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ing a t 11:45 A.M. The secretary welcomed the folloming new members into the Association:
The 285th meeting of NEACT was held at Saint On in West h.pti1 14, 1956. It was an unusual meeting since it was held iointlv with the Connecticut Vallev Section of the American Chemical Societv. This was the first time that such a joint meeting cad been tried, and it was most successful and very well attended, the estimated attendance being more than 200. The meeting was opened by Sister Theodore, Dean of the College. She welcomed the two societies to the college and extended the hospitality of Saint Joseph to
Mary P. Burke, Chemistry Teacher, Saored Heart Academy, Fairhaven, Massachusetts Sister M. Clarita Mangold, Chairman, Chemistry Department, Hill College, New York
seward E. B~~~~~ presented for the executive mittee the following proposed amendment to the constitntion which would add the category of student member to the kinds of Dossible members hi^: Article 111, Section 2. Membership shall be of three kinds, Student, Active, and Honorary, as provided in the By-Lam,s.
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The first speaker was C. Albert Kind, a biochemist in the biology department of the University of Connecticut, who spoke on "Chemical pathways in photosynthesis." This was a summation of the advances in our knowledge during recent years, a good deal of the work having been accomplished by tracer tech.~qnesusing radioisotopes. An excellent lunch was served to the group in the dining hall of Saint Joseph College, a t which time the members of the two scientific societies had an opportunity to chat and become better acquainted with one another. The first speaker of the afternoon was Frederick J. Schlink, president and technical director of Consumers' Research. His lecture was titled "Applied science in the service of consumers." He described the testing program of his organization, and pointed out many ways in which safety features of various appliances could be improved. The last speaker was Joel H. Hildebrand of the University of California and most recent past-president of the American Chemical Society. His subject was "Acids and bases." He listed and described the various systems of acids and bases .that have been used in the study of chemistry from early times up to the present. He concluded his lecture by discussing a recent research project that he had carried on personally in which the Lewis system of acids and bases has been extended to explain anomalous solubilities. Business Meeting
President Marco H. Scheer opened the business meet-
This proposed amendment will be published in the June issue of the NEACT Newsletter and will be acted upon a t the continuation of the annual meeting at the Eighteenth Summer Conference. It is understood that the word "student" applies particularly to students who are matriculated in a degree-granting institution in preparation for becoming teachers of chemistry. Such students will receive a reduction in dues. It was voted to express to the host institution the appreciation of the Association for the use of its excellent facilities and for its hospitality. 286th MEETING
The 286th meeting of the New England Association of Chemistry Teachers was held in the new high-school building in Natick, Massachusetts, on Saturday, May 12, 1956. Howard Hennigar, director of guidance in the high school, welcomed the group. The first speaker, Morris A. Leaffer of Tracerlab, Inc., Boston, gave an interesting talk on the advantages aud uses of carbon14 in tracing the mechanisms of organic reactions. He showed how to synthesize benzoic acid from radioactive carbon dioxide so that the number one ring carbon atom or the carbon atom of the carboxyl group could be tagged with carbon-14. He used good slides on isotope production based on prints which are available to teachers, on request, from the AEC in Oak Ridge. Charles D. Coryell of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, in telling about his recent travels in the Middle East and working a t the Weizmann Institute in Israel, gave an enlightening and vivid picture of the feelings and attitudes of the people of
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Egypt, Israel, and the Arab countries for each other and of some of the factors which lie behind these feelings. He described the educational and scientific institutions there, the type of studies and research being done, and the efforts of the Weizmann Institute to integrate its research with that of the rest of t,he world. A hearty lunch and visiting period were enjoyed in the school cafeteria. After the business meeting and annual meeting, Ina Granara, Simmons College, Boston, reviewed the history of the College Entrance Examination Board's tests and the changes that have occurred in the philosophy behind them, as well as the uses to which they are put by college admissions offices. The prospective "Tests of Developed Ability in Science" now being formulated are planned to determine whether or not a student has real scientific aptitudes, such as ability to analyze situations and the power of critical judgment, as well as fundamental skills in reading comprehension, computation, e t ~ . A.t the close of the meeting, members were taken through the school to see its excellent equipment and to enjoy the pleasant vistas of the lake from its classroom windows. Busin-
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President Marco H. Scheer opened the business meeting at 1 :45 P.M. A.u interim treasurer's report was given by Carroll B. Gustafson. S. Walter Hoyt reported for the necrology committee that the following deaths had occurred in our membership, three of whom were honorary members: Eldin V. Lynn, Arthur A. Blanchard, Daniel F. O'Regan, Ernst A. Hauser. Francis H. Deelev. .. S.J., Robert Blair. Stephen S. Winter, Northeastern University, Boston, reported a.s follows on the Lyman Churchill Newell Grants being awarded by the Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society to stimulate interest in local teachers to attend the Eighteenth NEACT Summer Conference: Nine teachers applied for grants, three from New Hampshire, six from Massachusetts. It was particularly gratifying that among them were several new teachers with only one year's experience. The committee felt that the grant program had encouraged these young men and women to seek the stimulus of association with others in the teaching profession in order to h e come more effective teachers. Of course, it was not possible to award grants to all of them since several tteachors of proved ability had also appliod. Grants were awarded to: Paul J. Boylan, . . Teacher a t Boston Latin School, Boston, Massachusetts Raymond W. LaBouthillier, Teacher at Kennett High School Conway, New Hampshire William B. MeILwitine, Teacher at Bradford Durfee High School, Fall River, Massachusetts Hyman R. Roseman, Teacher at Ashland High School, Ashland, Massachusetts
The selection committee consisted of Standish Deake, Laurence S. Foster, David M. Howell, and Stephen S. Winter, Chairman.
