NEWS OF THE WEEK ACS
ELECTION
VOTES TALLIED FOR NATIONAL OFFICES Four directors chosen for 2003-05; presidential election is challenged
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HE TOP VOTE GETTER IN THE
three-way race for 2003 ACS president-elect is Charles P. Casey, who is the Homer B. Adkins Professor of Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Also on the ballot were Alvin L. Kwiram, vice provost for research and professor of chemistry at the University of Washington, Seattle, and E. Ann Nalley professor ofchemistry at Cameron University, Lawton, Okla., who was on the ballot by petition. In three-way races, voters are asked to indicate second-choice and first-choice votes. In accordance with ACS bylaws, because no candidate had a simple majority of first-choice votes, the second-choice votes of the candidate with the fewest first-choice votes were added to the firstchoice votes of the top two candidates to determine the winner. Thus, in the election for president-elect, Casey received 13,085 total votes —including 11,294 first-choice and 1,791 secondchoice votes from Kwiram. Nalley received 9,916 total votes— including 8,492 first-choice and 1,424 second-choice votes from Kwiram, who had 3,688 firstchoice votes. Nalley has filed aprotest charging violations of ACS constitution and bylaws provisions relating to elections. Her protest asserts that the election was conducted in violation of ACS Fair Election Procedures, as set forth in the society's bylaws [Bylaw V, Sec. 13 (b)}. Her allegations are based on the fact that the September 2002 issue of the Journal of ChemicalEducation, a publication of ACS's Division of HTTP://PUBS.ACS.ORG/CEN
Chemical Education, published statements, photographs, and websites of Casey and Kwiram, and that she was not invited to submit the same items. She argues that she was thereby "greatly disadvantaged" and asks that the election be declared null and void and a new election held. The charges are being addressed by the ACS Council Policy Committee (CPC), in accordance with ACS bylaws. ACS President Eli M. Pearce, chair of this committee, is convening a meeting of CPC—in accordance with Bylaw V, Sec. 13 (e)—in early December. According to that bylaw, if CPC finds "significant violation of the Constitution and Bylaw provisions regulating election procedures, which violation appears to benefit the winning candidate, the committee may declare the election void and order a new election to fill the vacancy" Two directors-at-large and two district directors were elected; they will serve on the ACS Board from 2003 to 2005. The winners in the at-large elections, who are elected by voting members of the ACS Council, are incumbents James D. Burke and C. Gordon McCarty. Burke is retired from Rohm and Haas, Spring House, Pa. McCarty is retired from Bayer. The other candidates were Daryle H. Busch, professor of chemistry at the University of Kansas, and Merle I. Eiss, international regulatory consultant. In the District III director's race, Madeleine M. Joullie, professor of chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania, won by a slim margin, defeating incumbent Maureen G. Chan, Bell
Laboratories, Lucent Technologies (retired). In the three-way race for director from District VI, Stanley H. Pine, professor of chemistry at California State University, Los Angeles, won with a total of 1,624 votes that included 1,253 firstchoice votes and 391 second-place votes from third-place finisher Stephen A. Rodemeyer, professor of chemistry at California State University, Fresno. Howard M. Peters, who is with Peters, Verny Jones & Schmitt LLP, Palo Alto, Calif, received 1,343 total votes, including 1,100 first-choice votes and 243 from Rodemeyer, who received a total of 756 votes. The sealed mail ballots were opened and counted by an independent, experienced voting firm, Sequoia Pacific Co., in Oakland, Calif, which certified the results. The ballot counting was supervised by Peter J. Stang and Kathleen M. Schulz, chair and member, respectively, of the ACS Committee on Nominations & Elections. Attila E. Pavlath, ACS immediate past-president, was an observer on behalf of Nalley and McCarty—LINDA RABER
Casey
Nalley
Kwiram
RESULTS ACS voting breakdown PRESIDENT-ELECT Charles P. Casey E. Ann Nalley Alvin L Kwiram
FIRST CHOICE
SECOND CHOICE
11,294 8,492
1,791 1,424
TOTAL VOTES 13,085 9,916 3,688
DIRECT0RS-AT-LARGE a James D. Burke C. Gordon McCarty Daryle H. Busch Merle 1. Eiss
246 212 153 79
DISTRICT III DIRECTOR Madeleine M. Joullie Maureen G. Chan
1,827 1,802
DISTRICT VI DIRECTOR Stanley H. Pine Howard M. Peters Stephen A. Rodemeyer
1,253 1,100
391 243
1,624 1,343
756
NOTE: In three-way races, such as for this year's election of presidentelect and District VI director, when no candidate receives a simple majority, second-choice votes of the candidate receiving the lowest number of first-choice votes are added to the first-choice votes of the other two. a Elected by vote of councilors.
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