Academe University of Philadelphia
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EDUARDO D. GLANDT has been named dean of the School of Engineering & Applied Science, having served as interim dean for over a year. Since he joined Penn's faculty in 1975, Glandt has been the Carl V. S. Patterson Professor of Chemical Engineering (1990-95), chair of the chemical engineering department (1991-94), and Russell P. & Elizabeth C. Heuer Professor (1995-98). He has performed research in classical and statistical thermodynamics, theories of liquids and of liquid mixtures, adsorption, interfacial phenomena, m e m b r a n e partitioning, colloids, and heterogeneous media. Glandt earned M.S. (1975) and Ph.D. (1977) degrees in chemical engineering from Penn. He is the author of numerous journal articles and more than 250 seminar presentations.
Business Advanced Polymer Wilmington, Del.
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Two engineers with strong backgrounds in chemistry and polymer science have joined Advanced Polymer Alloys (APA), a division of Ferro Corp. ALBERTUS BEEKHOF is APAs new technical service manager. Most recently the technical manager of Ferro's plastics operation in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Beekhof will strive to meet customer's needs for Alcryn, the company's melt-processible rubber. FREDDY DE CLERCQ has left his posi tion as business manager with Alpha Technologies (formerly Monsanto Instrument Products) to be APA's marketing manager for Europe. He will plan and implement sales and marketing strategies for Alcryn. American Fiber Association Washington, D. C.
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The board of directors has elected several people to key positions. W. DONALD JOHNSON, group vice president of Dupont Nylon Worldwide, will be chairman of the association. Johnson replaces TED KELLY, who will now be treasurer. Kelly is vice president and general manager of Amoco Fabrics & Fibers. 54
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ART ROTH, president and chief executive officer of Universal Fiber Systems LLC, will be vice chairman and chairman of the executive committee. Other members elected to the executive committee are RODY DAYVAULT, director of Eastman Chemical's fiber business; DICK DOIDGE-HARRISON, president of Acordis' rayon division; EDUARDO ROCHA, vice president and general manager of KoSa's textile staple business; and DAVID WEIDMAN, president of AlliedSignal's polymers. Biolab Decatur, Ga. Four individuals make up the new antimicrobial research and development department, which was created to further Biolab's exploration and commercialization of antimicrobial agents and synergistic combinations in existing and new markets. JIM MILLER, who holds an M.S. degree in microbiology from Georgia State University, Atlanta, will head the department as director. Miller's staff includes GEOFFREY BROWN, who was instrumental in developing key antimicrobial actives at Great Lakes Chemical before joining Biolab in the early 1990s; JEFF KRAMER, who brought to Biolab more than 13 years of industry experience when he joined during the recently completed acquisition of FMC's process additives division; and RICHARD MULLER, who recently re ceived an M.S. degree in microbiology from Georgia State University, Atlanta. Cambrex Corp. East Rutherford, N.J. JAMES A. MACK has been elected chairman of the board of directors. He will also continue as president and chief executive officer, positions he has held since he joined Cambrex in 1990. Under Mack's leadership, Cambrex has become a leading supplier to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology markets, with 17 operating units worldwide. He is a current director of the Chemical Manufacturers Association and a past president of the Synthetic Organic Chemical Manufacturers Association. CYRIL C. BALDWIN JR., former chair man of the board, is now chairman emeritus. Baldwin founded the company with Arthur Mendolia in December 1981 and has served as president and CEO. He has been instrumental in helping Cambrex grow from a privately held company into a publicly traded multinational corporation. Goodyear Chemical Akron, Ohio LOU PERFETTI has been promoted to manager of the Beaumont, Texas, solution
polymer plant. Since 1970, Perfetti has held various management positions at Goodyear's plants in Akron, Ohio; Le Havre, France; and Houston. Most recently he was Budene solution polymer operations manager at the Beaumont plant. He holds a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from Drexel University, Philadelphia. Perfetti replaces STEVE GARTSIDE, who is retiring. Gartside joined Goodyear in 1959 and has held numerous top-level positions, including manager of chemical plants engineering in Akron and plant manager at Le Havre. He became plant manager at Beaumont in 1988. He holds a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa., and a master's degree in engineering from Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas. International Council of Chemical Associations Arlington, Va. STAN SZYMANSKI, international manager for environment and safety at Occidental Chemical, has been named chairman of the Responsible Care Leadership Group. Szymanski has chaired CMA's International Affairs Committee and International Chemical Accidents Prevention & Preparedness