Ή&€ν&-'?9υιά&ι& R. M. Alpen has been appointed manager

of treating plants of the Southern Pacific Co., Oakland, Calif.

Roland F. Boehm, from the Houston, Tex., office of Mathieson Chemical Corp., has been transferred to the ammonia de­partment of the company a t the New York offices. O. J . Theobald, Jr., formerly district sales manager of the Charlotte, N. C , office, replaces Boehm as district sales manager in Houston, and J . F. Carey, sales representative, succeeds Theobald.

Norman Bouder, from Armstrong Cork Co., has joined the research and develop­ment laboratory staff of the Pemco Corp., Baltimore, and will do research in glass colors. Howard F. Smalley has beer-assigned to the enamel research section; Robert Carpender, from General Electric Corp., will do research in inorganic colors, and Melvin J . Faby, from Revere Copper and Brass, has been assigned to the labora­tories as a chemist.

Alden H. Burkholder has been ap­pointed manager of rayon research for Industrial Rayon Corp., Cleveland, Ohio, and Kenneth M. McLellan and George P . Standley ha\ re been made as- WÊL'^ ^ ~ £ si>^îP# sistant managers. Burkholder has been assistant re­search manager, McLellan has been a chemical engineer ^ · '*· Burkholder

K. M. McLellan G. P. Standley

in the research department, and Standley has been working on the development of special high strength rayon yarns, particu­larly for use in tires.

John B. Calkin has been appointed director of the department of industrial cooperation and associate professor of chemical engineering a t the University of Maine, Orono. He has been a consultant t o the pulp and paper and chemical proc­ess industries in New York. Lyle Jen-ness , who has been acting director of the depar tment of industrial cooperation, will devote his full t ime to the duties of head of t h e department of chemical engineering.

T. / / . Daugherty

T h o m a s H . Daugherty has been named assistant di­rector of research for Calgon, Inc., Pittsburgh, and C. E . Kaufman assistant director of chemical research at Hall Laborato­ries, Inc., affiliate.

Franz

Henry O. Fan-has been appointed production and technical director of the Murphy Paint Co., Ltd., Montreal, a Canadian affiliate of Pittsburgh Pla te Glass Co. He has been manager of sales of selected oil products for Pit tsburgh Pla te Class.

Leo Finkelstein has transferred from the Information Branch, Technical Services Division, Technical Command, Army Chemical Center, Md., to the Physical Branch, Chemical Division, as a research associate. Nellie M. Anson has trans­ferred from the Editorial Branch to the In­formation Branch as a technical editor, and William G. McDaniel, chemical en­gineer from the University of Illinois, has joined the Operations Branch, Plants Division.

R. A. Franz has resigned as director of research for Bowman Gum Co. to become group leader in the research division of the Lion Oil Co. at El Dorado, Ark. Other additions to the staff include N. B. Russell, former senior research chemist for the Pure Oil Co.; T. R. Baldwin, chemist from Celanese Corp., and Sam Drexler, chemist from General Electric Co.

William C. Frishe is now associate pro­fessor of chemical engineering at Clarkson College of Technology, Potsdam, Ν . Υ. He comes from Grove Ci ty College.

Donald W. Graham has been appointed district sales manager of the heavy chem­icals division of Pennsylvania Salt Mfg. Co. to take charge of t h e Cincinnati sales office. He has been in charge of the St . Louis office, and succeeds C. W. Dermitt, resigned.

John H . Harley has joined the Atomic Energy Commission as chief of the N Y C C Medical Division Chemistry Laboratory in New York City. He comes from Rens­selaer Polytechnic Inst i tute, where he was assistant professor of analytical chemistry, and will continue there par t time until June.

Frederick C. Hett inger, previously superintendent of the U. S. Industrial Chemicals, Inc. , Fairfield plant a t Balti­more, has been appointed lecturer for the undergraduate course in chemical plant design at Johns Hopkins University.

Abbott Laboratories Men Honored Al a recent annual dinner of the research, development^ and control depart­ments of Abbott Laboratories-, North Chicago, III., special certificates of merit were awarded to five staff members. Left to right. Elmer F. Shelberg, head of the microanalytical department; Fred J. KXrchmeyer, head of the phar-maceutical research department; Roger Adams, head of the chemistry de­partment at the University of Illinois and chairman of the Board of Directors, ACS, principal speaker; Arthur W. Weston, group leader in organic chemistry research; Fred J. Helgren, pharmaceutical research department, and James E. Rundell, assistant manager of the development laboratory

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The salts of nonanoic acid with heavy-metals may be useful as paint driers, and as gelling agents for hydrocarbons and other organic solvents for vise in lubricating greases, coatings, etc. The copper salt may be of interest as a mildewproofing agent.

The vinyl and ailyl esters are of interest in the preparation of polymers and copoly­mers. Improvements in flexibility and organic solubility might be obtained by their use.

Esters of nonanoic acid with higher alcohols, glycols, and glycol ethers may be useful as plasticizers and synthetic lubri­cants. In addition, "the use of nonanoic acid for the modification of non-drying alkyd resins should be considered.

Other interesting derivatives of nonanoic acid, such as the amide, nitrile, ketones and imidazoles, may find application in the fields of surface-active agents, oil additives, phar­maceuticals, dyestuffs, etc.

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Edward C. R. Miles, from the Applied Physics Laboratory at Silver Spring, Md., is now lecturer for the graduate course in chemical engineering calculations at Johns Hopkins. Dominic T. Walker, from General Aniline & Fi lm Corp., has been made junior instructor for technical analysis, and William G. Carson, from the Sythane Corp., has been made junior instructor in plastics technology.

Leon E . Hoogstoel bas been appointed to the board of directors of Behr-Manning Corp., Troy, N.Y. H e had been director of research since 1945 and was recently advanced to technical director.

