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ACS Council Handles Light Agenda In Boston Votes on Professional Employment Guidelines, advance registration fees for ACS national meeting are highlights

William G.Schulz C&EN Washington

From the ACS meeting

At its meeting last month in Boston, the American Chemical Society {Council approved the sixth edition

of the ACS Professional Employment Guidelines (PEG). Although some coun­cilors stated concerns about the impact of PEG on small businesses, the new

guidelines were readily approved by councilors. They had earlier been adopt­ed by the ACS Board of Directors.

The only point of debate at the coun­cil meeting was a proposal to recom­mend to the ACS Board a $10 increase in the advance registration fee for ACS na­tional meetings in 1999. The fee would rise from $225 to $235.

Councilor Dennis Chamot comment­ed that councilors should be given infor­mation on whether the ACS meetings

and expositions program makes or loses money and how much, as well as possi­ble strategies for cost savings that might be considered in lieu of fee increases. He requested that such information be pre­sented at the next council meeting. In the end, councilors declined to recom­mend the fee increase.

One petition for action—ACS bylaw changes concerning Corporation Asso­ciates dues—was passed by councilors. The bylaw changes concern the classifi­cation and distribution of those dues. Another part of the amendment re­solves an inconsistency in the annual deadline for Corporation Associates to pay dues.

The previous language of the bylaw did not support the intended limited use of Corporation Associates dues. The amendment would unambiguously classi­fy such dues payments as available solely for programs approved by the Commit­tee on Corporation Associates. The cur­rent classification is "unrestricted," meaning that it is possible for the ACS

Actions by ACS Board of Directors

At its meeting in Boston, the American Chemical Society Board of Directors approved several budget requests for 1999: $204,000 for international pro­gram development, $148,000 for activi­ties related to the ACS 125th Anniversa­ry, $243,000 to establish an Office of Technical Programming & Conferenc­es within the ACS Membership Divi­sion, and a commitment of $18.5 mil­lion for the Petroleum Research Fund in 1999. The board further approved a request by ACS President-Elect Ed Was-serman to support an international chemical landmarks program in 1999*

In addition, board members voted to include Sen. Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) as a recipient of the ACS Public Service Awards—to be presented Sept. 16 in Washington, D.C.—along with Sens. Phil Gramm (R-Texas) and Joseph I. Iieberman (D-Conn.).

In other awards-related actions, the board approved assumption of costs by ACS of presenting the Frank H.

Field & Joe L. Franklin Award for Out­standing Achievement in Mass Spec­trometry. The society will sponsor the award through 2000 or until another sponsor is named.

At the request of DuPont, sponsor of the Peter Debye Award in Physical Chemistry and the ACS Award in the Chemistry of Materials, the board ap­proved additions to the eligibility sec­tions of the awards so that some con­sideration is given to a nominee's suc­cess as a mentor and colleague. The additions are intended to reflect the value DuPont places on the mentor­ing of students and colleagues and the way in which this positively affects the impact of research.

The board also approved two policy statements. One is a letter supporting a federal appropriation of $4.5 mil­lion for the Department of Energy's Laboratory Cooperative, National Sci­ence Bowl, and Albert Einstein Distin­guished Education Fellowship pro­

grams. All three programs support kindergarten through 12th grade math and science education. The fel­lowship program allows K-12 science teachers to serve as fellows in Con­gress or a federal agency.

The other policy statement is also in the form of a letter, addressed to the California Board of Education, voicing concerns over the draft California Sci­ence Standards for K-12 students. The letter reads in part: "The proposed Cal­ifornia Standards present a surprising­ly narrow view of modern science. De­spite the density of factual detail, they do not cover the breadth of content that is found in the [National Science Education Standards]."

Finally, the board will provide par­tial support for a 25th Anniversary Cope Symposium to be held in March 1999 commemorating the first presenta­tion of the Arthur C. Cope Award The symposium will feature presentations by almost all of the living Cope Medalists and "will be a momentous event for the organic [chemistry] community.''

