Fifty Years Ago

Fifty Years Ago in the Southwest Retort

Heads up to our readers! Dallas will host the ACS Spring National Meeting next year on April 8-13, 1973. The ACS Southwest Regional Meeting will be held Dec. 6-8 this year in Baton Rouge. The Arthur H. Thomas Co. announces the Automatic Printout Titrator, Thomas Model 55.

At Northeast Louisiana University, Department Chair Dr. Earl W. Baker has received a $2000 grant to study organic geochemistry.

Texas A&M’s Chemistry Department has received a $57,000 NSF grant matched by departmental funds to purchase a multinuclear nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer. The 11th National

Compiled by E. Thomas Strom Meeting of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy will be hosted by the North Texas Section of the Society and by the Dallas Society of Analytical Chemists. The meeting will be held in Dallas Sept. 10-15 at the Statler Hilton Hotel.

The Fifth Annual DFW Section Meeting-inMiniature was held April 28 at Texas Woman’s University. There were twenty-one graduate presentations and eighteen undergraduate presentations. Winners were as follows: Graduate; 1st , John D. Scott, North Texas State; 2nd , J. M. Hopkins, East Texas State; 3rd , H. J. Barager, TCU; Undergraduate, 1st , Yvonne Kunz, Texas Woman’s University; 2nd , Doug Winters, Abilene Christian; 3rd . S. Walter, North Texas State. The banquet speaker was ACS District 4 Director Dr. Mary L. Good speaking on “Chemists—Supply and Demand.

At SMU Dr. Edward Biehl and Dr. Perry Reeves are in charge of the new PerkinElmer Model R12B NMR Spectrometer received in April. Dr. Harold Jeskey, President of the Southwestern Athletic Conference, presided at the April meeting held in Fayetteville, AR. Dr. Ralph Shriner attended the Board of Directors meeting of Organic Synthesis, Inc. held at the recent ACS meeting in Boston. The North Texas State chemistry department will host the National Organosilicon Symposium April 6-7, 1973. Dr. Paul R. Jones of NTSU will chair the symposium. Dr. Robert W. Gracy has received a five year Career Development Award from NIH to study “Erythrocyte Metabolism.” Drs.

James L. Marshall, Robert Disiderato,

and Robert W. Gracy have received Welch grants. The NTSU Biochemistry Division will be participating in the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine Program this fall At the UT-Southwestern Medical School, Dr. Ronald Estabrook lectured at the University of Mexico on “Biological Oxidation and Reduction.” Dr. Morton Prager has received NIH and Welch grants to study “Tumor Inhibitory Enzymes.” At UT-Austin, Dr. Allen Bard was an ACS tour speaker in Ohio.