Fifty Years Ago

FIFTY YEARS AGO IN THE SOUTHWEST RETORT

The banquet speaker for the upcoming ACS Southwest Regional Meeting in San Antonio will be John H. Disher of NASA. His talk will be on “Sky Lab---Our Astronaut’s Next Step in Space.”

The new officers for 1972 for the DallasFort Worth ACS Section are as follows: Chair-Elect, Peter Girardot, UT-Arlington; Secretary, Linda Creagh, TWU; Treasurer, John Maguire, SMU; Directors, Leroy Theriot, North Texas State and E. Thomas Strom, Mobil. Strom was also elected to a three year term as Councilor. The new Chair is last year’s Chair-Elect, Herman Custard of Mobil.

In the Central Texas ACS Section, ACS President-Elect candidate William A. Mosher of the University of Delaware spoke on Oct. 20 on “The Chemistry of Marijuana.” ACS President-Elect Candidate Alan Nixon talked on Oct. 23 on “Professional Aspects of Chemistry.” From UT-Austin Welch Professor Michael J. S. Dewar gave several lectures in Sweden and Denmark. Dr. Allen J. Bard gave the plenary lecture at the “Symposium on Bioelectrochemistry” held Oct. 11-14 in Princeton, NJ. Dr. James E. Boggs has announced the “Fourth Austin Symposium on Gas Phase Molecular Structure” to be held Feb. 28-Mar. 2, 1972.

The two new junior colleges of the Dallas County system are now offering second year chemistry courses. The chemistry teachers at Mountain View Jr. College are Dr. Marjorie White and Mr. Charles Freeman. The chemistry faculty at Eastfield Jr. College are Dr. Hance Hamilton and Mr. Jerry McMahon. Continuing are the faculty at El Centro Jr. College, Dr. Carlos Gonzales, Mr. Richard O’Brien, and Mr. Floyd King. When the new Richland Jr. College opens in the fall of 1972, Mr. King will be the Division Chair there for Science and Mathematics.

Graydon B. Larrabee, Manager of the Research Branch of the Central Analytical Laboratory of Texas Instruments, has been selected for the “Analyst of the Year” Award for 1971. This award is given yearly by the Dallas Society of Analytical Chemists to the most deserving analytical chemist in the Southwest Region of the ACS. Dr. Henry Shine of Texas Tech University gave seminars in October on the topic “Chemistry of Organic Cation Radicals” to chemistry departments at UT-Austin, Southwest Texas State University, and Trinity University.

Compiled by E. Thomas Strom