7tew&-'7fùi6en& Vincent du Vigneaud, professor of

biochemistry at Cornell Medical College, New York, Ν . Υ., has been selected to give the 1948 J u l i u s S t i e g l i t z Memorial Lecture. It is to be de­livered at a meet­ing sponsored by the Chicago Sec­tion, ACS, and the U n i v e r s i t y o f

Chicago, cooperating with nine other tech­nical societies, on March 22. His lecture will concern his work on C1*, C14 , N1 6 , S*5, and deuterium in studies designed to elucidate the vital role methionine plays in animal metabolism.

Robert T. Baldwin, secretary of the Chlorine Institute, New York, and retiring treasurer of ACS, has been appointed executive secretary and as­sistant treasurer of the Association of Consulting Chemists and Chemical Engi­neers Inc., for the year 1948. A. B. Bowers has been made assistant executive secretary.

Vincent D. Barth, who comes from the Bureau of Reclamation in Denver, Colo., where he was a chemical engineer, is now a research engineer in the nonferrous metallurgy division at Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, Ohio.

Carl R. Blumenstein has left the re­search department at American Enka to join Seydel-Wooley and Co., Atlanta, Ga.

William J. Burich has been transferred by the D u Pont Co. ammonia department from the Belle, W. Va. plant to the Sabine River plant at Orange, Tex. He has been appointed an assistant super­intendent in the technical section.

W. S. Claus, from General Mills, Inc., has joined the Carnation Co. re­search staff, and is located in Oakland, Calif., to direct cereal research for Albers Milling Co., a subsidiary.

C. A. Cowan has been appointed sales manager of the new Celatom products department of the Eagle-Picher Sales Co., Cincinnati. He has been with the company since 1933.

Charles G. Dodd has joined the staff of the Pennsylvania State College, State College, Pa., as assistant professor of

ceramics, following completion of his work for the P h . D . degree in physical chemistry at the University of Michigan.

Louis M. Gill has been appointed general manager of the Darco Corp., Wilmington, Del . , and Edgar W. Harris

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director of sales. Mr. Gill, who has been director of sales, first came with the company in 1923 as a salesman. Mr. Harris has been in charge of sales to the sugar industry, and has been with the company since i t s formation.

Frederick P. Hauck has been elected vice president and director of Michigan Abrasive Co., Detroit. H e has been factory manager in charge of production and research.

Miles Henninger of Lecher, Michael, Spohn and Best has left that firm and is now at 606 West Wisconsin Ave., Mil­waukee, Wis., with Wheeler, Wheeler and Wheeler, where he will devote his practice to patent law and the study of inventions.

I. J. Hutchings has joined the research staff of H. J. Heinz Co., Pittsburgh, as head of the department of bacteriological research. He conies from Grocery Store Products Co., where he was microbiologist.

Kurt Ladenburg has been elected vice president of Technical Enterprises Inc., consulting chemical engineers. He is also in charge of all research and develop­ment work. Dr. Ladenburg has recently returned from Europe, on business for the company in connection with the comple­tion of the first penicillin plant in Sweden designed by Technical Enterprises.

H. C. Lavely, former assistant super­intendent of the Meadville Malleable Iron Co., has joined the development section of the chemical division of Koppers Co., Inc., Pittsburgh, Pa. He has been associated with Koppers Co. as a research fellow at Mellon Institute and as an operating chemist in the engineering and construction division of Koppers.

John R. Lill has joined the Washington, D . C , staff of L. S. Luther & Co. This company represents Liquid Conditioning Corp. in that area.

John H. Lux has been appointed di­rector of research on asphaltic specialties at the Chicago research laboratory of Witco Chemical Co. He comes from the Neville Co.

J. W. McCoy has retired as a vice president and member of the executive committee of the Du Pont Co., Wil­mington, Del. He wall continue to serve as a director. William H. Ward, general manager of the explosives department has been elected a director, vice president, and member of the executive committee.

Thomas S. Mertes has joined the Sun Oil Co., Wilmington, Del. as a process engineer in the development division, after receiving an M.Ch.E. degree from the University of Delaware in September.

Edward Miller has been appointed chief chemist of the Midland Industrial Finishes Co., Waukegan, 111. He will

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head the research and development groups working in the lacquer, synthetic, and specialty fields. Edward J. Bromstead has been appointed group leader in charge of development work in the metal decorat­ing laboratory.

Lewis Mims, long associated with sulfur mining in Texas, and a member of the Freeport Sulphur Co. since 1916, has retired as a vice president of the company.

Thomas T. Omori, who recently fin­ished work for the doctor of science in chemical engineering at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, is now a research engineer with the Jet Pro­pulsion Laboratory at California Institute of Technology, Pasadena.

Franklin T. Peters, who comes from the D u Pont Co., where he was a research group leader in special coatings, adhesives, sizes, and rubber composition, has been appointed technical service representative to consult with industrial chemical users in northern New Jersey for Glyco Prod­ucts Co. Inc., Brooklyn, Ν . Υ.

James E. Potts, Jr., who comes from the T V A department of chemical engi­neering at Wilson Dam, Ala., has recently, completed work for the Ph .D. in chemistry at Louisiana State University, and is now a physical chemist in the research and de­velopment department of the Bakélite Corp., Bloomfield, N . J.

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Norman Robie has joined the re­search staff of the Electro Refracto­ries <fc Alloys Corp., Buffalo, X. Y.f where he has been appointed engineer-in-charge of organic and abrasive re­search. He monies

frorai the laboratories of the Carborundum Co., where he was senior research engineer.

W\ G-. Sheane, former editor of Organic Finishing, has joined the technical staff of Atlas Powder Co. , Wilmington, Del., as efcernical engineer.

