Greenstadt Receives Conant Award Dr. Melvin Greenstadt of Fairfax High School, Las Angeles, was awarded the American Chemical Society's $2000 James Bryant Conant Award in High School Chemistry Teaching a t the Dallas Meeting of the ACS in April. Dr. Greenstadt, who taught at California State College s t Long Beach for three
, student teams out of 1383 teams entered in the area's annual science fair contests. Many' ents have taken PhD's in chemistry, and many others have entered careers A native of New York City, Dr. Greenstadt received the BS degree in chemistry in 1938 from the City College of New York. Following World War II, he attended the University of Southern California where he received the BA in 1948, the MA in 1949, and the PhD in science educati0n.h 1956. He was on active duty with the U.S. N a w from 1942 to 1946, later attaining the rank of lieutenant commander with the U.S. Naval
t y College of Medicine. He then worked as an analytical chemist in the War Department until entering the service in 1942. He joined the Fairfax High School staff in 1950, first as a physiology teacher and then (1954) as a chemistry teacher, which past he has held ever since except for three years (1966-69) at California State Callege as associate professor of chemistry. Dr. Greenstadt has contributed to the text of the widely-used Chem Study system for teaching of modern chemistry. He also has contributed to a high school mathematics texthwk and is writing a chemistry textbook which is being considered by the publisher for both high school and freshman-level college use. Formerly an active member of the American Chemical Society's Southern California Section, Dr. Greenstadt also is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Association of Physics Teachers, and the California Association of Chemistry Teachers.
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