PEOPLE Sebrell Goes from USPHS To Cancer Society Staff W. H. Sebrell, Jr., director of the National Institutes of Health a n d Assistant Surgeon General, U. S. Public
and plant section. V. L. Keldsen transfers from San Francisco to head office in New York. Anthony J. Andreatch joins ListonBecker Instrument Co., Springdale, Conn. Don L. Armstrong appointed director of chemical department at AerojetGeneral Corp., Azusa, Calif. Albert O. Dekker and Marvin H. Gold named associate directors.
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James A. Shannon
Health Service, has retired from government service and will take over the servicing of the American Cancer Society's institutional research grant program. James A. Shannon, associate director of NIH, succeeds Sebrell. Sebrell has been with USPHS since 1925, right after he took an M.D. degree from the University of Virginia Medical School. H e was a member of the team that established the dietary origin, prevention, and treatment of pellagra and discovered the cause and cure of another vitamin deficiency disease—ariboflavinosis. H e has been director of NIH since 1950. Shannon's responsibilities have included development of the N I H direct research program.
INDUSTRY. Collin H. Alexander promoted to manager of research and development of the vapor coating group, reflective products division, Minnesota Mining & Mfg., St. Paul. R. J. L . Allen named process development manager at Beecham Foods, Ltd., Brentford, Middlesex, England. John Anderson, former research director at Shell Chemical's Houston 1 a b o r a t ory, fe?®? iZSamiZZ®'! *v named to direct t h e new Shell plant at Torrance, Calif. Other transfers to Torrance include D. S. Melstrom, to head chemistry section; F. D . Moss, to head process and pilot plant section; John Anderson E. T. Bishop, to head products section; L. R. Beason, group leader in new chemical section; W. L. Holmes, group leader in process
The following have joined Du Pont's electroehemicals research laboratory at Niagara Falls: Paul L. Armstrong, Richard D. Buckley, Melven B. Burton, Jr., Stanley T. Lamar, and Donald M . Sowards. George E . Barker appointed director of metals research at Quaker Chemical Products labs, Conshohocken, Pa. Floyd M. Barnes resigns from board of Procter & Gamble. William K. Whiteford, president of Gulf Oil, elected to the board. Arthur L. Baron joins staff of Esso Research & Engineering, Linden, N . J. William G. Batt elected director of the Biochemical Research Foundation, Newark, Del. He has been acting director since January. Peter W. Bauman, Jr., promoted to assistant director of personnel for Monsanto Chemical's inorganic chemicals division. Norman Bedziner and William E. Kreiner, chemical engineers, and Thomas M . Bacon, chemist, join process study group of Hooker Electrochemical, Niagara Falls. William B. Bond finishes graduate work at Florida State University and joins D u Pont Co. as a research chemist in nylon research. Elizabeth M. N. Bovard joins Thomas A. Edison, Inc., as a chemist. Walter E. Brewer named manager for t h e textile chemicals division of Nopco Chemical. Herman Brown joins A. E . Staley Mfg. technical service department, Decatur, HI. Stephen D. Bruck, recent P h . D . in organic chemistry from Johns Hopkins, now a research chemist in the Dacron research lab of Du Pont, Kinston, NT. C. Miller S. Burgin appointed to represent Magnus, Mabee & Reynard in Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, and Utah.
John G, Buzzell, recent Ph.D. from State University of Iowa, becomes research chemist at photo products department of D u Pont, Parlin, N. J. Wendell M. Byrd joins organic research section at Virginia-CaroHna Chemical, Richmond. From Antioch College. E d w a r d G. Hardin, former instructor in chemistry at Ciemson College, named t o the market research group, and William R. Smithy, Jr., from Birmingham Southern College, where he was professor of chemistry, joins fiber research section... W . Samuel Carpenter, I I I , named assistant director of sales at petroleum chemicals division of D u Pont, Wilmington. Succeeds M. H. Campbell, now with new isocyanates sales section, elastomers division. Albert Castka joins technical staff of Metro-Atlantic, Fairlawn, N. J. H. ford dent Inc.,
Percival Chase, former vp of MefChemical Co., named vice presiof C.M.C. Chemicals (California) Los Angeles.
Wiliard L. Cheesman resigns as industrial analyst at USDA laboratory at Peoria to join the patent law department of Upjohn Co., Kalamazoo, Mich. Kuang L u Cheng joins materials and engineering department, chemical division of Westinghouse Electric, East Pittsburgh. George Chynoweth and Joseph J. Lenahan appointed field sales representatives for Hooker Electrochemical, Niagara Falls. Julian J. Boyce transfers from the Philadelphia sales area to cover the southeast with headquarters at Charlotte, N . C. James M . Young 3rd will work at Tacoma, Wash., sales office and plant. Andrew S. Clark appointed construction manager, engineering division of Solvay Process. Walter R. Clark promoted to assistant sales manager a t Phillips Chemical's newly created plastics sales division. R. Vernon Jones advanced to manager, technical service and development, and R. M. Wallace named administrative assistant and coordinator of the division. John M . Clegg assigned to miscellaneous organic chemical group at Hooker Electrochemical. Arthur Katchman assigned to resins and plastics group. William P . Coker promoted to the post of laboratory supervisor in the Dow Texas division organic process development laboratory, Freeport.
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