Harold H. Smith, who comes from the Los Angeles styrene plant operated by the Dow* Chemical Co., has been appointed assistant production manager of Dow's Great Western division. H e will have headquarters at Pittsburg, Calif.

T o » K. Smith, Jr., has been appointed assistant branch manager of the phosphate division of Monsanto Chemical Co. He will be in charge of the Cincinnati branch oftfcie division's Detroit office.

Monsanto Chemical Co. has awarded leaves of absence to attend the advanced management program at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Adtninistration to Charles H. Sommer, Jr., and Louis F. Loutrel, Jr. Management leaves o f absence were formally instituted by Monsanto last year. T o date, four other Monsanto executives have received awards.

Roger C. Sonnemann has been ap­pointed industrial relations director for the Monsanto plant at Everett, Mass. He has hitherto been superintendent of the sulfuric acid department at Everett.

Lester L. Stout of the technical labora­tory- of the organic chemicals department, Du P o n t Co., has been appointed assistant to the director of the Ohio State Univer­sity Research Foundation, Columbus, Ohio.

EEarold H. Tucker, former research director of the John B. Stetson Co., has established a research consulting business in tJhe hat , fur, and related industries with offices a t 14 Chesterfield Road, Scarsdale, Κ. Ύ.

Paul A. Tuerck, who recently com­pleted work for his degree a t the Cincin­nati College of Pharmacy, has accepted a position in the analytical department of the Win. S. Merrell Co., Cincinnati. F. Joseph Murray, a recent P h . D . from Pur­due, is now in the bacteriology department research laboratories of the Merrell com­pany.

Elinor Ware, associate professor of chemistry a t Russell Sage College, is serving as one of the consultants for the Atomic Energy Commission, and is carry­ing on research for the commission in consultation with scientists in her field at MIT, Cambridge, Mass.

John B. Wathey has been elected vice president in charge of research and development of the Bacon Chemi­cal Corp., New York, Ν. Υ. He comes from Wilbert P r o d u c t s C o . , where he developed

a number of progress patents on one of the four water repellents meeting specifica­tions of the Quartermaster General, War Department.

James Waiters, who comes from the position of assistant professor of chemis­try at Colorado A&M College in Fort Collins, Colo., is now head instructor of chemistry and head of the chemistry and dyeing department at Bradford Durfee Technical Institute, Fall River, Mass.

Harry B. Weiser has resigned as head of the Rice Institute department of chemistry, Houston, Tex., and has been succeeded by George Holmes Richter. Dr. Weiser will continue his duties as professor of chemistry and dean of the institute.

Joseph J. Wineburgh has joined Theo­dore Meyer Estate, pest control operators, as manager of their Washington office. He comes from the District of Columbia Health Department, where he was chief of the rodent control division.

Rene D . Zentner has left the plastics de­partment of the Du Pont Co., where he was a patent chemical engineer, and is now in San Francisco with a patent law organi­zation known as the Firm of Charles S. Evans.

Richard O. Zerbe has been appointed director of the newly created development department a t Monsanto's Nitro, W. Va., plant.

Marriages

Elizabeth Sackmann, a teaching fellow at MIT, married Donald M. Black on Sept. 27. Dr. Black completed postgradu­ate work at M I T this past summer, then spent six weeks in the South Pacific as a member of the Bikini scientific resurvey group. He is now with Monsanto Chemi­cal Co. at Everett, Mass.

%gWg^ Edwirt C. Wise

Edwin C. Wise, 45, head of the nutri­tion department in the research division at the Upjohn Co., Kalamazoo, Mich., died Dec. 7 in Ann Arbor after a long ill­ness. He had been with the Upjohn Co. since 1926, when he began as a salesman. He had received his master's degree in chemical engineering from the University of Kansas in 1925, and his chief interest lay in research. His efforts were devoted exclusively to the development of vitamin products from the time the firm began to market cod liver oil. He made trips to the Arctic in 1935 and 1936 to work on the development of an adequate source of supply of cod liver oil. Later he estab­lished a process for the extraction of yeast and liver. He had been a member of ACS since 1935.

Edgar J. Witsemann Edgar J. Witzemann, 63, professor of

physiological chemistry, University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison, died Nov. 30 after a short illness. He was born in Decatur, 111., and was a member of the first graduating class of James Milli-kan University in Decatur, receiving his A.B. degree in 1907. He did graduate work at the Ohio State University, taking an A.M. degree there in 1909 and the Ph.D. in 1912. He was an instructor at Ohio State during 1909-12, then joined the Sprague Memorial Institute at the University of Chicago. He moved to the Mayo Clinic in 1925, and in 1927 became an assistant professor of physiological chemistry at Wisconsin, then associate professor in 1935. He had been a member of the ACS since 1907.

We announce with regret the deaths of the following ACS members:

Elizabeth M. Ackerman, research assist­ant, Yale University, drowned in October. Member since 1945.

A. T. Krogh, section engineer at West-inghouse Electric Mfg. Co., Pittsburgh, Pa., Sept. 18. Member since 1928.

Edmund C. Missbach, retired, formerly chief chemist at Stauffer Chemical Co., Oakland, Calif., Aug. 10, 1947. Member since 1911.

J. P. Pfeiffer, 58, director of research of the Amsterdam Laboratory, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Nov , 17, 1947, after a long illness. Joined ACS in 1947.

Clementine J. Prior, of Western Labora­tory, Yakima, Wash., June 20, 1947. Member since 1918.

William H. Test, chemist at Fernando Valley Milling & Supply Co., Van Nuys^ Calif., Aug. 26,1947. Member since 1939.

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