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Mr. James A. Branegan, of Philadelphia, was elected vice president of The Heyden Chemical Co. of America a t a recent meeting of the Directors. The American Society of Mechanical Engineers has invited the members of the American Chemical Society to attend its meeting in New York City, December z to 5 , 1919. Mr. R. L. Howard, for the past two years instructor in the State University of Iowa, is a t present associate professor of chemistry a t Richmond College, Richmond, Va., where he has charge of the organic chemistry and the chemistry of food and nutrition. Prof. Marston T. Bogert has received his honorable discharge from the Chemical Warfare Service and has returned to his professorship a t Columbia University, resuming charge, there of the subject of organic chemistry. Mr. L. E. Saunders, of the Norton Company, has been transferred from the Niagara Falls plant to the executive offices of that company a t Worcester, Mass., as manager of the research and abrasive plants. Mr. Louis J. Gurevich has resigned from the U. S. Bureau of Standards as assistant physicist in metallurgy to accept a position as metallurgist with the research department of the Hydraulic Pressed Steel Co., of Cleveland, Ohio. Mi. H.W. Curry, after ten years of service as chief chemist of the Ozark Smelting and Mining Co., of Coffeyville, Kansas, resigned recently from that position and is now with the American Zinc, Lead and Smelting Co., Oxide Department, a t Hillsboro, Ill. Mr. William Stericker, who for the past two years has been a chemist at the Westinghouse Lamp Co., Bloomfield. N. J., is now an industrial fellow at the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa. Mr. Norville C. Pervier, recently discharged from the U. S. Army, has returned to the Standard Chemical Company, Inc., Des Moines, Iowa, where he is chief chemist. Dr. V. S. Babasinian has returned to his duties as associate professor of organic chemistry at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa., after a leave of absence of one year, during which time he did research on poison gases a t the American University, Washington, D. C., and was also research chemist a t the Jackson Laboratory of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Wilmington, Del. Dr. David Klein, recently returned from France and Serbia as Majof, Sanitary Corps, has resigned as state analyst, State of Illinois, and has accepted the position of associate professor of biochemistry, Johns Hopkins University, School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, Md. Dr. S. C. Brooks, formerly research fellow, Harvard School of Tropical Medicine, Boston, Mass, is now associate professor of biochemistry and physiology a t Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pa. Mr. Edgar R. Wagner, who has been with the Wyoming Chemical Co., Pittston, Pa., since his discharge from the Army, has resumed his duties as instructor in chemistry a t Syracuse University, Syracuse, N. Y. Mr. J. R. Lorenz, formerly in the research laboratory of Wi,lliam F. Mosser Co., a t Chicago, Ill., is tanning chemist for the Northeastern Leather Co., Salem, Mass. Mr. Glenn S. Skinner, who, following his discharge from the Chemical Warfare Service, taught in the University of Illinois, is in charge of organic chemistry a t Oberlin College, Oberlin, Qhio. Mr. Edward P. Phelps, for the past two years instructor.in general chemistry a t Syracuse University, N. Y., is an instructor in organic chemistry a t New York University, New York City. Mr. J. Hallett Hodges, formerly in the Chemical Warfare Service, is instructor in general chemistry a t the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Mr. H. D. Gibbs has resigned his position as chemist-in-charge of the color laboratory of the U. S. Bureau of Chemistry, in order to accept a research position with E. I. du Pont de Nemours dlr co., a t their Jackson Laboratories, Wilmington, Del. Mr. Guilford A. Morse, formerly in the Chemical Warfare Service, has accepted a position with the Boise Payette Lumber eo., of Emmett, Idaho, as research chemist.
