers of chemistry are now eligible for ACS membership after three years of employment as a chemistry teacher. The change also makes those pre-college chemistry or allied science teachers, who lack the teaching requirements but otherwise qualify, eligible for associate membership. • A petition to amend the Bylaws to allow for electronic balloting was passed. This change allows the use of electronic balloting by not specifying a particular balloting procedure. Additionally, the option of using any form of balloting is available to all members, as long as it provides security against unauthorized balloting and that it allows timely reporting and archiving of the election results. • The petition to amend the Bylaws to change the date that Divisional annual reports are due from March 15 to February 15 • CEPA’s minor revision of the ACS Professional Employment Guidelines to a 7th edition • The petition for a name change from the Peoria Local Section to the Illinois Heartland Local Section (as proposed through LSAC) • Wichita Falls–Duncan Sections required for annexation of four counties currently located in the Dallas– Fort Worth Section (as proposed through LSAC)

ACS Council Discussion In addition to the above, Council also engaged in a discussion of multidisciplinary opportunities that exist for the Society. Growing involvements in nanoscience, chemical biology, bio-pharma, computational chemistry, materials chemistry, and engineering were acknowledged and recognized as consistent with the ACS strategic plan, including:


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• Redefine chemistry to include the multidisciplinary fields in which chemistry and chemical engineering play enabling roles • Develop programs to attract the broadest range of chemical professionals

Additional items of interest are that a Membership survey will be sent out for the first time in 10 years, and that the price of advance registration at meetings was increased to $295.

• Create and nurture multidisciplinary communities

Questions of placement of multidisciplinary chemistry and chemists in the Society, impacts on education both within and external to the Society, and classification and identification of these chemists were also discussed. The Committee of Economic and Professional Affairs, CEPA, is responsible for the dispersion of chemistry as a discipline, including recruitment of members who do not have a strong identity as “chemists”. CEPA is seeking input on ways ACS should connect to growing areas such as biotech/pharma, what services should be provided to multidisciplinary members, and providing a professional home to such groups. Some specific questions that were raised include: • Which multidisciplinary chemists do we want to attract and retain? How will we do this? • Are there particular groups we want to target? • What multidisciplinary programs would be most attractive to ACS members in industry or government? • What “home” would be most attractive? New Divisions? Sub-divisions? Secretariats? • What are the barriers? Structure? Membership requirements? Culture? • What would be the impact on existing members if we are successful? • What opportunities did we miss? Is it too late? • What areas do we need to serve better? • What does ACS have to offer that will compete with boutique societies? • What areas are underserved? • Do we need new structures?

A new task force has been appointed to consider all of these issues. All members of the Society are invited to provide input on this topic by contacting [email protected].

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Results, ACS Division of Chemical Education 2004 Election of Officers

Chair-Elect (Chair in 2006) • Loretta Jones, Northern Colorado University, Greeley, CO; [email protected]

Member-at-Large (2005–2007) • Arlene Russell, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; [email protected]

Secretary/Councilor (2005–2007) • Donald Wink, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL; [email protected]

Councilor (2005–2007) • Jerry Sarquis, Miami University, Oxford, OH; [email protected]

Councilor (2005) • Carol White, Athens Technical College, Athens, GA; [email protected]

Alternate Councilor (2005–2007) • Richard Jones, Sinclair Community College, Dayton, OH; [email protected]

Alternate Councilor (2005) • Laura Pence, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT; [email protected]

Information about membership in the Division may be obtained from the Secretary, whose address is listed in the Information Page on page 36.


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