Ή£€Μ-7%4Ζ4&14 Philip S. Baker,

from the University of Vermont, where he taught inorganic* and analyt ical chemistry, is now associate professor of analyt ieal chemis­try at Bradley Uni­versity, IVoria. 111.

J. Carl Bode, operating manager, has been elected president of National Carbide

J. C. Bode L. A. Hull Corp., New York, succeeding L. A. Hull, Who becomes chairman of the board.

Fernley H. Banbury of Farrel-Birming-nam Co., Inc., has been awarded an honor­ary degree of doctor of engineeiing at Purdue University. He received this recognition for having attained interna­tional prominence in industry as the inven­tor of the Banbury mixer. He is a Purdue graduate of 1906.

Norris J. Brunsvold, who recently gradu­ated from Montana State College, has ac­cepted a position in the technical depart­ment of Westvaco Chemical Corp. at South Charleston, W. Va.

Robert D. Coghill, director of research at Abbott Laboratories, has received the President's Medal for Merit and a citation from President Truman for wartime work in promoting the production of penicillin. Dr. Coghill was head of the fermentation division at Northern Regional Research Laboratory, U. S. Department of Agri­culture, Peoria, 111., from 1939 to 1945.

Karl Cohen, a leading contributor to the design of the gaseous diffusion plant at Oak Ridge, and former specialist on indus­trial applications of atomic energy for the Standard Oil Development Co., has joined the H. K. Ferguson Co., New York, as technical director for atomic activities.

C. £ . Coombs has been appointed chem­ist in charge of the laboratory of Morart Gravure Corp., Holyoke, Mass. He comes from the cellophane research section of E. 1. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Inc.

William J. Corbett, Jr., formerly active

in research on oils and fatty acids, has re­cently joined the chemical department staff of the DuBois Co., Cincinnati.

*W. O. Edmonds, with headquarters in Charlotte, N. C, is to cover North and South Carolina and eastern Tennessee for sales in the special markots-industrial di­vision of Winthrop-Stearns, Inc. John F. Bozman, stationed at Atlanta, will cover sales in Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida.

Mars G. Fontana, professor of metal­lurgical engineering in the department of metallurgv, professor of metallurgical re­search in the engineering experiment sta­tion, and director of the corrosion re­search laboratory at Ohio State Univer­sity, Columbus, has been appointed chair­man of the department of metallurgy. Dr. Fontana is a contributing editor to l&EC and is author of the column "Corrosion."

William T. Hack has been appointed director of the newly created division of chemicals, rubber, and allied products of the National Security Resources Board, Washington. He comes from Ethyl Corp., where he was a special assistant to the vice president.

The honorary degree of doctor of laws has been conferred by the Ohio State University upon William Edwards Hen­derson and William. Lloyd Evans, both emeritus professors in the department of chemistry. Dr. Evans was president of the ACS in 1941.

John F. Henry, vice president and dis­trict sales manager of Joseph Turner & Co., Ridgefield, N. J . , has been appointed acting director of sales for the East on all chemical items.

A. Norman Into has been elected a vice president of International Min­erals & Chemical Corp., Chicago, 111. He has been serving as thcgeneral mana­ger of the potash division.

William A. LaLande, Jr., director of the Whitemarsh research laboratories of Penn­sylvania Salt Mfg. Co., Philadelphia, has been appointed director of research and development.

W. V. Lambert, administrator of the Agricultural Research Administration, De­partment of Agriculture, will assume new duties Oct. 1 as dean of the school of agri­culture and director of the experiment sta­tion at the University of Nebraska, Lin­

coln. It was implied in this column July 5 that F. L. Campbell, former editor of Scientific Monthly, would succeed Dr. Lambert. Dr. Campbell is assistant to the administrator.

Milton Levenson has joined the staff of the chemical engineering division, Argonne National Laboratory, as an associate chemical engineer. He was formerly a chemical engineer at the Oak Ridge Na­tional Laboratory.

IPaul V. McKinney, Princeton, N. J., has resigned as director of research and de­velopment for the Sun Chemical Corp.