Dr. Winter also reported informally on the success his committee on industry and education was having in obtaining professional summer employment for chemistry teachers in local chemical companies. Nearly 30 jobs were offered and several teachers had been placed. The committee will report more fully a t the fall meeting. President Scheer reported that he had appointed the following commission to study teaching loads, laboratory hours, training of teachers, and the general aspects of working conditions for science teachers in New England: Dorothy W. Gifford, Chairman, Lincoln School, Providence, Rhade Island Elbert C. Weaver, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts Helen W. Crawley, Natiek High School, Natiok, Massachusetts Carl P. Swinnerton, Pomfret School, Pomfret, Connecticut Rev. Alexis A. Bahineau, A.A., Assumption College, Worcester, Massachusetts Everett F. Learnard, Norwood High School, Norwood, Massachusetts Robert D. Eddy, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts Ralph E. Keirstead, Consultant, State Department of Education of Connecticut Marco H. Scheer, Ez O&io, Nashus. High School, Nashua, New Hampshire
A vote of thanks to Natick High School for its hospitality was taken. 1mmedia.telyfollowing the adjournment of the 286th Meeting, the Annual Meeting was convened. 56th Annual Meeting
Natick High School, Natick, Massachusetts, May 12, 1956. Report of the Secretary The Seventeenth Summer Conference wss held s t Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, with &land W. Whittaker, Queens College, New York, and Angela M. Trovato, Exeter, New Hampshire High School, as co-chairman. Five meetings were held during the year, as follows: 282nd: Phillips Exeter Academy, .. Exeter, New Hampshire, O o b ber 5, 1955283rd: Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, December 10. 1955 284th: Conkcticut College, New London, Connecticut, Februmy 11, 1956 285th: St. Joseph College, West Hartford, Connecticut, April 14, 1asfi
286th: Natiok High School, Natick, Massxhusetts, May 12, 1956 LEALLYN B. CLAPP,Secretary
Report of the Membership Committee Membership, July 1, 1955.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 570 Membership, May 12, 1956.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 595 Suspended,January 1,1956 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Reinstated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Dropped . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Resigned . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Deaths 6 NewMembers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Joining at 17th Summer Conference. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 36 From high schools.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . From colleges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 LEALLYN B. CLAPP,Chaiman
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VOLUME 33, NO. 8, AUGUST, 1956 Report of t h e Curator The Cumtor has discharged the duties of his office, which am: ( I ) to receive and to file materials of historical value concerning the teaching of chemistry in New England; (2) to maintains. permanent membership file; (3) to assist division chairmen with mailings to schoole where the Association hnn no members, prior to each meeting. I t is of interest to note that, prior to this meeting, 2041 persons have ioined thc Association since its founding in 1808.
