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Of fi cial pub li ca tion of the Phil a del phia Sec tion, ACS June 2012

http://phil a del phia.sites.acs.org/ Vol ume 97, No. 6

HIGHLIGHTS

Chair’s Col umn 107

News At oms 108

Hon or ing Our 50-YearMem bers 110

Sub ur ban Sum merNet work ing Event 116

YCC’s PhiladelphiaFun Run 125

2012 Cal en dar 133

SEPTEMBER MEETING

Thursday, September 20, 2012

TBA

See the SEPTEMBER 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

Phil a del phia Sec tion Councilorsat the San Diego Na tional Meeting

L. to R.: John Crawford, Kathy Shaginaw, Judy Sum mers-Gates, Ella Da -vis, Ju dith Co hen, Marge Matthews, Me lissa Cichowicz, Tony Ad di son

and Deborah Cook.

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STAFF

EDITOR-IN-CHIEFRobin S. Davis

EDITORSNews Atoms: Alan WarrenProof Editors: Georgia Arbuckle-Keil

Kendra LutherMarge MatthewsAlan Warren

ADVERTISING MANAGERVince Gale

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Chair: Marge MatthewsAnthony W. AddisonGeorgia Arbuckle-KeilRobin S. DavisVince GaleRobert GatesJudy Summers-GatesKendra LutherVictor TortorelliAlan Warren

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.

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CON TENTSSep tem ber Ad vance No tice. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105Chair’s Col umn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107Elec tion 2012 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107Want to Work for ACS?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107News At oms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108June Meet ing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109Hon or ing Our 50-Year Mem bers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110Ad di tional 50-Year Mem bers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115Sec tion Mem bers Cel e brat ing 60 Years . . . . . . . 115Thoughts to Pon der. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115Sub ur ban Sum mer Net work ing Event . . . . . . . . . 116Teach ing Awardees Pho tos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116Phil a del phia ACS on Twit ter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117Lo cal ACS on LinkedIn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118Vol un teers for ACS Na tional Meet ing Wanted. . . 118Scho las tic Achieve ment Award Win ners . . . . . . . 119Scho las tic Achieve ment Awardees Photo . . . . . . 120Book Re view: Hypercarbon Chem is try . . . . . . . . 120March Board Meet ing Min utes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121April Board Meet ing Min utes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123YCC’s Fun Run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125Chem i cal Con sul tants Net work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126Coun cil Re port from San Diego Na tional Meet ing 127Pho tos from San Diego Na tional Meet ing . . . . . . 128His tor i cal Events in Chem is try. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128ACS Webinars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130The In no cence Pro ject . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131Di rec tory of Ser vices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1322012 Cal en dar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

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Rick Ewing

FromTheChair

To wards the end of May, Ijoined my fam ily in at tend ing com mence ment cer e mo nies.The time went by fast andnow my son has just ob tained his un der grad u ate de gree.Many of you will be, or have, at tended such cel e bra tions atthe col lege, high school ormid dle school level. Not only is it a time to cel e brate theachieve ments of grad u ates,but also a time to rec og nizeand ap pre ci ate those thathave been in flu en tial in shap -

In ter ested in Work ing for ACS?

We are draw ing up the slate of can di dates for the fall 2012 elec tion. Spe cif i cally, there are open -ings for chair-elect, trea surer, di rec tors and coun cil ors. The chair-elect has sev eral re spon si bil i ties, in clud ing chair ing the Section awards and pro gram com mit tees dur ing the first year of the termand run ning the Section dur ing the sec ond year. The trea surer is mainly re spon si ble for pay ingthe bills and keep ing those re cords. Di rec tors form the gov er nance of the lo cal Section and meetmonthly Sep tem ber-June. Coun cil ors rep re sent the Section at ACS National meet ings.

If you would like to run, please get in touch with Rick Ew ing (wil liam.ew ing@bms.com) orLibby Harper (PhilaACS@aol.com or (215) 382-1589).

ing those that will be our fu -ture. In the var i ous ad dressesand speeches that I heard inMay, sev eral speak ers high -lighted that their life-chang ingevent came more of ten thannot from a teacher who haden cour aged and mentoredthem. So too in May, the Phil -a del phia Sec tion rec og nizedex cel lence in teach ing inchem i cal sci ences at the highschool and col lege level. Theaward cer e mony held at theDesmond cel e brated theachieve ments of Linda Mas-cavage (Ar ca dia Uni ver sity)and Scott Best (Con es togaHigh School), and was am plyat tended by stu dents, friends,fac ulty mem bers and ACSSec tion mem bers. Both win -ners had clearly in spired andmo ti vated their stu dents in the

chem i cal sci ences as was at -tested by their stu dent’s words, let ters and at ten dance. Con -grat u la tions to both awardwin ners!

The June meet ing will be aspe cial rec og ni tion lunch atthe Chem i cal Her i tage Foun -da tion (CHF) for our 50-yearmem bers. Ron ald Brashear,Di rec tor of the Othmer Li brary will give a pre sen ta tion en ti -tled Great Chem is try BookCol lec tors and Their Trea -sures in CHF’s Othmer Li -brary. I would like toen cour age those that are ableto at tend this lunch cel e brat ing our 50-mem bers and to en joya day cel e brat ing the his tory of chem- istry at CHF. Fur therde tails can be found on page109 of this is sue of theCat a lyst.

HEADS-UP: ELEC TION 2012This fall we will hold an elec tronic elec tion again. Please make sure that your email ad dress is up-to-date with ACS National. Pa per bal lots will be avail able on re quest. This sum mer we will be send ing out post cards with the de tails to those with no ACS email and those with bouncedemail ad dresses.

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NEWS AT OMSJeffery Guin joins the Chem -i cal Her i tage Foun da tion inthe new po si tion of man agerof emerg ing me dia. He will be re spon si ble for co or di nat ingand ex pand ing me dia to con -nect with the Foundation’s au -di ences in clud ing in ter ac tivepro jects in the mu seum andap pli ca tions for mo bile de -vices. Jennifer Lan dry waspro moted to di rec tor of theCHF Mu seum where she willman age staff, ex hi bi tions, pro -gram ming, and op er a tions.

Ponzy Lu, chair of the un der -grad u ate bio chem is try pro -gram at the Uni ver sity ofPenn syl va nia, was ap pointeddi rec tor of the Vagelos Schol -ars pro gram in mo lec u lar lifesci ences in the School of Arts& Sci ences. An drew Rappe,pro fes sor of chem is try at Penn re ceived the Chris tian R. andMary F. Lindback award fordis tin guished teach ing.

Chris to pher B. Murray, pro -fes sor in the de part ments ofma te ri als sci ence, en gi neer -ing, and chem is try at Penn,was named a Ma te ri als Re -search So ci ety fel low for2012. He was rec og nized forhis pi o neer ing re search in thede sign of nanoparticle-basedde vices.

At the San Diego NationalACS meet ing, the Division ofCom put ers in Chemistry hon -

ored sev eral in di vid u als atPenn in clud ing Jo seph E.Subotnik with the out stand -ing ju nior fac ulty award, Chris MacDermaid with theaward for out stand ing re -search by a grad u ate stu dentin com pu ta tional chem is try,and Chris to pher von Bargenwith the Pe ter Kollman grad u -ate award in supercomputing.

DEATHS

Pe ter H.L. Wei, me dic i nalchem ist re tired from Wyeth,Feb ru ary 5th at 89. He workedfirst at Norwich Pharmaceut-icals be fore join ing Wyeth in1960 as a me dic i nal re searchchem ist. His work fo cused onthe syn the sis of heterocycliccom pounds for use in an ti bac -te rial, antianxiety, hypoten-sive, and im mu no log i cal ap -pli ca tions. He re ceived over80 pat ents and re tired fromWyeth in 1987. He was a57-year mem ber of ACS.