Maj. Thomas E. Marfing has been ap­pointed executive officer for the Chemical Corps Technical Command, Army Chemi­cal Center, Md. He held this post previ­ously but had been relieved to attend a course at the Chemical Corps School. He relieves Maj. George E. Danald, who hius been ordered on duty overseas.

Prank Maslan has been appointed to the staff of New York University as assist­ant professor of chemical engineering. He comes from the teaching staff of Cor­nell University.

Xrouis W. Munchmeyer, vice president in charge of operations of Michigan Chemi-caH Corp., has joined General Aniline & Fiflnx Corp., New York, as assistant to the vice president in charge of research and de­velopment.

Several new members have joined the technical staff of the Midwest Research Institute, Kansas City, Mo., and among them are James Niseley, B.S. in chemistry from Missouri Valley College, and Loren E. Morey, from Allegany Ballistics Labora-toiry, who are in the department of agri­cultural and organic chemistry. Richard E,. Belser from Veterans Administration has joined the inorganic chemistry section. John K. Schweppe, a junior in engineering mechanics at the University of Kansas, and Albert L. Kidwell, a graduate student aU the University of Chicago, have been appointed to that section for the summer. Mr. Morey's is also a summer appoint­ment.

George W. Perkins, executive vice presi­dent of Merck & Co., Inc., has been named to serve on the Paris staff of W. Averell ILarriman, Special Representative in Europe for the Economic Cooperation Administration. He will remain with Merck as director on leave of absence.

William B. Price, formerly chief chem­ist and metallurgist at Scoville Mfg. Co., Waterbury, Conn., who retired in 1947, has been awarded an honorary member-skip in the American Society for Testing Materials.

"William R. Rinelli has been appointed dfirector of Ansul Chemical Co.'s new cus­tomer relations department at Marinette, Wis.

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Fig. 1969—Stainless Steel O. S. d Y. Gate Valve.

*A registered trade-name of the International Nickel Co., Inc.

The Wm. Powell Co., Cincinnati 22, Ohio

Fig. 1978—Stainless Steel O. S. <& Y. Globe Valve.

Fig. 1405—Stainless Steel Mechanical Lift Plug Cock.

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F. Ε. Rolston has been assigned to cover the Louisiana, Arkansas, and part of eastern Texas territory for sales of Dear-bora Chemical Co., with headquarters at Shreveport, La. He was formerly presi­dent of the Rolston Engineering Co.

Arnold C. Rood, lecturer in patent law at Boston Uni­versity School of Law, has opened his office for the prac­tice of patent and trade-mark law in association with Everett E. Kent in the Chamber of

Commerce Bldg., 80 Federal St., Boston. He has had many years of experience as patent attorney with Eli Lilly & Co., United Shoe Machinery Corp., Β. Β. Chemical Co., and Polaroid Corp.

Sydney Ross, senior chemist at the Oak Ridge, Tenn., Laboratories, has been appointed an associate professor of chem­istry on the staff of Rensselaer Polytech­nic Institute, Troy, Ν. Y.

Alfred Russell, recently of the Northern Regional Research Laboratory at Peoria, 111., is now a member of the research staff of the American Oak Leather Co., Cin­cinnati.

Ralph L. Seifert, from the staff of Carl­ton College, has joined the chemistry division of Argonne National Laboratory, Chicago, as a senior chemist on a tempo­rary basis.

Sol Smith, senior engineer in the gas department, oil and gas division of the Railroad Commis­sion of Texas, has resigned to enter private practice as a consultant in pe­troleum and natu­ral gas engineer­ing. He will open offices in the Brown Bldg., Austin, Tex.

Omond McKillop Solandt, chairman of the Canadian Defence Research Board, re­cently visited the National Military Establishment in Washington as the guest of the Research and Development Board and its chairman, Vannevar Bush.

George H. Stanton has been appointed Chicago division manager of U. S. Indus­trial Chemicals, Inc., succeeding Joseph F. Rudolph, recently named president of Dodge & Olcott, Inc. He has been as­sistant division manager in Chicago.