Coordinating Group. Currently on CMA's International Roundtable, he has helped establish emergency-response programs in a number of developing countries. Szymanski succeeds Huntsman Corp.'s DOM BAUSANO, whose two-year term has expired. International Rubber Study Group Middlesex, England A. F. S. BUDIMAN will serve as secretary-general until Dec. 31, 2002, overseeing statistical and economic work programs of the secretariat. He will also be responsible for solving international cooperation problems caused by the recent termination of the 1995 International Natural Rubber Agreement. Since 1988, Budiman has served as executive director of Gapkindo, the Rubber Association of Indonesia, and in that time Indonesia has grown to be the second largest producer of natural rubber. He earned a Ph.D. degree in polymer science from the University of Akron, in Ohio. Budiman replaces M. E. CAIN, who retired at the end of January. LignoTech USA Rothschild, Wis. PAUL J. LaVANWAY has been promoted from vice president of operations to president of LignoTech USA, a member of Norway's Borregaard Group that supplies lignin to customers throughout the world for a variety of agricultural, industrial, and
specialty applications. He has worked at LignoTech USA since 1982. LaVanway succeeds KIM J. STONE, who will serve as chairman of the board of LignoTech USA. Stone has moved to Norway to become executive vice president of Borregaard Industries, another member of the Borregaard Group. LNP Engineering Exton, Pa.
PPG Industries Pittsburgh
Plastics
DON CIANELLI, former quality assurance manager, will now manage LNP's newly combined technical service and laboratory services organization. LAURIE McCULLOUGH-LEIBFRIED, who has served in several quality control positions since joining LNP in 1988, is now quality assurance manager. National Association Man ufacturers Washington, D. C.
guidance on marketing plans, sources for market research, e-commerce strategies, competitive analyses, and functional training. Mooney has a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering and an M.B.A. degree from Rider College, Lawrenceville, NJ.
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JAMES H. KEYES, chairman and CEO of Johnson Controls, Milwaukee, has been elected chairman. He says, "My chief goal . . . will be to raise awareness about the importance of technology and of forwardlooking public policies that enable us to continue to reap the benefits of innovation." He is a director of LSI Logic, Pitney Bowes, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Keyes succeeds CALVIN A. (TINK) CAMPBELL JR. of Goodman Equipment, Bedford Park, 111. National Starch & Chemical Bridgewater, N.J.
DENNIS KOVALSKY has been promoted to general manager of aerospace coatings and sealants. Since he began his career with PPG in 1977, he has worked in Circleville, Ohio, as an engineer; in Delaware, Ohio, as production superintendent; in Wuppertal, Germany, as plant manager; in Cleveland as coatings plant manager; and in Troy, Mich., as director of pretreatment. Kovalsky, who has a biochemistry degree from Washington & Jefferson College, Washington, Pa., will be based at the company's Glendale, Calif., location. Kovalsky replaces THEODORE M. CLARK, who has left to become CEO of Burke Industries, Santa Fe Springs, Calif. Solvay Interox Houston WILLIAM T. BARNES, a Solvay employee since 1988, has been appointed logistics director. He will take responsibility for logistics and oversee the integration of supply-chain management into the logistics group. Barnes holds a B.S. degree in chemistry from the College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Va., and a master's degree in chemistry and a Ph.D. in analytical chemistry from Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind.
Several new appointments have been made in the specialty synthetic polymers division. CHARLES EGGERT has joined as divisional vice president for the personal care strategic business unit. He will provide worldwide business leadership and general management to accelerate global growth. Eggert holds a B.S. degree in chemical engineering and an M.B.A. from Washington University, St. Louis, as well as an M.S. degree from the University of Minnesota. JOHN LEIGHTON will take on global technical leadership responsibility as senior technical director for personal care polymers. A company employee of 16 years, Leighton most recently managed the development of polymers for the company's polymer emulsion product lines. He has a B.S. degree in chemistry and a Ph.D. degree in organic chemistry from the University of Florida, Gainesville. JOHN MOONEY is the new vice president for marketing. He started at National Starch in 1975 and has managed personal care polymers since 1992. He will now give
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BRAD BELL has relinquished responsibility for Solvay's European high-purity hydrogen peroxide business to become manager of high-purity grades worldwide. Bell started at Solvay in 1986, and his work has taken him to the Deer Park, Texas, and Longview, Wash., plants as well as the corporate offices in Houston and Brussels. He has a B.S. degree in chemical engineering from Rice University, Houston; an M.S. degree from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis; and an M.B.A. degree from Stanford University.
