Large" to "Director" wherever it appears Bylaw V, Sec. 3, entitled "Regional Di rector": delete the entire Section and renumber subsequent Sections accord ingly. In Bylaw V, Sec. 5, which reads: Section 5. Terms of Office (a) Each Local Section [Council or] and [Alternate Councilor and each] Division Councilor [and Al ternate Councilor] shall serve the term specified ,in the Constitution, Article VII, Sec. 5, beginning on the first day of January following election, or until his successor shall have been chosen and quali fies. (b) Each [Director-at-Large and each Regional] Director shall serve the term specified in the Constitu tion, Article VIII, Sec. 5, begin ning on the first day of January following election, or until his suc cessor shall have been chosen and qualifies. (1) delete the words indicated in brackets Delete Bylaw V, Sec. 6(b), which reads: (b) A vacancy in the office of Regional Director shall be filled by vote of the Councilors of the region affected as soon as practicable after the vacancy occurs and for the unexpired term of said office. During the transition period, it is in tended that elected Regional Directors will continue to hold office until the expiration of their terms, at which time their offices will become those of Directors. Explanation
For over two years, the CPC LongRange Planning Subcommittee has been considering the means of achiev ing more responsive interaction be tween Society members and the Soci ety governing structure, as well as bet ter communication and interaction within that structure. This petition is an outgrowth of those deliberations. The amendments presented here are designed to (1) provide a responsive and respon sible Council through direct elec tion of councilors by Society members and by elimination of substitute councilors; (2) provide a direct interaction be tween Society members and So ciety policies by placing in the Council, as the body closest to the membership, responsibility for general policy formulation; (3) provide for efficient implementa tion of general policy and effec tive utilization of resources by placing these responsibilities in a smaller group, the Board of Di rectors, elected by and responsi ble to the Council; and (4) provide for a smooth interchange of ideas and recommendations through a single set of Society committees.
While the petition is internally con sistent, it is recognized that its con cepts not only can but should be fur ther strengthened. For example, the proposals to increase Council responsi bilities and simultaneously eliminate alternate and temporary substitute councilors are intimately connected to Society support for councilor travel ex penses to Council meetings, which would reduce constraints on members who participate directly in the Society governance. The ability of individuals or employers to pay travel expenses to Council meetings should not be a con
trolling factor in the selection of coun cilors. This petition is an important propos al and, if adopted, it will have farreaching effects for the Society. The petition is presented to the Council so that the members of the Society and its Council, Board of Directors, and staff will have an ample opportunity to consider its implications in an open and deliberate manner. Signed: Allen L. Alexander, William J. Bailey, Robert B. Fox, Andrew J. Frank, Arthur H. Hale, Lester C. Krogh, Pauline Newman, Harry E. Whitmore, David C. Young, A. C. Zettlemoyer.
Petroleum Research Fund grants approved At its meeting on Dec. 8, 1973, the ACS Board of Directors approved 44 new and continued ACS-PRF grants for "advanced scientific education and fundamental research in the 'petrole um field."' These grants, totaling $819,840, resulted from the consider ation of 214 proposals by the PRF ad visory board at its fall meeting. Pro posals for ACS-PRF Type AC and Type Β grants are now being received for consideration at the spring meeting of the board. For full information, write Dr. Justin W. Collât, Program Administrator, Petroleum Research Fund, ACS, 1155—16th St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036. ACS-PRF grants for fundamental research in the