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REICHMANISWINS ACS ELECTION Ballots are finally counted after delays due to possible anthrax contamination
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president-elect for 2 0 0 2 . Reichmanis, director of ad vanced materials integration at Bell Laboratories, Lucent Tech nologies, Murray Hill, Ν J., will serve as ACS president in 2003 and as a member of the board of directors from 2002 to 2004. She garnered 14,704 votes; the other can didate, William F. Car roll Jr., vice president of chlorovinyl issues at Occidental Chemical Corp. in Dallas, recieved 11,153. Announcement of the election results was delayed by about two weeks this year because of con cerns about possible anthrax con tamination ofthe mail ballots. The ballots were sterilized and opened by ICU Corp., Berea, Ohio, and then counted by Sequoia Pacific
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Election Services. Members of the ACS Committee on Nominations & Elections supervised the entire ballot-countingprocess via stream ing video to ensure full compliance 1 o with ACS bylaws. 1 A delighted Reichm manis is "still coming :J to grips with the real ity of it all." She tells C & E N that during her term, she intends to increase communi cation with both our nation's leadership and the public at large concerning the vital contributions of the chemical sciences to the welfare of our country and the need for continued support of fundamen tal research. "We must develop a shared understanding that fun damental research in our disci pline creates an enabling infra structure that supports all those technologies that are key to the
health and welfare of our nation," she says. In addition, she plans to establish mechanisms to facili tate technical programs in rapid growth areas that are increasing ly occurring in multidisciplinary areas. In other elections, ACS chose three members for its board of di rectors. All directors elected will serve on the ACS Board from 2002 to 2004. Directors-at4arge are chosen by vote of the ACS council. Current Board Chair Ni na I. McClelland, president of Ni na I. McClelland LLC, Ann Arbor, Mich., retained her seat as director-at-large, over Kathleen M. Schulz of Lockheed-Martin/Sandia National Laboratories. District II members chose pe tition candidate Diane Grob Schmidt, section head at Procter & Gamble, Cincinnati. She won over former ACS president and incumbent Helen M. Free ofBay er's Diagnostics Division, Elk hart, Ind., and Carol A. Duane, director of marketing for Ricerca LLC, Painesville, Ohio. In District IV, University of North Texas professor Paul R. Jones won over petition candi date J o h n L. Massingill Jr. of Southwest Texas State Universi ty and Robert L. Soulen, profes sor emeritus at Southwestern University—LINDA RABER
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on Oct. 15, had passed through the congressional mail system. Some buildings were temporarily closed for testing and some sections of the buildings subsequently decontaminated using chlorine bleach and an antimicrobial foam. The Hart Building, home to 50 senators, had the highest exposure to spores and presented the greatest challenge. EPA decided to limit the use of C102 to Daschle's 3,000-sq-ft office suite, while only bleach
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PRESIDENT-ELECT3 U,704 Eisa Reichmanis William F. Carroll Jr. 11,153 DISTRICT II DIRECTOR5 Diane Grob Schmidt 2,098 1,739 Helen M. Free 698 Carol A. Duane DISTRICT IV DIRECTOR0 1,788 Paul R. Jones John L. Massingill Jr. 1,604 849 Robert L Soulen DIRECT0R-AT-LARGEd 217 Nina 1. McClelland 174 Kathleen Schulz a A total of 26.2U valid ballots were cast, but 357 did not include a vote for president-elect and 18 ballots were submitted that voted for both candidates. In addition, 644 ballots were declared invalid. b Since no candidate received greater than 50% first-place votes, the second-place votes for Duane were added to the totals for Schmidt and Free, according to the ACS bylaws, c Since no candidate received greater than 50% firstplace votes, the second-place votes for Soulen were added to the totals for Jones and Massingill, ac cording to the ACS bylaws. d Elected by vote of councilors.
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Hart Senate Office Building Decontaminated hlorine dioxide gas was pumped into the offices of Senate Majority Leader Thomas A. Daschle (DS.D.) in the Hart Senate Office Building on Dec. 1 during one of the final steps of EPA's anthrax decontamination efforts on Capitol Hill (C&EN, Nov. 26, page 24). Anthrax spores initially were detected in several Capitol office buildings after an anthraxladen letter, addressed to Daschle and opened by an aide
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or the foam were used elsewhere in the building. Daschle's offices were sealed off and then exposed to as much as 800 ppm of C102 for about 20 hours, followed by treatment with sodium bisulfite vapor to neutralize the residual gas. Postdecontamination test results to check the effectiveness of C102 against spores were expected back after a week. The Hart Building is slated to reopen by the end of the year.-STEVE RITTER
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