ACS
NEWS
New CAS Building Going Up Council and Board approve the $6,797 million project at Los Angeles national meeting Ground is scheduled to be broken this week (April 19) for a new Chemical Abstracts Service Building in Columbus, Ohio, following approval of the $6,797 million project by the Society's Council and Board of Directors at the Los Angeles national meeting. Participants in the ground-breaking ceremony will include ACS President Henry Eyring, Board Chairman Arthur C. Cope, CAS Housing Committee members Byron Riegel (chairman), Robert W. Cairns, and Wallace R. Brode, and CAS director Dale B. Baker. The new building, to be erected on a 50-acre tract along the Olentangy River on the northern edge of the Ohio State University campus, will contain approximately 190,000 square feet of space, making it more than four times as large as the present CAS home on the OSU campus and more than twice the size of the Society's national headquarters in Washington. Scheduled for completion late in 1964, the fourstory structure is expected to meet CAS needs at least until 1970. For
CAS BUILDING COSTS (thousands of dollars)
Land Architect's fee and reimbursed expenses Construction Contingencies Furnishings
$ 764 367 5,211 105 350
GROWTH OF CAS STAFF Year
Number of Employees
1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1970 (est.) 134
C&EN
194 248 310 399 458 1000 APRIL
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the first few years, space not required by CAS will be leased. General contractor for the building will be Garwick & Ross, Inc., a Columbus firm chosen from among numerous bidders. Potter, Tyler, Martin & Roth of Cincinnati are the architects. Financing. A detailed report on plans for financing the project was presented to the Council at Los Angeles by Dr. Charles L. Thomas, science advisor for Sun Oil Co. and chairman of the Board Committee on Finance. Emphasizing that the Board wanted the Council's advice before taking a financing step so important to the Society, Dr. Thomas said his committee recommended borrowing $3 million from outside sources and the rest from funds controlled by the Society. The $3 million would be far larger than any outside loan yet negotiated by the Society. The loans, he explained, would be repaid by means of a rental charge on CAS operations. Using a reasonable rental, it is expected that the $3 million outside debt, including interest, can be retired in about 15 years, according to Dr. Thomas. The internal loans, he estimated, will be paid off in a little over 20 years. This procedure is similar to that employed in financing the present CAS building, toward which the Society and OSU contributed about $300,000 each. CAS borrowed its share from ACS funds and charged itself rent to pay off the loan. By the end of 1958 the loan had been repaid, except for interest. The rent charged, Dr. Thomas noted, was considered part of the cost of putting out CA, since essentially it was paying for space in which CAS employees work. Dr. Thomas reminded the Council that, under a financial policy adopted by the Council and Board in 1956, the Chemical Abstracts Service is selfsupporting: It neither receives general Society funds nor contributes to them. The original three-story building
Dr. Charles L. Thomas Present project seemed most desirable
had been expected to house CAS for at least a decade, but the explosive growth of the chemical literature, which is doubling about every eight years, forced such a rapid increase in the CAS staff that a fourth floor had to be added in 1960. This cost about $250,000, which CAS borrowed and repaid as before. Even when the fourth floor was constructed, Dr. Thomas said, the Board realized it was only a temporary solution, and so the CAS housing committee headed by Dr. Riegel was appointed. The committee examined a great many alternatives, Dr. Thomas reported, before concluding that the present project seemed the most desirable. This decision led to purchase of the Olentangy River tract last year. Dr. Thomas presented a slide showing the CAS staff growth from 194 in 1958 to 458 last year. By 1970, he said, it is estimated that there will be more than 1000 CAS employees, excluding abstractors. Recalling that the Board in December had recorded its intention to proceed with construction of a new CAS building subject to determination of the final cost (C&EN, Jan. 28, page 9 2 ) , he said the construction bids had established the feasibility of the project from a financial viewpoint.
