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Board of Directors Milton Harris, Chairman Arthur M. Bueche Robert W. Cairns Herbert E. Carter W. O. MiUigan John H. Nair Charles G. Overberger Charles C. Price Byron Riegel John C. Sheehan William J. Sparks Charles L. Thomas National
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Milton Harris, Chairman of the Board William J. Sparks, President Charles G. Overberger, President-Elect B. R. Stanerson, Executive Secretary R. V. Mellefont, Treasurer OFFICE OF EXECUTIVE SECRETARY 1155 16th St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036 B. R. Stanerson, Executive Secretary R. M. Warren, Assistant to the President Ralph F. Wolf, Assistant Secretary Membership Activities
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Robert L. Silber, Director Frances Benner, Records Wallace R. Brode, Foreign Secretary Clarita Bugler, Local Section Speakers' Tours Earl Klinefelter, Membership Office Marshall W. Mead, Local Section Office Moses Passer, Educational Secretary Phyllis Powers, Employment Clearing House Phyllis J. Toy, Admissions A. T. Winstead, National Meetings and Divisional Activities Operational Services
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E. G. Harris, Jr., Director William J. Angell, Fulfillment Manager Charles S. Decker, Assistant to the Director Public, Professional, and Member Division
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James H. Stack, Director Robert K. Neuman, Information Services David A. H. Roethel, Professional Relations Stephen T. Quigley, Chemistry and Public Affairs ACS News Service (733 Third Ave., New York, N.Y. 10017) Roy Avery, Managing Editor John F. Henahan, Radio and Television Research Grants and Fellowships
A symposium on "Organization, Structure, and Synthesis of Living Systems" will be held at the ACS national meeting in New York in September. Sponsored by the ACS Division of Biological Chemistry, the program was inspired by Dr. Charles C. Price's proposal last fall, in his ACS Presidential Address at Atlantic City, that control and synthesis of living systems be made a national research goal. The symposium, organized by the ACS Committee on Chemistry and Public Affairs, will include the following speakers and topics: Prof. S. Spiegelman, "The Synthesis of Self-Replicating Infectious Nucleic Acid with a Purified Enzyme"; Prof. Har Gobind Khorana, "The Present Status of Polynucleotide Synthesis"; and Prof. Klaus Hofmann, "Man-Made Enzymes: A Goal for the Future." Dr. Herbert E. Carter is chairman of the symposium, which is scheduled for Monday morning, Sept. 12, in the New York Hilton.
Sixteen of the nation's leading research librarians met at Chemical Abstracts Service last month to discuss the problems they expect to face in the future. In a morning session, CAS presented its plans for the future handling of chemical information. A number of mutual concerns were examined in detail in an afternoon seminar. Among the topics discussed were the impact of national needs on research library collections and services, nationally oriented library cooperative projects, federal participation in library costs and services, and development and use of computer-based tools.
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Robert E. Henze, Director and Program Administrator, PRF Joe Earle Hodgkins, Assistant Program Administrator, PRF OFFICE OF THE TREASURER 1155 16th St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036 R. V. Mellefont, Treasurer Boris E. Cherney, Controller Thomas E. Foley, Assistant Treasurer CHEMICAL ABSTRACTS SERVICE (The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210) Dale B. Baker, Director Fred A. Tate, Assistant Director and Acting Editor Kenneth L. Coe, Managing Editor, Abstract Issues E. H. Heilman, Director, Service Division D. P. Letter, Jr., Head, Chemical Registry Kurt L. Loening, Director, Nomenclature Ralph E. O'Dette, Senior Staff Adviser Philip K. Reily, Director, Marketing Seldon W. Terrant, Jr., Managing Editor, Special Publications and Services G. D. Wallace, Director, Finance Division Ferd R. Wetsel, Managing Editor, Subject Indexes Kenneth H. Zabriskie, Jr., Director, Research and Development ACS PUBLICATIONS See page 6, this issue ACS LOCAL SECTIONS, COMMITTEES
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The Tenth Annual Report on Research under sponsorship of The Petroleum Research Fund has been distributed to all local section chairmen, secretaries, and editors. The report contains 114 abstracts of research completed or in progress as of Aug. 31, 1965, and a comprehensive index to all PRF grants which were active at that time. A description of the PRF program and its background and a list of the members of the PRF advisory board for 1965 and 1966 also are included. Copies of the 100-page report are available on request to The Petroleum Research Fund, 1155 Sixteenth St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036.
A supplement to "College Chemistry Faculties," to be published later this summer, will include college and university departments in the United States which were not listed in the main directory issued in March. About 225 institutions are listed in the supplement and approximately 1250 faculty members are named by department and academic title. The supplement will be sent at no charge to all individuals and institutions who received or purchased "College Chemistry Faculties." Copies of the directory (including the supplement) may be purchased from Special Issues Sales, ACS Headquarters, Washington, D . C , for $2.00 each. JULY 4, 1966 C&EN
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