the Cat a lyst Of fi cial pub li ca tion of the Phil a del phia Sec tion, ACS Jan u ary 2010

http://mem ber ship/acs.org/p/phil a del phia Vol ume 95, No. 1

HIGHLIGHTS

Meet the New Chair 4

Rob ert Owen Hutchins 6

Poster Ses sion 8

NCW Poster Winners 11

Seek ing Teach ing Award Nom i na tions 12, 13

Ben e fits for Mem bers 14

2010 Of fi cers and Board 16

2010 Cal en dar 19

FEBRUARY MEETING

Thursday, February 18, 2010

George PretiMonell Chemical Senses Center

See the FEBRUARY issue of the Catalyst for details, call the Sec tion Of fice at (215) 382-1589 or email PhilaACS@aol.com.

A D V A N C E N O T I C E

Our New Sec tion Chair

Ju dith Sum mers-Gates

In tro duc ing

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ACS Phil a del phia Sec tion

Founded April 15, 1899

STAFF

EDITOR-IN-CHIEFRobin S. Davis

EDITORSNews Atoms: Alan WarrenProof Editors: Georgia Arbuckle-Keil

Marge MatthewsAlan Warren

MANAGERSBusiness: George CowperthwaiteAdvertising: Vince Gale

PUBLICATIONS COMMITTEE

Chair: Marge MatthewsAnthony W. AddisonGeorge CowperthwaiteRobin S. DavisVince GaleRobert GatesXianlong GeGeorgia Arbuckle-KeilJudy Summers-GatesVictor TortorelliAlan WarrenKendra L. Yoder

CON TENTSJan u ary Ad vance No tice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Chair's Col umn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3In tro duc ing Our New Chair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4News At oms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4Obit u ary: Rob ert Owen Hutchins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6Call to Ac tion: Work ing for a Sus tain able Fu ture . . . 7Jan u ary Meet ing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82009 Elec tion Re sults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9Re view: Ge ol ogy of Car bon ate Res er voirs . . . . . . . 9Del a ware Val ley Sci ence Fairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9Chem i cal Con sul tants Net work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10NCW Poster Win ners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11Seek ing Pre-Col lege Teach ing Award

Nom i na tions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12Photo of 2009 Sec tion Awardee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12Seek ing Un der grad u ate Teach ing Award

Nom i na tions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13Ben e fits for Un em ployed ACS Mem bers . . . . . . . . 14Sep tem ber 2009 Board Min utes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142010 Of fi cers and Board of Di rec tors . . . . . . . . . . 16Di rec tory of Ser vices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17El len Kullman, CEO DuPont, at Priestley So ci ety . 172010 Cal en dar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Pub lished monthly ex cept July, Au gust and De cem ber by the Phil a del phia Sec tion of the Amer i -can Chem i cal So ci ety. All views ex pressed are those of the ed i tors and con tri bu tors and do notnec es sar ily rep re sent the of fi cial po si tion of the Phil a del phia Sec tion of the Amer i can Chem i calSo ci ety. Ed i to rial mat ters should be sent to the at ten tion of the Ed i tor-in-Chief c/o the Phil a del -phia Sec tion ACS, De part ment of Chem is try, Uni ver sity of Penn syl va nia, 231 South 34th Street,Phil a del phia, PA 19104-6323 or philcatalyst@aol.com.

Ad ver tis ing: Vince Gale, MBO Ser vices, P.O. Box 1150, Marshfield, MA 02050

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Pass ing the Ba ton…. Greet ings! The cal en darpage has changed and sud -denly, we’re in 2010!

If you are any thing like me,this still sounds like a “fu tur -is tic” date to you and it issome what daunt ing to thinkthat we are ac tu ally en ter ingthe “fu ture” that we al waystalked and spec u lated about.Sci ence fic tion is be com ingsci ence fact ev ery day.

We don’t have those fly ingcars or “trans port ers” yet, but we do have tech no log i cal,med i cal and en vi ron men talprob lems that need to besolved by the best and bright -est minds that can be mus -tered and, in many cases,CHEM ISTS and the peo plewho use chem is try will be on the front lines work ing tosolve the prob lems that arecon front ing our “blue mar -ble” in space and all of thespe cies who call it home.

