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Mr. Baxter has been and now is blessed with good health and at 76 years of age is enjoying the fruits of his labor. May he journey on many more happy years to come! H . J. HADDLETON
Vol. 12, N o . 9
EDITION
JAMES P. M C G O V E R N , well known to t h e AMERICAN CHEMICAL
SOCIETY for constructive work in connection with the Indus trial Alcohol Institute, w h o earned t h e title of captain dur ing the World War, has now been appointed b y the Governor of Kentucky as a colonel on h i s staff. Two members of the AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY—JAMES F . N O R R I S and JOHN H . NORTHROP—were elected t o membership
in the National Academy of Sciences a t its recent annual m e e t ing in Washington, D . C
LOVEJOY BECOMES P R E S I D E N T OF EASTMAN KODAK CO. FRANK
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LOVEJOY
CHARLES L. R E E S E , President of the AJMERICAN CHEMICAL S O en-
tered the employ of the Eastman Kodak Co., thirty-seven years ago as a chemist. He had but recently been graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technologv, and it was not long before ôeorge Eastman r e c o g n i z e d h i s ability. H e soon showed unmistakable signs of being a keen business executive, and he early became a factor in the success of the company. Mr. Lovejoy's first title with the company w a s t h a t o f superintendent of the film 4 department. In 1900 he became manager of the Kodak FRANK W. LOVEJOT Park Works; in 1906, general manager of the manufacturing department; then vice president in 1919; and general manager of the entire company in 1925, when Mr. Eastman retired from active management. H e has now been advanced to the presidency of the company, being t h e third to occupy that position. The first president was George Eastman and the second, William G. Stuber, who has now become chairman of the board.
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Mr. Lovejoy has been a member of the AMERICAN CHEMICAL
SOCIETT since 1908.
H i s fellow members wish him all success.
Personalia CHANGE o r ADDRESS. When sending in any change of address, please also forward information regarding position held, company or business connec tion, and class of products manufactured to AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETT, 728 Mills Bldg., Washington, D. C.
HENRY BERLIN has been appointed technical adviser, Corn Products Refining Co., 17 Battery Place, N e w York, Ν . Υ . , to succeed the late William R. Cathcart. Dr. Berlin has been identified with this company for many years and through his close association with Dr. Cathcart is well qualified to continue the work performed b y the latter. G. M. BRAMANN, who has been with the B . F . Goodrich Co. for the past six years as a research chemist and rubber technolo'st, recently resigned to accept a position with the Niacet hemical Corp., Niagara Falls, Ν. Υ., as sales development engineer.
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JAMES B . CONANT, President of Harvard University, has been awarded The American Institute of Chemists Gold Medal for "noteworthy and outstanding service to the science of chemis try or the profession of chemist in America."
CIETY, represented that organization at the one-hundredth anniversary of the founding of t h e University of Delaware o n M a y 12. Thomas & Hochwalt Laboratories, Inc., announce t h e a p pointment of FRANK J. SOD AY, formerly w i t h the Pennsylvania Grade Crude Oil Association of Pennsylvania State College, and CHARLES O. H A W K , formerly with t h e Bureau of Mines, Pittsburgh, t o their research staff. CHARLES M. A. STINE, vice president of E . I. d u Pont de Nemours & Co., delivered the Cyrus Fogg Brackett Lecture at Princeton University o n April 10. H e also lectured a t the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia o n April 12. H. B. VOLLRATH, consultant on chemical engineering and sales problems, has taken an office at 350 Madison Ave., New York, Ν . Υ. J. A . WOODS h a s been appointed vice president and director of the Chilean Nitrate Sales Corp., New York, Ν . Υ . , succeeding J. M. Whitaker, resigned. For the past 1 7 years Mr. Woods has been connected with Armour Fertilizer Works, having risen to the position of executive vice president.
C H A N G E S AT B A T T E L L E M E M O R I A L I N S T I T U T E
T H E TRUSTEES of Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, Ohio, announce the appointment of Clyde E . Williams as director of the institute, and H. W . Gillett as chief technical adviser. B o t h of these gentlemen h a v e been associated with the institute since 1929, Dr. Gillett as director sharing the administrative duties of the directorship with Mr. Williams as associate director. Here after Dr. Gillett will devote his entire time t o the scientific side of the work, where his technical knowledge will be utilized t o t h e fullest extent i n the greater range of research and development work within the institute, as well as in many new projects of out side sponsorship recently accepted. I n his new capacity D r . Gillett will be a t the head of a group of engineers who will bring to these projects the highest t y p e of scientific knowledge.
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CHARLES H E N R Y KUNSMAN, who for the past few years has been
acting chief of the Fertilizer Laboratory of the Bureau of Chemistry and Soils, Washington, D . C , has been appointed chief of this laboratory. This position was held by F . G. Cottrell from 1927 t o 1930. C. E. LEONARD, formerly with the Budd Wheel Co., Detroit, Mich., is now with t h e Reichard-Coulston Co., Bethlehem, Pa. He i s employed b y the company for the purpose of opening a research department for the study of paints, especially those for the automotive industry.
TAYLOR ADDRESSES NORTHERN VIRGINIA SECTION
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O N APRIL 28, Hugh S. Taylor, head of t h e Chemistry D e p a r t ment of Princeton University, addressed t h e Northern W e s t Virginia Section of t h e AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY at W e s t
Virginia University, Morgantown, W . Va. T h e enthusiastic audience consisted of ahout 250 scientists, including groups which had come as far as 100 miles to hear D r . Taylor's lecture on "Heavy Water."
JOSEPH W. E . HARRISSON has been reelected president of the
Philadelphia Institute of Consulting Chemists and Chemical Engineers. Dr. Harrisson has filled this position for t h e past two terms. J. C. HOSTETTER, director of development and research a t the Corning Glass Works, has recently had conferred upon him the honorary title of colonel, b y the Governor of Kentucky. A beautiful tribute i n glass, in the shape of the new Steuben rock crystal glass sword, with a gold-ruby glass hilt, was presented to the new Colonel when the commission was given
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Necrology SIR
M A X MUSPRATT
S I R M A X MUSPRATT, of Liverpool, a n d leader i n the chemical industry of Great Britain, died in Liverpool April 20, at t h e a g e of 62, after undergoing an operation. Sir Max, while Lord M a y o r of Liverpool during t h e World War, welcomed thousands of American troops on their way to the battlefield. A t one time h e served as president of the Federation of British Industries, had a long record in Parliament, was a delegate t o t h e International Economic Conference a t Geneva, and took a great interest in t h e affairs of his municipality. I n chemical industry, he w a s identified w i t h the United Alkali Co., Ltd., becoming chairman of the company in 1914. He was a director of Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., and of m a n y other industrial concerns. Sir Max was one of those in attend ance at the AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY m e e t i n g in Ithaca i n
1924.