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The soundness of the plan recommended by his committee was indicated by the willingness of several large banks and an insurance company to lend as much as $5 million to the ACS on favorable terms, Dr. Thomas continued. The possibility of obtaining the money from charitable trusts, either as an outright gift or as an interest-free loan, had been explored without success, he added. One organization termed the building cost a legitimate charge against CAS operations which should be borne by the subscribers. The proposal that an insurance company erect the building and lease it to CAS also had been considered and discarded. Under such a plan, the Society would pay more over a long term without owning the building. Asked what would happen to the present CAS building once the new structure was available, Dr. Thomas said this matter was under negotiation with OSU, which seemed likely to purchase the ACS equity at a fair price. Future Needs. Another councilor asked whether plans should not be under way for further construction to serve beyond 1970. Dr. Thomas said that the Olentangy River site contained enough land for expansion to meet conceivable needs until the year 2000, and that rough sketches have been made for a "stage 2" building connected to the first structure, and also a 12-story building as "stage 3" of construction. The Board didn't feel the Society should undertake additional financial risk at this time. The Board recognizes the Society may have to accept more debt in 1970 to finance additional construction. The possibility that automation might reduce CAS staff growth was granted by Dr. Thomas, but he said this did not seem near enough to eliminate need for the new building. When a councilor inquired about the prospects of obtaining money from "one well-known source," Dr. Thomas replied the matter had been discussed informally with National Science Foundation representatives, who expressed no interest in "bricks and mortar ,, at this time. In any event, he added, the Board felt it would be better for the Society to erect its own building and keep control of it. The Council accepted Dr. Thomas' report without dissent, and the Board proceeded to authorize Executive Secretary Alden H. Emery to let the building contracts. 136
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APRIL
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1963
Council Approves Definition of "Chemist" Los Angeles actions also include approval for student affiliate chapters at junior colleges The Council of the American Chemical Society adopted a revised definition of a chemist at the 144th National Meeting just concluded in Los Angeles. The new definition replaces one the Society adopted in 1936. The new statement defines a chemist as "an individual versed in the science of chemistry," defines what is meant by "the science of chemistry," and describes "versed" as a person meeting what are basically the requirements for Society membership. The definition as passed by the Council follows closely the definition published in C&EN recently (March 11, page 70) with minor changes to recognize training in foreign institutions whose standings are equal to those institutions approved by the ACS for undergraduate training in chemistry or chemical engineering. The definition also now contains a grandfather clause. Junior College Affiliates. Students at junior colleges will be permitted to form student affiliate chapters of the ACS for the first time this fall, provided members approve by that time a change to the Constitution adopted by the Council. Some opposition to the move to permit such chapters developed during the Council meeting. According to one opponent, removing the uncertainty concerning legality of chapters in junior colleges would tend to encourage students there to form "chemistry clubs" rather than the more scientifically oriented chapters now organized at colleges and universities. He based his reasoning on what he termed the lower level of academic attainment by students in junior colleges as opposed to their level in colleges and universities. However, others speaking in support of the change pointed out the country's need for increased interest by students in scientific careers and commended the change as one step to help stimulate that interest. New Divisions. The Division of Microbial Chemistry and Technology, a probationary division for the past two years, was granted permanent status as a division, pending approval of a few minor changes in its proposed bylaws. Action on petitions to form three
new probationary divisions was deferred until the 1964 spring meeting (in Philadelphia). The proposed divisions: Chemical Safety, Fluorine Chemistry, and Nuclear Chemistry and Technology. The Council Committee on National Meetings and Divisional Activities felt it had not received enough information on the petitions in time to consider the matter at an open committee meeting prior to submission to the Council. Publications. While most of the discussion relating to publications centered on approval for a new building for Chemical Abstracts Service (see page 134), a number of other publication matters was also reported to the Council by Dr. Arthur C. Cope, Chairman of the Board. Among them: offering a fifth grouping of sections to Chemical Abstracts and plans for the future of Chemistry magazine. Among complaints received about price increases for CA this year, the principal one dealt with the failure of CA to offer some of the sections in any one of the groupings of sections. Some of the sections thus could be bought only by subscribing to the entire CA. Accordingly, the Board has authorized that a fifth grouping of sections, containing those sections not now in a grouping, be made available at the same price as the other groupings ($25 per year for members and colleges and universities; $50 per year for nonmembers). The fifth grouping is being made available retroactive to Jan. 1, 1963. Dr. Cope also reported that last summer the Society acquired title to the magazine Chemistry, published by Science Service primarily for high school students. During the present school year the Society has continued to publish it in basically the same format and with the same type of content while it studied how it might be improved in the future. Beginning this September, Chemistry's size will be increased to the standard magazine trim size, S1/4 X I I V 4 , up from 5 1 / 2 X ? 3 / 4 ) , and it will issue monthly (up from eight issues per year, September through April). It will be directed to upper level high school students.
