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activity will appear at the Atlantic City meeting. On W e d n e s d a y morning, Sept. 16, the Council Committee on Professional Relations and Status will present a symposium on "Development of Professional Attitudes" (C&EX, Aug. 10, page 8 2 ) . T h e meeting will be held on the Convention Hall stage, followed by a hmcheon in the Royal Pavilion of the Dennis Hotel. Dr. Sidney Cantor, committee member who has been especially active in study of die subject over several years (C&EX, Jan. 27, 1958, Part 2, page 7 3 ) , has organized a slate of speakers who are students of professional affairs and attitudes. Now a consultant, Dr. Cantor has worked as an industrial research chemist as well as a director of research. Dr. A. L. Elder, ACS President-Elect, will address the luncheon. Dr. John K. Taylor, chairman of the PR&S Committee, will open the program with a discussion of the work ot his committee. Dr. Bernard Ross, who will deal with social choices in professional values, is an associate piwft-ssot' in social work and social research at Bryn Mawr College. Me has been active in professional affairs of social workers and sociologists, giving particular attention to effects of changing social values on professionals, the aspirations of professionals, and social responsibility of professionals. Dr. Anne Roe, whose subject is motivation of scientists, is currently a lecturer in education and a research associate at Harvard University. A clinical psychologist, she is the author of 49 books and papers. During the past 15 years she has taken a particular interest in psychological studies of scientists and in 1953 published a book, "The Making of a Scientist/' Dr. Andrew S. Watson will discuss professional images. He is a psychoanalyst in private practice in Ann Arbor, Mich., and is a member of the faculties of both t h e school of law and school of medicine at University of 90
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Michigan. In each of the latter positions he is concerned w i t h the development of professional images in the student lawyer and s t u d e n t physician. Dr. William A. M o s h e r , head of t h e d e p a r t m e n t of chemistry at University of Delaware, is past chairman of t h e PR&S Committee. H e will discuss experiences with use of lectures and discussions in developing proper professional attitudes. • Luncheon Speakers. At the luncheon, ACS President-Elect A. L. Elder, director of chemical research for Corn Products, will talk about w h a t m a n a g e m e n t expects of the young professional. Dr. P. A. Roussel will discuss w h a t the young professional expects in his job. R e s e i i . h chemist at Du Pont, Dr. Roussel has previously spoken and written on professional s t a t u s (C&EX. Jan. 5, p a g e S 4 ) . After t h e members of the morning panel h a v e offered comments, Dr. John J. B o h r e r will describe the program of the Philadelphia Section's professional relations and status committee.
ACS Plans Film Previews College and high school chemistry films, TV teaching aids to be shown in fall A preview- of two a n i m a t e d films for college chemistry classes, a preview' of Continental Classroom's television course in college c h e m i s t r y , and daily showings of excerpts from a filmed high school chemistry c o u r s e are scheduled for the ACS Atlantic City meeting. T h e Society is a co-sponsor of all three teaching projects. T h e animated color films, each running about 12 minutes, will be shown to members of the Society and the press in Borton Hall of t h e Hotel Dennis on Tuesday, Sept. 15, at 2 : 3 0 P . M . a n d
again at 3 v.si. Entitled "Vibration of Molecules"' and "An Introduction to Reaction Kinetics,** the films were produced by Sutherland Educational Films, under the supervision of an ACS committee headed by Dr. Joel H. Hildeb r a n d of the I'niversity of California. T h e Alfred P. Sloan Foundation granted SI 10.000 for production of the films, and the F u n d for the Advancement of Education granted $35,000 for distributing prints and testing the films as teaching aids. • Modern Chemistry. Continental Classroom. National Broadcasting Company's network TV program for college credit, will introduce its 1959-60 course in " M o d e m Chemistry"* on T h u r s d a y morning. Sept. 17. O n e of t h e taped half-hour lectures will be presented to the press by invitation. T e a c h e r of the course is Dr. John F. Baxter, head of the general chemistry division at University of Florida and secretary of the AC'S Division of Chemical Education. He is assisted by an ACS advisory committee led by Dr. William F. Kieffer of the College of Wooster, editor of the Journal of Chemical Education. The American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education is cosponsoring the year-long program, which has the financial support of T h e Ford Foundation and 10 leading industrial concerns. More than 300 colleges and universities are expected to offer credit for the TV chemistry course, to be telecast from 6:30 to 7:00 A.M. over the XBC network starting Sept. 2S and ending May 27. Some 400.000 persons watched Continental Classrooms course in **Atomic Age Physics" last year. It was carried on 149 stations— more than many h u g e network programs. T h e physics course will be rerun over the network this year from 6:00 to 6:30 A . M . Dr. Baxter also teaches the high school chemistry course on motion picture film which was p r o d u c e d by Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, in cooperation with the ACS and the F u n d for the Advancement of Education. Excerpts from the full-year course of 160 half-hour demonstration-lectures will be shown in Room A of the Atlantic City Convention Hall each afternoon. Monday through Thursday, Sept. 14-17. from 5 to 7 o'clock. T h e Britannica series, constituting the first complete, up-to-date chemistry course on sound motion picture film, will be used in high schools in many parts of the country this year.
