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ACS Candidates for 1 9 5 5 \ T E M B E R S of the
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CAL SOCIETY whose brief biographies are given below have been nominated for ACS offices. Ballots are being mailed to ACS members. President-Elect Randolph T. Major, vice president of Merck & Co., has a long history of participation in ACS affairs since joining the Society in 1922. H e has been active in the Nebraska Section, the Princeton Section, and t h e North Jersey Section. He was chairman of the Nomenclature Committee in 1943 and of the Budget and Finance Committee 1948-49. H e was a member of t h e Committee on Manpower in 1942, a n d representative to the National Research Council Division of Chemistry a n d Chemical Technology 1951-54. Major was born in 1901 in Columbus, Ohio. During his academic career he chalked up degrees from University of Nebraska and Princeton, and further training at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, Pharmazeutische Institut in Berlin, and Harvard. H e was given t h e Industrial Research Institute Medal in 1951 for "his skill in building a n outstanding research organization a n d his vision in guiding it toward the solution of important problems . . . " H e is the holder of several patents and author or coauthor of over 50 technical articles. Before joining Merck in 1930 as director of p u r e research h e h a d been a research associate at Princeton and h a d taught science at a Nebraska high school. H e belongs to many technical and other organizations. John C . W a r n e r , president of Carnegie Institute of Technology, was born in Goshen, Ind., in 1897 and was educated at Indiana University, receiving a B.S. there in 1919, an A.M. in 1920, and a P h . D . in 1923. H e has honorary degrees from Northeastern, Pittsburgh, and Indiana. H e was t h e 1945 recipient of t h e Pittsburgh Award a n d the 1953 A I C medalist. W a r n e r began his career as a research chemist at the Barrett Co. in Philadelphia in 1918. H e gained further industrial experience with Cosden 4410
Co. in Oklahoma and W a y n e Chemical Corp. in Indiana. After several years of teaching chemistry at Indiana he joined t h e Carnegie Tech faculty in 1926 a n d rose successively from instructor to president in 1950. During World W a r II h e was on leave to work o n the Manhattan Project. He h a s published over 50 papers in physical chemistry, electrochemistry, and metallurgy, a n d has authored or coauthored several textbooks. H e joined t h e ACS i n 1929 and has held many offices, both in the Pittsburgh Section a n d in the national organization. H e w a s elected a director-at-large for 1949-56; was on the Committee on Chemical Abstracts Housing, 1952-53; a n d on Committee on Finance, 1953-55. Regional Director, Fourth District Wallace R. Brode, associate director of t h e Bureau of Standards, born in 1900 in Walla Walla, Wash., graduated from Whitman College in 1921. After g r a d u a t e work at University of Illinois he began work at the Bureau of Standards i n 1924 as assistant chemist. H e studied at Leipzig as a Guggenheim fellow in 1926-28, returning to teach at Ohio State. D u r i n g World War I I h e headed t h e Paris office of OSRD, was stationed a t die Naval Ordnance Test Station in California 1 9 4 5 47, a n d then took his present position at Bureau of Standards. He h a s been active in ACS affairs since joining the Society in 1922. H e was a councilor 1951—53, has been a member of several nomenclature committees, chairman of the Committee on Chemical Abstracts Housing, a n d was on the Advances in Chemistry Advisory Board in 1953 as well a s serving i n several other official capacities. William A. Mosher, professor of chemistry and head of the department at University of D e l a w a r e , worked for Hercules Powder C o . for several years
before assuming his present position. H e w a s born in 1912 a n d educated at Willamette University, Oregon State, University of Michigan, and Penn State. H e joined ACS in 1934 and has been active in the Oregon, Central Pennsylvania, and Delaware Sections. H e was chairman of the ACS Committee on Professional Relations and Status 1 9 4 7 48, belonged to the Committee on Professional and Economic Status 1 9 4 4 46 and has served on several other ACS committees. He was Fulbright professor in Austria 1952-53. Regional Director, Sixth
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Winton I. Patnade, assistant to t h e general manager of nucleonics department, at General Electric Co. since ' 1948, was born in 1904 and educated | aê Cornell. H e took j a P h . D . in 1931 and joined G E as a 1 research associate | in 1933. His principal fields of in-1 terest in chemistry are inorganic, organic, a n d polymers. H e has been a member of the ACS since 1926 and has been active in the Cornell, Rochester, Eastern New York, and Richland Sections. H e has served as councilor, as section chairman, as a cochairman of t h e Division of Paint, Plastics and Printing Ink Chemistry, and as a member of t h e A C S Committee on Constitution and Bylaws. William G. Young of t h e Southern California Section joined ACS in 1926 and has held various Society offices, among them section chairman, councilor, chairman of the Division of Organic Chemistry, chairman of the Committee on Professional Training, and member of the Committee on Corporation Associates and t h e Committee on Education and Students. H e received his education at Caltech, Colorado College, and Stanford. H e is dean of physical science at U C L A and was chairman of the department of chemistry there 1940-48.
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