Report of t h e Editor of t h e NEACT Report At this 286th meeting of the Association, we are oumpleting the fifty-sixth annual volume of the official publication, the Report of the New England Association of Chemistry Teachers. During the early days of the Association, s, lZeporl was issued following each meeting, as thin pamphlets. Later these were colleoted and issued quarterly as a small booklet. Since 1042, the OF CHEMICAI. EDURepod has appeared monthly in the JOURNAL CATION as a special section. Each member of the Association receives a. subscription to THIS JOURNAL and is thus provided with a permanent record of the Official Business and write-ups of several papers given a t the Summer Conference or at one of the divisional meetings. The Report has appeared each month dr~ring the present year. This year the duties of the editor have been less demanding, because of the separation of the Report and the Newsletter, each hsving its own editar. The transition has proceeded without hitch. The cooperation of the secretay and of the divisional chairmen in providing summaries of the official business and of the technical ses~ianspromptly has greatly assisted the editor of the Report in meeting the deadlines set by TRIS JOURNAL.
and able participation in the work of the Massachusetts Science Fair Committee is indicative of your devotion to tho better teaching of all the scienoes. The love and loyalty of your former pupils and of all your other friends hem witness to the warmth and vigor of your personality. For your years of constructive leadership in the activities of this Association, for your buoyant good humor, for your sympathetic undervtsnding of the problems of others, and for your enthusiastic and mooessful teaching w e delight tr, honor you today.
Member of Nominating Committee. Leallyn B. Clapp. Brown University, Providenre, Rhode Island, was clected to the nominating rommittee for a term of three years. The new committee is as follows. Guy F. Bnrrill, Chairman, Walter G . Stewart, Leallyil B. Clapp. Report of Nominating Committee
Election of Honorary Members
President-Mmm 1-1. Scheer, Naahua High School, X:~shun, New Hampshire Vice-pwsident-Ral,ert D. Eddy, Tufts University, .M$dfonl, Masmehnsetts Secretary-Rev. Joaeph A. ~Mrtrtus,S.J., College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts Treasure-Carroll B. Gustafson, Massachusetts, Colloge 01 Pharmacy, Boston, Massitchusetts Chaiman of Nwthern Division-Edwin Betc, Keene Teachers College, Reene, New Hampshire Chairman of Centrnl Division-Evorett F. Learnard, Norwood High School, Norwood, Massaehuvetts Chai~.man of Southern Division-James Watters, BmdfordDurfee Technical Institute, F d l River, Massachusetts Chairman of Weskrn Division-Elizabeth W. Sawyw, Weww High School, Hartford, Cannectiout dudito-S. Walter Hoyt, Belmont, Massachusetts Cumto-Ralph E. Keirstead, Department of Education, Sti~tc:of Connecticut, Hartford, Connecticut Member of Endowment Fund (!onmitteeMnry B. Fonl, Milford, Mrtsaachusetts HELENW. CRAWLEY, Chair~~~an WALTERG. STEWART GUYF. BURRILL
The following two persons were unanimously elected to honorary membership after the report of the honorary membership committee was accepted. The following citations were read:
The report of the present nominating committee was accepted, and the secretary was instmcted to cast ono I~allotfor the slate of officers. The meeting was adjourned sine die.
LAURENCE S. FOSTER,Editor of the Report
Seward E. Beacom, Teachers College of Connecticut. reported informally on his experiences during his first, year as editor of the NEACT Areudettcr.
NORRISWATSONRAKESTRAW, 30 yeala a. member of this Association and vice-president and president from 1930 to 1934, frequent speaker a t its meetings and canferenoes, leader of discussions, m d originator of the idea of publishing the NEACT Report OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION; associate editor and in the JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EI~UCATION from 1939 until editor of the JOURNAL 1955; current president of the Pacific Southwest Associrttion of Chemistry Teachers; ehairman-elect of the Division of Chemical Education of the American Chemical Society; chairman of the chemistp division of the Scripps Institute of Oceanography of the Univcrsity of California; 1956 rocipient of bhe James Flack Norris Award of the Northeast,rrn Section of the A. C. S. for outstanding ilohievement in the teaching of chemistry; stimulating teacher, innovator of chemical demonstration experiments, skilled administrator and ocesn-going chemist of rrnown: f$thfnl friend and supporter of this Association. HELENW. CRAWLEY, member of this Association since 1941; secretary of the Sixth Summer Conference: registrar and treasurer of the Eighth Summer Conference; chairman of the Centrid Division, 19168; vice-president, 1948-50; president, 195LL2. Your services to the Ncm England Association of Chemistry Teachers have contributed vitally to its steady growth and effectiveness. Your interests have extended hcyond the limits of the organization n.hirh you have served so well, and your aatiw