John Fortin, re tired chem i cal sup ply in dus try man ager,April 20th at 89. In 1957 hejoined Quaker Chem i cal as asales man and in 1975 he pur -chased Charles J. Haas Com -pany and turned it into ama jor chem i cal sup ply-chainman age ment firm. He re tiredin 2000 and sold the busi nessto Jor dan Com pany.

Ed ward Biddle Clay, Jr., re -tired chem i cal en gi neer, April20th at 86. Dur ing WWII heserved in Patton’s 3rd Armyand was wounded in Lux em -

bourg in 1945. Af ter work ingbriefly for Camp bell Soup hejoined Smith Kline & Frenchwhere he be came a se niorR&D ad min is tra tor. He re tired in 1976 af ter 27 years of ser -vice. Af ter re tir ing he ob -tained a de gree in art and wasan ac com plished art ist andalso an art re storer. He lovedsing ing and was a mem ber ofthe Or pheus Club where here tired as pres i dent.

Edmund J. Bockowski, re -tired chem ist, April 23rd at 74. He worked for Betz Lab o ra to -ries from 1964 to 1997. Heheld 10 pat ents in such ar easas acid mine wa ters, soil fu mi -ga tion, and cor ro sion inhi-bition.

Howard S. Turner, or ganicchem ist and in dus try ex ec u -tive, April 25th at 100. Hejoined E.I. DuPont de Ne-mours and Com pany in 1936and worked there as a re search chem ist un til 1947. He thenwas named di rec tor of R&D at Pitts burgh Con sol i dated Coalwhere he was em ployed from1947 un til 1954. Turner thenmoved to Jones & LaughlinSteel Cor po ra tion as vicepres i dent of re search and de -vel op ment un til 1965. From1965 un til 1978 he was pres i -dent and then chair man of theboard of Turner Con struc tionCom pany, which was startedby his un cle in 1902. In 1973Turner was elected to the Na -tional Acad emy of Engin-eering.

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THE PHILADELPHIA SECTION, AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

presents

Tours of the Chemical Heritage Foundation starting at 11:15 AM

Luncheon at 12 NOON

followed by

Ronald Brashear Arnold Thackray Director of the Othmer Library

and Director of the Beckman Center

Great Chemistry Book Collectors and Their Treasures in CHF’s Othmer Library

and

Presentation of 2012 Fifty-year Certificates

Thursday, June 21, 2012

The Chemical Heritage Foundation 315 Chestnut Street

Philadelphia, PA 19106

Luncheon cost $40.00; Students with reservations and ID: $20.00

RESERVATIONS should be made by calling Mrs. Harper at the Section Office, (215) 382-1589, or emailing PhilaACS@aol.com by 5:00 PM Thursday, June 14th. Cancellations, if necessary, cannot be accepted after NOON on Tuesday, June 19th. UNCANCELLED RESERVATIONS WILL BE BILLED. PARKING: Parking is available at The Bourse Garage on 4 th Street between Chestnut and Market Streets (next to the Ritz Theater), at the garages under Independence Mall between 5th and 6th Streets, and on 2nd Street between Chestnut and Walnut. Public Transit: SEPTA suburban trains stop at Market East, a 15-minute walk to the Chemical Heritage Foundation. The Market-Frankford subway has stations on Market Street at both 2nd and 5th Streets. See http://www.chemheritage.org/about/visit/directions.aspx The Board of Directors will meet at 2:00 PM at the Chemical Heritage Foundation.

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HON OR ING OUR 50-YEAR MEMBERSAt our June Sec tion meet ing, we honor our 50-year mem bers, pre sent ing them with a cer tif i cate and lun cheon at the Chem i cal Her i tage Foundation in rec og ni tion of their long and faith ful ser -vice to the So ci ety. Those be ing hon ored in clude the fol low ing:

AN DREW BREIDENBACHI was born in1936 in Flush ing,NY and at tendedBayside HS, grad -u at ing in 1956.

That year I started Queens Col -lege, in Flush ing, NY, and grad -u ated with a BS in chem is try in1961. I worked for a lit tle morethan a year for the Lily Tu lipCup Co. in Commack, NY, intheir Ma te ri als Re search Labs.

In 1962 I re ceived a Teach ingAssistantship from Purdue Uni- versity where I ob tained a MSin chem is try in 1965. The sameyear I started teach ing chem is -try at Rockland Com mu nityCol lege. I con tin ued teach ingthere for 36 years, re tir ing in2001 with the rank of Full Pro -fes sor. Dur ing that time I wasac tive in the Rockland CountyChem i cal So ci ety serv ing ontheir board and ar rang ing ACSshort courses and sem i nars.

In 1975 I mar ried my won der -ful wife Stella. We have onedaugh ter, Katie, who mar riedCarlos. They pro vided us withtwo won der ful grand chil dren,Vic to ria and Pat rick. We arepres ently hap pily re tired inCollegeville, PA. Our email isawweimar@msn.com. .

DR. JAMES G. CONNERYDr. Conneryjoined the ACS as a Chem is tryma jor at IonaCol lege in New Ro chelle, NY.

He con tin ued his ed u ca tion atSt. John’s Uni ver sity, re ceiv -ing a PhD in electroanalyticalchem is try in 1969. In 1968 he was one of six grad u ate stu -dents in the coun try to re ceivethe ACS sum mer fel low shipaward.

With com ple tion of grad u atestud ies, he joined Leeds andNorthrup as a Se nior Sci en tistin their Cor po rate Re searchde part ment. Over the years of em ploy ment he held a va ri etyof po si tions in Re search, De -vel op ment and En gi neer ingfor an a lyt i cal and in dus trialmea sure ment in stru men ta tion. Honeywell In ter na tional ac -quired L&N in 1996 and hespent the last 10 years of hisca reer at Honeywell.

He re ceived a to tal of 12 pat -ents on sen sor and in stru mentde signs and pub lished elevenpa pers on re lated sub jects. He de vel oped a high level of ex -per tise on ion sen si tive fieldef fect tran sis tor (ISFET) de -signs and ap pli ca tion for pH

mea sure ment. Since re tire -ment he has con sulted for aHoneywell funded re searchor ga ni za tion in Plym outh, MN and the Monterey Bay Aquar -ium Re search In sti tute inMoss Land ing, CA. Cur rentef forts are aimed at de vel op -ment of a high pre ci sion andau ton o mous pH mea sure mentfor deep sea ap pli ca tions. This ef fort is funded by the Na -tional Ocean o graphic Part ner -ship Pro gram (NOPP).

SR. ANN IMMACULATAGALLAGHER, PhD

Sr. Ann Immaculata Gallagher was born Ma rie Gallagher inLansford, PA, June 5, 1931and af ter be ing ed u cated in St. Ann Pa ro chial School en tered Immaculata Col lege (nowUniversity). She grad u atedwith an AB, magna cumlaude, ma jor ing in Chem is trywith a mi nor in Math e mat ics.Upon en ter ing the re li giousor der, Sis ters, Ser vants of theIm mac u late Heart of Mary,(now of Immaculata, PA), sheun der went re li gious train ing.One year was spent teach ingChem is try and Math e mat icsat Villa Maria High School,Malvern. Grad u ate study was next at the Uni ver sity of No -tre Dame and upon re ceiv ing

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a MS in Chem is try, she wasap pointed In struc tor at Im-maculata Uni ver sity.

