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CHICAGO SECTION AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETYMONTHLY PROGRAM MEETING

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REGISTRATION, POSTER SESSION & SOCIALHOUR5:30PM–6:30PM

DINNER6:30PM–7:30PM

ANNOUNCEMENTS7:30PM–7:40PM

LECTUREBY DR.JACKSON7:40PM–8:40PM

Dr. Lauren JacksonU.S. Food and Drug AdministrationCenter for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition

“Ensuring the Safety of the U.S. Food Supply: The Role of Regulatory Scientists in Carrying out FDA’s Mission”

IN THIS ISSUE2 Dr. Lauren Jackson 2 IllinoisInstituteof Technology 2 Micron 3 Iota Sigma Pi 3 Rubber Stamps

3 LoyolaUniversityof Chicago4 - 6 Stephen Tyng Mather - Public Affairs7 Financial Reports8 Calendar8 Mass-VacProducts

ABSTRACT

The U.S. Food and Drug Administra-tion (FDA), Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, is responsible for pro-moting and protecting public health by ensuring that the nation’s food supply is safe, sanitary, wholesome, and honestly labeled, and that cosmetic products are safe and properly labeled. To accom-plish this mission, FDA employs regula-tory scientists in various fields (chemists, engineers, biologists, toxicologists, etc) to develop new tools, standards, and ap-proaches to assess the safety, efficacy, quality, and performance of FDA-regulat-ed products. Dr. Lauren Jackson will dis-cuss the role of FDA/CFSAN in ensuring the safety of the U.S. food supply, her ca-reer as a regulatory scientist in the FDA, career opportunities within the agency, and the importance of ACS in culturing chemical scientists needed for the FDA to carry out its mission.

BIOGRAPHY: Dr. Lauren Jackson is Chief of the Process Engineering Branch at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)/Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutri-tion (CFSAN)/Division of Food Process-ing Science and Technology (DFPST), located in Bedford Park, IL. In her cur-rent position, Dr. Jackson provides mana-gerial leadership, program direction and general oversight to 13 research scien-tists. She is also responsible for initiating, leading and conducting research projects dealing with food processing and its ef-fects on food safety. Dr. Jackson’s exper-tise is in the following areas: the effects of processing on food constituents and chemical contaminants, food allergen control, the stability of biothreat agents, and the analysis of chemical contami-nants, constituents and allergens in food. She also is one of FDA’s subject matter experts on measures for controlling aller-gens in food manufacturing facilities. Dr. Jackson authored or co-authored over 150 published papers, book chapters and abstracts and co-edited five books. She is actively involved in several scien-tific organizations, including the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT), the Inter-national Association for Food Protection (IAFP), and the American Chemical Soci-ety (ACS), and serves as a scientific edi-tor for the Journal of Food Science and the Journal of Food Protection. Over the past 20 years, Dr. Jackson has served in various leadership roles in ACS including Chair of the Division of Agricultural and Food Chemistry; she currently serves as an ACS Divisional Councilor and on the ACS Committee on Science. Dr. Jackson received her B.S. in Food Science from Cornell University (1984) and her M.S. (1987) and Ph.D. (1990), both in Food Science, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

April, 2018 Vol. 105, No. 4. Published by the Chicago Section of The American Chemical Society, Editorial Staff: Paul Brandt, Editor; Milt Levenberg, Proofreader. Address: 1400 Renaissance Dr., Suite 312, Park Ridge, Illinois 60068; 847/391-9091. Subscription rates: $15 per year. Frequency: monthly-September through June.

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Dear Fellow Chemist:

I am writing to invite applications for membership in Iota Sigma Pi, a National Honor Society for Women in Chemistry. Our membership includes undergraduate and gradu-ate students, as well as professional women chemists, teachers and professors in the field of chemistry or allied fields.

Why join Iota Sigma Pi?

-- We have an active chapter in the Chicago area (Aurum Iodide Chapter) that sponsors a wide variety of programs including monthly professional talks by members and invited speakers, field trips, social gatherings, and a December joint meeting with the Chicago Section of ACS. The meetings are held from September to May each year. During al-ternate years, we offer undergraduate women an opportunity to present their research at our Undergraduate Woman Student Chemistry Symposium. Our chapter website is http://www.iotasigmapi-chicago.org/

-- We support the National Iota Sigma Pi goals of supporting the development of women in chemistry and making awards to qualified women in chemistry.

-- A benefit to membership in Iota Sigma Pi is the opportunity for networking that occurs between the members. Our chapter has a mixture of women with a variety of chemical interests: our members are from industry, government and academia and include both faculty and students. The size of our group is small enough for everyone to get to know one another. Professional members also have the opportunity to fill mentorship roles with student affiliates.

