Fifty Years Ago

FIFTY YEARS AGO IN THE SOUTHWEST RETORT

The ACS tour speaker next month will be Dr. Cheves Walling of the University of Utah. He will be speaking from two topics: “Some Recent Developments in Free Radical Chemistry” or “The Relevance of Science and the Training of Chemists.” In the ACS Baton Rouge Section, at Southern University

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E. Thomas Strom received a $22,000 AEC grant to study Coordination Chemistry. At LSU Boyd Professor Sean McGlynn has been nominated for appointment as a Fellow of the IntraScience Research Foundation. Dr. James Traynham has been appointed to the ACS Committee on Chemical Education.

In the Dallas-Ft. Worth ACS Section, Dr. William J. Bailey of the University of Maryland presented a Welch lecture at Texas Woman’s University. The Chemistry Department at NTSU (now UNT) has recently instituted a summer research program for undergraduates. At Anderson Clayton Foods Dr. Thomas H. Smouse was elected recently Chair-Elect of the Longhorn Section of the Institute of Food Technologists. At the Mobil Field Research Lab Dr. Peggy M. Dunlap gave a seminar on surface chemistry at Northwestern State University of Louisiana, while Dr. Thomas C. Vogt gave a lecture to the ACS Student Affiliate Chapter at East Texas State University (now Texas A&M University-Commerce).

In the Heart O’ Texas ACS Section, Baylor faculty John S. Belew, Malcolm Dole, and David E. Pennington presented papers at the ACS Spring National Meeting in Los Angeles. A research facility of national importance relating to agriculture and the environment is scheduled to be built in Central Texas. The facility will be called the Grassland Forage and Research Center and will be constructed on land at the Agriculture Research Center, located a few miles south of Temple.

In the University of Arkansas ACS Section, Drs. Sol Siegel and Arthur Fry attended the ACS National Meeting in Los Angeles. Dr. A. W. Cordes attended the NSF Directors meeting for College Teachers Research Participation Programs in Washington, D.C. on Mar. 25-27. Dr. J. L. Meason conducted research at the White Sands Missile Range installation Mar. 28-April 3.

In the Southeastern Texas ACS Section, Chair Dr. Wesley Wendlandt issued a call for volunteers for various local section committee assignments.

In the Texas A&M ACS Section, the Department of Chemistry’s Industrial Liaison Committee organized an Industrial Liaison Conference, which was held on Mar. 25. Dr. C. S. Giam gave a seminar on Feb. 11 at the Tenneco Co. in Houston. Dr. Arthur E. Martell gave a seminar on Feb. 26 at Stauffer Chemical Co. in Dobbs Ferry, NY.