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Charles Barkenbus, 64„ professor of organic chemistry at tl>e Univeisit> of Kentucky, died F e b . 2 1 . H e had graduated from Kalamazoo College in Î 9 I 7 and received a Ph.D. in chemistry at Yale in 1920. H e joined the Kentucky faculty that same year. H e joined ACS in 1926 and had been active in the Lexington Section as chairman, secretary-treasurer, and councilor.
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David C . Grahame, 4 7 , professor of chemistry at Amherst College, died of a heart attack in London, D e c . 11, 1958. H e was returning from Aberdeen University, where he had given a lecture, to the University of Bristol, .where he held a Guggenheim fellowship and w a s spending the academic year with his family. Grahame was educated at Minnesota and California, receiving a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the latter in 1937. H e was instructor in chemistry at Berkeley for two years before he joined the Amherst faculty in 1939. In 1945 he w a s a member of the staff of the M I T Radiation Laboratory. He had published a total of 5 5 papers, mostly in electrochemistry. H e had been secretary-treasurer of the Division of Physical and Inorganic Chemistry of the ACS and at the time of his death was secretary-treasurer of the Division of Physical Chemistry. He had held several different offices in the Connecticut Valley Section, including that of chairman ( 1954 ) .
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