Af ter three years of teach ingshe re turned to the Uni ver sityof No tre Dame where she re -ceived her PhD in Or ganicChem is try. She was again ap -pointed to the fac ulty of Im-maculata in 1964, and has re -mained in that de part ment un -til the pres ent teach ing Or gan- ic Chem is try and Bio chem is -try. Sis ter was also Chair ofthe De part ment for a num berof years and is cur rentlyEmer i tus Pro fes sor of Chem -is try since her re tire ment in2001. Her hobbies in cluderead ing Mys ter ies and His tory of Chem is try.

DR. WIL LIAM J. HURLEYBill is a Del a -ware Val ley na -tive and gradu-ated from Vill-anova with a de -gree in Chem is -

try and a PhD from Prince tonUni ver sity. Af ter Prince ton he joined DuPont as a re searchchem ist at the Ex per i men talSta tion in Wilmington, DE.Four years later he trans ferred to DuPont’s Parlin, NJ lab o ra -tory where he was pro motedto Re search Su per vi sor. Hethen pro ceeded through anum ber of pro mo tions andphys i cal re lo ca tions, whichtook him to Roch es ter, NY,Eindhoven, The Neth er lands,

and Co lum bus, OH. Heserved as Tech ni cal Man agerfor sev eral busi nesses, as New Ven ture Man ager, Lab o ra toryDi rec tor, Man ager, Cor po rateTech ni cal Plan ning, and as aDi rec tor, Cor po rate New Bus- iness De vel op ment. In 1999he re tired and re lo cated toAnnapolis, MD. There hefounded Innovatech, LLC, acom pany that helped com pa -nies iden tify and de velop new prod ucts to help them growor gan i cally. He also was anac tive mem ber of the Anna-polis Chap ter of SCORE.

In 2005 Bill re lo cated to Ken -nett Square and was ap -pointed Busi ness Fel low inVillanova’s School of Busi -ness where he teaches un der -grad u ate and MBA courses inIn no va tion & Cre ativ ity, Stra -te gic Man age ment, En tre pre -neur ship, and Stra te gic Man-agement of Tech nol ogy andIn no va tion.

Bill has four chil dren and 10grand chil dren and he en joysboat ing, bik ing and trav el ing.

SAN DRA SPITZERMcKELVEY

Ms. McKelvey graduated in1962 from Penn syl va nia StateUni ver sity with a BS in chem -is try. She earned a MS inScientific In for ma tion Man -age ment from Villanova Uni -ver sity and a post-MS certifi-cate from Drexel Uni ver sity in Au to ma tion of In for ma tionSys tems. She graduated from

the Barnes Foun da tion in2006.

Ms. McKelvey joined Merck& Com pany, Inc. in 1962,work ing as a chem ist on theteam that de vel oped the di -uret ics ethacrynic acid andamiloride. She was pro motedto Se nior In for ma tion Chem -ist, Sci en tific In for ma tionManagement Co or di na tor, Ed -i tor of NEWSLINE, and theMerck In dex Co or di na tor with elec tronic me dia ven dors dur -ing a 32-year ca reer withMerck & Co., Inc. She had the op por tu nity for an early re tire -ment in 1993.

Now in the 19th year of her re -tire ment, she has stud ied yogaand Qigong; vol un teered withthe Abington Free Li brary Lit -er acy Pro gram teach ing Eng -lish as a Sec ond Lan guage(ESL) and in tro duc ing the first com put ers to the pro gram;served as a guide at Font Hill,the home of Henry Chap manMer cer; is a do cent at theJames A. Michener Mu seum;and serves on the Board of the Cheltenham Town ship AdultSchool, in clud ing chair ing thetravel pro gram. She has trav -eled the world over the last 60 years, spend ing time in In diathis year and sched uled to bein Ma deira and South Af ricain 2013.

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DR. PAT RICK J.McNULTY

Dr. McNulty joined the ACSaf ter grad u a tion from thePenn syl va nia State Col legewith a BS in Chem is try in1951. Af ter wards he joinedthe Re search Di vi sion ofRohm and Haas Com pany inBridesberg, Phil a del phia, PA. Af ter two years in re search he left Rohm and Haas to at tendgrad u ate stud ies at VanderbiltUni ver sity.

He grad u ated with a PhD inChem is try from Vanderbilt in1957 and re turned to Rohmand Haas Com pany in Bris tol, PA. Af ter 10 years of re search work in Bris tol he spent 10more years of re search workin Spring House, PA, afterwhich he trans ferred to theRohm and Haas Of fice inPhil a del phia. There he tookcharge of var i ous pro jectsaround the world un til he re -tired af ter 38 years of ser vice.

Af ter re tir ing from Rohm andHaas, Dr. McNulty was re -quested by the Uni ver sity ofPenn syl va nia to teach in itsGrad u ate School to stu dentsfrom all over the world. Hedid so for 12 years. Af ter dis -con tinu ing teach ing at Pennhe be came ac tive again in theACS and con tinues his mem -ber ship to day.

DR. MI CHAEL J.MICKLUS

I re ceived a BS inChem is try fromRutgers Univer-sity, New Bruns -wick, NJ in 1961. Af ter work ing

several years (Amer i can Cy -an a mid and West Point Mil i -tary Acad emy), I en rolled inthe Chem is try PhD Pro gramat the Uni ver sity of Mi ami,Coral Ga bles, FL. I re ceivedmy PhD in Phys i cal Or ganicChem is try in 1971. Af tergrad u ate school, I did post -doc toral re search in Boston,MA at Beth Is rael Hos pi tal,Har vard Med i cal School(iden ti fy ing pos si ble tox ins in body flu ids of uremic pa -tients) and at the School ofPhar macy, Uni ver sity of thePa cific in Stockton, CA (syn -the siz ing po ten tial nar cotican tag o nists).

My pro fes sional ca reer in ter -ests in clude drug de liv ery,med i cal poly mers, and med i -cal de vices. As a Se niorChemist at Biosearch Med i cal Prod ucts, Inc., I was in stru -men tal in the de vel op ment ofHydromer®, a pat ented hy dro- gel coat ing for med i cal de -vices, which has been suc -cess fully mar keted for over 30 years by Hydromer, Inc. I also worked for ExtracorporealMed i cal De vices, Inc. (aJohn son & John son com pany) and Wyeth (an Amer i canHome Prod ucts Com pany).

Ad di tion ally, I in ves ti gatedthe pos si bil ity of us ingliposomes as ve hi cles for drug de liv ery through the Blood-Brain-Bar rier to the brain atthe Lab o ra tory of Neuro-sciences, NIA, NIH, Bethes-da, MD. In 1991, I re ceivedan MS De gree in Ma te ri alsSci ence and En gi neer ing from Drexel Uni ver sity. I was alsoem ployed as an ad junct fac -ulty mem ber in the Chem is try De part ment of Villanova Uni -ver sity and re mained af fil i ated with Drexel Uni ver sity, where I worked with grad u ate stu -dents as a Vis it ing Re searchAs so ci ate in the Ma te ri alsSci ence and En gi neer ing De -part ment.

I en joy salt wa ter fish ing, gar -den ing, and keep ing phys i -cally fit. I am a mem ber of the Chem i cal Con sul tants Net -work and have an in ter est inwork ing part time as a chem i -cal con sul tant and ed u ca tor.

DR. ROB ERT J. STATZDr. Rob ert J.Statz re ceivedhis PhD fromthe Uni ver sityof Mary land in1968 where he

stud ied un der the noted poly -mer chem ist Wil liam J,Bailey. Upon grad u a tion Rob -ert ac cepted a po si tion withthe DuPont Com pany at theEx per i men tal Sta tion in Del a -ware. Rob ert spent most ofhis ca reer in re search on Eth -yl ene Co pol y mers, a won der -

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ful plat form for de vel op ingnew ma te ri als for a mul ti tudeof ap pli ca tions. The re sult ingde vel op ments led to 37 USPat ents in such di verse fieldsas per ma nent plasticizers forPVC, new ionomers whichim proved golf balls so thatpro fes sional golf ers wouldplay with ionomer coatedsolid golf balls, a new ion-omer which al lowed golf balls to go fur ther (im por tant forthe av er age golfer, i.e., duf -fer), and a new ther mo plas ticelas to mer (Alcryn) which is apar tially cross-linked blend of a mis ci ble poly mer pair. Inad di tion, Dr. Statz de vel opednew im pact mod i fi ers forplas tics, sound dead en ingmembranes, and many otherde vel op ments that were nevercom mer cial ized.