petroleum field (Type AC) Josef Michl, U of Utah. Two-Photon Photochemistry. $20,000 Bruce J. Berne, Columbia U. Molecular Dynamics of Nematic Liquid Crystals and Anisotropic Liquids. $20,000 Edward M. Burgess, Georgia Inst, of Tech. Chemistry of /V-Sulfonylamines and T h i a m ines. $20,000 C. S. G. Phillips, Oxford U (Oxford, England). Application of Novel Gas-Chromatographic Methods to the Study of Catalysis. $12,000 John P. Fackler, Jr., Case Western Reserve U. Oxidized Sulfur-Containing Complexes—I. Complexes of Catenated Sulfur Ligands. II. Stabilization of Metal Ions in High Formal Oxidation States by Sulfur-Containing Ligands. $30,000 Kendall N. Houk, Louisiana State U. New Frontiers in Cycloaddition Reactions. $20,000 D. M. Roundhill, Washington State U. Synthesis and Reactions of Nucleophilic Coordinately Unsaturated Complexes. $20,000 Samuel Siegel, U of Arkansas. Catalytic Hydrogénation of Aromatic Hydrocarbons. Possible Role of Dienic Intermediates. $20,000 Alfred T. Anderson, Jr., U of Chicago. Outgassing of the Earth. $14,000 Alfred R. Loeblich, Jr., U of California, Los Angeles. Marine Primary Productivity During the Middle and Late Devonian Based on Phytoplankton (Acritarcha and Prasinophyceae). $20,000 Richard H. Clarke, Boston U. Optical Spin Polarization in the Study of Intermolecular Interactions in Organic Solids. $20,400 Louis S. Hegedus, Colorado State U. Functionalization of Organic Substrates viaa-Alkyl Transition Metal Complexes. $20,400 R. Mahalingam, Washington State U. Corrosion
Prevention by Electroinitiated Polymerization of Monomers onto Metal Surfaces. $20,400 Theodore L. Brown, U of Illinois. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies of Rearrangements in Transition Metal Carbonyl Compounds. $30,000 Robert E. Roberts, Indiana U. Investigation of Molecular Rate Processes Using Effective Optical Potentials. $22,000 Edwin F. Meyer, DePaul U. Molecular Interactions in Liquids Using Gas-Liquid Chromatography. $9600 Howard S. Taylor, U of Southern California. Scattering Theory in Atomic and Molecular Systems. $20,000 Donald G. Lee, U of Saskatchewan. Oxidative Cleavage of Carbon-Carbon Double Bonds by Ruthenium Oxides. $22,500 James L. Kinsey, MIT. OH and SH Radicals Studied by Laser-Induced Fluorescence. $20,000 Lawrence A. Singer, U of Southern California. Synthesis and Reactivity of 1,3-Di-ferf-butyiminooxirane. $15,100 Charles L. Rowett, Texas Christian U. Geology and Economic Potential of Paleozoic Rocks in Mexico. $14,000 Edward G. Janzen, U of Georgia. Spin Trapping —Detention and Identification of Oxygen, Sulfur, and Nitrogen Centered Free Radicals by the ESR Detection of the Nitronyl Nitroxide Addition Products of 2-ferf-Butyl-4,4-dimethylimidazole-1,2-bis-/V-oxide. $20,000 Myron Kaufman, Emory U. Physical Chemistry of Electric Discharge Excitation of Organic Molecules. $20,000 Benson R. Sundheim, New York U. Measurement of Electromigration of NMR Spin-Echoes. $20,000 Leo A. Paquette, Ohio State U. Alicyclic Molecules with Potential Homoaromatic and ThreeDimensional Aromatic Ground States. $20,000 Keith E. Gubbins, U of Florida. Bulk-Phase and Interfacial Thermodynamic Properties for Liquid Mixtures of Nonspherical Molecules. $15,000 W. Nicholas Delgass, Yale U. In Situ Mossbauer Spectroscopic Studies of the Catalytic Chemistry of Oxidation-Reduction Reactions. $29,225 Basil I. Swanson, U of Texas, Austin. Synthesis and Characterization of Mixed Nitrosyl Carbonyl Complexes of the Second and Third Row Transition Metals. $30,000 Kenneth R. Hall, U of Virginia. Interaction Second Virial Coefficients for Natural Gas Component Binaries. $27,975 Ernest L. Eliel, U of North Carolina. Problems in Organosulfur Chemistry. $18,000 Robert S. Mulliken, U of Chicago. Digital Machine Computations on Protonated Benzene and Methylated Benzenes. $23,300 Delia M. Roy, Pennsylvania State U. Hydroxyapatite: Its Crystal Chemistry, Synthesis, Equi-