When I ran for of fice, I saidthat I wanted to be the “busi -est Chair ever” and I still feel that way now that the votes

have been counted. But inor der for this year to go off as planned, I will need somema jor in vest ment and in -volve ment from YOU ourSec tion mem ber ship. Quitefrankly, I’ve been get ting abit wor ried about the level ofpar tic i pa tion (or lack of it) atour meet ings and ac tiv i ties in the past few years. We are avery large and di verse Sec -tionone of the larg est in the coun tryyet it seems that we are al ways plead ing for vol -un teers for our ac tiv i ties andcan di dates for our of fices.

So I am go ing to start nudg -ing you on a reg u lar ba sis tochange all that. WHY did you join the lo cal Sec tion?WHAT are YOUR pri or i ties?WHAT are YOUR needs andare they be ing MET? WHATare YOUR con cerns? WHATshould/ could we be do ingdif fer ently to get you ex citedabout com ing to our monthlymeet ings and roll ing up yoursleeves when we have an ac -tiv ity like Chem ists Cel e brate Earth Day or Na tional Chem -is try Week or Chem Olym -piad or our own lo calP.A.G.E.S. or ChemDe mos?

SPEAK YOUR MIND! I amgo ing to put out a for mal sur -vey as soon as the lo gis ticscan be worked out seek ing all that in put and more. I will

also be shar ing some de mo -graphic data on the Sec tion so that ev ery one will have agood snap shot of the peo plewe are sup posed to rep re sentand serve.

The Board of Di rec tors iswork ing hard to get our newbud get in place for the com -ing year and we are go ing tohave to look hard at our pri -or i ties and make some toughchoices and de ci sions as wework our way through thatpro cess. It should come as nosur prise, but the Sec tion has -n’t had as much rev e nue com -ing in this year as in prioryears due to the eco nomicdown turn that we’ve all ex pe -ri enced. The Board of Di rec -tors is go ing to en gage in afor mal stra te gic plan ning ef -fort to ad dress that sit u a tionand other po ten tial items andwe will make that ef fort astrans par ent to you aspos si ble.

If each of us do nates justONE HOUR of our pre cioustime and en ergy to our Sec -tion in 2010, that will bemore than 5000 hours go ingto ward the goals and mem -ber ship and over all “health”of our Sec tion. In this year of the Cen sus, can I count onyou to STAND UP andSHOW UP when it mat tersmost?? I hope so!! Judy

FromTheChair

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IN TRO DUC ING OUR NEW CHAIRBorn in Hazleton, PA (1958)and raised in Phil a del phia. Judy at tended Drexel Uni ver -sity where she re ceived herBS in Uni fied Sci ence, acom bi na tion of Chem is tryand Bi ol ogy and Phys ics, in1990. While at Drexel, herco-op as sign ments in cludedan ink and print ing com panyand USDA East ern Re gionalRe search Cen ter (where shemet her hus band of 25+years).

Fol low ing co-ops, she wasem ployed full time at DOD’sDe fense Per son nel Sup portCen ter as a Phys i cal Sci enceTech ni cian per form ing phys i -cal and chem i cal test ing onvir tu ally ev ery com mod ityused by the armed forces,from baby di a pers to tank ax -les and in clud ing ra tions,cloth ing and body ar mor.Dur ing this time, she wasknown as “The Con tractKiller” be cause of the num -ber of con trac tors who werere jected be cause her testsshowed their goods to besub stan dard.

She left DoD in 1988 andmoved to the Food and DrugAd min is tra tion where she has been an an a lyt i cal chem ist for 18 years. She has dis tin -guished her self as an ex pertin the iso la tion and iden ti fi -ca tion of colorants and ad di -

tives in foods, drugs, cos me -tics and med i cal prod ucts. While em ployed with FDA,she has grad u ated from theFDA’s highly com pet i tiveLead er ship De vel op mentPro gram and has worked asan As sis tant to the Com mis -sioner of FDA. She re centlycoauthored the agency’strain ing man ual for newlyhired lab o ra tory per son neland served as a trainer andHir ing Co or di na tor for herDis trict Of fice and she is cur -rently the As sis tant to the Di -rec tor of FDA Phil a del phiaDis trict.

