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the diversified professional problems being handled. With the influx of cases beginning in 1969, the committee realized that this method was no longer satisfactory for handling the requests, especially since terminations, which now dominated the case load, demanded prompt inquiry. The committee received approval after the 1973 spring meeting to retain regional consultants to investigate the cases and assist the members. Three consultants (East, Midwest, and West) were engaged. According to current procedure, the ACS staff refers a case to the appropriate consultant upon receipt of the request form. The consultant then interviews the employer and the member, determines the facts of the case in relationship to the ACS Guidelines for Employers, and reports his findings and recommendations to the subcommittee. The subcommittee reviews the report and recommends a course of action to CPR. In some cases, it has been the judgment of CPR that the member has received fair and professional treatment. In other cases over the years, however, the committee has achieved tangible benefits for the member. For example, the committee helped to clarify two members' pension rights, obtained an additional week of severance pay for another, changed a dismissal termination to a voluntary resignation, obtained letters of recommendation that were more favorable, and won recognition of a member's right to publish his research. On occasions when the situation warranted, employers were cited before the ACS Council p.nd in C&EN for their unprofessional treatment of chemists. ACS members who believe they have received unprofessional treatment may ask for assistance by contacting the Office of Professional Relations.
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R&D booklet aims at press, teachers Reporters and teachers who are interested in knowing the latest developments in chemistry now have a handy reference source. "Chemistry in 1973," recently published by the American Chemical Society's Department of Public and Member Relations, presents an overview of chemical research in 1973. The 67-page booklet covers a wide variety of topics including energy R&D, isotope chemistry, new aluminum processes, chemicals and cancer, organics in the solar nebula, and fire research. Background material is provided on each topic plus reviews of important research by individual scientists. Roy Avery, head of the Department of Public and Member Relations, says the booklet is aimed primarily at writers, editors, and news broadcasters. About 1500 copies of "Chemistry in
1973" will be distributed free to such media people. The publication is designed to give story leads to science writers and thus lead to more articles and features in the press and on television concerned with the science of chemistry and with chemists: "Chemistry in 1973" is the second in what will be a series of publications. Mr. Avery says that the response to "Chemistry in 1972" was very good. Several inquiries were received from teachers who wanted copies for themselves and for their classes. However, not enough copies were available. So twice as many copies, 5000, were printed in 1973 in an effort to determine the actual amount of interest in the education field. "Chemistry in 1973" is available from the ACS Office of Special Issues Sales, 1155—16th St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036 at $1.00 per copy or 50 cents each for orders of 15 or more. These rates should make it attractive to public schools, and, as Mr. Avery says, the Society "wants the booklet read but it doesn't want to make money on it."
People Dr. Elena Ceausescu, wife of the president of Romania, recently became the first foreign dignitary to be awarded honorary membership of the American Institute of Chemists. Dr. Ceausescu has a Ph.D. in chemistry and she specializes in macromolecular compounds. She guides much of the chemical activity in Romania as director general of the Central Institute for Chemical Research in Bucharest. She is also on the executive board of the National Council for Science and Technology, a body charged with coordinating science and technology policies. Dr. Venancio Deulofeu, professor emeritus of the University of Buenos Aires, will this week receive the 1973 Dr. Bernardo A. Houssay Scientific Prize from the Interamerican Council for Education, Science, and Culture for his work in chemistry. The $30,000 prize, which honors the 1947 Nobel Laureate in physiology and medicine, was established by the council in 1971 following Dr. Houssay's death. The first award, 1972, went to Dr. Alberto Hurtado, a Peruvian physiologist.
