ACS AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY Board of Directors Arthur C Cope, Chairman M. H. Arveson Robert W. Cairns Ralph Connor Robert C. Elderfield Henry Eyring Paul J. Flory Karl Folkers W. O. Milligan Charles G. Overberger William J. Sparks Charles L. Thomas F. T. Wall National Officers Arthur C. Cope, Chairman of Board Karl Folkers, President Henry Erying, President-Elect Alden H. Emery, Executive Secretary R. V. Mellefont, Treasurer OFFICE OF EXECUTIVE
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1155 16th St., N.W., Washington 6, D.C. Alden H. Emery, Executive Secretary B. R. Stanerson, Deputy Executive Secretary Frances Sansbury, Assistant to the Executive Secretary Operational Services
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E. G. Harris, Jr., Director Charles Decker, Assistant to the Director Charles M. Gallienne, Subscription Fulfillment Manager Chemical Abstracts Service and Basic Journals Division Alden H. Emery, Acting Head R. H. Belknap, Business Manager and Director of Planning Finance
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R. V. Mellefont, Treasurer Kenneth C. Barnes, Controller Thomas E. Foley, Assistant Treasurer Membership Activities
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"Men and Molecules," the weekly science documentary produced for radio by the ACS News Service, will offer an eight-program series on "New Directions in Cancer Research," starting Oct. 15. This special series will feature about 40 cancer research workers from all parts of the world. They will cover encouraging findings in the chemotherapy of leukemia, the tightening link between viruses and human cancer, the biochemistry of malignant cells, and environmental factors that contribute to the disease, with special emphasis on the relationship of smoking to cancer. The series of 15-minute taped programs will be released to the 280 stations in this country and abroad that now broadcast "Men and Molecules" and will be available on request for other broadcasting and educational uses. Further information may be obtained from John F. Henahan, ACS News Service, 733 Third Ave., New York 17, N.Y.
An upward trend in circulation of the Society's fundamental journals is shown in a midyear report on paid circulation. An average increase of 8.9% during the 12 months ended June 30 is recorded by the group of older ACS journals (Journal of the American Cliemical Society, The Journal of Physical Chemistry, The Journal of Organic Chemistry, Chemical Reviews, and Journal of Chemical Documentation ). In the first six months of the year, three newer journals ( Biochemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, and the Journal of Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Chemistry) have shown an average circulation increase of 57.5% over subscriptions on the books at the end of December 1961.
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R. E. Henze, Director Frances Benner, Local Section Speakers' Tours Lois Jenkins, Admissions Lucy Massey, Records Marshall W. Mead, Local Section Activities Phyllis Powers, Employment Clearing House R. L. Silber, Educational Secretary R. M. Warren, Membership Secretary A. T. Winstead, National Meetings Public, Professional, and Division
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James H. Stack, Director Robert K. Neuman, Information Services David A. H. Roethel, Professional and Government Relations News Service 733 3rd Ave., New York 17, N.Y. Roy Avery, Managing Editor John F. Henahan, Radio and Television Research Grants and Fellowship Division Karl Dittmer, Director Joseph H. Boyer, Assistant Program Administrator, PRF Committee on Professional Training John H. Howard, Secretary 343 State St., Rochester 4, N.Y. ACS JOURNALS AND CHEMICAL ABSTRACTS SERVICE Please see specific journals and CA for names and addresses of editors and staff. ACS LOCAL SECTIONS AND DIVISIONS Chemical and Engineering News, Vol. 40, March 26, 1962, lists names and addresses of officers.
A special ceremony for presentation of the 1962 Ipatieff Prize is scheduled at the 142nd ACS National Meeting in Atlantic City. Professor Charles Kemball of The Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland, will receive the $3000 award from ACS President Karl Folkers in the Claridge Hotel on Tuesday afternoon, Sept. 11, at a symposium on the Fundamentals of Heterogeneous Catalysis, sponsored by the Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry. The prize is awarded every three years, usually at the Society's spring meeting, to recognize outstanding chemical experimental work in the field of catalysis or high pressure. Prof. Kemball could not be in the United States for the 1962 spring meeting.
The page size of six ACS journals will be increased in 1963, and some of these will be printed on new offset presses being installed by Mack Printing Co. This change in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, The Journal of Organic Chemistry, The Journal of Physical Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Biochemistry, and the Journal of Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Chemistry will make uniform the page size of all ACS journals, facilitating accommodation of the purchasers of advertising space. Advertisements in the basic journals will be segregated from the technical content and grouped in opening and closing pages. Chemical Abstracts also will convert to the larger page size in 1963, but will carry no advertising. SEPT.
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