In ad di tion to ser vice in thePhil a del phia lo cal Sec tion,Judy is Co-Chair, with hus -band Bob Gates, of the Phil a -del phia Mayor’s Com mis sion on Per sons with Dis abil i ties,Ed u ca tion Sub com mit tee. She is also the cur rent Chairof the Na tional ACS’s Com -mit tee on Chem ists with Dis -abil i ties and a found ingmem ber on the ACS JointSub com mit tee on Di ver sity. A self ad mit ted “sci en tificthrill seeker” and “tech nol -ogy junkie,” she en joys par -tic i pat ing in out reachac tiv i ties with stu dents andjudg ing in sci ence fairs. Herout side hob bies in clude knit -ting and cro chet ing, sci encefic tion nov els and mov ies(in clud ing the ones with rub -

ber suited mon sters) and be -ing Lhasa Mom to her threeLhasa Apsos – Lo tus, Mickiand Winnie (aka “The GatesGirls”).

NEWS AT OMSMad eleine M. Joullié, classof 1970 Chair of Chem is try at the Uni ver sity of Penn syl va -nia, re ceived the 2009 Ed -ward Leete award from theACS Or ganic Chem is try Di -vi sion. The honor rec og nizesher con tri bu tions to teach ingand re search in or ganic chem- istry.

James Shorter, as sis tant pro -fes sor of bio chem is try andbio phys ics in the Uni ver sityof Penn syl va nia’s school ofmed i cine, re ceived the 2009Ellison Med i cal Foun da tionNew Scholar Award in Ag ing. The award pro vides sup portfor newly in de pend ent in ves ti -ga tors. Shorter is study ing le -thal nerve dis or ders such asAlz hei mer’s dis ease.

DEATHS

Pi erre C. Herault, re tired re -search chem ist with Cer tain-Teed Corp. Sep tem ber 18,2008 at 66. He re tired in 2006 af ter 17 years of ser vice withCertainTeed.

Jo seph L. O’Brien, re tiredre search man ager with C.P.Hall, Sep tem ber 18, 2009 at

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81. He worked in re search atRohm and Haas from 1951 to1978 in the field of or ganicsyn the sis, plasticizers, andflame re tar dants, gen er at ingmany re search pa pers and pat -ents. In 1978 he joined C.P.Hall and man aged re searchand pro cess de vel op ment ofplasticizers for PVC. He re -tired in 1992 as di rec tor ofR&D.

In the mid 1930s, O’Brienwas a child hood ac tor and ap -peared in films with Our Gang and Shir ley Tem ple. He was a60-year mem ber of ACS.

Don ald R. Coughanowr,chem i cal en gi neer and pro -fes sor at Drexel Uni ver sity,Sep tem ber 20th at 81. Af terwork ing briefly at Stan dardOil of In di ana and teach ing atPurdue Uni ver sity he joinedthe Drexel fac ulty in 1967where he served as chair manof the chem i cal en gi neer ingde part ment un til 1988. He re -tired from Drexel in 1999. Inad di tion to a num ber of pub -lished tech ni cal ar ti cles,Coughanowr authored theland mark book Pro cess Sys -tems Anal y sis and Con trol,which was re printed sev eraltimes.

Mil dred Cohn, BenjaminRush pro fes sor of phys i o log i -cal chem is try emerita at theUni ver sity of Penn syl va nia,Oc to ber 12th at 96. She held

re search as so ci ate po si tions atGeorge Wash ing ton Uni ver -sity School of Med i cine, Cor -nell Uni ver sity Med i calCol lege, and Wash ing ton Uni -ver sity Med i cal School. In1960 she joined Penn’s med i -cal school as as so ci ate pro fes -sor of bio phys ics and phys i cal bio chem is try, and con tin uedteach ing in re lated fields un tilshe be came emerita pro fes sorin 1982.

From 1982 un til 1985 Cohnwas a se nior mem ber of theIn sti tute for Can cer Re searchin Fox Chase, and then served as a con sul tant in Penn’s de -part ment of bio phys ics andphys i cal bio chem is try. In ad -di tion to hon or ary doc tor atesat nu mer ous uni ver si ties shere ceived the ACS GarvanMedal and the Na tional Medal of Sci ence. Her ser vice in -cluded chair man of the ACSdi vi sion of bi o log i cal chem is -try, pres i dent of the Amer i canSo ci ety of Bi o log i cal Chem -ists, pres i dent of the Phil a del -phia Bio chem ists Club, andpresident of Penn’s chapter ofSigma Xi.

