OF INDUSTRIAL AND ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY
ELECTION OF OFFICERS TAKES PLACE THIS MONTH Ballots are being mailed to Division members the first week of August. You will recall that all ACS members residing in the US.and Canada who subscribe to I&EC are automatically Division members. We urge you to seize this opportunity to take part in the Division by voting and by subsequent participation in other Division activities. I n the meantime here is the slate of candidates for the various offices to be filled: CluauaruV
LEO FRIEND M. W. Kellogg Co. P. 0. Box 696 New Market, N. J. 08854 PHONE: 201-3568400
CHAIRMAN-ELE~ R. N. MADDOX Dept. of Chemical Engrg. Oklahoma State Univ. Stillwater, Okla. 74074 PHONE: 405-FR2-6211 SECRETARY GORDON B. SKINNER Dept. of Chemistry Wright State Univ. Dayton, Ohio 45431 PHONE: 513-426-6650
TREALIURER NORBERT PLATZER Plastics Div. Monsanto Co. P. 0. Box 1531 Springfield, M w . 01101 PHONE: 413-788-6911
PROORAM SECRETARY V. A. FAUVER Proces Engineering Dow Chemical Co. Midland, Mich. 48640 PHONE: 517-636-0160 COUNCIWRS JOSEPH STEWART ESOResearch & Engrg. Co. 50 Rockefeller Plaza New York, N. Y.10020 PHONE: 212-974-2656 NORBERT PLATZER Plastics Div. Monsanto Co. P. 0. Box 1531 Springfield, Mass. 01101 PHONE: 413-788-691 1
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CAN D IDATES FOR CHA I R MAN EL ECT
JAMES D. IDOL, Jr.
NORBERT A. J. PLATZER
EDUCATION:B.S. William Jewel College, 1949; M.S. Purdue University, 1952; Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry, Purdue University, 1955 AFFILIATIONS:Standard Oil Co. of Ohio, 1955 to present ACS ACTIVITIES : Industrial Ena. Chem. Div.. National Program Committee; Symposium Chairman on process simulation and subjects of current interest, 1962, 1965, 1968; Polymer Division, By-Laws Committee; Cleveland Section By-Laws Committee, past chairman, and Awards Committee, past chairman MEMBERSHIPS : American Chemical Society, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, American Institute of Chemists-Fellow, Society of Plastics Engineers, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Sigma Xi, Alpha Chi Sigma, Chemists’ Club of New York PRESENT POSITION : Research Manager, Research and Development Department, Standard Oil Co. of Ohio, Cleveland, Ohio
EDUCATION: Ph.D. in Chemistry, University of Vienna, 1936; Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, Imperial College, London, 1937 AFFILIATIONS : WackerChemie G.m.b.H., Germany, 1937-48; Monsanto Chemicals, Ltd., Great Britain, 1948-49; Monsanto Co., 1949 to present MEMBERSHIPS : American Chemical Society, American Institute of Chemists, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Society of Plastics Engineers, Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker, Soci6t4 de Chimie Industrielle ACS ACTIVITIES : Chairman, Connecticut Valley Section; Treasurer, Councilor, and Chairman of National Program Committee, Div. of I&EC; Recipient of I&EC Scroll of Honor-1967; Member of Committee on National Meetings and Divisional Activities PRESENTPOSITION:Senior Specialist, Process Technology, Hydrocarbons & Polymers Division, Monsanto Co., Springfield, Mass.
CANDIDATES FOR MEMBER-AT-LARGE, EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
WALTER L. HARDY
ALBERT W. MEYER
EDUCATION:B.Ch.E. Cornell, 1937; Ch.E. (Prof.) Cornell, 1938; M.B.A. University of Chicago, 1969 AFFILIATIONS:Tide Water Assoc. Oil Co., 1938-41 ; Protective Coatings Corp., 1945-48; Leedpak, Inc., 1948-52; Foster D. Snell, Inc., 1952-59; International Minerals & Chemical Corp., 1959-61; Simonize Co., 1961-65; Richardson Co., 1965 to present ACS ACTIVITIES:None PRESENT POSITION:Director of Research and Development, The Richardson Co., Melrose Park, 111.
EDUCATION:B.S. University of Chicago, 1927; Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1930 AFFILIATIONS:E. I. du Pont de Nemours, 1930-31; A. 0. Smith Corp., 1931-34; Uniroyal, Inc., 1934-54; Diamond Alkali Co., 1954-57; Uniroyal, Inc., 195763; Stevens Institute of Technology, 1963-67; Plastics Institute of America, 1967 to present ACS ACTIVITIES : North Jersey Section: Chairman, Physical and Inorganic Chemistry Section, Polymer Group, Section Evaluation Committee, Baekeland Award Committee, Metropolitan Regional Meeting, Financial Committee, Nominating Committee, Planning Committee; Treasurer, Section Chairman. National Offices: Member, Committee on Nominating and Elections, Committee on Professional Relations; Chairman, Local Section Officers’ Group, Committee Advisory to ACS President, World’s Fair Exhibit Committee, Councilor PRESENT POSITION:Executive Secretary, Plastics Institute of America, Hoboken, N.J.
CARL PACIFIC0
VERN W. WEEKMAN
EDUCATION: B.S.Ch. E. Drexel Institute of Technology, 1943 AFFILIATIONS : Wyandotte Chemical Corp., 1949-54; Alcolac Chemical Corp., 1954-66; Management Supplements, Inc., 1966 to present ACS ACTIVITIES:None PRESENT POSITION: Management Consultant, Management Supplements, Inc., Ellicott City, Md.
EDUCATION:B.S.Ch.E. Purdue University, 1953; M.S. University of Michigan, 1954; Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, 1963 AFFILIATIONS: Mobil Oil Co., 1954 to present ACS ACTIVITIES: Chairman, 1966 Summer Symposium on Reaction Engineering : Supervisor, Systems Research PRESENT PCSITION Group, Mobil Oil Co., Paulsboro, N.J.
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