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SCOTT ABEEL has joined J&W Scientific, Folsom, Calif., as field technical representative for the southern U.S. region, Mexico, Central and South America, and Puerto Rico. Abeel will provide technical support to J&W customers and distributors in the U.S. and work to extend the company's presence in emerging international markets. He earned a B.S. degree in chemistry from Baylor University, Waco, Texas, in 1986, and an M.B.A. in marketing management from Texas A&M University, College Station, in 1991. JASON ARMSTRONG has accepted the position of chief of drug discovery technologies at Zymark, Hopkinton, Mass. He will be accountable for the performance of Zymark's products and services under drug discovery, as well as for growth in combinatorial chemistry and genomics. Armstrong has four degrees in biology and bioengineering. He was a research fellow with the National Aeronautics & Space Administration Specialized Center of Research & Training in Immunology, a joint project with Chiron Biotechnologies that investigated the effects of space flight on the immune system. RAYMOND BALEE is the new president and CEO of Pure Energy, New York City. With more than 25 years of commercial experience in the global chemical and fuel industry, Balee has spent most of his career at Arco Chemical, where at one point he was vice president of its $700 million global styrenics business group. Balee most recently acted as chairman of the board at Geosphere Emergency Response Systems, Doylestown, Pa. RICHARD A. BARRY has been unani mously approved by the board of directors as president of the Adhesive & Sealant Council, Bethesda, Md. He has more than 25 years of domestic and international experience as a business and marketing executive at specialty and fine chemicals businesses. His most recent position was vice president and global director of printing and packaging products for S. C. Johnson Polymers, a subsidiary of S. C. Johnson Wax that he joined in 1986. JIM BIRNIE, after spending 31 years at ICI, Zeneca, and the newly created Avecia, has left Avecia LifeScience Molecules to join Sumitomo Chemical's European team, where he will spearhead the new custom synthesis business. Birnie holds B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in chemistry and heterocyclic chemistry from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Over the years he has worked in a wide variety of ICI's business units. A MARCH 13, 2000 C&EN
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people Deaths JOAN M. DAISEY, 59, died Feb. 26 after a long illness. Daisey was a senior staff scientist at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), where she headed the Environmental Energy Technologies Division's Indoor Environment Department. She spent 14 years at the lab and had become a leading expert on indoor air quality. Daisey received a B.A. degree in chemistry from Georgian Court College, Lakewood, N.J., in 1962. In 1970, she completed a Ph.D. degree in physical chemistry at Seton Hall University in South Orange, N.J. Prior to joining the Berkeley lab, she was an assistant professor of chemistry at Mount Saint Mary College in Newburgh, N.Y., and a researcher at the New York University Medical Center's Department of Environmental Medicine, serving as principal investigator on several field projects, such as the Airborne Toxic Elements and Organic Substances Study. At LBNL, her attention shifted to projects on topics such as environmental tobacco smoke, ventilation, infiltration, and indoor air quality; the health effects of volatile organic compounds and particles; and the soil-to-gas transport of volatile organic compounds into buildings as an exposure pathway. She had served on the Environmental Protection Agency's Science Advisory Board since 1987 and became its chairman in 1998. Daisey also served similar roles in National Research Council and DOE advisory groups and in the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy. Joined ACS in 1963. HERMAN B. GOLDSTEIN, 82, hailed by many as the father of "permanent press" fabric treatment, died Jan. 23. He lived in Chester, S.C., where he had founded HBG Export Corp. and served as its president. While working as a chemist at Sun Chemical Corp., Goldstein devised a formula that could be applied to garments and eliminate the need for ironing. The formula was commercialized in 1962 and was, not surprisingly, well received. In 1981, syndicated columnist Erma Bombeck paid tribute to Goldstein's liberating work in one of her columns: "Goodbye steam iron, goodbye scorch marks. Goodbye mildew and laundry stored in the refrigerator. We were free at last." Goldstein received a bachelor's degree from Brown University in 1940. He worked with Sun Chemical until 1985, when he started HBG Export. The company was sold in 1990, at which point Goldstein turned to consulting. He received several industry awards and served on 56
