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George A. Callies joins analytical division of Procter & Gamble.
Richard Wistar: Meeting Chairman Richard Wistar, general chairman of the ACS 133rd National Meeting, is a chemist, teacher, administrator, and yachtsman—not necessarily in that or-
Dick has served the section as chairman of its education group, as councilor, and as chairman during the 115th National Meeting in San Francisco in 1949. H e is also active in the AAAS, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, Federation of American Scientists, and the Pacific Southwest Association of Chemistry Teachers. As relaxation from teaching chemistry at a woman's college, Dick turns to sailing. A t Inverness, on a bay north of San Francisco, h e has a summer cabin where the Hg, his Mercury class sailboat, can be moored outside the door. From the close of school in June until after Labor Day, Dick and his family live at Inverness and spend the days on or near the water. The Wistars' three children—Richard, Jr. (second-year student at UCLA medical school), Jill (biology major at Mills), and Alice (high school student), share their father's love of the water and sailing.
der. Ile is professor of chemistry at Mills College in Oakland and is also chairman of the department of physi- \ cal sciences and convener of the school Marshall F. Acken named to head of natural sciences. As a yachtsman, new sales development section in Du he is past commodore of the Inverness Pont's explosives department. Henry Yacht Club and past club champion in H. Herring will be assistant manager. the Mercury class. Born in Woodbury, N. J., in 1905, Herman H. Woodall named manager of he received his early education at chemical sales section, succeeding nearby Westtown Friends' School. His Acken. "William Reynolds becomes asinterest in chemistry stems from that sistant manager of that section. period when James Vail, a vice presiRichard J. Anderson named head dent of Philadelphia Quartz, talked to chemist, trade sales laboratory, United the students on the uses of silicates. Wallpaper, Chicago. This interest led to a bachelor's deClyde E. Arntzen named manager gree at Haverford College in 1928 and then to graduate work at Harvard. of materials engineering department at This was interrupted by a return to Westinghouse Electric. Haverford for three years in a teaching John W . Barger promoted to head of position. H e married Lolita Cass there inorganic chemistry section of Midwest in 1933. H e later returned to Harvard Research Institute, Kansas City, Mo. to complete graduate work under James James G. Baxter named associate B. Conant and receive a doctorate. director of research at Distillation ProdIn 1939 the offer of a teaching posiucts Industries division of Eastman tion at Mills College lured him to the Kodak. San Francisco Bay area where he rapidly became a zealous native son, Herbert I. Berman completes work an active participant in the affairs of for P h . D . in organic chemistry at Purthe ACS California Section, and an en- due and becomes research chemist with thusiastic small-boat sailor. Armstrong Cork, Lancaster, Pa.
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Thomas H. Chilton named technical adviser to the engineering department at D u Pont. Charles E. Daniels succeeds him as technical director. Charles M. Cooper named assistant division director in charge of the engineering research lab; Harcourt C. Vernon becomes director of the lab, and Roy A. Kinckiner, deputy director. Everett J. Collier joins development department of Procter & Gambled overseas division. Lewis H. Conklin and James S. Benson named senior technical men at B. F. Goodrich Chemical, Avon Lake, Ohio. Donald J. Fox joins Lion Oil, El Dorado, Ark., as manager of asphalt sales. Robert D . Walls joins Queeny plant, St. Louis. Awards for scientific achievement and service have been presented to the following scientists at Abbott Labs: Kenneth J. Frederick, for organization of the physical research lab; Alma W. Goldstein, for work in isolating and screening microorganisms that produce new antibiotics; William A. Lennox, for application of modern instruments and electronics to developing control tests; Thomas J. Oliver, for contributions to microbial assays, fermentations, and antibiotics; P. Robert Rasanen, for work on sterile products and as a section manager. Robert L. Goldsmith leaves American Viscose to join Sylvania Electric Products, Towanda, Pa., as statistician. Vannie E. Gray joins D u Pont Co. in Kins ton, N. C. Promotions at Don Baxter, Inc., Glendale, Calif.: Donald A. Hamilton, to senior plastics engineer; Harold Hershenson, to senior development chemist; Stephen D . Thornton, Jr., to director of process research and development; Robert S. Gamble, to senior control engineer. John G. Hainsworth transfers to marketing division as product planning manager and is succeeded by John N. Pagones as director of control. Kenneth Hanover named manager of process engineering at Shulton, Inc., in fine chemicals division.
