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Report of the New England Association of Chemistry Teachers Official Business Elections and Appointments for the year 197677 President: Rose M. Paternostra, Newington H. S., Newingon, Connecticut. Past President: Gordon G. Evans, Tufts University, Medford, Massaehusetts. President-Elect: John Swistak, Ameshury H. S., Ameshury, Massachusetts. Recording Secretary: Jeanne M. Scheer, Nashua Senior H. S., Nashua, New Hampshire. Financial Secretory: Horace E. Fader, Norwood H. S., Norwood, Massachusetts. Treasurer: Maryalice Moore, Stonehill College, North Easton, Massachusetts. Curator: Roy Upham, St. Anselm's College, Manchester, New Hampshire. Chninuomnn, Northern Division: Barbara Lewis, Champlain Valley Union H. S., Hineshurg, Vermont. Chairwoman, Southern Diuision: Margaret G. Casper, King Philip Regional H. S., Wrentham, Massachusetts. Chairwoman, Central Diuision: Catherine Kelliher, Bedford H. S., Bedford, Massachusetts. Chairman, Western Dioision: James A. Spencer, Choate-Rosemary Hall, Wallingford, Connecticut. Editor, Newsletter: Richard F. Jones, Governor Dummer Academy, Byfield, Massaehusetts. Editor, Report: Harry C. Stuhhs, Milton Academy, Milton, Msssachusetts. Chairwoman, Trustees of the Endowment Fund: Louise 0.C. Swenson, 71 Argilla Rd., Ipswich, Massachusetts. Publicity Agent: Peter Testa, Nashua Senior H. S., Nashua, New Hampshire.
Meetings for 1976-77 385th Meeting. Octoher 2. 1976, at Nashua Senior H i ~ hSchool, shire. Nashua, ~ e amps w 386th Meeting, December 4,1976, at St. Raphael's Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut.
387th Meeting, March 5,1977, at Providence College, Providence, Rhode Island. 388th Meeting, May 7,1977, under auspices of the Central Division. Place to be announced. The Thirty-Eighth Summer Conference was held from August 16 through 20 at Roger Williams College, Bristol, Rhode Island, whose and comfortable dormitories convey a distinct suggestion of stereochemical structures in their interior layout. The conference theme was "Analytic Chemistry Today," with Dr. Lockhart B. Rogers of the University of Georgia as theme speaker. Dr. Rogers' four talks covered the public importance of analytical chemistry, went quite deeply into the specific techniques of chromatography and the use of digital computersin reducing data, and the possiblefutwe heights to he reached by the state of the analytical arts. He did an excellent job of keeping the details within the grasp of high school teachers like myself without, as far as I could tell, compromising the information content seriously. Other speakers dealt with still more specific parts of the analytical chemistry spectrum of problems, covering such items as surface analysi-, trace metal analysis, forensic problems, and, of course, the matter of teaching analytical chemistry. The discussions and question sessions which fallowed each talk, and sometimes extended well into followine - recesses and mealtimes, indicated the hieh . level of interest. I oersonallv attended the workshoo on elass craftine. with con~~, siderahlt increase in my perponnl 4-crmfidence; the orh~rs.1 und~rstnnd,w p m equally gwd. Dr. Thomas (Xlh, the Program Chairman, did a musr cxrrllent job; I.euir \Vhitc