One of Rob ert’s more im por -tant in ven tions (de vel opedwith Joe Good rich, a well re -spected as phalt chem ist atChev ron) was a new mod i fierfor as phalt (Elvaloy AM)which gave im proved du ra bil -ity to as phalt paved roads.This co pol y mer has found ac -cep tance in many states andfor eign coun tries where poly -mer mod i fi ca tion has givenroads re sis tance to mois ture(re duc tion of pot hole for ma -tion), rutting and fatiguecracking.

An other in ven tion was the de -vel op ment of a new iono-

meric ma te rial (Surlyn HPF),which is used in the cores ofgolf balls. This ther mo plas ticma te rial is more re sil ient thancis-1,4-polybutadiene rub ber(the in cum bent ma te rial)when for mu lated into two-and three-piece solid golfballs.

Dr. Statz has con tin ued his ca -reer af ter re tir ing from Du-Pont as a con sul tant for manyin dus tries.

Rob ert’s work in the onebranch of the poly mer in dus -try il lus trates how chem is tryand a lit tle imag i na tion com -bined with the in ter ac tion ofknowl edge able sci en tists anden gi neers can de velop newprod ucts using old platforms.

It shows in deed that Chem is -try is the prac tice of Magic,a phrase con tained in aDuPont tele vi sion ad of the1990s.

KEIICHI TANABEIn 1951 af tergrad u at ing fromGifu Col lege ofPhar macy (Gifu, Ja pan), I startedwork ing at Mar-

uko Phar ma ceu ti cal Com pany (Nagoya, Ja pan) as a qual itycon trol chem ist. Later, I wastrans ferred to the com pany’sre search de part ment. From1960 to 1965, I worked at thefac ulty of phar ma ceu ti cal sci -ence of Nagoya City Uni ver -sity (Nagoya, Ja pan) for thecom pany’s re search work.

In 1965, the uni ver sity sentme to join the chem i cal re -search group of the Re searchIn sti tute of Tem ple Uni ver sity (RITU, Phil a del phia) where Iworked for an NIMH pro ject. From 1967, I was work ing for a con tract from Wal ter ReedArmy Med i cal Cen ter to syn -the ses of po ten tial antipara-sitic agent. Un der our ex cel -lent di rec tor, Ed ward Nodiff,we were one of the best con -trac tors, and we made greatcon tri bu tions to the Armyproject.

Af ter the Army de cided to end the pro ject in 1990, I got a po -si tion at DuPont Phar ma ceu ti -cal Com pany (Wilmington,DE) and un til 2001 I workedthere.

Now I’m en joy ing my hob -bies, bird watch ing, bird carv -ing, gar den ing and golf.

DR. CHANDRAKANTTHANAWALLA

Chan Thanawallais a pro pri etor ofTSCA In ven torySer vices LLC that helps man u fac tur -

ers reg is ter their new chem i -cals with the EPA prior to thechem i cals’ man u fac ture in the US.

Born in Mumbai, In dia, Chanre ceived a BS and MS fromBom bay Uni ver sity and aPhD in Or ganic Chem is tryfrom Wayne State Uni ver sityin De troit, MI.

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Fol low ing grad u a tion, Chanworked at Ash Stevens Inc.and then ac cepted a Se niorRe search Chem ist po si tionwith Pennwalt Cor po ra tion.Af ter work ing on pro jectsrang ing from syn the ses ofnovel ma te ri als to coat ings tomed i cal de vice de vel op mentat Pennwalt, Chan joinedSartomer as a Man ager ofR&D. When ARCO ac quiredSartomer, Chan Thanawallacon tin ued R&D on Sarto-mer’s prod uct line as a Pro -ject Leader. In 1987, hejoined DuPont where heworked on coat ings for elec -tronic im ag ing. Af ter DuPont formed DXImaging, a JVwith Xerox, Chan ac cepted aSe nior Re search Spe cial istpo si tion with Dow Corn ing,where he worked on en sur ingTSCA com pli ance of com -pany prod ucts. In 2000, he re -tired and authored a book onCom ply ing with TSCA In ven -tory Re quire ments.

Chan Thanawalla lives withhis wife, Indira in Coates ville, PA. Both Chan and Indira en -joy read ing, play ing bridge,and the ca ma ra de rie of theirdaugh ter, Sandhya and theirson-in-law, Chris.

DA VID V. WISLERDa vid Wisler grad u -ated from Spring-Ford High Schooland holds a BS from the Uni ver sity of

Virginia (1962). For twoyears fol low ing col lege, hewas a con trol chem ist for thefor mer Con ti nen tal Dis till ingCorp. (Publiker), a maker ofal co holic bev er ages in SouthPhil a del phia and Lemont, IL,where he con ducted GLCstud ies in the dis till ery.

Da vid was em ployed for 18years by the for mer ESB, Inc.(Exide, Ray-O-Vac) bat teryre search cen ters in Yardley,PA, dur ing which time he ex -am ined nu mer ous and var i ousbat ter ies, per formed XRDstud ies, and iden ti fied in dus -try ma te ri als. His work fo -cused on the elec tron mi cro-scope and an a lyt i cal lab, andbat tery de vel op ment. He re -calls ob serv ing some ex plo -sions while work ing withlith ium met als. Da vid jointlyauthored sev eral pub li ca tionsin the Elec tro chem i cal So ci ety Jour nal.

As a night shift con trol chem -ist for John son Matthey, Inc.,in West Deptford, NJ, heworked with pre cious met als,some rare earth pharma-ceuticals, cat a lysts, and finechem i cals. He worked onmethod de vel op ment, and re -tired re cently af ter 25 years of service.

Mr. Wisler has a son and adaugh ter, and his fa vor itehobby is nur tur ing his threeadult grand daugh ters. He en -joys spend ing his spare timeplay ing live con tract bridge on the internet.

DR. JOHN F. WÓJCIKDr. Wójcik was bornin Ashley, PA, grad u -ated from Mary-mount High Schooland then re ceived a

BS in Chem is try from King’sCol lege in Wilkes-Barre, PA. A week af ter grad u a tion, andtwo weeks af ter her grad u a tion from Marywood in Scranton,he mar ried Joan Linkwich andmoved to Ithaca, NY to start afam ily and earn a PhD inPhys i cal Chem is try at Cor nellun der Frank lin A. Long in1965. The young cou plemoved with their first threechil dren to West ern PA toteach for one year at St. Fran -cis Col lege of PA fol lowed byan other move and 40 years ofteach ing at Villanova and 3more chil dren.

While at Villanova he di rectedthe the sis work of sev eral mas -ters and PhD stu dents andpublished about a dozen pa -pers. He served as Chair manof the De part ment for fouryears dur ing which time heeased it through the de mise ofthe doc toral pro gram. Thattour of duty be ing com pletedhe re turned to the class roomand wrote an in-house Phys i -cal Chem is try lab man ual.

Dr. Wójcik cur rently re sides in Berwyn with his wife of 52years and, with her, en joysbird watch ing and week endtrips to the Fin ger Lakes.