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libria as a Function of Τ, Ρ, and Composition. $20,000 Guilford Jones, II, Boston U. Synthetic and Mechanistic Significance of Oxetane Fragmen tation. $26,800 David Chandler, U of Illinois. Theory of Molecular Liquids and Solutions. $20,000 A. J. Kresge, Illinois Inst, of Tech. What Makes Proton Transfer Fast? $25,000 Frederic A. Van-Catledge, U of Minnesota. Spec troscopic Studies of Homoconjugated and Quasi-Conjugated Hydrocarbons. $8500
ACS-PRF grants for fundamental research in the petroleum field at the undergraduate level (Type B) Kim Cohn, California State Coll., Bakersfield. Multiple Bonding Involving d Orbitals. $11,000 Ronald A. Martin, Louisiana State U., Shreveport. Synthesis and Solvolysis of Propellanes Con taining a Cyclopropylcarbinyl Moiety. $10,400 Donald L. Pavia, Western Washington State Coll. Photochemistry of Divinyl Ethers. $11,000 Marcus K. Meilahn, U of Northern Colorado. Ring Opening of Haloaziridines. $9240 Robert J. Palma, Sr., Midwestern U. Optically Active Metal Chelates. $11,000 Paul F. Weller, State U Coll., Fredonia, N.Y. Conducting MetalTin(ll) Trihalides. $11,000 Lowell J. Burnett, California State U, San Diego. Diffusion in Plastic Crystals. $11,000 William C. Harris, Furman U. Vibrational Spectra and Structure. $11,000
People Awards Horace A. DeWald, senior research scientist, Parke, Davis & Co., Ann Arbor, Mich., has received an award for excellence in industrial research from the University of Michigan Sec tion of ACS. He received the award for his research on pyrazolodiazepines. David Kearns, professor of chemis try at the University of California, Riv erside, received a gold medal award from the ACS California Section. The annual award was given to Dr. Kearns for his pioneering work in mapping the structures of transfer ribonucleic acid and 5S RNA. Harold A. Scheraga, Todd Professor of Chemistry, Cornell University, will receive the William H. Nichols Medal Award of the ACS New York Section on March 22. Dr. Scheraga will be hon ored for "original, theoretical and ex perimental investigations of protein structures and interactions, including the role of solvents in protein confor mations."
Industry Steve Svokos named director of regulato ry and technical affairs, Knoll Pharmaceuti cal Co., Whippany, N.J. . . . Charles S. Sweitzer joins Premoid Corp., West Spring field, Mass., as president and chief operat ing officer . . . Nels E. Sylvander becomes v.p., industrial chemicals, Pennwalt Corp., Philadelphia. David Taber named assistant research director, Armour-Dial, Phoenix, Ariz. . . . Gerard T. Taylor named senior research scientist I in process development section, Norwich Pharmacal Co., Norwich, N.Y.
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Robert E. Taylor appointed vice president, chemicals and supply, Northern Petrochem ical Co., Des Plaines, 111. . . . Robert Tesoro appointed general manager of manufactur ing, Jefferson Chemical, Port Neches, Tex. . . . Sam Torrence promoted to group leader in activated carbon research department, Westvaco, Charleston, S.C. . . . Edwin E. Tuttle becomes senior v.p., chemicals and equipment fields, Pennwalt Corp., Philadel phia. Fred V. Vitale appointed v.p., manufac turing, motor division, Emerson Electric Co., St. Louis, Mo. . . . Steve Voytek, Jr., named senior technical sales representative for elastomers, Exxon, Houston . . . Gerard R. Walton, Jr., becomes manager of opera tions, chemicals division, Rohm and Haas Co., Philadelphia . . . Robert J. Zeitlin joins Chemplex Co., Rolling Meadows, 111., as se nior research scientist in polymers.
Deaths John S. Adams, Jr., 41, Horizons Research, Beachwood, Ohio, Dec. 20. Joined ACS in 1958. J. Russell Bright, 65, chemistry professor, Wayne State University, Detroit, Mich., Dec. 20. Joined ACS in 1940. Chairman ACS Detroit Section in 1951. Joseph S. Cochran, 47, nuclear chemist, Teledyne Isotopes Energy Systems, Timonium, Md., Dec. 29. Morris H. Klein, retired district manager for Sandoz Colors & Chemicals, Nov. 28, Wyncote, Pa. Joined ACS in 1942. J. Pearce Mitchell, 93, retired professor of chemistry and registrar at Stanford Univer sity, Palo Alto, Calif., Dec. 27. Joined ACS in 1901; emeritus member. Daniel J. O'Connor, Jr., 57, former execu tive vice president and director, American Cyanamid, Jan. 2, Morristown, N.J. Joined