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Soday — Champion of the South fore joining Chemstrand in 1951, he was director of research and develop chemical plant successfully located be ment for Lion Oil. Prior to that time low the Mason-Dixon line. Many he also served in the same capacity years a g o Soday began working hand with Devoe & Raynolds. in hand with scientific and industrial When Soday left Grove City College leaders, plotting the course for future with a B.S. degree in chemical engi development of the South. H e has al neering he knew h e had found his ways been a mainstay of the Southern career in life—research. He then went Association of Science and Industry. to Ohio State University where h e re N o w the association's president, Soday ceived a M.S. degree, and in 1932 a is even more deeply concerned with Ph.D. degree in organic chemistry. the region's progressHis gamut of" research experience in A s t h e official spokesman for SASI, cludes a stint w i t h the Pennsylvania Frank Soday presented an outstanding Grade Crude Oil Assocation as research report o f the South's progress and fu chemist, three years as a group leader ture possibilities last year before the with Monsanto's central research labo Southern Governors Conference ratories, and five years as assistant (C&EN, Nov. 2 9 , 1 9 5 4 , page 4 7 4 7 ) . laboratory manager for United Gas Im H o w well the report was received is provement Co. From 1943 through 1946 Soday served as technical direc indicated by the action on t h e part of 15 southern governors—they voted tor for the Copolymer Corp., at its unanimously to continue the report as Baton Rouge synthetic rubber plant. an annual event highlighting their Soday's memberships in educational, meeting. I n t h e wake of a n atomic industrial, and c i v i c organizations are era, Soday stands at the crossroads of too numerous for a complete listing. scientific progress in the South, prepar Definitely a booster of education and ing for a n even greater industrial revo research in the South, he is director and lution. trustee of Gorgas Scholarship Founda Also this year's recipient of the Herty tion, president of t h e Citizens Board of MeUal Award for h i s outstanding con Athens College a n d a member of the tribution to the field of chemistry, So- coUege's advisory council, and he also day is vice president and director of serves on the Southern Regional Edu research and development for Chem- cational Board for Chemistry and strand, manufacturers of synthetic fi Chemical Engineering. A vice presi bers ( a n associate company jointly dent of the Alabama Academy of Sci owned by Monsanto and American ence, Soday is active in the National Plant Food Research Council; National Viscose) . One of eight children, Soday was Farm Chemurgic Council; Advisory reared o n farms in western Pennsyl Research Commission, Southern Weed vania ( h i s native birthplace is Coal- Conference; Independent Petroleum town). At the age of 11 he began to Association; Associated Industries of utilize the natural resources of his Arkansas; and the Southern Agricul country. With a younger brother, age tural Workers. From Artifacts t o Fibers. Soday's 9, h e subcontracted land from his fa ther and spent the summer cutting tim aptitude for research has carried over ber. Hard work is n o stranger to Frank into his personal life, for he is more Soday. As a youth he walked many than just an amateur archeologist. His miles each d a y t o attain his early edu early youth as an Eagle Scout prepared cation. him well for field trips that were to Soday worked h i s way through take him to many fascinating places in Grove City College, spending off-school his study of the American Indian. hours in a machine shop, and as a trap Soday has found and catalogued a per attended a string of traps which total of nearly 100,000 artifacts made netted him additional money. While by the prehistoric Indian, and has made he w a s working in t h e machine shop, over 8 0 0 archeological field trips, vary the noted steelman Charlie Schwab ing in duration from a few hours to came in to watch him operate what was two weeks, since h i s first find in 1937. then the world's largest drill press. Of his work, his hobby, and his re (Schwab w a s greatly impressed.) In ligious activities, Soday says: "They those days Soday still found time for are the three great mysteries. W e take outside activitieb. r l e was swimming the mystery of religion on faith, trying coach for t h e college and is still an to understand something that never has expert swimmer. been fully understood. W e study Niany Years of Research· Frank archeology to write history that has Soda.y well realizes the importance of never been recorded. And w e do re chemical research t o the South. Be search work to learn new things." DAY in the career of Frank J. EVERY Soday holds promise of another
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