AIME Officers Augustus B. Kinzel, vice president of Union Carbide Corp., has been elected president of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers for 1958. A. B. Kinzel Howard C . Pyle of Monterey Oil Co. becomes president-elect of AIME. T h e new presidents of the societies composing AIME are: Stanley D . Michaelson of Kennecott Copper, Society of Mining Engineers; Walter R. Hibbard, Jr., of General Electric, Metallurgical Society, and Basil P. Kantzer of Union Oil of California, Society of Petroleum Engineers. Kiyo Hattori joins research staff of Richardson Co. as senior chemist. Cornelius Lawyer joins as assistant chemist. William E . Hibbits becomes technical sales representative with Argus Chemical, Brooklyn. Clifford M. Hollenbeck elected v.p.research at Wisconsin Malting, Milwaukee. Has been research director.
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Freddy Homburger named president and Peter Bernfeld, vice president and director of research at the newly established Bio-Research Institute, Inc., and Bio-Research Laboratories, Inc., Cambridge, Mass. Both are from the faculty at Tufts. M. Honda named technical attaché for the Kureha Chemical Industry Co. and Kureha Kasei Co. of Japan. H e is also technical adviser in the U. S. for C. Itoh & Co. (America), Inc., N e w York.
Chlorine Institute Elects Waiiam H . McConnell has been named president of the Chlorine Institute. H e is v.p.sales at Diamond Alkali. The new vice president is J. Douglas Converse W . H . McConneU Qf Canadian Industries, Ltd. Robert T. Baldwin is secretary-treasurer and Robert L. Mitchell, Jr., assistant secretary. MARCH
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Μ ο yer D. Thomas, senior scientist in t h e physical sciences division of Stam ford Research I n stitute, named t o receive the first annual award o f the ACS Salt Lake Section for "outstanding contributions to education and to pure 01 applied research." Charles H. S c h r a m m ap pointed director of research at J. T. Baker Chemical, Phillipsburg, N . J. He formerly di rected the organic chemical research section at Lever Brothers research laboratories and b e fore that was a member of the Man hattan Project at MIT. George C. Schweiker appointed man ager o f research at Velsicol Chemical, Chicago. Kurt E. Shuler from National Bureau of Standards joins research staff of General Motors, Warren, Mich., as science adviser. George H. S tram named chief engi neer of chemical equipment for Read Standard Division, Capitol Products Corp., York, Pa.
Ralph C. Welton joins eastern re search division staff of Rayonier, Inc., Whippany, N . J. W. D . Williams elected t o newly created post of v.p.-research and pro duction of National Laboratories, Inc., Toledo. C. L. Earp named general sales manager.
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Robert E . Donadio receives Ph.D. at Temple University and becomes a resident research associate at National Bureau of Standards, Washington, D . C. John R. Oayle, Jr., is working in Madras, India, as a Stanford Research Institute consultant with the Small In dustries Commission of India. Robert H . Harmeson appointed head of Peoria research laboratory of Illinois State Water Survey. Succeeds Max Suter, now on special assignment. Navy Distinguished Public Service Awards have been made to several staff members at Johns SMiifcL^^^6^ Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Silver Spring, Md. This is the highest honor conferred by the Secretary of the Navy on individual citizens who are R. E . Gibson not employees of
James S. Tomlinson becomes presi dent and general manager of General Abrasives Co., Niagara Falls. Raymond Tooke, Jr., named techni cal service director of Oliver B. Cannon & Son, Philadelphia. From American Viscose. P. A. Ucci named leader of newly created exploratory spinning group of A. Kossiakoff H . H. Porter Chemstrand Corp/s research and d e the Navy Department. All were cited velopment division, Decatur, Ala. for their part in the development of Arnold J. Walker named superin the Terrier guided missile, now in use tendent of Buffalo Extract & Supply, by the U. S. Fleet. Among those rec ognized were Ralph E . Gibson, direc Buffalo. tor of the lab; Alexander Kossiakoff, Joseph H. Ward named a sales rep assistant director for technical opera resentative in industrial chemicals di tions, and Henry H . Porter, assistant vision of Pittsburgh Coke & Chemical. director of planning.