ACS in 1946. Robert T. O'Connor, 64, chief of composi tion and properties lab, U.S. Department of Agriculture's Southern Regional Research Center, New Orleans, La., Dec. 1. Joined ACS in 1951. Chairman ACS Louisiana Sec tion in 1962. William W. Odell, formerly with Columbia Engineering Corp., Dec. 17, Lynchburg, Va. Joined ACS in 1913; emeritus member. Bernard M. Regan, 46, senior chemist, Bax ter Labs, Chicago, 111., Oct. 30. Joined ACS in 1951. George Scatchard, 81, professor emeritus of MIT, Cambridge, Mass., Dec. 13. Joined ACS in 1913; emeritus member. He received the ACS Theodore William Richards Medal in 1956 and the Kendall Award in 1962. Dr. Scatchard also served as associate editor for J AC S from 1948-52. Bernard E. Schaar, 89, founder and former president of Schaar Scientific Co., Chicago, 111., Dec. 26. Joined ACS in 1908; emeritus member. He was chairman of the ACS Chi cago Section in 1931 and was an active member of the scientific community and civic organizations throughout his lifetime. William Hay Taliaferro, 78, University of Chicago, microbiologist, Dec. 21, La Grange, 111. Jacob van de Kamp, 69, retired from the synthetic organic preparations laboratory of Merck Sharp & Dohme, Rahway, N.J., Nov. 22. In 1952, Dr. van de Kamp was appointed correspondent of the Royal Academy of Sci ences of the Netherlands by Queen Juliana. His contributions were many and varied from vitamins, new cardiovascular and mental health drugs, to cortical steroid therapy. Joined ACS in 1930; emeritus member. Ira Vandewater, 80, retired president and chief executive officer of R. W. Greeff & Co., New York City, Nov. 6. He was president of the Chemists Club in New York in 1954 and 1955.
Meetings Calendar of Events Future ACS national meetings March 31-April 4, 1974. Los Angeles, Calif. Sept. 8-13, 1974. Atlantic City, N.J. April 6-11, 1975. Philadelphia, Pa. Aug. 24-29, 1975. Chicago, 111. Write Meetings Dept., ACS, 1155—16th St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036. Jan. 25. Hydrogenergy Workshop. U of Houston, Houston, Tex. Write Sadie Rob erts, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, U of Houston, Houston, Tex. 77004. Feb. 4-5. Southwest Research Inst. U.S./ Japan Energy Conservation Seminar. San Antonio, Tex. Write SRI, 8500 Culebra Rd., P.O. Drawer 28510, San Antonio, Tex.78284. Feb. 12-13. lfith Water Quality Conf. U of Illinois, Urbana, 111. Write John T. O'Connor, 3221 Civil Engineering Bldg., U of Illinois, Urbana, 111. 61801. Feb. 25-26. Drug Information Assoc, and Pharmaceutical Computer Systems Assoc. Joint Workshop. Crystal City Marriott Motel, Arlington, Va. Write Samuel Rock, E. R. Squibb & Sons, 25 Kennedy Blvd., East Brunswick, N.J. 08816. March 3-6. Conf. on Energy Conserva tion. Marriott Hotel, Atlanta, Ga. Write Jack McKee, Natl. Soc. of Professional Engineers, 2029 Κ St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20006. March 4-6. 4th Annual Natl. Injection Molding Conf. San Juan Americana Hotel, P.R. Write William A. Kulok, 600 Third Ave., New York, N.Y. 10016. March 7-8. Odor Control Technology Mtg. of Air Pollution Control Assoc. William Penn Hotel, Pittsburgh, Pa. Write George E. Schulz, APCA, 4400 Fifth Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. 15213. March 13-14. Conf. on Extrusion of Plas tics. Soc. of Plastics Engineers. Holiday Inn, Saddle Brook, N.J. Write Ε. Β. Castagna, Dart Industries, West 115 Century Rd., Paramus, N.J. 07652. March 18-19. Metric Conf. Stouffers Riv erfront Inn, St. Louis, Mo. Write Norma Fleming, Extension Div., U of Missouri, Rolla, Mo. 65401. March 18-20. Hydrogen Economy Miami Energv Conf. U of Miami, Coral Gables, Fla. Write THEME Conf., U of Miami, Div. of Continuing Education, P.O. Box 8005, Coral Gables, Fla. 33124. March 23-28. Natl. Assoc, of Metal Fin ishers Seminar. Mexico City, Mexico. Write Peter Kovatis, 248 Lorraine Ave., Upper Montclair, N.J. 07043. March 27-29. Conf. on Nuclear Structure and High Energy Physics. U of Glasgow. Write Meetings Officer, Institute of Phys ics, 47 Belgrave Sq., London SW1X 8QX, England.
MEN AND MOLECULES Jan. 25 CHEMISTRY IN 1973 An Essay Report
