tiitc t Technology, will receive the 1941 Award of the Pittsburgh Section of the
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meeting of the section in the University Club, February 19. Dr. Jones has been director of the Car negie Tech Engineering College since 1932. Previously he taught at Purdue, Harvard, Maine, Missouri, and Montana and had a distinguished career as an industrial and research chemist with the B. F. Goodrich Co. During the first World War, Dr. Jones served in the Chemical Warfare Reserve Corps, conducted research on Lewisite, and served as chemical expert on the War Trade Board. Alexander Silverman, of the University of Pittsburgh, received last year's award. Previous recipients were Edward R. Wreidlein, George H. Olapp, and Francis C. Frary. Hoffmann Scholarship of the Chemists' C l u b A w a r d e d to Robert T. O l s e n T H E Hoffmann Scholarship of The Chemists' Club has been awarded for the school year 1941-42 to Robert T. Olsen, a candidate for the P h . D . degree in the Department of Chemistry at Massa chusetts Institute of Technology. This scholarship, founded by the late William F. Hoffmann, is available in alternate years; the stipend is $800, payable in semiannual installments of $400. Mr. Olsen did his undergraduate work in the Newark College of Engineering, receiving the B.S. degree in chemical engineering in 1936. In 1937 Columbia University awarded him the M.S. degree in chemical engineering, after which he worked for two years with the Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, Ν. Y. In 1939 he entered Massachusetts Institute of Tech nology as a candidate for the P h . D . degree in chemistry. H e is completing this work under Ernest H. Huntress and will be eligible for this degree in June 1942. Mr. Olsen chose as his thesis subject for the B.S. degree "Design of a Plant for the Manufacture of Propanol-2", and "Etherification in Hydrotropic Solution" for his M.S. degree. His P h . D . disserta tion involves study in the field of synthe ses of coumarones. O i l Exports from French Indo-China A r e Hampered EXPORTATION of essential oils produced in French Indo-China was handicapped, even before present difficulties, by require ments for export permits. Such permits were difficult to obtain. T h e country pro duces mainly such oils as aniseed, cajaput, and citronella, with lesser amounts of Indian vervain, ylang-ylang, and lemon grass, largely by several small native and Chinese growers, who sell t o local French refiners and exporters. 110
TΗΕ following memorandum (I-347) as released to local boards (Local Board Release 83) was sent to all state directors by Lewis B. Hershey, Director, Selective Service System, January 12, 1942: The attention of local boards is again invited to the necessity of seriously considering for deferment students in cer tain specialized professional fields in which dangerously low levels of manpower are found to exist. This memorandum is in addition to and does not rescind those pre viously issued which apply to students in other critical fields. Subsequent to the declaration of war, local selective service agencies have in many instances proceeded to classify regis trants without regard to the fact that they are in training or preparation for activities, the maintenance of which is essential to the national health, safety, or interest, and war production. This is particularly true in cases of engineering, chemical, physics, medical, and dental students. Admittedly there is an overlapping of the military and civilian requirements of a nation at war; however, it must be borne in mind the one is dependent upon the other. It is estimated that the expanding Army will eventually require doctors and dentists in numbers heretofore unknown. They will not be available if those stu dents who show reasonable promise of becoming doctors and dentists are in ducted prior to becoming eligible for com missions. War industries are undergoing a hitherto unknown expansion. Aeronautical, civil, electrical, chemical, mining, metallurgical, mechanical, and radio engineers, together with physicists and chemists are essential to ensure a sufficient flow of materiel for the armed forces, and industry must look to the engineering, chemical, and physics students now in training to meet its pres ent and future requirements. I t is equally important that instructors in these fields be seriously considered for occupational deferment. Shortages of qualified instructors are known to exist. The educational institution employing the instructor should be requested to file DSS Form 42A in all cases where deferment is sought. In considering student deferment cases,
W i l l i a m C a m p b e l l Fellowships Established THROUGH the bequest of the late William Campbell, for many years Howe Pro fessor of Metallurgy at Columbia Univer sity, two fellowships have been estab lished. They are awarded primarily for graduate study and research in metal lurgy. The stipend of each Campbell Fellow ship is fixed at the time of award b y recom mendation of the Campbell Fellowship Committee and will normally be an amount sufficient t o meet the necessary living expenses of the incumbent of the fellowship. Applications accompanied by certified transcripts of academic records and state ments of proposed research projects and fields of graduate studies should be filed CHEMICAL
certain local boards are requiring the execution of DSS Form 42A in addition to the affidavit of the college or university contained in Bulletin No. 10 issued by the American Council on Education. DSS Form 42A should not be required where the American Council on Education affi davit has been submitted. Local boards will be informed when the manpower requirements necessary to the national health, safety, or interest, and war production become static. Until such time, the policy set forth in the Memo randa to All State Directors 1-62, 1-91, 1-99 and 1-150 remains in force. In accordance with, Supplement t o Bul letin N o . 1 issued by t h e American Insti tute of Physics the following telegram was sent from General Hershey's office on January 8, 1942, to all state directors: Complaints in increasing volume indi cate local boards are reopening the cases of registrants deferred for occupational reasons and reclassifying such men in Class One A. I direct that local boards be immediately informed of the continuing necessity for deferment of men necessary t o activities, the maintenance of which is essential to the war production program and the national health, safety, and interest. State directors should avoid calls upon local boards except upon t h e basis of available Class One A men. The following telegram w a s sent to the Texas State Director of Selective Service by General Hershey o n January 9, 1942: This office has been informed that your headquarters has issued instructions to local board that no graduate student can be considered for deferment. N o such policy has been adopted b y this head quarters and local boards should be in formed that graduate students including part-time assistant instructors m a y be considered for occupational deferment on an individual basis in those fields in which a national or local shortage is known to exist.
with the secretary of the university be fore March 1. Practical experience in metallurgy or previous graduate study is desirable. Application blanks and an nouncements will be forwarded t o in terested persons by t h e secretary of the university on request. For other infor mation write to Eric R. Jette, School of Mines, Columbia University, New York. ©^"©
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Raymond R. Rogers has been appointed chief chemist at t h e Weiland Chemical Works, Niagara Falls, Ontario. Lester N. Stanley, after six years with the Central Research Division, Monsanto Chemical Co., D a y t o n , Ohio, has ac cepted a position as research chemist with the Esso Research Laboratories, Standard Oil D e v e l o p m e n t Co., Eliza beth, N. J. AND
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