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E. F. MARSIGUO, for many years with J. T. Baker Chemical Co., is now con nected with Merck & Co., Inc., as a mem ber of the New Products Division at Rahway, N. J. Mr. Marsiglio has a record of broad service in various tech nical and executive capacities in the chemical industry. He was formerly editor of The Chemist-Analyst. THOMAS
DAVID ABLONT, who recently received his
Ph.D. degree from Leland Stanford University, has accepted a position as research chemist with the Thomas and Hochwalt Laboratories, Research Divi sion, Monsanto Chemical Co., Dayton, Ohio.
MIDGLBY,
JR., Worthinston,
Ohio, is one of five members o f the staff of the Ethyl Gasoline Corp. who have been awarded emblems in recog nition of 15 years of service, dating from 1923, when the General Motors Chemical Corp. was founded. F. F. NORD, of the University of Berlin, has been appointed professor in organic chemistry at Fordham University, New York, Ν. Υ.
H. H. Schopmeyer H. H. SCHOPMEYER has been appointed director of research and new products development by the American MaizeProducts Co., Roby, Ind., succeeding J. F. Walsh. Dr. Schopmeyer was formerly connected with the Bacterio logical Laboratories of the Union Sol· vents Corp., Cincinnati, and was also technical director of National Distillers* Corp. prior to going with the American Maize-Products Co. in 1936.
IBBBNARD BETTMAN has resigned from the
Atlantic Refining Co., Philadelphia, Pa., and has accepted the position of re search chemist in the laboratories of the National Aniline and Chemical Co., Buffalo, Ν. Υ. tThe Hercules Powder Co. has announced the appointment of TOM BBOWN as
manager of the contractors' division of the explosives department, succeeding J. J. Kelleher, who resigned November
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Edward A. O'Neal, Jr. EDWARD A. O'NEAL, JR., has been ap
pointed general superintendent of the Anniston, Ala., plant, of the Monsanto Chemical
Co., and
HERBERT
F.
WEAVER has been appointed assistant general superintendent. Mr. O'Neal started work with the Swann Corp., later absorbed by Monsanto, in July, 1926, and Mr. Weaver has been con nected with the company since June, 1928.
Herbert F. Weaver
A. M. PATTERSON was appointed by
President Wbitmore as the representa
R . R . Colo H. R. COLB has been appointed production manager of the Phosphate Division of the Monsanto Chemical Co., in charge of operations in Anniston, Columbia, Tenu., and Camden, N. J. His head quarters will be in Anniston, Ala.
tive of the AMERICAN CHEMICAL· SO-
• CIBTY on the occasion of the inaugura tion of Rev. John A. Elbert as presi dent of the University of Dayton, Day ton, Ohio, on December 3, 1938.
logical chemist and director of labora tories at McLean Hospital, Belmont, Mass., has moved to St. Louis, Mo., where he has accepted a full-time ap pointment as professor of psychiatry m the Washington University School of Medicine. The Department of Neuro psychiatry has received from the Rocke feller Foundation a grant of $150,000 to assist in the development of research and teaching.
Officers o f N a t i o n a l S a f e t y Council FFICERS of the Chemical Section, National Safety Council, elected at the Silver Jubilee Congress in Chicago, in clude: general chairman, Ralph L. Rog ers, Jr., Tennessee Eastman Corp.; vice chairman in charge of program, Ralph O. Keefer, Aluminum Co. of America; secre tary, F. W. Dennis, Hooker Electrochemi cal Co.; News Letter editor, R. S. Maclcie, General Electric Co.
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Walter C. Rueekal
LEONARD LEVITT, of the Sales Depart
ment of the Glvco Products Co., Inc., has established headquarters at 49 East Cliveden St., Philadelphia, Pa., to serv ice users of emulsifying agents, watereoluble resins, etc.
the U. S. Steel Corp., Kearny, N. J., has been appointed a member of the Bartol Research Foundation Com mittee, Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, Pa.
JOHN C. WHITEHOBN, formerly physio
C!LABKB E . DAVIS, a member of the AMBBICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY since
1917 and vice president of the Virginia Dare Extract Co., was recently elected vice president of the National Manu facturers of Soda Water Flavors at their convention. C . H. KUNSMAN, chief of the Fertilizer Research Division, Bureau of Chemistry and Soils, Department of Agriculture, attended the meeting of the First In ternational Congress of Chemical Ferti lizers in Rome, October 3 to 6, as chair man of the American delegation. He presented a general report on mixed or complete fertilizers before the congress.
ROBERT B. SOSMAN, physical chemist of
WAI/TBR C. RUECKEL, since 1935 in the
Engineering and Construction Division of the Hoppers Co., has joined the staff of the BatteUe Memorial Institute, Columbus, Ohio, as research engineer.
