ACS NEWS
Council nominates Calvin and Sheehan Nominees for President-Elect, dues increase to $25 for 1970, information exchange with the U.K. highlight Minneapolis Council meeting
HEEDING. Dr. Paul N. Craig pays close attention to remarks of Dr. Eugene V. Kleber (at mike) during Council meeting
Dr. John C. Sheehan Camille Dreyfus Professor
Dr. Melvin Calvin 1961 Nobel Laureate
The ACS Council has nominated Dr. Melvin Calvin and Dr. John C. Sheehan for President-Elect of the Society for 1970 at the just-concluded 157th national meeting in Minneapolis, Minn. Election by mail ballot will be held this fall. Dr. Calvin, a 1961 Nobel Laureate, is professor of molecular biology and chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, and director of the laboratory of chemical biodynamics at Lawrence Radiation Laboratory. He has been an ACS member since 1939 (California Section). He is presently serving on the advisory board, Accounts of Chemical Research. Dr. Sheehan is Camille Dreyfus Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he has been a professor since 1952. He has been an ACS member since 1940, and is a member of the Board of Directors (director-at-large). His awards include the ACS Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry (1959) and the ACS Award in Pure Chemistry (1951). Biographies of both candidates will be published in C&EN in late October, when ballots are mailed to members. As has been custom in recent years, candidates will have the opportunity to state their views on Society issues at that time. Also, other candidates may be nominated by petition. Dues increase. At a morning-long session that used up most of the noon hour as well, Society President Wallace R. Brode led the Council through a number of other items of key business that included an increase in membership dues to $25 a year (from the present $16), effective Jan. 1, 1970 (see box).
Understandably enough, the question of dues sparked discussion and debate during the meeting. Should the increase be considered an unwarranted 56% leap, or, as one councilor put it, a mere 75 cents a month—the "price of a pack of cigarettes in a New York hotel'? In the end, Dr. Paul N. Craig, chairman of the joint Board-Council Committee on Future ACS Dues {lequirements, carried his argument that the Society can no longer tolerate deficits. The past three years have seen deficits totaling some $2 million, he noted. And the prospect of accumulating a total of $13 million in deficit over the next 10 years, were dues not raised, would present an intolerable situation, he adds. In a detailed exposition of the Society's dues-supported programs, Dr. Craig pointed out that since 1968, policy as spelled out by the Board has been to conduct major programs on a self-supporting basis. But in the period 1964-68, dues-supported activities have suffered a total net deficit of $1.6 million. And the "deficit situation is continuing into 1969, when the dues-supported area will have a budgeted deficit of approximately $635,000 . . . ," Dr. Craig says. In 1969, dues income will total $1,696,000, Dr. Craig noted. Of this, $310,000 is allocated for C&EN, $224,000 is earmarked for journal subsidy, and $297,000 is scheduled for payment to local sections. That leaves $865,000 for dues-supported Society activities. But anticipated expenses for such activities is $1.5 million. The projected deficit is thus $635,000. "Obviously," Dr. Craig says, "one APRIL 28, 1969 C&EN 53
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would need to drastically reduce Society activities or raise dues . . . . After studying the dues-supported programs in detail, we came to the unanimous decision that . . . with minor exceptions, all programs should be continued to be supported at current levels as a minimum. The committee further agreed that the Society should expand its activities in several areas, when income becomes available." Dr. Craig outlined major portions of the programs, such as activity in chemistry and public affairs (Project SEED, for example); educational affairs (ACS Short Courses); membership affairs ( employment aids ) ; public, professional, and member relations (ACS News Service); awards; nomenclature; Committee on Professional Training; and membership servicing. The increase in dues (first since 1961) received overwhelming support from the Council, following some 20 minutes of questioning by Council members. Decision on increasing the member allocation to C&EN from the current $3.00 to $4.00 as proposed was deferred. Chief executive officer. In his report to the Council as Chairman of the Board, Dr. Milton Harris pointed to the "hectic change" of today's world and observed that "It's almost axiomatic that almost any concept that was developed a generation or more ago has