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Southeastern Pennsylvania
Roy L. Sheridan, chief of the Mail Classification Branch, Postal Services Division, Bureau of Operations of the U. S. Post Office, Washington, D. C , will speak at the meeting of the Association of ACS Local Section Publications during the Atlantic City meeting. Mr. Sheridan will discuss phases of 2nd and 3rd class mail with emphasis on special problems facing low circulation periodicals in the nonprofit field. He will have a question and answer period following his talk. T h e meeting will follow a dinner in the East Room of the Claridge Hotel on Tuesday, Sept. 15, at 6:30 P . M .
Dr. H u g h A. Heller of Franklin & Marshall College is chairman of the Southeastern Penn? sylvania Section for 1959. Other officers: E d g a r S. Long of Hamilton Watch is vice chairman, Donald E. Xickol of Beacon Milling is secretary, and John S. H . A. Heller Heckles of Armstrong Cork is treasurer. Councilors are Dr. R. P. Cross of Franklin & Marshall College and C . J. Fleming of Beacon Milling. Philip H. Lichty of Hamilton Watch and Dr. F. H. Suydam of Franklin & Marshall College are alterate councilors.
NASW to Hear Kistiakowsky Dr. George B. Kistiakowsky, President Eisenhower's special assistant for science and technology, will speak at the silver jubilee dinner of the National Association of Science Writers in Atlantic City, highlighting the ACS fall meeting. ACS members will be welcome at the dinner, to be held Wednesday, Sept. 16, in t h e Hotel Dennis. This will be Dr. Kistiakow sk\ s first major address since he assumed his government post in July, succeeding Dr. James R. Killian, Jr. Dr. Kistiakowsky is on leave from Harvard University, w h e r e he is Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Chemistry. N A S W was founded at an ACS meeting in Cleveland in 1934. It celebrated its 20th anniversary at a dinner in New York during the 126th National Meeting of the ACS.
PR Workshop Slated A two-hour workshop on local section and division public relations is slated for t h e ACS meeting in Atlantic City. The ACS N e w s Service will conduct the session in the East Room of the Claridge Hotel on Wednesday, Sept. 16, beginning at 3 P . M . A feature of t h e workshop will b e discussion of a public relations manual now being prepared by the News Service as a guide for PR committeemen and section and division officers. Specific public relations problems also will be tackled. T h e session replaces the News Service breakfast which had become a tradition at fall national meetings. Officers a n d public relations representatives of all local sections and divisions are encouraged to participate in the workshop, which will be open to all ACS m e m b e r s .
New Section Elects T h e newly chartered Mississippi Section has elected its first slate of officers. Dr. L. L. Sulya, chairman of the biochemistry department at University -of Mississippi Medical Center at Jackson, is the first chairman of the new section. Other officers for 1959-60 are Dr. C. E. L a n e , Jr., of Mississippi Southern College, chairman-elect; Dr. M. D. Turner of University of Mississippi Medical Center, secretary; R. E. Richter of Valley Mills, treasurer; Dr. A. E. Wood of Mississippi College, councilor; and Dr. L. C. Behr of Mississippi State University, alternate councilor.
Erie Installs Danzig Dr. Morris J. Danzig, senior research chemist at Lord Mfg., is chairman of the Erie Section r for 1959-60. Dr. Danzig served the section as program chairman and as an executive committee member. Dr. Lewis C. Pyle of Allegheny College is vice chairman M . J. Danzig and program chairman. Dr. Joseph Rosenberg of General Electric is secretary, and William T. Reichert of American Viscose is treasurer.
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