Aurum Iodide Chapter is now conducting its annual membership drive. We both invite your application and request your assistance to help us identify qualified female chem-ists including undergraduate students, graduate students and professional chemists who may be interested in applying. Listed below are the qualifications required for new student and professional inductees. Further information can also be found at the ISP national website (http://www.iotasigmapi.info/).

Undergraduate students: junior and senior women who have an overall 3.0 GPA and either 6 semesters of chemistry courses with a 3.0 chemistry GPA, or 4 semesters of chemistry courses with a 3.5 chemistry GPA.

Graduate students: female graduate students in chemistry-related fields with at least 9 semester hours (or equivalent) with a 3.0 GPA and meet the undergraduate require-ments listed above.

Professional applicants: should have a Ph.D. in chemistry or an allied science OR have a bachelors or masters degree in chemistry with a GPA of 3.0 (on a 4.0 scale) or at least three years of employment in chemistry or an allied field OR have a bachelors or masters degree in a related field with at least five years of employment in chemistry or a related field.

The application forms are available on the ISP national website (http://www.iotasig-mapi.info/membership/becomeamember.html). Nominations should be emailed to Teresa Bixby at bixbyte@lewisu.edu. Each nomination should include the Application for Membership Form, an unofficial copy of the student’s latest transcript, a nomination note from you, and a check (made payable to Iota Sigma Pi) for each nominee. Profes-sional chemists should also include a current resume.

The initial fee for students is $45. This fee covers the one time initiation fee ($25) and annual dues ($20) until July 1, 2019. The initial fee for Professional Chemists is $80.00 (consisting of $25 initiation fee and $55 membership fee).

Our initiation meeting will be held in the afternoon on Saturday, April 7, 2018 at DePaul University.

We look forward to receiving your application. If you have questions please feel free to email me at the address below.

Sincerely,Vivian SullivanMembership Affairs CoordinatorIota Sigma Pi Aurum Iodide chapterinfo@iotasigmapi-chicago.org

RUBBERSTAMPS

Last month was the first article showing a rubber stamp that was published back in the 50’s. Again, these were all done by James A. Wuellner of Standard Oil Co. He was the artist and Assistant Editor of the Chemical Bul-letin in January of 1955. This second sketch was published in June 1955 and is one of the simpler stamps that I’ve seen. All of the sketch’s can be seen in their original format by using the North-western University Library Online http://books.northwestern.edu/viewer.html?id=inu:inu-mntb-0005391474-bk and there are 16,937 images starting with the 1919 Chemical Bulletin. This second stamp comes from the image #14,893.

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Renewing Our Commitment to the Environment

101 years ago, in April of 1917, a very brief announcement was published in the Chicago Chemical Bulletin. It read,

“S.T. Mather has been promoted from assitant to the secretary of the interior to the position of director of National parks in the interior department.”

It was a small annoucement the impact was huge.

S.T.MatherisStephenTyngMather,thefirstDirectoroftheUSNationalParkService…andformerChairoftheChi-cagoSectionoftheAmericanChemicalSociety.

Mather was a wealthy Chicago industrialist who made his fortune at the Thorkildsen-Mather Borax Company. Born in 1867 in San Francisco, he graduated from the University of California Berkeley in 1887. After graduating from Berkeley, Mather moved to New York where he first worked as a reporter for the New York Sun. As a reporter, Mather crafted his keen sense of communications which he used throughout his life, in both business and as an advocate for nature and the environmental. He was known to have a keen sense for telling a story, which captivated his readers and stirred their imagina-tions. After approximately 6 years at the Sun, Mather accepted a position at the Pacific Coast Borax Corporation as an advertising manager in New York. Borax is a mined mineral and the Pacific Coast Mining Company mined borax from several Califor-nian and Nevada mines, including mines near Death Valley, CA. At the time, borax was just another box of cleaning products on the shelf. But Mather’s keen sense of marketing created the vision of a 20 mule team wagon, hauling the product out of the inferno of Death Valley and into homes of American housewives to assist with their laundry and cleaning chores. This marketing image went on to create an enduring mar-keting image that would last more than 100 years, The 20 Mule Team Borax. Since Mather’s time, The 20 Mule Team marketing campaign spun off numerous follow-up concepts including the radio and TV series Death Valley Days which featured such celebrities as Ronald Reagan pitching borax products.