Mil dred Cohn was elected tothe Amer i can Philo soph i calSo ci ety, the Na tional Acad -emy of Sci ences, and theAmer i can Acad emy of Artsand Sci ences. In Oc to ber 2009 she was in ducted into the Na -tional Women’s Hall of Fame.

She over came gen der dis crim -i na tion and was a role modelfor women seek ing a career in science.

George Landis Zimmerman, emer i tus pro fes sor of chem is -try at Bryn Mawr, Oc to ber21st at 89. He taught un der -grad u ate and grad u ate stu -dents at Bryn Mawr for 40years and served briefly aschair man of the chem is try de -part ment. His re search ar easin cluded the o ret i cal chem is try of mo lec u lar quan tum me -chan ics and spec tro scopicstud ies of pho to chem i calisomerization of dye com -pounds. Af ter re tir ing fromBryn Mawr in 1990 he taughtand con ducted re search atDrexel Uni ver sity.

Dur ing WWII he served onthe Manhattan Pro ject. Hewas an ac com plished clar i netplayer and tran scribed re nais -sance and ba roque mu sic forcham ber ensembles.

Jane M. Glick, bio chem istand re search in ves ti ga tor atthe Uni ver sity of Penn, No -vem ber 15th at 65. She joinedthe Penn fac ulty as re searchas sis tant pro fes sor in the den -tal school in 1975. She thenmoved to the fac ulty of theMed i cal Col lege of Penn syl -va nia where she rose to pro -fes sor of bio chem is try andre ceived the Lindback Teach -ing award. (con tin ued on page 7)

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Rob ert Owen Hutchinspassed away on Oc to ber 9,2009, folowing can cer sur -gery. He was born inDanville, IL, in 1939, andspent his youth in Il li nois and Cal i for nia. He earned a BSin chem is try from the Uni -ver sity of Cal i for nia atBerke ley, an MS in phyto-chem is try from Cal i for niaState Uni ver sity at LongBeach, work ing with D.L.May field, and a PhD fromPurdue Uni ver sity un der J.Wolinsky. At Purdue, he de -vel oped a keen in ter est insyn thetic and mech a nis tic or -ganic chem is try. Dur ing atwo-year post doc toral stintwith E.L. Eliel at No treDame Uni ver sity, Dr. Hutch-ins fur ther honed his syn -thetic skills and, im por tantly,ex panded his in ter ests toconformational anal y sis ofor ganic struc tures. He joined Drexel Uni ver sity as an As -sis tant Pro fes sor in 1968, and ad vanced to As so ci ate Pro -fes sor in 1974 and to fullPro fes sor in 1979. He served as Chem is try De part mentHead for the last de cade anda half of the twen ti eth cen -tury, and dur ing that time was also ap pointed as the in au gu -ral G.S. Sasin Pro fes sor ofOr ganic Chem is try.

Bob was a pop u lar and ef fec -tive teacher, who gar nered aC&M Lindback Out stand ingTeach ing award in 1980.Over a pe riod of more thanthree de cades, he and his nu -mer ous un der grad u ate andgrad u ate stu dents, in clud ing16 PhD stu dents, ex ploredthe lab y rinths of ste reo-selective or ganic syn the sis.Many of these stu dents haveachieved dis tin guished po si -tions in in dus try and ac a de -mia, and Drexel now has twostu dent awards funded by hisex-stu dents, one of which isnamed in Bob’s honor. Hisre search stud ies deal ing withnew hy dride re agents forasym met ric re ac tions and theconformational prop er ties ofp h o s p h o r u s - c o n t a i n i n gheterocyles, formed the ba sisfor a hun dred well-cited sci -en tific pa pers. They earnedBob rec og ni tion from DrexelUni ver sity (Re search A-chievement Award, 1982;Uni ver sity Re search Scholar

Award, 1985), his Cal. Statealma ma ter (CSULB Dis tin -guished Alumnus Award,1987), and the 26th Re searchAward (1987) of the Phil a del -phia Sec tion of the Amer i canChem i cal So ci ety. He was along-time mem ber of the ACS and the Phil a del phia Or ganicChem ists’ Club.