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DR. LAURA L. ZAIKADr. Zaika first be -came in ter ested in chem is try whiletaking a chem is -try course in high

school. She stud ied at DrexelIn sti tute of Tech nol ogy, re -ceiv ing a BS in chem is try in1960. She con tin ued her stud -ies on a teach ing assistantshipat the Uni ver sity of Penn syl -va nia, re ceiv ing a PhD in or -ganic chem is try in 1964.Upon grad u a tion, she ob tained a job as a re search chem ist atthe US De part ment of Ag ri -cul ture, East ern Re gional Re -search Cen ter in Wyndmoor,PA. There she worked on ava ri ety of pro jects in volv ingfood-re lated chem is try andmicrobiology un til her re tire -ment in 2001.

Pro fes sional ac tiv i ties includ-ed in volve ment with AOACIn ter na tional, where sheserved on a num ber of com -mit tees and was elected Fel -low of AOAC In ter na tional.She also served as a re viewerfor sev eral sci en tific jour nals.

Be sides chem is try, her in ter -ests in clude ski ing, travel, op -era, early mu sic, gar den ingand mak ing jew elry. A trip toCen tral Amer ica ini ti ated herin ter est in Precolumbian cul -tures, par tic u larly Ma yan.

DR. MURRAY ZANGEREven though I amof fi cially re tired Istill love chem is -try and teach ing! In fact, the only

ca reer am bi tion I ever had was to be come a chem ist. I at -tended Stuyvesant HighSchool and CCNY and thenspent two years in the ArmyMed i cal Corps in Wash ing ton, DC.

Af ter be ing dis charged I wentto the Uni ver sity of Kan sasand re ceived my PhD in or -ganic chem is try in 1959. Thisled to a post-doc at the Uni -ver sity of Wis con sin. Ac a de -mia didn’t beckon so I optedfor four years as a re searchchem ist at DuPont’s Mar shallLab o ra tory. In 1964 I was of -fered a po si tion at the Uni ver -sity of the Sci ences (for merlyP.C.P.S.) and re luc tantly re -tired af ter 38 years. I stillmain tain a lab at USciencesand work with stu dents. Myre search has spanned sev eralar eas but cur rently in volvesthe syn the ses of po ten tialdrugs ac tive against HIV.

When not in the lab I love hik -ing and trav el ing, both ofwhich I par tic i pate in with thecom pan ion ship of my wifeMar cia – hap pily mar ried for49 years.

Sec tion Mem bers alsoCel e brat ing 50 Years

Jane A. Barth, Dr. Da vid H.Berkebile, Frank A. Capo-tosto, Jr., Frank Gustav Klein, James L. Kotch, John W,Larsen, Dr. Ken neth W. Lau,Dr. Sally W. Mallory, AlgieL. Manuel, Jaydee W. Miller,Dr. Sam uel M. Mozersky,Gary L. Statton, An thony J.Tursi, Dr. Nor man P. Willett,and Don ald P. Win ter.

Sec tion Mem bers Cel e -brat ing 60 Years

Dr. Thomas Charles Bissot,Dr. Helen Jean Davies, Dr.Wayne E. Feely, Dr. JamesJo seph Har ris, Dr. GeorgeC.S. Inglessis, Roger F. Jones, Dr. Paul L. Kronick, Dr.George W. Kurtz, Dr. CarlEd ward Lorenz, Dr. Rich ardJ. Neddenriep, Nel son E.Ockerbloom, Dr. Rob ert L.Pol lack, Hirsh S. Segal, Dr.Charles R. Smoot, and Al fredA. Wolsky.

THOUGHTS TO PONDER

Too of ten we en joy the com -fort of an opin ion with out thedis com fort of thought. —John F. Ken nedy

Prej u dice, not be ing foundedon rea son, can not be re moved by ar gu ment. —Sam uel John -son

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ACS PHIL A DEL PHIA SEC TION

SUB UR BAN SUM MER NET WORK ING EVENT

Tues day, June 19, 2012

6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Houlihan’s

601 West Ger man town Pike

Plym outh Meet ing, PA 19462

Come and net work with your fel low ACS mem bers at our pop u lar and grow ing se ries of net -work ing events around the Greater Phil a del phia Area! At this in for mal and easy-go ing event, you may be sur prised at what you’ll dis cover and how you can help oth ers, too. Please join us!

Free to all ACS mem bers from all re gions.

To reg is ter for this event and for fur ther in for ma tion, please visit:

http://acsphillynetworkingevent3.eventbrite.com

Houlihan’s is lo cated on Ger man town Pike in Plym outh Meet ing, PA, di rectly across the streetfrom the Plym outh Meet ing Mall. It is readily ac ces si ble from I-276 (the Penn syl va nia Turn pike) and I-476 (the “Blue Route” or the “North east Ex ten sion”). Plenty of free park ing is avail able atHoulihan’s.

Phil a del phia Sec tion, Amer i can Chem i cal So ci ety,Award for Ex cel lence in Pre-Col lege Teach ing and

Award for Ex cel lence in Un der grad u ate Teach ing in Chem i cal Sci ences

At the May 17th

meet ing J.P. Northrop (left), Phil a del phia

Sec tion Awards Com mit tee Chair and Dr. Rick Ew ing (right),

Phil a del phia Sec tion Chair, pre sented the Award for Ex cel -

lence in Un der grad u ate Teach ing to Dr. Linda M. Mas-

cavage, As so ci ate Pro fes sor, Ar ca dia Uni ver sity and Ad junct

Re search As so ci ate of Chem is try, Tem ple Uni ver sity, and the

Award for Ex cel lence in Pre-Col lege Teach ing to Dr. Scott A.

Best, Sci ence De part ment Chair, Con es toga High School.

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As many mem bers of ACS are al ready aware, the website LinkedIn (http://www.linkedin.com)is an ex cel lent net work ing site ded i cated to keep ing work ing pro fes sion als in touch with one an -other. As a re sult, and in an ef fort to as sist in any way that we can, the Phil a del phia Sec tion ofthe ACS has es tab lished a group open for all to join. Within this group, dis cus sions can be fa -cil i tated as well as the op por tu nity for new jobs and in tern ships to be posted. If you al ready have a pro file in LinkedIn, feel free to go to the Groups Sec tion and search for“Amer i can Chem i cal So ci ety - Phil a del phia Sec tion.” Send a mes sage to the group ad min is tra -tor to be come a mem ber. If you are not al ready on LinkedIn, we highly rec om mend that youjoin. Es tab lish ing an ac count is free and easy to set up. For ad di tional in for ma tion or as sis -tance, please feel free to con tact J.P. Northrop, Li ai son Com mit tee, atjohn.northrop@anton-paar.comTo join, please click on the fol low ing link: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?mostPopular=&gid=3366988

AU GUST NA TIONAL MEET INGAs many of you al ready know, the Fall Na tional Meet ing of the ACS will be held in Phil a del phiathis Au gust 19-23. The Sec tion will need vol un teers to help out with this event, par tic u larly tostaff the hos pi tal ity booth. Please send an email to PhilaACS@aol.com or call the Sec tion Of ficeat (215) 382-1589 if you would like to par tic i pate.