PEOPLE Kenneth Kahn from Army Chemical Corps is now chief of industrial engi neering branch at Letterkenny Ord nance Depot of the Army at Chambersburg, Pa. Kenneth A. Lincoln joins thermal radiation branch, nucleonics division, U. S. Naval Radiological Defense Lab oratory, San Francisco. H. A. C . McKay of the chemistry division, U . K. Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell, England, named director of the Baghdad Pact Nuclear Training Centre, to take office in July. H e will succeed W· J. Whitehouse. Junius M. Webb becomes biochemist with Food and Drug Administration, Washington, D. C. From National In stitutes of Health. Richard Wiebe of the USDA North ern Regional Research Laboratory, Peoria, 111., retires after 31 years of federal service as an authority on ag ricultural motor fuels.
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W. F. Barker resumes post as head of the chemistry department at Rhodes university, Grahamstown, Union of South Africa. He has been on two years' leave of absence, first at the Radiochemistry Laboratory in Teddington, England, and later as visiting research associate at Case Institute of Technology in Cleveland.
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Robert H. Marshall joins Louisiana Polytechnic Institute, Ruston, La., as associate professor of chemistry. James W. Meadows, Jr., appointed associate chemist in reactor engineering division at Argonne National Labora tory, Lemont, 111. Clyde E. Osborne from PitmanMoore becomes assistant professor of chemistry at Long Beach State College, Long Beach, Calif. Jan H. A. Rydberg, head of nuclear chemistry section, Research Institute of National Defense, Stockholm, Sweden, joins Argonne National Laboratory staff. He is on a year's leave of absence from the Swedish institute. Charles M. Shull, Jr., appointed an assistant professor of chemistry at Colo.ado School of Mines, Golden. Robert D. Stoll joins Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory as a chemist in the weapons division. C. Gardner Swain of MIT chemistry department will give a Glidden Co. lecture at the University of Michigan, March 26, on Detection of Transient Intermediates in Polar Displacement Reactions. Carl Wagner re signs as professor of metallurgy at MIT and has been appointed head of the Max Planck In stitute for Physical Chemistry at Gottingen, West Ger many. He succeeds the late Karl Friedrich Bonhoeffer.
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Maj. Gen. E. F. Bullene Maj. Gen. E . F. Bullene, 62, retired chief of the Army Chemical Corps (1951-54), died Feb. 21 in San Francisco. H e had been with Chemi cal Warfare Serv ice since 1925. He had graduated from the Naval Academy at An napolis in 1917, was transferred to the Army as a cavalry officer, and saw service in both World War I and II, also in the Korean war. Late in 1944 he was assigned to command a secret research project in Panama on the use of chemical agents under tropical conditions, carried out joindy by the U. S., British, and Cana dian armies, navies, and air forces. For this work he received the Legion of Merit. In 1946 h e assumed command of die Army Chemical Center, then in 1951 became the Chemical Corps deputy chief and later chief. Martin K. Barnett, 48, senior re search chemist at Mound laboratory of Monsanto at Miamisburg, Feb. 1 1 . Fred Camaglia, president of Indus trial Alkali Acid, Cleveland, Feb. 5. John Clewell, Jr., 7 1 , retired asso ciate director of research for Du Pont, where he worked over 40 years, Feb. 11. Joined ACS in 1909; emeritus member. Frederick Dehls, 58, executive v.p. of Benzol Products, Newark, N . J. Feb. 8. Maxson A. Eddy, 54, director of packaging at E. R. Squibb & Sons, New York City, Feb. 13. Robert L. Grimsley, 35, chemist at Naval Research Laboratory, Washing ton, D. C , Feb. 16. He died of ex posure on a camping trip in Virginia. Abraham Moscowitz, 62, chief chem ist for L. Sonnebom Sons, Belleville, N. J., Feb. 11. Daniel Ressler, 39, research chemist at Food Machinery & Chemical, Prince ton, N. J., Feb. 8. Albert A. Scharwachter, 61, execu tive v.p. of Arizona Chemical, killed in accident at Winter Park, Fla., Feb. 14.