Bob’s head ship and other ser -vice to the de part ment and theuni ver sity was marked by hiscalmly mea sured but hu mor -ous man ner, his em pa thy forstu dents and their prob lems,his will ing ness to judge fairly,and his abil ity to dis cern andnur ture the pro fes sionalstrengths of his col leagues.

Ear lier this de cade he was pre -de ceased by his wife Mary-Gail (née Kinzer) - a loss thathe did not bear with ease. Bob is sur vived by his sonsOwen (Jennifer McGuire) andRich ard (Julie Hair), andgrand sons Ja cob and Wil liam.

Me mo rial con tri bu tions maybe made to the Pro fes sor R.O.Hutchins Or ganic ChemistryTeach ing Lab In stru men ta tionFund, Drexel Uni ver sity, P.O.Box 8215, Phil a del phia, PA19101-9684. For more in for -ma tion, con tact Mike Andrulis (andrulis@drexel.edu, 215-895-6481).

ROB ERT OWEN HUTCHINS

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In 1994 Glick re turned toPenn Med i cine as se nior re -search in ves ti ga tor and laterbe came ad junct as so ci ate pro -fes sor in cell and mo lec u larbi ol ogy. She con ducted stud -ies on the re la tion ship of cho -les terol and ar te rial plaque inheart dis ease. Also in 1994she was named di rec tor of ed -u ca tion in the gene ther apypro gram. She re tired as fac -ulty ad min is tra tor for the Celland Mo lec u lar Bi ol ogy Grad -u ate Group in 2008. Glickalso served on the ex ec u tivecommittee of the PhiladelphiaAntiques Show.

WORK ING TO GETHER FOR A SUS TAIN ABLE FU TURE

The ACS Board of Di rec tors and the Sustainability Stake holders Steer ing

group (S3G) are putt ing forth a CALL to ac tion. Goal 3 of the ACS Stra te -

gic Plan for 2009 and Be yond states how the So ci ety is fo cused on “Ad -

dress ing Global Chal lenges” through chem is try. The sustainability CALL

to ac tion is a roadmap of seven av e nues to ad dress the global chal lenges of

sustainability. We as pire to achieve the fol low ing through the CALL to ac -

tion at: https://com mu ni ties.acs.org/mes sage/3726: Green Op er a tions, Ad -

vance the Sci ence, In form our Mem bers, Ed u cate the Pub lic, Pre pare

Fu ture Chem ists, Pol icy Ad vo cacy and Rec og nize Best Prac tices.

The spring 2010 ACS Na tional Meet ing in San Fran cisco will have the

theme of “Chem is try for a Sus tain able World.” In ad di tion to at tend ing

sym po sia and lis ten ing to tech ni cal pre sen ta tions, you will be able to par -

tic i pate in iden ti fy ing and build ing new ini tia tives through a wide-rang ing

en gage ment event and fo rum.

Join the ACS Net work at www.acs.org/net work or log into the group at

https://com mu ni ties.acs.org/sustainability-stake holders-group to learn more

about the ini tia tive and to an swer the CALL to ac tion.

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JAN U ARY MEET ING

THE PHIL A DEL PHIA SEC TION,AMER I CAN CHEM I CAL SO CI ETY

pres ents

Thurs day, Jan u ary 21, 2010

THE TENTH AN NUAL GRAD U ATE STU DENT,FIFTH AN NUAL UN DER GRAD U ATE AND

THIRD AN NUAL HIGH SCHOOL STU DENT POSTER SES SION

6:00 - 8:00 PM

Great Court, Mit ten Hall

Tem ple Uni ver sity

1913 North Broad Street

Phil a del phia 19122

Re fresh ments will be served.

Res er va tions Re quired; cost: $15.00

RES ER VA TIONS should be made by call ing Mrs. Libby Harper at the Sec tion Of fice, 215-382-1589, by 5:00 PM on Thurs day, Jan u ary 14. Can cel la tions, if nec es sary, can not be ac -cepted af ter NOON on Tues day, Jan u ary 19. UNCANCELLED RES ER VA TIONS WILL BE BILLED.