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SCHOLASTIC ACHIEVEMENT AWARD WINNERS, 2012

Arcadia University Sanket B. Patel Bryn Mawr Meredith Skiba Chestnut Hill College Nichole Brown

Delaware Valley College Delaware Valley College Theresa Sosienski Drexel University (Chemistry) Paul R. DeGregory Drexel University (Chemical Engineering) Tyler J. Perlenfein Eastern University Catherine Ruth Haverford College Jacob Olshansky Immaculata College Raymond Siolek

La Salle University Nicole M. Schiavone

Lincoln University Theresa Akede Philadelphia University Tyler Fleming Rutgers, The State University Julie T. Skolnik St. Joseph's University Andrea Fritz Swarthmore College John Michael Nicoludis Temple University Nicole Haloupek University of Pennsylvania (Chemistry) Alexander Sun Joshua Infantine University of Pennsylvania (Chemical and Brian E. Leone Biomolecular Engineering) University of the Sciences Chemistry: Hiu Yan Cheng in Philadelphia Biochemistry: Hope Ferguson Ursinus College Susan Butch Emma Cave Villanova University (Chemistry) Kathryn A. Johnston Villanova University (Chemical Engineering) Francis Anuszewski West Chester University Chemistry: Patrick Melvin Benjamin Rupert Biochemistry: Cassandra Callmann Widener University (Chemistry) Anna Miller Widener University (Chemical Engineering) David Santangelo

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SCHO LAS TIC ACHIEVE MENT

AWARD WIN NERS AT THE APRIL

MEET ING

First row, from the left: Paul DeGregory,

Sanket Patel, Ray mond Siolek, Ty ler Flem -

ing, Ja cob Olshansky and Ty ler Perlenfein.

Rear: Catherine Ruth, Su san Butch, Emma

Cave, Julie Skolnik, Nicole Haloupek,

Meredith Skiba, Andrea Fritz, Nicole

Schiavone, Theresa Sosienski, Hiu Yan

Cheng, Hope Fer gu son.

BOOK RE VIEW—Alan War ren

Hypercarbon Chem is try, sec ond edi tion, by George A. Olah et al. 474pages, 6¼ by 9½ inches, hard bound, John Wiley and Sons, Hoboken,N.J., 2011. ISBN 978-0-470-93568-2, $125 from John Wiley & Sons,Inc., 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030.

The fo cus of this book is on the treat ment of the chem is try of hy dro -car bons to wards electrophiles by ex am in ing the chem is try in volved inhy dro car bon trans for ma tions, the re ac tion chem is try of carboranes andmixed hy drides. De spite car bon’s tetravalency, it can still bond si mul -ta neously to five or more other at oms. These are hypercoordinated at -oms or hypercarbon at oms, and con sti tute a sig nif i cant fea ture oforganometallic, carborane, and car bide chem is try.

The first chap ter de fines terms as they are used in this text, like co or di na tion num ber, va lence,and “coordinatively un sat u rated.” A chap ter on car bon-bridged metal alkyls dis cusses metal-car -bon bond ing in organoaluminum, organolithium, organocopper (sil ver, gold) com pounds as wellas other electropositive met als. En su ing chap ters dis cuss carboranes and metallacarboranes,mixed metal-car bon clus ters and metal car bides, hypercoordinate carbocations and their bor aneanalogs, and re ac tions in volv ing hypercarbon in ter me di ates or tran si tion states in or ganic andorganometallic re ac tions.

The book up dates and ex pands the orig i nal 1987 edi tion. Hypercarbon com pounds are an in te gralpart of car bon chem is try and hy dro car bon chem is try, par tic u larly the chem is try of methanes, al -kanes, and car bon di ox ide to pro duce es sen tial fu els and feedstocks.

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638th BOARD OF DIRECTORS' MEETING Thursday, March 15, 2012

Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia

Present: R. Ewing, D. Cichowicz, M. Cichowicz, D. Cook, E. Davis, S. Fleming, D. Hausner, K.

Lysko, C. Palmer, K. Shaginaw, W. Smith, T. Straub, J. Summers-Gates, D. Thomas, J. Tierney, M.

Tunick, D. Wolf.

Excused: A. DeMasi, J.P. Northrop, V. Tortorelli.

Also: C.J. Bruner, S. Burcham, J. Crawford, E. Harper, A. Heldon, K. Lammers, O. Komova, J.

Martino and W. Rice.

The meeting was called to order by Chair Ewing at 4:00 PM. The minutes of the February meeting

were approved (T. Straub motion, J. Summers-Gates second).

COMMITTEE REPORTS:

A. Career Services: J. Martino

There are the following corrections to the February minutes under Career Services:

“YCC: Top Priority this year:” Both YCC and Career Services are top priorities as discussed

by the Board of Directors.

“3 core members, 2 advisory:” Career Services is now structured as a 3 core member, 2

advisory member committee. P. Fishbein, B. Tsuie and I are the core members; C. Hamilton

of the Life Science Career Alliance and J.P. Northrop are the advisory members.

“Paul Fishbein and Tsuie will coordinate:” P. Fishbein is coordinating efforts to construct a

concept statement to define the Career Services Committee. B. Tsuie is not, although all

committee members are participating in the process.

J.P. Northrop, not P. Fishbein, submitted the Career Services Committee activities in 2011for

a CHEMLUMINARY award.

The February 29 Leap Day networking event was a success with 30 participating. A Survey-

Monkey survey was very positive, especially concerning the informal nature of the event. The

next networking event is June 19 at Houlihan’s in Plymouth Meeting. It will use eventbrite for

sign up and it will also be in the Catalyst. The May 17 workshop will also use eventbrite. It will

be at the La Salle center in Plymouth Meeting. J.P. Northrop and J. Martino and others will be

speakers. The next meeting of the Committee will be tomorrow (March 16) for future planning.

B. Younger Chemists Committee: K. Lammers

On March 22 there will be a YCC happy hour at the Field House in Philadelphia. The YCC is

planning an event at Dave and Buster’s on August 20 during the National Meeting. It will need

some underwriting, using National funds first, Section funds second. They have submitted a

proposal for an Innovative Project Grant from National for a career symposium at the fall National

Meeting. They should hear by June. The Poster Session had a large number submitted so 20 prizes

were awarded, 10 graduate, 7 undergrad and 3 high school. A. Addison and S. Haynie both donated

prize money. At the November meeting the program should be reviewed.

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OFFICERS’ REPORTS:

A. Chair R. Ewing

A. Heldon and others are preparing a letter to be sent to Governor Corbett concerning the

defunding of the Delaware Valley Science Council, and the Governor’s School for the past two

years. He wants to send about 150 letters to legislators, concerning STEM education. Heldon

will be going to Harrisburg in June to discuss this. R. Ewing and S. Burcham will use their

contacts to further this. S. Fleming asked for the source of the data in the letter. It may be

www.aboutastra or just astra – A. Heldon will forward to the Section Office to be forwarded to

the Board.

The Science Festival: J. Tierney will do last year’s activity. He needs about 150 handouts from

J. Summers-Gates. W. Smith will participate again and the YCC has sign up sheets.

April 12 is Heritage Day at the Chemical Heritage Foundation (CHF); registration is required by

March 30. R. Ewing will forward the info to the Section Office to be forwarded to the Board. T.

Tritton of CHF is the tentative speaker for the April meeting. The May meeting will have brief

talks by the teacher awardees. For the June meeting R. Ewing is considering CHF – any

suggestions for speakers?

B. Secretary D. Wolf: no report.

C. Treasurer D. Cichowicz

The Section has received $500 seed money for the National Meeting from National. We are still

waiting for the eventbrite receipts for the February meeting. The treasurer’s report was

approved.

OTHER BUSINESS:

A. S. Burcham reported on the planned Chemistry and the Law Division program at the fall

National Meeting. It will be an August 20 all day symposium on the Innocence Project. They

would like help publicizing it – put it in the Catalyst, LinkedIn, and Twitter. There will be a

reception at CHF from 5-7 PM. The location of the symposium is still to be determined. S.

Burcham will forward an advertisement for it to the Section Office for distribution to J. Martino

and K. Lammers. Andy Gay, Esq., was suggested as a possible source of funding.

B. Women Chemists Committee

K. Shaginaw is asking for volunteers for the PAGES™ program on April 21.

C. Chemical Education

D. Cook reported that the new guidelines for chemical education are almost final.

D. Council Affairs

J. Crawford will have a report on the March Council meeting in April.

The meeting was adjourned. Respectfully submitted, E. Harper acting as Secretary.

