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FIFTY YEARS AGO IN THE SOUTHWEST RETORT Two of the three ACS tour speakers this papers were given representing groups from month are actually staff members in ACS UT-Arlington, NTSU, TCU, Baylor, Stenational headquarters in Washington, D.C. phen F. Austin, Texas Woman’s University, The third is from an oil company. At this and East Texas State. First prize in the time we do not yet have the topics of their graduate division was given to David talks. Mr. Earl Klinefelter is the head of Minter of Stephen F. Austin, while the the ACS Member and Local Section office. first prize winner in the undergraduate diviMr. Marshall W. Mead is in charge of Lo- sion was Leo W. Brown of Baylor. cal Section and Member services. Dr. Ernthe University of Basel in Switzerland. Dr. est L. Pollitzer is Associate Director of Re- At SMU Dr. Ralph search at Universal Oil Products in Des Shriner attended the ACS Plaines, IL. fall national meeting in Chicago, while Dr. EdThe ACS Council met in Chicago and ap- ward Biehl has just reproved the fission of the former Ark-La-Tex turned from his year long ACS Section. The Texas part of the section sabbatical at the Universiwill be known as the East Texas Section ty of Munich, where he when it is chartered. The eastern section is worked with Profesto be known as the Louisiana-Arkansas Compiled by sor Rolf Huisgen. At Border Section. However, the new sec- E. Thomas Strom UT-Arlington Dr. tion’s Executive Committee initiated moves Shirley Chu has reloto change the name to Northwestern Louisi- cated to the Material Science Department at ana Section, while deleting the three coun- SMU. The Varian HA-100D and T-60 nmr ties in Arkansas from its territory. Stay spectrometers have arrived and are in opertuned for future events. ation. At the Mobil Field Research LaboraIn the Central Texas ACS Section Mrs. try analytical services, Mr. Ernest D. EvClara Weisser of Stephen F. Austin High ans, has just received an M.S.Chem degree School was awarded the District 5 James from SMU, working with Dr. C. T. KenBryant Conant Award for Excellence in ner. Dr. Wilson L. Orr, Dr. J. B. Davis, High School Teaching. At UT-Austin and Mr. Ellis E. Bray attended the Gordon Welch Professor Michael Dewar present- Research Conference on Petroleum Geoed the Kahlbaum Lectures this summer at chemistry. tory the head of the petroleum geochemisAllen Bard lectured this summer at univer- In the South Plains ACS Section at Texas sities in Sweden, Denmark, and Israel. Tech Dr. Henry Shine gave a paper at the Chicago ACS National Meeting. Dr. Shine In the Dallas-Fort Worth ACS Section the has received a continuing two year, $50,000 Meeting-in-Miniature was held last May NSF grant on “Cation Radical Chemistry.” and hosted by the student affiliate chapter Welch Professor C. W. Shoppee gave a at East Texas State University (now Texas seminar on “Walden Retention” at the UniA&M University Commerce). A total of 48 versities of New Mexico and Oklahoma.