Miller N. Hudson, from the natural gasoline department of Phillips Petroleum Co., has been transferred from the Okla­homa district engineering office to the Plains Butadiene Plant of the company at Borger, Tex., as a chemical engineer.

Harry P. Kramer, cbemist in charge of the Joliet and Marseilles laboratories of the Sanitary Dis­trict of Chicago, has joined the U. S. Public Health Serv­ice at Cincinnati, Ohio. He will do research on stream pollution and will assist in transmit­ting latest available research informa­tion to state sanitary engineers and chemists.

M. G. Mellon of the department of chemistry at Purdue University, Lafay­ette, Ind., is now acting head of that de­partment, following the resignation of Henry B. Haas, now with General Aniline & Film Corp.

H. E. Menker has completed require­ments for an M.S. degree at the University of California, Los Angeles, specializing in radiochemistry, and has joined the staff of Tracerlab, Inc., in Berkeley, Calif.

F. R. Murdock has been made assistant dairy husbandman at the Western Wash­ington Experiment Station, Puyallup, Wash. H e comes from Borden's soy proc­essing laboratory in Waterloo, Iowa, where he was a research chemist.

Arthur E. Schaefer has been named to the new post of production control man­ager at the Rensselaer, Ν . Υ., plant of General Aniline & Film Corp. John Paige, chemist in the process development laboratory at the Rensselaer plant, is now supervising chemist of the triphenylmeth-ane department.

Hugh W . Skidmore has retired from the Chicago Testing Laboratory, Inc., and under the airection of Gene Abson as president, the laboratory will continue as

consulting chemists and chemical engi­neers in all of its past activities except that of paving inspection. The Chicago Paving Laboratory, under the direction of Mr Skidmore, will take over all business on paving inspection, design, investigation, supervision, and consultation.

G. V. Slottman has been made director of research and engineering for Air Reduc­tion Co. , New York, Ν. Υ. H e has been technical assistant to the vice president in charge of sales.

Stephen E . Stephanou has joined the staff of the chemistry and metallurgy divi­sion of Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory. He comes from the University of Kansas.

' Walter R. Sterrett, from the Convair Corp., has been appointed plant engineer of the service department of the research and development division a t the Pitts­burgh Consolidation Coal Co., Pittsburgh, Pa. Robert W. Howard, recently gradu­ated from West Virginia University, has been appointed a chemical engineer in the development department. Thomas E . Kelly, from Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp., has joined the staff of the research depart­ment as chemist. Charles W . Scherder, from Edgew^ater Steel and Duquesne Smelting, and Robert J. Friederich, from the University of Pittsburgh, have joined the research department as chemists.

Ernest J. Storf er has been made assist­ant manager of coating compound labora­tories a t the Plaskon division of Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co., Toledo, Ohio. He was previously with Reichhold Chemicals, Inc., and has been director of laboratories at the University of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

John F. Thompson has succeeded Rob­ert C. Stanley as president of International Nickel Co. Mr. Thompson will continue as chairman of the board. Paul D. Merica has been elected vice president and Henry S. Wingate vice president. Mr. Wingate will also continue as secretary.

Warren E . Tiller has been appointed technical representative for sulfur dioxide and has been transferred from the Ten­nessee Copper Co., Copperhill Tenn., to the parent corporation, Tennessee Corp., in Atlanta.

Art 'Walton, who comes from Rayonier, Inc., has been appointed director of re­search at Simpson Industries, Shelton, Wash. He has been manager of the fiber board plant.

Robert E. White has resigned from the chemical engineering staff a t Bucknell University and has been appointed chair­man of the department of chemical engi­neering at Villanova College, Villanova, Pa.

John Hay Whitney has been elected chairman of the board of directors of Freeport Sulphur Co.

Anthony A. Williams has been named assistant director of the product develop­ment department of the chemical division of Celanese Corp. of America. H e has directed market research in the chemical division.

W. L. Williams has been appointed superintendent of chemical engineering at the Chambers Works of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Inc. He has been indus­trial engineering division supervisor for the Deep water, Louisville, and New Bruns­wick plants.

Robert H. Willis, who comes from the Ohio Gas Co., where he was employed by Stone & Webster Service Corp. as an en­gineer, has been transferred to the New York office of Stone & Webster to work in an advisory capacity to operated and client gas properties.

E. S. Worniser, previously chemist at the Chicago plant of the Lehon Co., asphalt roofing manufacturer, has been transferred to Wilmington, 111., as chief chemist of the company.

Ray E. Wright has been made spectro­graph^ and quantometer supervisor for Permanente Metals Corp. at the Trent-wood plant, Spokane, Wash. He comes from the Caterpillar Tractor Co.

Marriages

Mary Anne Hyla, formerly of the Nepa Project, Oak Ridge, Tenn., and now with the C. V. Mosby Co., St. Louis, Mo., was married June 5, 1948 to Paul Jude Mc-Bryan of St. Louis University.

Gustaf Komppa Gustaf Komppa, 81, professor emeritus

of the Polytechnic Institute of Finland, died Jan. 20 in Helsingfors, Finland. He was best known for his total synthesis of camphor (1909). He graduated from the Polytechnic Institute of Finland and took a doctor's degree in chemistry at the Uni­versity of Helsingfors, after which he studied in Switzerland, France, and Germany.

Dr. Komppa had been on the faculty of the Polytechnic Institute for 43 years, and from 1935 to 1945 had been chancellor of the Abo Finnish University. He had pub­lished about 160 papers in various scientific periodicals at home and abroad.

Kirk Brown, 88, founder of the Dunlop Tire Co. of America and one of the organ­izers of Bakélite Corp., Feb. 13 in Braden-ton, Fla.

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