Fifty Years Ago

FIFTY YEARS AGO IN THE SOUTHWEST RETORT

The ACS Southwest Regional Meeting will be held in San Antonio Dec. 1-3. The speaker at the banquet will be Congressman Henry B. Gonzalez. The General Chair for the meeting will be Dr. John T. Goodwin, Jr. from the Southwest Research Institute, while the Technical Chair is Dr. Dale A. Clark from the USAF School of Aerospace Medicine at Brooks Air Force Base. Over 350 presentations are expected.

Mr. Roland L. Os-

burn, Circulation Manager of The Southwest Retort, is retiring as Manager of the Dallas Branch of Sargent-Welch. He will also be retiring from his post with The Retort.

Compiled by E. Thomas Strom

Dr. J. J. Lagowski

of UT-Austin chaired a session of the “Conference on Computers in Chemical Education and Research” held July 19-23 at Northern Illinois University. Additional speakers from UT-Austin were Drs. M. J. S. Dewar, S. J. Castleberry, F. A. Matsen and G. H. Culp. Dr. Alan J. Bard presented a paper Aug. 11 at the Gordon Conference on Analytical Chemistry. Dr. Royston M. Roberts presented a paper in Boston at the July 27-30 IUPAC meeting.

At the Mobil Field Research Laboratory (FRL) Ellis E. Bray, Manager of Petroleum Geochemistry Research, has been promoted to Senior Research Associate. He thus becomes one of only three Senior Research Associates at FRL and one of only ten Senior Research Associates in all of Mobil R. & D. Corp. Ellis is best known for developing the Carbon Preference Index as a key to petroleum generation.

At UT-Dallas Dr. Harold Werbin spoke at the Gordon Conference on “Nucleic Acids” held July 12-16. Dr. David Creed, Dr. Werbin’s post-doc, is leaving UT-Dallas to work with Nobel Laureate Dr. George Porter at the Davy Research Lab in England. At UT-Southwestern Medical School Dr. Ron Estabrook gave a paper in Edinburgh, Scotland in July. Dr. Morton D. Prager gave invited papers at two separate meetings in Italy this month.

At Texas Woman’s University Dr. Lyman Caswell took short courses this summer at UT-Austin and Argonne National Lab. At North Texas State Dr. James J. Spurlock returned to the chemistry department after serving as Vice President of Academic Affairs. Dr. William H. Glaze attended an organometallic chemistry conference at the University of Moscow. The Chemistry Club at Tarleton State University received permission on June 2 to start a student affiliate chapter.

Two chemistry faculty from Northeast Louisiana University, Chair Dr. Earl W. Baker and Dr. K. S. Miller, attended this September’s ACS National Meeting. At Texas Tech University Dr. Henry Shine was an invited speaker at the EUCHEM Conference held June 13-19 in Ronneby, Sweden. He spoke on “Cation-Radical Chemistry.”