PARK ING is avail able for in lot #1 be tween 15th and Broad Streets, south of Norris Street. Formap and di rec tions, see http://www.tem ple.edu/maps/

The Board of Di rec tors will meet at 4:00 PM in the Room 108A, Barton Hall.

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2009 ELEC TION RE SULTS2010 Chair: Ju dith Sum mers-Gates

2010 Chair-Elect: John Tierney

2010-2011Secretary: Mi chael Prushan

2010-2012 Di rec tors: Ella Da vis Denise ThomasWil liam (Rick) Ew ingDeborah CookKathryn Lysko

2010 Di rec tors: Shel don MillerWil liam Smith

2010-2011 Coun cil ors: Anne DeMasiAn thony Ad di sonJohn CrawfordKathleen Shaginaw

2010-2012 Al ter nate Coun cil ors:Carol Jean BrunerDeborah CookElla Da visJu dith Sum mers-Gates

2010 Al ter nate Coun cil ors:Kathryn LyskoWil liam SmithRob ert GatesRus sell PhiferMarge Matthews

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BOOK RE VIEW

Ge ol ogy of Car bon ate Res er voirs

by Wayne M. Ahr. 294 pages, 7 by

10 inches, casebound, John Wiley

& Sons., 2008. ISBN 978-0-470-

16491-4, $85 from John Wiley &

Sons, Inc., 111 River Street, Hobo-

ken, NJ 07030.

Car bon ate rocks con tain halfof the world’s oil and muchof its ground wa ter as well.Pri mary oil ex trac tion re cov -ers about one-third of the oil, leav ing two-thirds to betreated with sec ond ary andter tiary re cov ery meth ods.

The early chap ters in thisbook de scribe car bon ate res -er voirs and their prop er ties(e.g., po ros ity, per me abil ity),fol lowed by prop er ties di -rected to pe tro leum con tentsuch as sat u ra tion, wetability, capillarity, and pres sure. Fur -ther top ics are depositionalrock prop er ties, diageneticpro cesses, frac tured res er -voirs, and the ge ol ogy of car -bon ate res er voirs.

The book will be of in ter estto pe tro leum ge ol o gists, geo -physi cists, and en gi neers inthese fields as well ashydrogeologists and en vi ron -men tal ge ol o gists. Eachchap ter ends with re viewques tions to help in un der -stand ing the con tent. An ex -ten sive bib li og ra phy andin dex con clude the vol -ume.—Alan War ren

Del a ware Val ley Sci ence Fairs

The Del a ware Val ley Sci ence Fairs will be com ing up be foreyou know it. Judges and men tors are al ways needed. Checkthe website www.dvsf.org for more in for ma tion and tovol un teer.

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Na tional Chem is try Week PosterCon test Lo cal Sec tion Win nersfor 2009 We had some amaz ing en triessub mit ted this year by stu -dents in three out of the fourage cat e go ries. It was re allyhard to nar row it down tothese en tries be cause therewere so many cre ative in ter -pre ta tions of this year’stheme: “Chem is try—It’s Ele-men tal!”

These tal ented lo cal stu dentshad their post ers go on to theNa tional poster con test:

K-2nd Grade Lo cal Win ner: Alex Da vis (2n d Grade)Davidson School inVillanova, PA.

3rd-5th Grade Lo cal Win ner: Chloe Rob erts (4th Grade)Naz a reth Acad emy GradeSchool in Phil a del phia, PA.

6th-8th Grade: None sub mit ted in this age group this year

9th-12th Grade Lo cal Win -ner: Yasmine Ma rie De-Loach (9th Grade) W.B. Saul Ag ri cul tural High School,Phil a del phia, PA .

CON GRAT U LA TIONS ONYOUR WIN NING EN -TRIES!!! Stu dents will be re -ceiv ing the ACS tee shirt oftheir choice and teach ers will

be re ceiv ing Pe ri odic Ta ble of the El e phants wall charts fortheir class rooms.

All our en thu si as tic art istshave received Cer tif i cates ofPar tic i pa tion from the Lo calSec tion very shortly.

Pho tos of all of this year’spost er en tries will be postedon the Phil a del phia Lo calSec tion website for ev ery oneto en joy!