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639TH Board of Directors Meeting Thursday, April 19, 2012

McCall Meeting and Conference Center Highland Park, PA 19083

Present: D. Cichowicz, M. Cichowicz, E. Davis, S. Fleming, A. Heldon, K. Lysko, J.P. Northrop, C. Palmer, W. Smith, T. Straub, J. Summers-Gates, D. Thomas, V. Tortorelli, M. Tunick. Excused: D. Cook, A. DeMasi, R. Ewing, D. Hausner, K. Shaginaw, J. Tierney. Also: C. J. Bruner, J. Crawford, E. Harper, S. Haynie, K. Lammers, J. Martino. The meeting was called to order by J.P. Northrop at 4:00 PM. Approval of the minutes of the March meeting was deferred until a draft is received. COMMITTEE REPORTS: A. Career Services:

J. Martino reported on the May 17 Networking Workshop the committee is sponsoring. Rick Tashman will give the overview; J.P. Northrop will discuss techniques for chemists, Charlene Holzendorff of Right Management branding and marketing, J. Martino job clubs and ACS benefits. Lunch will be provided.

The next networking event will be June 19 at Houlihan’s in Plymouth Meeting. B. Younger Chemists: K. Lammers reported that the national YCC has received an innovative project grant of $2250

from National ACS for their career symposium on August 21. They have 5 people going to the ACS booth at the science carnival on April 21. The Franklin

Institute is hosting a career event that afternoon. The local YCC will sponsor a ticketed event at Dave and Busters during the August National Meeting; the national YCC is helping out with this event.

OFFICERS' REPORTS: A. Chair-elect Northrop

Northrop made a motion that the high school teaching award go to Scott A. Best of Conestoga High School and the undergraduate teaching award to Linda Mascavage of Arcadia University. Motion passed. Volunteers are needed for an August national meeting planning committee. A. DeMasi, M. Cichowicz, S. Haynie, E. Davis and J. Crawford volunteered. It was mentioned that we can get Mummers again to open the Council meeting, if we want to.

B. Secretary Heldon: – no report

C. Treasurer Cichowicz: Our allotment and the second half of the 2011 dues have been received; we will probably

receive the January-June 2012 dues in October. The social committee budget is all right; there is money to be deposited to that account and a deposit for tonight’s meeting is already charged

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to it. The investment accounts are doing all right and our general finances are in good shape. A

motion, made and seconded, to approve the treasurer’s report was passed unanimously.

OTHER BUSINESS: A. Education Committee:

T. Straub reported that the Chemistry Olympiad exam will take place on Saturday, April 21, at La Salle.

B. Council Affairs: J. Crawford reported on the Council meeting in San Diego March 25; he included Section

member participation on National committees and asked if any of the Section officers were serving on any committees.

C. Government Affairs: A. Heldon reported that PA GALA will host a workshop at the National Meeting on how to see

legislators to discuss chemistry and chemical education. Separately, OPA (ACS – National) will hold a social event at the national meeting.

The committee has sent letters to approximately 100 Pennsylvania senators and representatives expressing ACS concern over the proposed cuts to the education budget. It was asked if we could send another letter about the defunding of the Science in Motion program. V. Tortorelli is going to Harrisburg about this in May. The Board would need to approve such a letter before it is sent. Heldon plans to send the SIM letter in May and requested postage. A motion to approve the postage was approved with two abstentions.

D. Women Chemists Committee: E. Harper reported for K. Shaginaw that there is a PAGES™ program this Saturday (April 21).

Dr. Lisa Laffend of DuPont will be the keynote speaker. Plenty of girls and volunteers are signed up for the event. The PAGES™ dates for the next academic year are November 3, 2012 and March 23, 2013.

E. Merck Indexes: E. Harper reported that the Section has received two thank-you notes from students who

received Merck Indexes from us at Montgomery County Science Fairs. One donated it to his school chemistry department.

V. Tortorelli motioned to adjourn the meeting; A. Heldon seconded. Meeting adjourned at 4:50 PM. Respectfully submitted, Alan Heldon, Secretary and E. Harper acting as Secretary

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CHEM I CAL CON SUL TANTS NET WORKJUNE 13, 2012 MEET ING

Visit our website at www.chemconsultants.org

Date: Wednes day, June 13, at the Cynwyd Club, Bala Cynwyd, PATime: Net work ing, 5:30 PM; Buf fet, 6:15 PM; Fo rum and Busi ness Ses sion, 7:30 PM

AN NUAL OPEN FO RUM

AL FRESCO BUF FET

SPOUSES WEL COME!!!

Pro gram: As in the past, we will in for mally ex change ques tions and ex pe ri ences re lat ing to our ac tiv i ties as in de pend ent

chem i cal con sul tants or our in ter est in be com ing con sul tants. This gath er ing has been one of our most pop u lar and en joy able

events, so don’t miss it!

Lo ca tion: The Cynwyd Club, 332 Trevor Lane, Bala Cynwyd, PA 19004. From I-76, drive S on City Line Ave. (US Rte. 1).

Turn right on Conshohocken State Rd. (Rte. 23); stay in right lane. Af ter sec ond light watch for white left-turn ar rows painted

on street (about 0.14 mile). Do not fol low Rte. 23 left at turn but in stead go straight ahead onto Llandrillo Rd. (pass ing to the

right of Val ley Press print ing). Af ter one block bear left onto Trevor Lane at stop sign. Club house and park ing are on the left.

Please park in lot if space is avail able; oth er wise park on Trevor Lane. If lost, call the club at 610-667-4524, ext. 2.

Res er va tion: To make or can cel a din ner res er va tion, e-mail CCNReservations@aol.com or call the ACS of fice at

(215) 382-1589 (leave mes sage on voicemail if nec es sary). Fee, in clud ing food and bev er ages (wine, beer & so das), is $25

or $40 per cou ple by the dead line, Thurs day, June 7th

, $35 af ter wards. Late res er va tions and walk-ins sub ject to avail abil ity.

No-shows will be in voiced. Please ad vise of any spe cial food re quire ments. There is no charge for talk only; reg is tra tion is

sug gested us ing con tact in for ma tion above.

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COUN CIL RE PORT FROM THE SAN DIEGO NA TIONAL MEET INGAt the ACS Coun cil meet ingon Wednes day, March 28,2012 in San Diego, CA,Coun cil se lected Thomas J.Barton and Luis A. Eche-goyen as can di dates for 2013Pres i dent-Elect. These twocan di dates, along with anycan di dates se lected via pe ti -tions, will stand for elec tionin the Fall Na tional elec tion. Can di dates were also se lectedfor Dis trict I and Dis trict Vfall elec tion for the Board ofDi rec tors for the term 2013-2015. In ad di tion, Carol A.Duane, Valerie J. Kuck, Helen (Bonnie) A. Lawlor and Ing -rid Mon tes were an nounced as can di dates for a fall elec tionof two Di rec tors-at-Large fora 2013-2015 term.

Dur ing the Coun cil meet ing,the fol low ing ac tiv i ties oc cur- red:

· Coun cil re viewed a re port of the So ci ety’s fi nances and re -ports on mem ber sta tis tics, at -ten dance at the spring na tional meet ing, a brief ing on theACS vs. Leadscope lit i ga tion,and re ports from the So ci ety’s

Pres i den tial suc ces sion, Board of Di rec tors, Board Com mit -tees, Ex ec u tive Di rec tor andsev eral other ACS Com mit-tees.

• Coun cil voted to con tinuethe Com mit tee on Pro jectSEED as part of a reg u larper for mance re view.