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South Carolina Gov. Dick Riley's Export Advisory Committee. M. THOMAS JONES, 63, former chair and councilor of the ACS St. Louis Section and recipient of its St. Louis Award, died of cancer Jan. 14. His career was spent studying electron spin resonance and synthetic metals, and, supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, he published 100 research papers. Jones started at DuPont Central Research in 1961, and his career took him to academia in 1966, when he became a faculty member at St. Louis University. Three years later he moved to the University of Missouri, St. Louis, where he spent the next 21 years. In addition to serving as a professor of chemistry, Jones worked as associate dean and acting dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, interim associate vice chancellor for academic affairs, and deputy chancellor. He headed to Texas in 1990, accepting a position as deputy president at the University of Houston, where he later served as associate vice president for research. In 1995, Jones moved to Kent State University, where he served as vice provost and dean of research and graduate studies. Jones received undergraduate and graduate degrees in chemistry from Washington University, St. Louis. Joined ACS in 1960. LEWIS H. SARETT, 81, recipient of the National Medal of Science for his work with cortisone, died Nov. 21. He lived in Viola, Idaho, where he moved in 1982 following his retirement from Merck & Co. Sarett's affiliation with Merck began in 1942, when he joined the company as a research scientist. His first assignment was to find a way to synthesize cortisone, which he did two years later. Testing of the compound did not take place for another two years, but it proved to be effective in treating inflammatory disorders such as rheumatoid arthritis. During his career at Merck, Sarett served as the company's director of the department for medical research, director of the department of organic chemistry, vice president of basic research, and president of the Merck Sharp & Dohme Research Laboratories. At the time of his retirement, he was a company senior vice president. Sarett was elected to the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1980. In addition to the National Medal of Science, he received the Society of Chemical Industry's Perkin Medal in 1976. He also received awards from ACS and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. As an undergraduate at Northwestern University, Sarett was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He completed a bachelor's
degree in 1939 and went on to complete a Ph.D. degree in chemistry in 1942 at Princeton. Joined ACS in 1946; emeritus member. ARTHUR G. SCHULTZ, 57, professor of chemistry at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, died Jan. 20, following a stroke suffered on Jan. 17. He earned a B.Sc. degree in 1966 at Illinois Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. degree in organic chemistry at the University of Rochester in 1970. Schultz conducted postdoctoral studies at Columbia University. Schultz held a faculty position at Cornell University before joining the Rensselaer chemistry department in 1978. Ten years later, he was appointed William Weightman Walker Professor of Chemistry, an honor bestowed in recognition of his achievement and service. In his 22 years at Rensselaer, Schultz mentored about 150 undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral students; authored more than 170 journal articles; and presented more than 200 seminars. In 1997, he served as an adjunct professor of pharmacology and neuroscience at Albany Medical College. Joined ACS in 1970. MURRAY P. STRIER, 76, of Missouri City, Texas, died on Feb. 7. Strier, a former physical chemist working with the Environmental Protection Agency, most recently served as a toxic chemicals consultant. Strier spent 20 years in industrial chemical research before accepting a position at EPA. He worked for companies such as Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory, Hooker Research Center, McDonnell Douglas Aeronautics, McGraw-Edison, Rayonier, Air Reduction, and Reaction Motors. Stier's work for Reaction Motors, now a unit of Thiokol, could classify him as one of the early rocket scientists. During the 1950s, he conducted pioneering research on the combustion characteristics of rocket propellants. His work was sponsored by the Air Force and Navy. In 1972, he joined EPA's Office of Water Regulations & Standards as a technical specialist in the area of removing toxic chemicals from industrial wastewater. For his research, upon which industry regulations were formed, he received EPA's Bronze Medal for Commendable Service (1975) and its Gold Medal for Outstanding Achievements (1979). Strier received a bachelor's degree from the City College of New York (1944); an M.A. degree in physical chemistry from Emory University, Atlanta (1947); and a Ph.D. degree in physical-organic chemistry from the University of Kentucky, Lexington (1952). Joined ACS in 1949; emeritus member.^
