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Board boosts page charges, registration fees
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C&EN June 16, 1975
Higher page charges, higher registra tion fees for next year's national meet ings, a revised way to handle applica tions to the society's legal aid loan pro gram, and the establishment of various aids the society offers its unemployed members as continuing benefits that no longer need annual approval. These changes in ACS operations all will result from actions taken by the society's board of directors at its meet ing in Columbus earlier this month. Chairman Herman S. Bloch presided. Nonmandatory page charges are car ried by 13 of the society's journals. With one exception these have been at $50 per page since 1969. The charge for the Journal of the American Chemical Society was boosted from $50 to $70 with the first issue of March this year. Now, beginning with the first issues of 1976 the charges for The Journal of Or ganic Chemistry will be moved up to $70 and charges will be increased to $60 for Biochemistry, I&EC Funda mentals, IE&C Process D&D, I&EC Product R&D, Journal of Agricultural & Food Chemistry, Journal of Chemi cal & Engineering Data, Journal of Chemical Information & Computer Sciences, Inorganic Chemistry, Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, The Journal of Physical Chemistry, and Macromolecules. The boost in registration fees at the national meetings in New York City and San Francisco next year will help cover the nonrecurring expense of the extra activities that will mark the soci ety's centennial at these gatherings. The amount of the increase will be fixed at the board's next meeting, which will be at the society's meeting in Chicago in August. Also in connection with the centen nial, the board approved $3000 for lapel pins that will be given to all persons joining the society in 1976—the centen nial year. The pin also will be sold to other members who wish to buy it. The board also authorized the executive di rector to negotiate sales of copies of the exhibit ACS is preparing for the cen tennial. Applications for loans under the so ciety's legal aid loan program must be approved by the board on an individual basis. The revised procedure has been adopted to make sure board members have adequate information on which to base their decisions. In the future, ap plications will be investigated by legal counsel and reviewed by the council Committee on Professional Relations before being submitted to the board. Some of the benefits the society pro vides for unemployed members have been on a continuing basis for some time. The board action in Columbus removes the need for annual board ap proval for free benefits in continuing
education, free situations wanted ad vertisements in C&EN, and deferral of subscription charges and the deferral or cancellation of membership dues. In other actions at Columbus the board: • Agreed in principle to a new agreement on continued cooperation between Chemical Abstracts Service and The Chemical Society (London). • Approved programs to use Corpo ration Associates funds to help make Chemistry and ChemTech more widely available to libraries and to students. • Nailed down a uniform method for handling the finances of expositions run in connection with ACS national meetings. D
ACS honors high school science fair winners Ten high school students, their spon soring teachers, and schools were hon ored by ACS for outstanding projects in chemistry at the 26th International Science & Engineering Fair held in Oklahoma City on May 12-17. Of the 10 students, four were award winners (each receiving subscriptions to Chem istry and Journal of Chemical Educa tion, and cash awards of $100, $75, $50, and $25, respectively) and six received honorable mention. The winners were: first place, David T. Leighton Jr., Washington-Lee High School, Arlington, Va., Edna Riley, teacher; second place, Ralph G. Winterle, Sherwood Secondary School, Hamilton, Ont., Κ. Ashcroft, teacher; third place, David M. Eslinger, C E . Donart High School, Stillwater, Okla., Virgil Nichols, teacher; fourth place, Ri McGlamery, Chipley High School, Chipley, Fla., Josephine B. McGlam ery, teacher. Honorable mention went to: Julia Ann Craig, Leigh High School, San Jose, Calif., Alice Thorpe, teacher; Tisha A. Fendley, High School for the Health Professions, Houston, M. Cohen, teacher; Gregorio Placeres, Ana Roque High School, Naguabo, P.R., Nereida Diaz, teacher; Marc D. Poussard, East Anchorage High School, An chorage, Alaska, Robert Clutter, teach er; Edward V. Schultz, North High School, Evansville, Ind., James M. Hollon, teacher; David Schwan, Quincy Senior High School Π, Quincy, HI., John Englemeyer, teacher. The annual fair is conducted by Science Service. It culminates a selec tion process involving thousands of school and regional fairs, their student participants and judges. Members of the ACS Oklahoma Section represent ed ACS in the judging. Dr. George V. Odell, chairman-elect of the section, presented the ACS awards. ο