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Dr. Charles K. Francis, formerly of Tulsa, Okla, is manager of refineries for the Transcontinental Oil Co., with headquarters a t Fort Worth, Texas. Mr. Frank W. Sherwood recently resigned from the Jackson Laboratory of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Wilmington, Del., is first assistant chemist a t the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station, West Raleigh, N. C. Mr. Alfred H. White, formerly Lieutenant Colonel and Chief of the Research Section of the Nitrate Division of the Ordnance Department, has returned to his former position as professor of chemical engineering at the University of Michigan, but is retaining connection with the nitrogen fixation work as consulting engineer of the Ordnance Department. Mr. R. M. Ladd, formerly special analyst for the Aetna Works, Aetna Explosives Co., Inc., and more recently operator a t the naphthalene plant of the Illinois Steel Co., Gary, Ind., is now chief chemist and factory manager of the Egg-0 Baking Powder Co., Ltd., Hamilton, Ont., Canada. Dr. Arthur B. Ray, recently Captain in the Chemical Warfare Service, has joined the staff of the research laboratories of the National Carbon Co., Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Mr. W. W. Lake, recently discharged from the U. S. Army as Second Lieutenant in the Infantry, is head of the science department, El Paso High School, El Paso, Texas. Dr. Harry A. Curtis has resigned his position a t the Fixed Nitrogen Research Laboratory in order to accept a professorship in chemistry at Northwestern University, Evanston, 111. Mr. Charles A. Glabau, previously technical advisor for the Campbell System, Inc., scientific operators of bakeries, Kansas City, Mo., is at present connected with the American Trade Publishing Company as technical editor of Bakers Weekly, New York. Dr. Walter C. Schumb, formerly assistant gas chemist at the American University Experiment Station, Washington, D. C., has been appointed assistant professor in chemistry at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Mr. George P. Shmgler, Jr., formerly professor of chemistry in Emory College, Oxford, Ga., and in the field service of the American Red Cross, is now establishing an independent laboratory at Donalsonville, Ga., for industrial and clinical work. Mr. Benjamin Levitt, for several years associated with the Swift and Company Soap Works, E. Cambridge, Mass., has accepted a position as chemist for Charles W. Young and Company, a t Philadelphia, Pa. Mr. William Pines, formerly chief army chemist, U. S. A,, Ordnance Department, at Parlin, N. J., is now chief chemist of the Faultless Rubber Co., Ashland, Ohio. Mr. Frederick Vossler is instructor in chemistry a t Waite High School, Toledo, Ohio, having resigned from the instructorship in chemistry a t Poughkeepsie High School, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Mr. Bert Russell has resigned from the Patent Office staff to accept a position with Prindle, Wright and Small, patent attorneys, New York City. Dr. C. D. Andrade, consulting chemist in the Guayaquil Custom House, Guayaquil, Ecuador, has been appointed by the City Council of Guayaquil, director (chief chemist) of the city laboratory. Mr. William J. Cotton, formerly with the color laboratory of the Bureau of Chemistry, Washington, D. C., is now with the research division of the National Aniline and Chemical Company, Buffalo, N. Y. Mr. W. H. Macmillan has severed his connection with the Remington Typewriter Company, Ilion, N. Y., as chief chemist, and has accepted a position in the metallurgical laboratory ef the Halcomb Steel Co., Syracuse,_N. Y. Mr. William A. Turner, previously in the Army as First Lieutenant in the Sanitary Corps, attached to the Section of Food and Nutrition of the Surgeon General’s Office, and for some time camp nutrition officer at Camp Jackson, S. C., is a t present located a t Wesfeyan University, Middletown, Conn., as assistant professor of chemistry. Mr. Lloyd H. Reyerson has accepted a position as instructor in the School of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn., having formerly been a student in chemistry a t Johns Hopkms University, Baltimore, Md.
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Dr. Edward S. Johnson, who for a number of years has been eonnected with the Solvay Process Co., has accepted the position of director of manufacture and chief chemist of the U. S. Color and Chemical Co., with main office in Boston and plant at Ashland, Mass. Mr. Elliott E. Geisinger has resigned his position as chemist in the Pfaudler Company to take one as industrial engineer with the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company of Akron, Ohio. Mr. J. A. Le Clerc, formerly chemist-in-charge of the laboratory of plant chemistry of the Bureau of Chemistry, Washington, D. C., is now with the Miner-Hillard Milling Co., of WilkesBarre, Pa. Mr. H. E. Cleaves, formerly chemist with the Metal and Therniit Corporation, Jersey City, N. J., is with the Charleston Chemical Co., Charleston, W. Va., as chief chemist. Mr. Bruner M. Burchfiel has resigned his position as junior fellow on the Refractories Manufacturers Association Fellowship a t Mellon Institute, Pittsburgh, Pa., and has accepted an assistantship in the department of chemistry a t the University of California, Berkeley, Cal., where he will be engaged in graduate research in physical chemistry. Mr. R. Edman Greenfield, formerly Captain in the Sanitary Corps, has returned to the Illinois State Water Survey Division, Urbana, Ill., as bacteriologist, in which department he was employed prior to his service in the U. S. Army. Mr. Eugene A. Giard, recently released from active duty in the U. S. Naval Reserve Force, is now on the research staff of the National Lamp Works of Nela Park, Cleveland, Ohio. Miss Florence N. Schott, formerly assistant in chemistry a t the University of Illinois, is now instructor in chemistry a t the Municipal University of Akron, Akron, Ohio, having the organic and household chemistry courses for the women majoring in home economics. Mr. Charles W. Clifford, who has been assistant chemist in the Polarimetric Division, U. S. Bureau of Standards, since leaving the Chemical Warfare Service as First Lieutenant last December, has accepted a position with the Great Western Sugar Company and will be located a t the Fort Collins, Colorado, factory. Mr. George L. Clark, formerly associate professor at DePauw University, Greencastle, Ind., has become associate professor in charge of physical chemistry a t Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn. Mr. Arthur R. Cade, formerly instructor in chemistry a t the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn., has accepted a position as research chemist with the National Carbon Company, of Fremont, Ohio.