Win ners of the Na tional Con -test will be posted on the ACS Na tional Website at the NCWhomepage:

http://portal.acs.org/portal/acs/corg/content?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=PP_ARTICLEMAIN&node_id=1045&content_id=CNBP_022324&use_sec=true&sec_url_var=region1&__uuid=2de6a80a-5164-43fd-843f-11b9f96c76bc

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Chloe Rob erts

Yasmine Ma rieDeLoach

Alex Da vis

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2009 Sec tion Award: Rob ert Gates (left), Section Chair, pre sent ing the 2009 Sec tion Award plaque to Eric

Borguet of Tem ple Uni ver sity at the Oc to ber Meet ing.

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ACS OF FERS SPE CIAL BEN E FITSFOR UN EM PLOYED MEM BERS

Dur ing these tough eco nomic times it’s more im por tant thanever to be long to the Amer i can Chem i cal So ci ety. Un em ployedmem bers can tap into a host of valu able ben e fits and ser vicesthat help them get back in the workforce. And, mem bers ingood stand ing may qual ify for an un em ployed mem ber dueswaiver, al low ing them to re new their mem ber ships and keeptheir mem ber ben e fits at no cost. Con tact ACS atservice@acs.org, 800-333-9511 or 614-447-3776 for com pletede tails.

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613th BOARD OF DI REC TORSMEET ING

Sep tem ber 17, 2009 De part ment of Chem is try

Uni ver sity of Penn syl va niaPhil a del phia, PA

This is the edited ver sion of the

min utes. A full copy of the min -

utes can be ob tained from the Sec -

tion Of fice.

Pres ent : C . J . Bruner, D .

Cichowicz, M. Cichowicz, D.

Cook, E. Da vis, A. DeMasi, T.

Dent, R. Gates, M. Matthews, S.

Miller, C. Petucci, W. Smith, T.

Straub, J . Sum mers-Gates, D.

Thomas, K. Thrush Shaginaw, J.

Tierney, V. Tortorelli, K. Yoder.

Also Pres ent: L. Harper, A.

Heldon, J. Whalen, D. Hausner, J.

Crawford, J.P. Northrop, C. Mar -

tin, S. Haynie.

Ex cused: R. Ew ing.

The meet ing was called to or der

by Chair man R. Gates at 4:08 PM.

A mo tion was passed unan i mously

to ac cept the min utes of the June

meet ing.

COM MIT TEE RE PORTS:

Leg is la tive Li ai son (A. Heldon):

The Com mon wealth of Penn syl va -

nia ef fec tively closed the Priestley

House. The Friends of the

Priestley House had no op er at ing

agree ment with the state but af ter

there is a state bud get agree ment

an op er at ing agree ment will

emerge.

Com mit tee to Es tab lish In tern -

ship and Sum mer Job Va can cies

Pres ence on the Website (ad hoc)

(S. Miller): A ques tion naire has

been pre pared that will be dis trib -

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uted to com pa nies to fill out con -

cern ing any po si tions they have

avail able. The in for ma tion gleaned

from the ques tion naire will be

posted on the web. It was in di -

cated that there would be a pos si -

ble cost of $400 for set ting up the

ques tion naire on the web site. De -

ci sion on this cost is de ferred un til

the Jan u ary meet ing when the

com mit tee will have a line in the

2010 bud get.

OF FI CERS' RE PORTS:

Chair man (R. Gates): No re port.

Chair Elect (J. Sum mers-Gates):

Na tional Chem is try Week

(NCW)lots of con tacts from

teach ers about post ers, cel e brat ing

chem is try, etc. A free is sue of J.

Chem. Educ. is avail able. There is

an event at the Frank lin In sti tute,

spon sored by Tar get, dur ing NCW

(Oc to ber 21st

) high light ing chem -

is try dem on stra tions and post ers

could be dis played there at no

charge. The Chem i cal Her i tage

Foun da tion is open to spon sor ing

‘hands on’ dem on stra tions, how -

ever, not dur ing NCW. Merck In -

dexes that are avail able to the

Phil a del phia Sec tion could be dis -

trib uted to teach ers at the Frank lin

In sti tute event. The Merck In dexes

would not be avail able for stu dents

or scho las tic awards.

