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REPORT ON ACTIVITIES YOURDivision is large, influential, and active. As of April 1, 1957, there were 2,118 dues-paying members, as well as a considerable number of members in arrears. The total circulation of was 10,000. Both the Division and the JOURNAL the JOURNAL were in sound financial condition, although, perhaps not as well off as in the preceding years. Along this line the Executive Uommittee recommended and the Board of Publication adopted an increase in the price of tho JOURNAL from $3.50 to $4.00 a year effective January 1, 1958. I t is still a.bargain at twice this price. The Cwnmittee on Institutes and Cmlfernees, John F. Baxter, Acting Chainnsn, has continued its work in planning, organizing, and publicizing a series of Summer Institutes. Memhers of the committee along with other people selected by the National Science Foundation acted on advisory panels, not only in selecting Institutes in Chemistry, but also in Physics, and Institutes coveringmore than one field of science. There \rere ten Institutes during the summer of 1957, all cupported by the National Science Foundation: one far college teachers at North Carolina, one for college and high-school teachers at Montana State College, eight for high-school teachers at The Universities of Wisconsin, New Hampshire, Rochester, California, Tuskegee Institute, St. Louis University, New Mexico Highlands University, and Utah State Agricultural College. These ten programs were for chemistry teachers only; many Division members assisted in others of the 95 N.S.F.sponsored institutes. A two-weeks conference, June 17 through 29, was held at Reed College for an invited group of cotlege and high-school teachers totaling about thirty. This was a conference which tackled the problem of high-school and college interrelationships. I t was supported by a grant from Cmwn Zellerbach Foundation. The Scott Paper Company granted support for a conference st E ~ l r n R ' sNOTE: At the Miami Meeting the Executive Committee of the Division voted to have the Elected-Member-at Large become Associate Editor for Division affairs; thus, this column came into being. From time to time the activities of the Division will be recorded here in order to maintain a well-informed membership.
Swarthmore College, aka co-sponsored by the Division with the N.S.T.A. This conference wa5 for high-school teachers of chemistry in the Philadelphia area. While the Institute program has expanded, the shorter conference program has declined. The committee feels that there is a place for this type of meeting and wonld be interested in establishing contact with interested departments. The Ezaminations Commiltee, under the chairmanship of Theodore Ashford, has continued with an active program and has expanded its activities. The indications are that the examinations are being used in increasing numbers. A new test in quantitative anslyis, form N, was published this spring by the quantitative subcommittee under Lester Kieft. I n addition, a high-school chemistry test was published for the first time, by the High-school Subcommittee, under the chairmanship of Elbert Weaver. At the present time three new tests are in preparation, one each in general, qualitative analysis, and organic chemistry. A newly created subcommittee far an advanced inorganic test, headed by S. Y. Tyree, Jr., met in Miami to consider the formulation of s test in this field. Arthur Campbell, Chairman of the Committee on Znduslrial F i l m reparts that few good industrial films are available which can be modified in the wav the committee feels desirable. A film on "Corrosion" is now in process of modification. Dr. Campbell feels that the proper approach to educational films for chemistry is not to try to modify existing films but rather to cons.dt in the production of new films. At the Atlantic City meeting of the Executive Committee of the Division it was agreed to cooperate with "Recordings for the Blind" in selecting books for recording and in helping supply readers for the actual recording. Professor F. D. Martin, Purdue University, is Chairman of this committee. The members of the committee decided that the book "One, T.wq Three, .Infinity" would provide an interesting approach for blind students to the modern views of matter. Most of the recording is done in studios in New York City, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and Los Angeles. If there are members in these areas who would like to volunteer their services as readers, Dr. Martin would like to hear from them. If you have suggestions far other texts suitable for the blind, your ideas on this point wonld also be welcome.
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