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Dr. Edward Bartow, formerly Lieutenant Colonel in the Sanitary Corps, connected with the Water Supply Service of the A. E. F., has resumed his former work as chief of the Illinois Water Survey Division. Mr. Charles A. Mann, formerly of Ames, Iowa, has been appointed associate professor of industrial chemistry, School of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn. Mr. Numa P. G. Adams, associate professor of chemistry and head of the department of chemistry of Howard University, has resigned after seven years of service in that institution and will devote his time to the study of medicine a t Chicago, Ill. Mr. Edgar S. Ross, formerly chief chemist for the Charlotte Chemical Laboratories and Columbite Reduction Co., Charlotte, N. C., is now located at New Hampshire College, Durham, N. H., where he is to carry out special research in the rare earths. Mr. Francis H. Thurber, formerly instructor in chemistry a t Washington State College, Pullman, Washington, is now in the College of Chemistry of the University of California. On October I, the Washington office of Dr. L. I. Shaw, grand recorder-treasurer of the Alpha Chi Sigma Fraternity (the national professional chemical fraternity), was moved from 1208 G Street, N. W., to 1709 G Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. This change will give the fraternity much needed additional space for carrying on its work. The new location is directly across the corridor from the new offices of the Secretary of the AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY. Mr. E. Colonna de Giovellina, who received his discharge from the Canadian Expeditionary Forces last February, has been appointed research chemist a t the Mill Creek plant of the Whalen Pulp & Paper Mills, Ltd., Vancouver, B. C. Mr. W. F. Gericke, who has been in the service of the National Research Council on investigations in plant nutrition, at the laboratory of plant physiology of the Johns Hopkins University, has returned to the University of California, Berkeley, Cal., to take up his work in the division of soil chemistry and bacteriology. Mr. A. W. Bull, formerly student and assistant in chemistry a t Cornell University, is now instructor in chemistry at Haverford College, Haverford, Pa. Mr. P. G. Savage has become resident manager of the Niagara Falls, New York. and the Chippawa, Ont., plants of the Norton Company of Worcester, Mass. Mr. Arthur L. Greeley, who has been in the Chemical Warfare Service and who later was instructor in chemistry a t Tufts College, Boston, Mass., is now connected with Union College, Schenectady, N. Y., as instructor in chemistry.
OBITUARY THOMAS J. PARKER The chemists of this country have seldom been called upon to bear a greater loss than when, on October g, 1919, Thomas J. Paiker joined the ranks of those who have solved all earthly problems. Mr. Parker’s name will always remain linked with the development of chemical industry in this country. The AMERICANCHEMICAL SOCIETY,as its representative body, was to him a proud and glorious structure and he was one of its strongest and staunchest pillars. He was a t all times a real worker in its behalf, and few have given to a cause as freely and ai; unselfishly as he, or with a more whole-hearted devotion. To his brother chemists he was an ever-ready friend and counsdlor, and many of the younger generation will remember his sympathetic consideration and the great skill with which “Commodore” Parker steered them safely, time and again, through the troubled waters which most chemists must navigate before reaching a quiet haven. His many and notable technical achievements, beginning with his work a t the Bayorine Chemical Works, the Bergen Point Chemical Works of the Standard Oil Company and culminating h his important work for the Martin Kalbfleisch Chemical Company and the General Chemical Company, reflected but one side of Mr. Parker’s character-its professional side.
The dominating note of his life was a rare loyalty to his friends and to the causes he espoused. Among the latter was the AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, the New York Section of the Society of~chemicalIndustry, of which he was a founder, and the Chemists’ Club in particular, of which he likewise was a charter member. To all these he gave his time and his best efforts; many were the sacrifices which he made in their behalf. Nothing pleased him more‘ during his protracted illness than word of the rapidly increasing membership of the AMERICAN CHEMICAL, SOCIETY, or the assurance that all was well with the Chemists’ Club. His interest was not limited to matters chemical, but extended to public affairs in general and his indefatigable efforts in that direction led, among other things, to the establishment of a free library in his home town, Bayonne, N. J. If a t his desk he sometimes appeared stern and uncompromising, those who knew him best recognized as the cause his dominant sense of justice. His sense of humor, his wit and gift of repartee were a keen and constant delight to all. His fellow chemists will remember his services and his worth, but his friends will, above all, keep him in memory as a lovable, staunch, and loyal gentleman. T. B. WAGNER