Council approves petition on Corporation Associates dues

Proposed amendment

Changes classification

Bylaw affected

Bylaw II, Sec. 6, d and e

Major provisions

Limits use of Corporation Associates dues and distribution of dues; resolves inconsistency in terms of annual dues deadline

Council action

Carried

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ACS President Paul H. L. Walter addresses the ACS Council meeting In Boston.

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Board to use them to support a program other than one that supports industrial chemists.

The change concerning payment of dues makes it clear that a Corporation Associate shall not automatically be re­moved from membership if dues are not paid 90 days into the calendar year and it provides flexibility in managing and ad­ministering the Corporation Associates dues payment plan.

Also at the fast-paced council meet­ing, councilors approved proposed by­laws for the ACS Division of Chemical

Toxicology. The ACS Board had previously approved full divisional status for the division.

A "Grassroots '99" local section membership contest was an­nounced at the council meeting. The membership development contest among ACS local sections, sponsored by the Council Committee on Membership Affairs and the ACS Membership Divi­sion, is part of the ACS 2001 Member­ship Campaign. The contest officially be­gan Sept. 1 and will end April 30, 1999.

Makeup of elected council committees for 1999 During their meeting, councilors elected five members to the Committee on Committees, four to the Council Policy Committee, and five to the Commit­tee on Nominations & Elections, all for 1999^2001 terms. For 1999, the mem­bership of these committees wi l l be as follows:

COMMITTEE ON COMMITTEES8

Elected in Boston Clara D. Craver Carol A. Duane Lydia E. M. Hines Herbert B. Silber Mary E. Thompson

Continuing members Peter A. Christie Richard L. Deming Janan M. Hayes Joe W. Hightower Paul R. Jones Valerie J. Kuck John L Massingill Jr. Eli M. Pearce Barbara A. Sawrey Isiah M. Warner

COUNCIL POLICY COMMITTEEb

Elected in Boston Dennis Chamot Merle 1. Eiss Madeleine M. Joullie Kent J. Voorhees

Continuing members Jeannette E. Brown Robin J. Hood Esther A. H. Hopkins Ted J. Logan Ann P. Moffett Anne T. O'Brien Charles F. Rowell Jack H. Stocker

COMMITTEE ON NOMINATIONS & ELECTIONS

Elected in Boston Rita R. Boggs Stanley C. Israel C. Gordon McCarty Gordon L. Nelson Mary V. Orna

Continuing members Newman M. Bortnick Bonnie A. Charpentier Donald D. Clarke George E. Heinze Mamie W. Moy George F. Palladino Robert A. Pett James P. Shoffner Kathleen D. Trahanovsky H. David Wohlers

a The president-elect is a member (ex officio) of this committee, b The president, president-elect, immediate past-president, and executive director are members (ex officio) of this committee.

Winning local sections will be awarded $1,500.

Councilors were given bad news at the start of the meeting: Former ACS President and Nobel Laureate Glenn T. Seaborg had apparently suffered a stroke and was being treated at a Boston area hospital.^

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Deaths. ROBERT A. IAUDISE, 67, died Aug. 20 at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. Laudise, who spent his en­tire career at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, N.J., was currently adjunct chemical director there.

After receiving a B.S. degree in chemistry from Union College, Schenectady, N.Y., in 1952 and a Ph.D. degree in inorganic chemistry from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1956, Laudise joined Bell Labs. Groups he led transferred optical fi­ber technology to production and prepared the first lithium-niobate and yttrium-alu­minum garnet laser crystals.

Laudise's research interests included sol­id-state chemistry, materials science and materials conservation, and crystal growth. Most commercial processes for preparing crystalline quartz are based on his studies of hydrothermal crystallization.

Laudise received the first American Chemical Society Award in the Chemistry of Materials, in 1990, and was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering. Joined ACS in 1956.^

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