NEWS
June 10, 1941
EDITION
A . C. S. Student Membership Awards for 1 9 4 0 DONOR
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Alpha Chi Sigma Fraternity Alpha Kappa Chapter. This award, consisting of member- Harry F. Kauffman, Jr. ship and a subscription to one journal, is given to the senior in chemistry or chemical engineering at the Uni versity of Virginia having the highest scholastic average. Rho Chapter. Annual award, consisting of membership Arthur Thomas Sweet, Jr. and a subscription to one journal, is given to the out standing senior receiving a B.S. degree in chemistry at the University of North Carolina. Gamma Sigma Epsilon Chemical Fraternity. Memberships are awarded annually by the fraternity to the most out standing student in each chapter. Alpha Beta Chapter, North Carolina State College. Edwir. R. Todd Delta Beta Chapter, University of Alabama. John Key McKinley Phi Lambda Upsilon Fraternity Upsilon Chapter. This award, consisting of membership Walter C. Brandsma and a subscription to one journal, is given t o the senior student in cnemistry and chemical engineering at the University of Iowa with the highest grade record for his four years of study. Xi Chapter. Annual award, consisting of membership and Ernest S. Elyash a subscription to one journal, is presented annually to the highest ranking sophomore pursuing the bachelor of science course in chemistry at the University of Pitts burgh. Edward Bartow. Annual membership award to the out Eldon E. Bauer standing graduate student in chemistry at The State University of Iowa. Northeast T e n n e s s e e Section, AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY. Charles C. Neas The recipient of this award, a student a t the Tennessee State Teachers College, was chosen as the winner for having presented the best paper among those written by chemistry students from the colleges within the Northeast Tennessee Section. His paper was entitled "The Chemotherapy of Sulfanilamide". Alexander Silverman. Annual award to t h e student at the Ernest L. Wimmer University of Pittsburgh who is a candidate for the B.S. degree in chemistry, having the highest average rating for his first three years.
ton, Ala., but the division also has plants in Monsanto, Tenn., and Carondelet, Mo., and a fourth under construction at Trenton, Mich.
631 Department of the Koppers Co., F. W . Jung has been transferred t o the com pany's Seaboard Laboratories at Kearny, N. J. Joseph B . Kushner, metal finishing con sultant and engineer, has moved his offices and laboratories t o larger quarters at 114 East 32nd St., N e w York, Ν. Υ. He was formerly at 126 West 32nd St. R. W . Leslie has resigned his position as director of Research and Process De velopment with the Skelly Oil Co., El Dorado, Kans., which he has held for the past 11 years, to become manager of Refinery Operations for t h e Wasatch Oil Refining Co., Salt Lake City, Utah, and t h e Idaho Refining Co., Pocatello, Idaho. H. J. Lynch has been appointed the new representative of Morris Machine Works, Baldwinsville, Ν. Υ., in the Detroit district. He is located at 403 Kales Bldg., Detroit. W. C. Pinkerton, for the past six years an assistant technical editor of Chemical Engineering Catalog, has joined t h e Monel and Rolled Nickel Advertising Department of The International Nickel Co. H e will edit house publications de voted t o the process industries. Newly elected officers of the New York Section of the American Institute of Chemists are Donald Price, chairman, Elmore Northey, vice chairman, and Milton Burton, secretary-treasurer.
The Geological Society, England, has awarded its highest honor, The Wollaston Medal to Arthur L. Day, director of the Geophysical Laboratory of Wash ington from 1907 to 1937, for his re searches in vulcanology and in the field of experimental petrology. Robert Rast Cole, general manager of Monsanto's Phosphate Division, has been elected t o a vice presidency of the company. Mr. Cole is located in Annis-
Jerome F. Grattan, formerly research chemist a t the Squibb Institute, has joined the recently organized research staff of the International Vitamin Corp., N e w York, Ν . Υ . Leland H . Greneli, for the past five years with the Frigidaire Division of General Motors, has been engaged b y Battelle Memorial Institute for research and development work in t h e rapidly grow ing new products research of the insti tute. J. L. Heid, formerly in charge of the U. S. Fruit and Vegetable Products Labora tory, has resigned to accept a position as chemist and production manager with the California Citrus Juice Exchange, Inc., Santa Ana, Calif.
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C. F. Rassweiler, director of the Phila delphia laboratory of E . L du Pont de Nemours & Co., Inc., has been ap pointed director of research of JohnsManville Corp., Manville, N . J. I n his new position Dr. Rassweiler will be a member of the Officers Board in charge of Johns-Manville's research activities on which the company is spending close to $1,000,000 a year. John D . Sullivan, chief chemist, Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, Ohio,
NEWS
632 has been elected chairman of the Electrothennic Division of the Electro chemical Society. Charles Allen Thomas has recently been elected a member of the Executive Com mittee of Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio. Dr. Thomas is also a member of the board of trustees of the same college. Frank E. Toonder, formerly research chemist with the Standard Oil Develop ment Co., Elizabeth, N . J., has recently joined the research staff of the Michigan Alkali Co., Wyandotte, Mich.
EDITION
The company announces election of Harry H. Coombe, chairman of the board of directors and treasurer; George E. Weitkamp, first vice president and secretary; D a v i d M . Forker, Oliver F . Gang, William E . Heilig, and E. R. Noll, vice presidents; and William E . Minor, Jr., assistant t o the president. (2^-©
Porter Nominated C. W . S. Chief
Chaplin Tyler, assistant director of Public Relations, E . I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Inc., Wilmington, Del., has been made director of Public Relations of Remington Arms Co., Bridgeport, Conn· Harold TJrist, who recently obtained his Ph.D. degree in pharmacy from the University of Minnesota, has joined the Research Staff of the Nopco Vitamin Laboratories. His address is National Oil Products Co., Harrison, N . J. T h e Kingston Cake Co., Kingston, Penna., has installed a fully equipped cereal chemistry and food research laboratory under t h e supervision of W . R . Van Meter. H . F. Wyman, after an absence of two years, h a s returned as plant superin tendent of Alloy Fabricators, Inc., Perth Amboy, N . J.
Vol. 19, N o . 11 Following graduation from t h e United States N a v a l Academy in 1909, General Porter served on the U . S. Connecticut, resigning from t h e N a v y in 1910. Upon entering the Regular Army he joined the Coast Artillery. General Porter served as assistant executive officer in the Office of the Chief of Chemical Warfare Service, assistant commandant of t h e Chemical Warfare School, Edgewood Arsenal, and instructor a n d later director of t h e D e partment of Ground Tactics of t h e Air Corps Tactical School. General Porter was chemical officer of the N i n t h Corps Area, San Francisco, Calif., until 1940 when he was assigned as chemical officer of t h e General Headquarters Air Force, Langley Field, Va. F o r his service during t h e World War, General Porter was awarded the Belgian Order of Leopold.
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