A speaker is be ing sought for the

cele bra tory meet ing of the 50-year

mem bers, next June. A de ci sion is

still to be made on the speaker for

next year’s Ullyot Lec ture. An ad -

di tional pro posal was made to see

if com pa nies in the area would

host a num ber of the monthly

meet ingsthis had been the case

in the past. The Jan u ary Poster

meet ing is still un der con sid er -

ation at Tem ple, and it was sug -

gested that this time a mod est fee

be charged to pre sent ers to cover

the food costs.

Sec re tary (J. Tierney): No re port.

Trea surer (C.J. Bruner): Some

ma jor er rors in the spread sheet

will be cor rected by the next meet -

ing, when a vote can be taken.

OTHER BUSI NESS:

V. Tortorelli: Steve Waller (past

chair of the North Jer sey Sec tion)

is look ing for vol un teers to help

with the 40th

an ni ver sary cel e bra -

tion of Earth Day, April 22, 2010.

MARM Re port: The fol low ing

sec tions are in line to host the

MARM: 2010 – Del a ware Sec tion

– Ho tel DuPont, April 10-13; 2011

– Wash ing ton DC – Cap i tal Chem -

ist’s Club; 2012 – Mary land Sec -

tion – Uni ver sity of Mary land,

Bal ti more County; 2013 – New

York Sec tion is con sid er ing it?

The Sec tion will spon sor a job

search strat egy ses sion for un em -

ployed chem ists at Ursinus Col -

lege with J. Burke as the speaker.

A mo tion to ap pro pri ate $500 to

cover ma te ri als, pur chase wa ter

and other sup plies was passed.

K.Thrush Shaginaw fur ther added

that this should be an on go ing

event and it would be an ideal

match to part ner with AWIS.

K. Thrush Shaginaw: Women

Chem ists and AWIS were jointly

funded a $1,000 grant. The High

School Day at CHF (March 17,

2010) may also re ceive a joint

ACS-CHF fund ing grant. Next

P.A.G.E.S.™ meet ing is Sat ur day,

No vem ber 21st

.

We are not spon sor ing the grad u -

ate school fo rum at Villanova this

year be cause Villanova is not

avail able. A. DeMasi was in

charge, how ever, she does not feel

that she is the ap pro pri ate per son.

Last year 18 uni ver si ties and 65

stu dents at tended. DeMasi will ar -

range a date for 2010 at Villanova

Uni ver sity and send the date to the

board.

Deb Cook: SOCED is look ing at

re vis ing the high school chem is try

guide lines. If any one has strong

opin ions about who should be on

the com mit tee, please let her

know. Deb an nounced that she

has a new po si tion as vice pres i -

dent for learn ing and teach ing at

the Lib erty Sci ence Cen ter.

There be ing no other busi ness, the

meet ing was ad journed by Chair -

man Gates at 5:20 PM.

Re spect fully sub mit ted, John

Tierney, Sec re tary

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DI REC TORY OF SER VICES

Ad ver tis ing: Vince Gale, MBO Ser -vices, P.O. Box 1150, Marshfield,MA 02050

phone: 781-837-0424

email: vincegale@mboservices.net

AD VER TIS ING IN DEX

ACS 15, 17

Huffman Lab o ra to ries 17

MASS VAC, Inc. 7

Mi cron Inc. 17

NuMega Res o nance Labs, Inc. 17

Rob ert son Microlit Labs 17

Tem ple Uni ver sity 18

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CA REER OPPORTUNITY

El len Kullman, CEO of DuPont

On Thurs day, Jan u ary 14 at the Chem i cal Her i tage Foun da tion,the Jo seph Priestley So ci ety will wel come El len J. Kullman,CEO of DuPont, who will pres ent Grow ing a 21st-Cen tury Sci -ence Com pany: Op por tu ni ties and Chal lenges. Kullman is only the 19th per son to lead DuPont in its 206-year his tory. Her talkwill ex am ine the es sen tial char ac ter of DuPont as a mar -ket-driven sci ence com pany, in clud ing steps taken to main tainits fi nan cial strength and en gine of in no va tion dur ing the eco -nomic down turn, the global megatrends that are driv ing thecom pany’s sci ence to day, and the op por tu ni ties that DuPont sees for growth in the fu ture. Please go to www.chemheritage.org for more de tails.

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PHIL A DEL PHIA SEC TION ACS2010 CAL EN DAR

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