Jules N. Stich, who comes from the Kryptar Corp.,, has joined the section of

geochemistry and petrology at the U. S. Geological Survey in Washington as chemist.

Thorbergur Thorvaldson, head of the department of chemistry at the University of Saskatchewan since 1919 and dean of the college of graduate studies, has re­tired from the former position, but con­tinues as dean. John W. T. Spinks, a member of the staff since 1930, has been appointed head of the department.

Irwin W. Tucker, recent Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, is now engaged as a research chemist in the research laboratories of Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co. in Durham, N. C.

Harry Vinock, after a short sojourn with the Santa Fe Tank and Tower Co., has returned to his former position of sales engineer with the Southwestern Engineer­ing Co., Los Angeles.

Harry C. Williams has been appointed general sales manager of the H. K. Ferguson Co., New York. He was previ­ously with General Electric Co., and before that vice president and general manager of Chemical and Dye Corp.

Philip J. Wilson, Jr., has left Mellon Institute to join the research and develop­ment division of his fellowship donor, the Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp., Pittsburgh, as a research associate, where he will super­vise the work on process design. Joseph H. Wells will now head the activities of the fellowship.

Henry Wysor, metallurgical engineer on the staff of the operating vice president, Bethlehem Steel Co., Bethlehem, Pa., has retired from active service with the com­pany, which he joined in 1918. Prior to that time he had taught at Lafayette Col­lege, serving as head of the department of metallurgy.

J. Enrique Zanetti, professor of chemis­try and director of chemical laboratories at Columbia University, has been ap­pointed to the newly created post of asso­ciate provost of the university. He will continue to direct, the chemical labora­tories.

π Marriages π Mildred Marian Hoogstraat, chemist in

the Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill, N. J., was married on June 25 to William Thornton Read, Jr., mathema­tician at Bell Laboratories.

Catherine Reinbold and Earl Beaty Lancaster employed at the Northern Regional Research Laboratory, Peoria, 111., as oil chemist and chemical engineer, respectively, were married April 2.

7Uc**fo4# C. W. Balke

C. W. Balke, 68, metallurgist who de­veloped tantalum, and research director of the Fansteel Metallurgical Co., North Chi­cago, for 30 years, died July 8 in High­land Park, 111. Dr. Balke took his bach­elor's degree at Oberlin College and received a Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania in 1905. He began his teaching career in physics and chemistry in 1903, and from then until 1916 taught successively at Kenyon College, at Pennsylvania, and at. the University of Illinois.

During this time he continued research in the preparation of pure columbium com­pounds. At the University of Illinois he instituted a comprehensive program of graduate research in the field of rare ele­ments and earths. As his work in the rare elements became known, industries called upon him for consultation, and in 1916 Fansteel engaged him to organize a re­search laboratory and work out the fac­tory processes to produce tungsten and molybdenum. He still worked on the problem of producing tantalum and in 1921 produced the first rolled sheet of the metal. The basic processes he worked on are still in use. In 1927 he developed a process for making metallic columbium, and more recently he did extensive inves­tigations in ferrous powder metallurgy.

In 1938 he was awarded the Longstreth Medal in recognition of his work in colum­bium and tantalum, and in January of this year he was the recipient of the 1948 Per-kin Medal, given by the American Section of the Society of Chemical Industry. He had been a member of the AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY since 1905.

Chester G. Peck, 54, superintendent of the electrochemicals department at the Perth Amboy, N. J., plant of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Inc., May 22.

Carlo Penier, 72, Italian scientist and professor of mineralogy at the Universities of Palermo, Genoa, and Rome, May 22. Dr. Perrier first produced element 43 in 1937 by bombarding molybdenum in the University of California cyclotron with deuterons or neutrons.

Albert Robers, 69, secretary of the Mineral Separation North American Corp., New York, who played an important part in the development of the flotation process in treating ores, May 16.

Carl Van Laaten, 58, special western representative for the Wyandotte Chemi­cals Corp., May 8 in Chicago.

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