While at the Pacific Coast Mining Company, Mather moved to the Chicago office of the company where he met Thomas Thorkindsen. The two eventually left Pacific Coast Mining and partnered to form the Thorkilden-Mather Borax Company which grew rap-idly under the marketing genius of Mather. During this time, Mather became active in the Chicago Sec-tion of the American Chemical Society. During his time in Chicago, Mather got to know some historic

Figure 1. Stephen Tyng Mather

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in chemistry, including University of Chicago Professor Julius Stieglitz (Chicago Section Chair in 1904 and ACS President in 1917), Industrialist William A. Converse (founder of the Williard Gibbs Medal), and University of Chicago Professor Alexander Smith (ACS President in 1911). In 1911, Mather was elected Chair of the Chicago Section and along with then ACS President Alexander Smith had the distinct honor of awarding the first Williard Gibbs Medal to Prof. Svante Arrhenius of Sweden.

In 1911, Mather and Thorkildsen sold their company with the stipulation that they would each be guar-anteed their jobs at the company for at least a decade. While this deal sounded great, Mather had other interests drawing him away from Chicago.

Mather was not your typical industrialist. Most early 20th century industrial leaders put production and profit first, with little concern for the environmental consequences. Mather had a profoundly different perspective with a deep-seated appreciation for conservation and environmental protec-tion. Growing up near California’s coast and redwood forests, Mather spent much of his time hiking in the wilderness and studying the natural world. As a member of the Sierra Club, Mather learned about environmental protection during hikes in the Sierra Mountains with Sierra Club founder John Muir. Through these experiences, Mather developed a passion for nature and the natural environ-ment. Beginning in 1912, Mather used his money and influence to actively advocate for nature, the environment and the National Parks. At the time, there were only eight National Parks and most were in poor and deteriorating conditions. Mather was so disturbed by the conditions of the parks that he wrote a letter of protest to the Sectretary of the Interior Franklin K. Lane, also a former student from UC Berkeley. Lane responded to Mather, “Dear Steve, If you don’t like the way the parks are be-ing run, come on down to Washington and run them yourself.” Mather took on that challenge and went to Washington to assist in running the National Parks. He put a formal structure to the National Parks and advocated with members of congress to establish the National Parks Service. On August 25, 1916, President Woodrow Wilson signed the Organic Act, the bill establishing the National Parks Service. As announced in the Chicago Chemical Bulletin, in April of 1917, Mather was appointed as the first director of the National Parks Service, a position he held until illness caused him to resign in 1929. During his tenure, Mather continued to organize and advocate for the development and expan-sion of the National Parks. Under his leadership, Mather added new Parks including Mount McKinley National Park, Grand Canyon National Park, Acadia National Park, Bryce Canyon National Park and The Smokey Mountains National Park. Mather also encouraged the public to visit the National Parks and promoted “nature studies” for the visitors. He encouraged those who visited the Parks to commu-nicate their love of nature and the parks to their elected officials in Washington DC.

Today, the National Park Service system can be found in every state, DC, American Samoa, Guam, Pueto Rico and the US Virgin Islands. It includes 417 areas covering more than 84 millions acres. In recogntion of his leadership and advocacy, a tribute to Stephen Tyng Mathers legacy can be found at nearly all the US National Parks. Somewhere, usually mount-ed on a stone monument or rock is a memorial plaque honor-ing the work of this great advocate for the conservation and the National Parks. On these plaques, each reads

Stephen Tyng Mather July 4, 1867 – January 22, 1930

He laid the foundation of the National Park Service, defining and establishing the policies under which its areas shall be developed and conserved unimpaired for future generations. There will never come an end to the good he has done.

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Chicago Section Public AffairsCommittee Chair Michael G. Koehler, Ph.D.Email: mgkoehler@proaaci.comCellular Phone: (847) 912-8750

CHICAGO SECTION AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETYJANUARYTHROUGHDECEMBER2017

PROFIT & LOSS BALANCE SHEET

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10:38 AM 03/02/17 Accrual Basis

Chicago Section American Chemical Society Balance Sheet

As of December 31, 2016

Dec 31, 2017ASSETS

Current AssetsChecking/Savings

CHASE BANK 7,306.86Northern Trust Bank -312.70

Total Checking/Savings 6,994.16

Accounts ReceivableAccounts Receivable 1,195.00

Total Accounts Receivable 1,195.00Other Current Assets

Gibbs Medal Inventory 4,013.91JP Morgan Chase Alt. Assets 25,021.50JP Morgan Chase Equities 583,476.68JP Morgan Chase Fixed Income 565,956.27JP Morgan Chase Sweep Dep MMF 73,552.99JP Morgan Chase Unreal Cap Gain 171,418.84Prepaid Expenses 516.49Undeposited Funds 1,090.00