a better than even chance of being outmoded . . . . For these reasons, your Board has studied and will continue to study very intensively all the problems we face and . . . is taking an especially hard look at the structure of this Society." In this connection, Dr. Harris reported on the continuing efforts to implement the decision made at last September's Atlantic City Council meeting to appoint a chief executive officer of the Society to coordinate the multitude of activities involved in ACS affairs. Some 35 potential candidates have been considered, he said, and the list has shortened until "we are now in the process of looking very hard at a few individuals. I hope to be able to report to you, perhaps at the September meeting, of the successful culmination of this important activity." U.K. agreement. Dr. Harris took note of the agreement since agreed to between ACS and The Chemical Society (London) acting for the U.K. Consortium on Chemical Information under which the British society has acquired exclusive rights to distribute the publications and computer services of Chemical Abstracts Service in the United Kingdom (see page 15 for full story). In return, The Chemical Society will work to extend the applications of CAS computer-based informa-
News at a glance from Council meeting in Minneapolis... • Calvin, Sheehan nominated for President-Elect • Membership dues increased to $25. • Student membership dues raised to $12.50. • Probationary Division of Pesticide Chemistry approved. • Increased apportionment of funds of local sections using sliding scale taken under consideration for placing on Council agenda this September. • Creation of Joint Board-Council Committee on Copyrights approved. • Ad interim approval of Joint Board-Council Committee on Environmental Improvement ratified. • Committee on Profession-wide Pension Plan authorized to investigate sources of outside funds to continue study. • Annual subscription rates for four fundamental journals raised: Biochemistry from $16/$32 to $20/$40 (member/nonmember); Journal of the American Chemical Society from $16/$32 to $22/$44; The Journal of Physical Chemistry from $16/$32 to $20/$40; and Journal of Chemical and Engineering Data from $9.00/$18 to $15/$20. A/so, nonmember rate for Industrial and Engineering Chemistry raised from $5.00 to $8.00. • 18 new student affiliate chapters authorized, including two resulting from mergers. • Spring 1977 meeting in New Orleans and spring 1978 meeting in Anaheim, Calif., confirmed. • Council Policy Committee recommendation to Board to reconfirm Chicago as fall 1970 meeting site ratified. • Ad hoc Committee on Program Review established to conduct continuing study of dues-supported programs. • Detroit Section given OK on adding Lapee, Livingston, and Sanilac Counties. • Northeast Section's annexation of Hawkins and Greene Counties approved. • Evening session reconfirmed for September 1969 Council meeting as experiment.
tion services in the U.K. and will develop a system of processing data from the British published literature for input to the CAS system. "CAS," says Dr. Harris, "is pretty definitely going to become the core of what is truly an international information system/' Discussions are also continuing with various other OECD countries, he says. Contact has been made with the U.S.S.R. as well. Apportionment. The Council took under consideration a petition to increase apportionment of funds to local sections. The petition calls for raising the basic section allotment from $200 to $450 a year. It also calls for increasing the per member allotments according to the following schedule: one to 500 members, $4.00 per member; 501 to 2500, $3.00 each; 2501 to 6000, $2.00 each; and 6001 and over, $1.00 each. The petition will be placed on the Council agenda this September. Pension plan. The Council's approval of a recommendation of the Joint Board-Council Committee on Profession-wide Pension Plan that the committee be authorized to investigate possible outside sources of funds to continue its study moved the plan one step closer to reality. At last December's meeting, the Board of Directors approved in principle the concept of a professionwide pension plan, on recommendation by the joint committee, and asked the committee to develop a detailed plan. As a result, the committee has concluded that an early vesting, national portable pension system is technically feasible and that financial feasibility seems "likely/' Other committee conclusions are that to be successful, the pension plan would have to cover more than just ACS members, that a minimum of 6000 subscribers would be needed to make the plan self-supporting, that operational costs during the first five years would total about $1.5 million, among others. The joint committee figures it will need about $100,000 in additional funds to develop the administrative, policy, and marketing aspects of setting up such a plan. Student chapters. The Council ratified ad interim action by the Council Policy Committee (CPC) to charter 16 new student affiliate chapters. In addition, Bradford Durfee Institute of Technology and New Bedford Institute of Technology have been dechartered, and Southeastern Massachusetts Technological Institute has been chartered in their stead. Case Institute of Technology and Western Reserve University have been dechartered and Case Western Reserve University has been chartered in their stead.
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