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physics, mathematics—through this I could see everywhere the application of chemis try at work in the world. From time to time I sat at the learned feet of E. E. Slosson, John D. Clark, Gilbert N. Lewis, Irving Future ACS national meetings: Langmuir, Paul H. M. P. Brinto, Robert Vi Aug. 24-29, 1975. Chicago, 111. vian, Neils Bohr, George Gamow, and Har Nov. 30-Dec. 5, 1975. Mexico City, Mexico low Shapley. Through it all I saw clearer April 4-9, 1976. New York, N Y . and clearer the study of chemistry related Aug. 29-Sept. 3, 1976. San Francisco, Calif. to the work of the world. Really seeing how March 20-25,1977. New Orleans, La. it was that chemistry was holding up the Write Meetings Dept., ACS, 1155—16th St. world when it came right down to it. From N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036. time to time I took a new course in atomic structure, obtaining nine such courses be tween 1923 and 1972. Each such course June 4-5. 27th Tech. Conf. on Corrosion started out by being quite sure of itself, but Protection with Zinc Coatings. Houston. Write Philip E. Robinson, Zinc Institute, this surety grew less and less as the 292 Madison Ave., New York, N.Y. 10017. course progressed. June 12-14. 103rd Annual Mtg. of Manu And here and now I would register a facturing Chemists Assoc. Greenbrier, complaint against chemistry teaching, White Sulphur Springs, W.Va. Write Richard F . Blewitt, MCA, 1825 Connecti especially in high schools. Too large a part cut Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20009. of the textbook is given over to the study of June 14. Solar Energy Conf. for Archi atomic structure and too little is devoted to tects & Engineers. Kansas City, Mo. telling about chemistry and how it con Write Jerry Bradley, Midwest Research tinues to remake the world. To me the Inst., 425 Volker Blvd., Kansas City, Mo. "guts" of chemistry are the applications of 64110. July 8-9. Symp. on Occupational Expo chemistry; the service chemistry gives to sures Affecting the Lung. U of Notre mankind. I hate to see these most impor Dame. Write Industrial Health Founda tant things crowded out by the atomic tion, 5231 Centre Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. "numbers game" which change in such a 15232. bewildering fashion. Small wonder that a July 16-19. 30th Annual Calorimetry Conf. Battelle Seattle Research Center, chemist spending so much time on the jug Seattle. Write Howard E. Flotow, Argling of quantum numbers should end up gonne Natl. Lab, Argonne, 111. 60439. knowing so little about the job that keeps July 17-19. Workshop on Fundamental him—and the world—eating. Organic Chemistry of Coal. NSF-sponI work in the field of education; high sored. U of Tennessee, Knoxville. Write John W. Larsen, Dept. of Chemistry, U of school and sometimes in college. At the Tennessee, Knoxville, Tenn. 37916. same time, I am a consultant in several July 21-23. Conf. of Magnitude & Deploy engineering fields: chemical, civil, mining. ment Schedules of Energy Resources. The official publications in the related engi Sheraton Motor Inn, Portland, Ore. Write neering fields decry the lack of knowledge Bernard I. Spinrad, Office of Energy about the economics of those fields of en R&D, Corvallis, Ore. 97331, July 21-24. 5th Intersociety Conf. on En gineering. Surprisingly enough, even in vironmental Systems. Jack Tar Hotel, mining engineering, the study of economic San Francisco. Write Paul Drummond, geology has sometimes been set aside in Amer. Soc. of Mechanical Engineers, 345 favor of some exotic computer application, East 47th St., New York, N.Y. 10017. "sold" to the dean by some good sales July 21-25. Seminar on Modern Develop ments in Combustion Technology. Penn man. I cannot "go for this" myself and I State U. Write Combustion Technology see considerable reaction against it in the Seminar, Pennsylvania State U, Keller literature of some of those engineering Conf. Center, University Park, Pa. 16802. fields. But back to chemistry. We are employed because society wants our services. If so ciety becomes suspicious of our value, the money is no longer going to come to us in Continued from page 5 quantity. "What use do we have of chem hours of credit, I, too, "knew a lot" about ists?" cried a judge during the French everything. Now more than 500 semester Revolution as he sent Antoine Lavoisier to hours later I am not so sure. As a college undergraduate, I worked at night as a ma the guillotine. Off went his head. The public can do the same to us by controlling the chinist in a big machine shop. I had a jour money. We had better "get with it" and in neyman's card three years before I got a college degree. That old journeyman's card form the public of our great and important service. To do this, we are likely to have to is still in force, as it has been extended many times by work experience and ad learn that importance ourselves. This im portance has been my "song" in the vanced training in the trade. That card took classrooms for 50 years. During those me to numerous graduate schools where I worked at night and attended colleges in years, the importance of chemistry has grown until it comes close to being all the daytime—something like 24 schools for things to all men. I would like to see the a total. high school chemistry teachers—and the My doctorate in chemistry is 35 years college chemistry professors—borrow back old, but more than 350 semester hours of work have been added to it since I got the some of that time they sold for the study of atomic structure and use it for learning Ph.D. in 1940. They were fine years of about how chemistry is remaking the pleasant experience in the study of applied world. science; the applying of such science; the teaching of it. I received multiple degrees Eldred R. Harrington in several fields—geology,civil engineering, Albuquerque Academy, N.M.
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