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t,o the prcsci~klive and virile organization of todai. When a. gift of money was made to NHACT by one of our former t,reaswers, Miss Lillie C. Smith, and it was neeessay to establish an endowment committee to manege such funds, it was Dr. Blanchsrd who consented to act as endowncnt fund troxsular. He managed this fund espnbl,y irom 1036-43 when he turned ovt.1. the treasurership to his M. I. T. eallezgue, Dr. Avery A. Arhdown. Dr. Blanchard was tendered an honorary membership at our Taft School meeting a n May 3, 1941. He was a. member of the wdvisory committee of the Central Division in 1923, 1924, and 1925, and wm IL member of the Summer Confcrence Committee of 1!)42. a "Question Box" in our Report for many yearn. He He was graduated from M. I. T. in 1808 and attained his Ph.D. from Leipaig in 1902. After onc year ss instruct,or a t Yew Hampahirc Collcgc at. Durham, New FIxmpshirr, non. Uni-
414 v c r d y of N e w Hampshire, 1902-3, he became a member of the inorgsnir chemistry staff a t M. I. T. He was a member of the usual professional organizations and nn enthusiastic member of the Appalachian Mountain Cluh. A madcst writer al testbooks, some of the older members will remember the following: "The Electrolytic Dismeiation Theory," 1910 (with IIenry 1'. Talbot); "S,ynthetic Inorganic Chemistry"; "Foundations of Chemistry," 1914 (with Frank B. Wade); "Laboratory Manual of Chemistry," 1917 (with Wade); and translator: "Laboratory Mcthods of Inorganic Chemistl.y" (with Wm. T. Hall). His research activities inaluded papers an metal carbonyls, theory of vnlenrc, vrloritie~of reactions, and viscosities of nolutionn. ERNST A. HAUSERdied on February 10, 1950. Dr. Hauser was always erecedingly cordial to the New England Association of Chcmi~tryTeachers and its memhers. He has given of his time and energy many- times to make the programs of our regular meetings and summer conferences instrnotive. His latest contributian was x series of three lectures a t M. I. T. last winter on Colloid Science, given especially under t,he auspices of the Northeastern Section of the A. C. S. for t,he benefit of secondary teachera of chemistry in and near Boaton. Born in Vienna, Austria, in 1896, he reeeivcd his bachelor's degree just a t the ntart of World War I. He was immediately called into tho army, where he served with the Field Artillery and the Ski Tmops. After the war he received the Ph.D. degree in 1921 from the University of Vienna, where his major field vns physical chemistry, and devoted his life to colloid science. His first book was devoted to the colloid science of natural lstex and laid the foundation for the modern latex industry. Other books are entitled "Colloidd Phenomena," "Experiments in Colloid chemist,^," and "Silieio Science." An eighbpage
JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION artide entitled "The hiataly of colloid science," giving s brief r6sum6 of the development of this subject, was published in the JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION in January, 1955. After serving from 1928 to 1935 ss a nonresident professor a t M. I. T.. Dr. Hauser was made a Dermment mofessor. and more recently semed also as a. visiting professor of thi? suhject a t the Worcester Polytechnic Inst,itute. DANIELF. O'REGAN,89, who a t the time of his retirement in 1938 was assistant principal of the Worcester (Massachusetts) Clsssicnl High School, died on April 24, 1956. Few NEACT members have attended as many meeting8 as he had. He first joined the Association in 1912 when he began secondary school chemistry teaching a t Worcester Classical High School. In 1947 he was tendered an Honorarv Membershin "Dm," who attended his last meeting of the N ~ A C Ta t ~ s e < e r in the fall of 1955, will be remembered with sincere affection by many of our older members who will miss his hearty greeting. Tho son of an Irish immigrant who came to the United States from New Brunswick shortly after the Civil War and a graduate of tho Worcester Classical High School in 1886, he worked a year ns a reporter for the Worcester Gazette, then entered Worcester Polytechnic Institute, majoring in chemistry. Upon graduation in 1891 he remained a t "Tech" for two yeilra t o pursue research in an effort to proJuro synthetic quinine, a project ~ucroasfdly concluded 50 years later by two Hsrvard chemists. An instructor ttt the Institute in 1893, he filled this position and that of chemistry instructor a t the Worcester Evening High School. I n 1912 he was elected to a teaching position a t tho Classical High School. He then resigned from W. P. I., but continued at, the Evening High School rw principal until 1920. From 1917 on his work wan largely administrative in this impovtznt college pprepm&tor,vmhool.
