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U R I LLOYD
J A M E S S. M C L E S T E R , professor of medicine a t the University of
Alabama and president-elect of the American Medical Associa tion, delivered the annual Gorgas address before the L a Fayette educator, and author, w a s honored at a special ceremony, Chapter of the Gorgas Medical Society a t the University of October 9, at t h e Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science Alabama o n October 3. His subject was "The Drifting Sands in recognition of his many and varied contributions t o his chosen of Medical Practice." The occasion was t h e commemoration professions. T o him w a s presented t h e Procter International of t h e 80th birthday of William Crawford Gorgas. Award in the form of a suitably inscribed gold w a t c h . President Reese has appointed.!*. D . RICHARDSON, of D a r t m o u t h T h i s a w a r d is n a m e d i n College, a s the delegate of t h e A M E R I C A N CHEMICAL SOCIETY honor of William Procter, J r . on t h e occasion of the inauguration of Porter Hartwell Adams (1817-74), a g r a d u a t e o f t h e as t h e sixteenth President of Norwich University at 10:30 Philadelphia College and long Monday morning, October 22. a member of i t s faculty, a n d a^W^il^ J?®!***. J^^BOBÊÊM editor of i t s American JournalR I C H A R D O. R O B L I N , J R . , h a s completed work for his P h . D . degree *-. ν*ϊ^Λϊ36β*Λ* y«!aea—^*r^BH^ of Pharmacy. William Procter, in organic chemistry at Columbia University and accepted a position o n the research staff of t h e American Cyanamid Co. Jr.'s contributions t o pharmacy at i t s Linden, N . J., plant. JOHN
U H I LLOYD,
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and related sciences have won him undying fame. T h e p r e s e n t a t i o n o f Dr. Lloyd for t h e award was made b y Dean LaWall and t h e award was c o n f e r r e d b y P r e s i d e n t Wilmer Krusen o f the P h i l a WILLIAM PROCTER, Jadelphia College. Dr. Lloyd re sponded with an informal address. Preceding the award, Colonel Samuel P. Wetherill, Jr., chair man of the Philadelphia College Board of Trustees, delivered an address, and t h e exercises were opened w i t h a biographical sketch of William Procter, Jr., b y Ivor Griffith, associate pro fessor of pharmacy at t h e Philadelphia College.
Personalia CHANGE OF ADDRESS. When sending in any change of address, jilett&e also forward information regarding position held, company or businm connec tion, and class of products manufactured to AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, 728 Mills Bldg., Washington. D. C. WILLIAM J. B A L D W I N , a graduate of the University of Buffalo
and until recently a n employee of the American. Kadiator Co., has joined the staff of t h e Mellon Institute, where h e h a s been assigned duties i n connection with t h e industrial fellow ship founded b y the O. Hommel Co. for t h e purpose of investi gating scientific problems of importance i n enamel technology. JACK H. WAGGONER is t h e senior fellow assigned t o this "work. JOHN C. B I R D , recently i n charge of research a n d development for John W y e t h and Bro., Philadelphia, has relinquished h i s post to head t h e Department of Applied Research for Hoffimann LaRoche, Inc., Nutley, N . J. K E N N E T H A . CRAIG, who received his P h . D . degree i n inorganic
chemistry from the Pennsylvania State College i n June, i s now teaching chemistry at t h e Pottsville, P a . , branch o f t h e Pennsylvania State College, Extension Center. HAROLD B . FRIEDMAN, associate professor of chemistry, Georgia School of Technology, addressed t h e Science Club of -Agnes Scott College o n "The Hydrogen Isotopes," October 1, C. D . GROVER h a s been transferred from Buffalo t o t h e New York office of the Whitehead Metal Products Co., 304 Hudson S t . , N e w York, Ν . Υ . , t o become manager of technical sales. This is a new sales department which h a s been formed with a, per sonnel of trained chemical engineers to promote t h e increasing use of monel metal, pure nickel, a n d other alloys o f the Inter national Nickel Co. in t h e process industry. H.^RoswELL; JONES, w h o has recently completed work for h i s "PntD^ie a t The, J ^ t o s Hopkins University, hasjqteined a position as junior chemist with t h e Atlantic Refining'''do.., Franklin, Pa. W I L B U R A. LAZIER, research chemist a t the Experimental Station of E . I. d u P o n t de Nemours & Co., Inc., Wilmington, Del., h a s been appointed a member of t h e Committee on Contact Cataly sis of t h e National Research Council, t o fill the vacancy r e sulting from t h e resignation of G. B . TAYLOR.
National Safety Council for 1934-35 is made u p as follows: General chairman, A. L . Armstrong, Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, N . Y.; vice chairman in charge of program, H . L. Miner, E. I . du P o n t d e Nemours