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T h i r d A n n u a l M e e t i n g o f Air Hygiene Foundation HIS meeting was held at the Mellon Institute in Pittsburgh on November 17, with more than 200 executives from 101 industrial concerns in attendance. Re ports were presented covering engineering and medical developments during the past year toward employee health improve ment, state codes governing health haz ards, and legal and economic trends. Findings from research being conducted under grants from Air Hygiene Founda tion at several universities and other labo ratories were reported. In addition to the technical discussions, speakers stressed the broad benefits for management, labor, and the community resulting from this collective effort by employers toward improving health in industry. Willard E. Hotchkiss said that a com petent authority estimates that 200,000, 000 working days are lost annually on account of illness. Philip Drinker an nounced that two graduate fellowships had been established by Air Hygiene Founda tion at Harvard University to train men in industrial hygiene to help meet a growing demand. T. F. Hatch discussed state codes for control of industrial health, and Leroy U. Gardner reported findings in a study of "mixed" dusts and "pro tector" dusts which he is conducting at the Saranac, Ν. Υ., laboratory under a grant from the foundation. X-ray technic for industrial purposes, as in the case of large-scale medical examinations of groups of workers was discussed by S. Reid Warren, Jr. "Industrial and Public Rela tions Aspects of Industrial Health" was the subject of an address by V. P. Ahearn, executive secretary of the National In dustrial Sand Association. Theodore C. Waters, a member of the foundation's legal committee, analyzed the present legal trends.
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Day and (K) Night Hobby Henry G. Knight, Bureau of Chemistry a n d Soils, United States Department o f Agriculture, Washington, D. C.
The Memorial Bridge, Washington, D. C, by Infrared OR some years photography has been F my hobby. Stamp collecting, boat modeling, and several other hobbies have
received my attention at one time or another but photography seems to be the one hobby that periodically bobs up for special attention. It became a sort of minor activity about the time I left high school. I had ac quired a second-hand solid-tired safety Fall M e e t i n g o f A k r o n R u b b e r bicycle by devious means. I cannot re Group call that it was a cash transaction. After HE fall meeting of the Akron Rubber I had finally succeeded in mastering it and Group was held at the Akron City Club the novelty of riding the rough roads November 11 and attended by some 208. common in those days in the West, I The speaker. William C. Geer, talked in traded it for a 5 X 7 plate camera, patched formally on"ZTheSpirit of Research in the in places and otherwise the worse for wear. Rubber Industry"; of special interest were I felt somewhat cheated as the bicycle his reminiscences of the days preceding weighed about 100 pounds, while the cam what is known today as research. He took era and equipment tipped the scales at his hearers through the days when little only about 25. To take a picture was quite an ordeal was known of the science of rubber, spoke of the introduction of the first control and action snots were almost unknown, methods and organic accelerators, told how what with the slow plates, lenses with management began to realize the value of small apertures, and heavy equipment. research and to support it, and finally dis The development of the plates and finished cussed the well-organized research of the pictures were my first introduction to chemistry, as I was eager to learn why present time. things happened as they did. This inter est persisted through my college days and I still have some of the old prints among my effects. L a f a y e t t e S t u d e n t Affiliates Some 30 years passed before I again took up the hobby seriously, although I ΑsTHEfirstspeaker on their program to bring well-known men in chemistry have always owned a camera or two. to the college campus, about 125 members With the development of ultraspeed highand friends of the Lafayette College Chap perfection lenses, light-weight equipment, ter of Student Affiliates of the AMERICAN the use of the small films of almost infinite variety and range of speeds, which has CHEMICAL SOCIETY heard J. B. Niederl, Washington Square College, New York given a boom to amateur photography and University, speak on "The Microanalysis ushered in what might be called the candid of Organic Compounds." Professor Nied- camera age, I have again become an erl's remarks were accompanied by a set enthusiast. The art, with the aid of scien of elides to illustrate the apparatus and tific equipment and knowledge, such as photometers, time and temperature de methods that he was describing. Speakers for future meetings of the velopment of films, carefully graded film chapter will include Hugh S. Taylor, speeds, color films, and so on, is almost as Princeton University, W. T. Read, Rut far removed from photography of 30 years gers University, and R. Graham Cook, ago as the automobile is from the horsedrawn stagecoach. Albright College.
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To take a roll of 36 pictures under all sorts of light conditions over an elapsed period of several weeks and have them come out of the developing tank all at the same density is still a bit startling to me, considering the rather uncertain results in past years. Now nothing is sacred to me. Shooting through a Pullman car window as I speed across the country, through the windshield of an automobile going 70 miles an hour, at some scene on the stage, taking pictures of pictures at the cinema, the corner of a room in the evening, or an intimate scene on the beach, all are grist to the mill of the modern amateur photog rapher. Not all the snaps are artistic, interesting, or even worthy of a print, perhaps, but practice approaches perfec tion and the field of experimentation is seemingly limitless. By au means ride a hobby. It gives an interest which will take your mind off the perplexing problems of the day. Choose a hobby which will keep the hands as well as the mind reasonably busy, and as your enthusiasm grows you can be a perfect bore to all your friends. Photography meets the requirements to perfection. and further you will find yourself in good com pany as, for instance, the Editor of INDUSTRIAL AND ENGINEERING CHEMIS TRY.
Chemical Society of Washington E l e c t s Officers AT A recent meeting of the Chemical Society of Washington the following officers were elected: President, Frank C. Kracek; Secretary, Raymond M. Hann; Treasurer, Norman Bekkedahl. The Councilors are N. L. Drake, J. H. Hibben, B. H. Nicolet, H. T. Herrick, G. E. Hil bert, Β. D. Van Evera, and G. E. F. Lundell. The Board of Managers is as follows: A. H. Blatt, H. L. Haller. E. R. Smith, F. D . Rossini, P. H. Groggins, and J. F. Schairer.