Total Other Current Assets 1,425,046.68

Total Current Assets 1,433,235.84Fixed Assets

Security Deposit 781.67Total Fixed Assets 781.67

TOTAL ASSETS 1,434,017.51

LIABILITIES & EQUITYLiabilities

Current LiabilitiesOther Current Liabilities

Contingency Reserve Fund 45,416.66Freud Trust Endowment Fund 7,612.76General Endowment Fund 27,470.86Holding Fund 1,655.63Ipatieff Library Endowment Fund 21,479.30Lishka Scholarship Endow. Fund 98,203.51Marshall S. Smoler Endowment 48,544.21Meeting Place Reserve Fund 201,978.27Payroll Liabilities 1,364.30Project SEED Endowment Fund 50,129.62Schaar Scholarship Fund 20,226.64Scholarship Endowment Fund 775,967.61Scholarship Operating Fund 82,966.99W. Gibbs Medal Endowment Fund 39,429.83

Total Current Liabilities 1,422,446.19

Total Liabilities 1,422,446.19

Equity

Opening Bal Equity 7,473.46Retained Earnings -23,316.91Net Income 27,414.77

Total Equity 11,571.32TOTAL LIABILITIES & EQUITY 1,434,017.51

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Chicago Section American Chemical Society Profit & Loss

January through December 2016

Jan - Dec 17Income

Chem. Bull. Advertising 7,140.00Donations 2,490.26Educational Registration 305.00Gibbs Meeting Registrations 2,945.00Investment Transfer 0.00JP Morgan Chase Earnings 55,629.00Local Section Dues 29,640.00

Meeting Registrations 8,764.08Miscellaneous Revenues 1,224.00Nat'l Allottments & Commissions 26,256.15National ACS Reimbursments 21,704.53Project SEED Income 7,250.00

Total Income 163,348.02

ExpenseAwards 596.34Chair-Elect 601.20

Chem. Bull. Production 2,940.00

Chemical Bulletin Advertising 47.50

College Education 485.04Community Affairs 336.31Comptroller 1,231.74Credit Card Exp Dinner Mtg. 157.53Dinner Meetings 6,853.80Employment 157.50Gibbs Arrangments 10,269.71Great Lakes Reg. Mtg. 250.00High School Education 664.00

Hospitality 800.00House 1,492.90Illinois State Fair 1,500.00Insurance 1,906.00Minority Affairs 200.00Miscellaneous Expense 350.00Office 1,484.70Payroll Expenses 39,402.17Postage 193.07Project SEED 14,500.00Rent 10,983.84Scholarships 4,000.00Secretary 639.88Senior Chemist Committee 250.00Telephone 2,286.97Travel (Councilor) 27,696.10Treasurer 10.00Web 2,779.46Womens Chemist Club 242.77Younger Chemists 624.72

Total Expense 135,933.25

Net Income 27,414.77

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April14:The Marie S. Curie Girl Scout Chemistry Day program at North Central College

April 19: The 13th Annual ChemWest and ChemSouth Big Meeting at North Central College

April 20: Chicago ACS Section Dinner Meeting with Dr. Lauren Jackson, FDA “Ensuring the Safety of the U.S. Food Supply: The Role of Regulatory Scien-tists in Carrying out FDA’s Mission”

April21: The Marie S. Curie Girl Scout Chemistry Day program at Oakton Com-munity College

April22: Earth Day – Theme: End Plas-tic Pollution. https://www.earthday.org/

April28:The Marie S. Curie Girl Scout Chemistry Day program at Valparaiso University

April 28: You Be The Chemist Illinois State Challenge at Lewis University

May 11: Chicago ACS Willard Gibbs Award Banquet. Dr. Cynthia J. Burrows, University of Utah, is the recipient of the 2018 Willard Gibbs Medal at Meridian Banquets in Rolling Meadows.

May 12: STEAM Conference, North-eastern Illinois University. https://www.steamconf.org/

May 19: Chicago Section Scholarship Exam at North Central College

June18-20: 22nd Annual Green Chem-istry & Engineering Conference “Product Innovation Using Greener Chemistries” hosted by the ACS Green Chemistry Institute, in Portland, OR. http://www.gcande.org/.

THE LOSS OF YET ANOTHER GIBBS MEDALIST

Jack Halpern, Willard Gibbs Medalist in 1986, died on January 31 at the age of 93. Halpern obtained his BSc and PhD degrees from McGill University in Mon-treal in 1946 and 1949 respectively. After a postdoc at the University of Manches-ter, he went directly into teaching at the University of British Columbia and then moved to the University of Chicago in 1962. He was an inorganic chemist spe-cializing in understanding the pathways in which catalysts work.

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