• Coun cil voted to set mem -ber dues for 2013 us ing anin fla tion-ad justed for mulaat the fully es ca lated rate of $151.

• Coun cil voted to ap provean up dated ver sion of theChem i cal Pro fes sional’sCode of Con duct.

• Coun cil voted to ap provetwo amend ments (pe ti tions) to the ACS Con sti tu tionand By laws in clud ing toamend the re corded vote re -quest pro ce dure and toadopt guide lines on mar ketdata col lec tion.

• Coun cil also re ceived twope ti tions for con sid er ationthat will be brought up forac tion dur ing the fall Coun -

cil meet ing: the Pe ti tion onCan di date Com ment inC&EN (which seeks to re -strict can di dates for elec -tion to the Board ofDi rec tors from pub lish ingcom ments in C&EN for asix-month pe riod prior tothe mail ing of the elec tionbal lot) and the Pe ti tion onIn ter na tional Chem i cal Sci -ences Chap ter Funds(which seeks to clar ify thatthe Board of Di rec tors mayal lo cate funds to in ter na -tional chap ters for spe cificpur poses).

• ACS Pres i dent BassamShakhashiri pre sented andmod er ated a dis cus sion on“What is your re ac tion tothe pro posed top ics for theACS Cli mate Sci enceToolkit?” The pre lim i naryweb-based toolkit is be ingde vel oped by Pres i dentShakhashiri’s work inggroup on ACS Cli mate Sci -ence as a re source for un -der stand ing and communi-cating ba sic cli mate sci-ence.

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Tony Ad di son and for mer Sec tion Chair Da vid

Katz in San Diego.

Sec tion Coun cil ors Ju dith Currano (left) and Anne

DeMasi with ACS Pres i dent Bassam Shakhashiri.

Sec tion Coun cil ors Marge Matthews (left) and Me lissa

Cichowicz with for mer coun cilor Sharon Haynie (right).

PHO TOS FROM THE SAN DIEGO NA TIONALMEET ING

June His tor i cal Events in Chem is tryLeopold May

June 2, 1787 Two hun dred and twenty-five years ago, Nils G. Sefstrom was born on thisdate. He is one of the dis cover ers of va na dium (V, 23) in 1830.

June 3, 1960 Rob ert B. Wood ward syn the sized chlo ro phyll on this date. June 5, 1951 The first pa per on gas-chro ma tog ra phy (GC), gas-liq uid par ti tion chro ma tog ra -

phy: the sep a ra tion and mi cro-es ti ma tion of vol a tile fatty ac ids from for micacid to dodecanoic acid, by A.T. James and A.J.P. Mar tin was re ceived onthis date in 1951 and was pub lished in Biochem. J. 1953, 50, 679-690.

June 8, 1916 Fifty years ago in 1962, Fran cis H.C. Crick shared the No bel Prize in Phys i -ol ogy or Med i cine with James D. Wat son and M.H.F. Wilkins for their

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the Cat a lyst dis cov er ies con cern ing the mo lec u lar struc ture of nucleic ac ids and its sig nif -i cance for in for ma tion trans fer in liv ing ma te rial. He was born on this dateand was a re searcher on the dou ble he lix struc ture of the de oxy ri bo nu cleic acid(DNA) mol e cule.

June 9, 1862 Fifty years ago, Her bert B. Baker was born. He was a re searcher on ef fect ofwa ter on chem i cal change and an au thor ity on des ic cat ing and poi son gases.

June 10, 1906 Re gina Schoental, who was born on this date, was a re searcher on toxicpyrrolizidine (Senado), al ka loids, fusarial myco toxins, zearalenone, thetrichothecenes, and other car ci no genic me tab o lites of Fusarium and othermicrofungi, es tro genic myco toxins on the de vel op ment of can cers and be -hav ioral dis or ders, nitroso com pounds from ac tion of the oral and anorectalmicroflora, and on the ac ti va tion of hu man immuno de fi ciency vi rus.

June 14, 1862 One hun dred and fifty years ago, Johann Ulrich Nef was born on this date. Hedis cov ered the va lence of car bon and did re search on free rad i cals and tran si -tion state in or ganic re ac tions. He is known as “Fa ther of Phys i cal Or ganicChem is try.”

June 15, 1755 Antoine François de Fourcroy, who was born on this date, de vel oped chem i calno men cla ture with Lavoisier and Berthollet. He de scribed salts such as cal -cium chlo ride.

June 18, 1906 Maria Goeppert Mayer, who de vel oped the shell model of the nu cleus anddid re search in iso topes ef fect, was born on this day. She shared the No belPrize in Phys ics in 1963 with J.H.D. Jensen for dis cov er ies con cern ing nu -clear shell struc ture and Eu gene Paul Wigner for his con tri bu tions to the the -ory of the atomic nu cleus and the el e men tary par ti cles, par tic u larly throughthe dis cov ery and ap pli ca tion of fun da men tal sym me try prin ci ples.

June 20, 1931 Mary L. Good is a re searcher in in or ganic chem is try and in dus trial chem ist.She served as Pres i dent of ACS and was born on this day.

June 22, 1903 Harry Jul ius Emeléus, a re searcher in in or ganic chem is try and flurorinechem is try, was born on this date.

June 25, 1812 Two hun dred years ago, Hermann von Fehling was born on this date. He dis -cov ered Fehling’s so lu tion as an ox i diz ing agent and as an an a lyt i cal re agentfor al de hydes and sug ars and pre pared phenyl cy a nide. The com po si tion ofparaldehyde and met al de hyde was de ter mined by him.

June 28, 1873 One hun dred years ago, Alexis Car rel was awarded the No bel Prize in Phys i -ol ogy or Med i cine in rec og ni tion of his work on vas cu lar su ture and thetrans plan ta tion of blood-ves sels and or gans. He was born on this date and did re search on su tur ing blood ves sels in or gan trans plants.

June 30, 1926 Paul Berg, re searcher in re com bi nant de oxy ri bo nu cleic acid (DNA) was born on this date. He shared the No bel Prize in Chem is try in 1980 for his fun da -men tal stud ies of the bio chem is try of nu cleic ac ids, with par tic u lar re gard tore com bi nant-DNA with Wal ter Gilbert and Fred er ick Sang er for their con tri -bu tions con cern ing the de ter mi na tion of base se quences in nu cleic ac ids.

 

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2012 CALENDAR OF EVENTS

Date Event Locations

Tuesday, June 5 American Institute of Chemical Engineers: Donald

Koestler, DJ Koestler, LLC, and Alain Plante, University

of Pennsylvania: Climate Change

The Cynwyd Club

Bala Cynwyd, PA

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Bala Cynwyd, PA

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Thursday, June 14 Chromatography Forum of the Delaware Valley: Paul

Haddad, Australian Centre for Research on Separation

Science: New Horizons in Ion Chromatography

TBA

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Tuesday, June 19 Career Services Committee: Networking Event Houlihan’s

Plymouth Meeting, PA

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Thursday, June 21 Fifty-Year Luncheon: Ronald Brashear, Chemical

Heritage Foundation: Great Chemistry Book Collectors

and Their Treasures in CHF’s Othmer Library

Chemical Heritage Foundation

315 Chestnut Street

Philadelphia, PA

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Thursday, Sept. 20 TBA TBA

Thursday, Oct. 18 Philadelphia Section Award TBA

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Thursday, Nov. 15 Ullyot Lecture: Paul Anastas, EPA Chemical Heritage Foundation

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Saturday, Dec. 8 Herb Bassow Memorial Chemistry Demonstrations

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43rd MARM Chemistry on the Chesapeake

May 31 – June 2, 2012 University of Maryland, Baltimore

ACS Fall National Meeting

August 19-23, 2012 Philadelphia, PA

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