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NEWS-MAKERS Willard Named Anachem Award Winner

Hobart H. Willard, professor emeritus of chemistry at the University of Michi­

gan, will receive the first annual Anachem Award in Analytical Chemistry, to be presented by the Association of Ana­ly t i ca l C h e m i s t s ( Anachems ) of De­troit, on March 30, Dr. Willard's ad­dress at the meeting

H. H. Willard w i l l b e o n "Precipi­tations from Homogeneous Solutions."

The award is to be presented annually by the association to honor chemists who have made outstanding contributions in the field of analytical chemistry.

EDUCATION

Harold M. Coleman from Armour & Co. and Morgan W. Rider from U. S. Rubber Co. have been appointed assistant supervisors at Armour Research Founda­tion. Frank Lerman from the VioBin Corp. has been named a research chemical engineer.

Marke Cundiff, sales training manager for Parke, Davis & Co., chosen by Har­vard University Graduate School of Busi­ness Administration as a participant in its advanced management program.

Anne H. Dovel, chemist in the pioneer­ing research laboratory of Du Pont at Wilmington, now in the renal research laboratory of Memorial Hospital, Wilming­ton, Del.

Harvey H. Jordan, associate dean at the University of Illinois college of engi­neering, will be honored May 15 at a dinner attended by university and college officials, alumni, faculty, students, and representatives of industrial concerns. He retires this summer after 42 years of service.

Eugene G. Laughery resigns as research director for the National Cranberry As­sociation to become general manager of the Coffee Brewing Institute, New York.

Earnest E. Ludwig, vp of Bermingham-Prosser Co., new chairman of the advisory committee for the paper technology cur­riculum at Western Michigan College of Education.

David I. Macht, physician of Baltimore noted for his contributions to pharmacol­ogy and phytopharmacology, has been honored by the Royal Academy of Phar­macy of Madrid at the Spanish Embassy in Washington. He was given member­ship in the academy.

Russell S. Poor resumes post as chair­man of the university relations division of the Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies after a year's leave of absence. Has been at the University of Florida helping with plans for the proposed medical school.

John P. Rappolt leaves M. W. Kellogg Co. and is employed by George Washing­ton University Research Laboratory at Camp Detrick, Frederick, Md., as assist ant to the director of research.

Bernet S. Swanson, assistant professor of chemical engineering at Illinois Insti­tute of Technology, appointed executive officer of the department. H e replaces J. Henry Rushton, who requested relief from administrative duties in order to devote more time to research, writing, and con­sultation work.

Charles Teitelbaum joins the staff of Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, Ohio.

Harold C. Urey, atomic scientist at the University of Chicago, named Hitchcock Foundation lecturer on the Berkeley cam­pus of the University of California for the spring term.

Selman A. Waksman has been honored, along with Shibusaburo Kitasato, at the 100th anniversary celebration of Kitasato in Japan. Kitasato, who in 1896 discovered the bubonic plague bacillus, in 1898 that of dysentery, and in 1909 contributed to the knowledge of the Tb bacillus, is con­sidered to stand as a bridge between Koch and Waksman. Waksman was cited as having pursued the same distinguished path as his scientific colleague, Prof. Kita­sato, in the field of microbiology and the cure of contagious disease.

S. Husain Zaheer, director of the Cen­tral Laboratories for Scientific and Indus­trial Research and professor and head of the department of chemical technology, Osmania University, Hyderabad, India, is in Europe on a UN Economic Develop­ment senior fellowship. Will visit U.K. and Germany and later the U. S. to ob­serve coal, ceramics, oils, and fine chemi­cals industries.

GOVERNMENT

H. Trendley Dean, pioneer in research leading to the use of fluoridated water to reduce dental decay in children and di­rector of the National Institute of Dental Research, retires from government service. Francis A. Arnold, Jr., succeeds him as director.

Abraham S. Friedman returns from a Fulbright scholarship at the vander Waals Laboratory in Amsterdam and is now physical chemist in the thermodynamics

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Henry B. Fry, formerly assistant man­ager, has been appointed manager, AECs New York operations office, to succeed W. E. Kelley who has accepted a posi­tion in industry.

Among the winners of the Rockefeller Public Service Awards is Guido E. Hil­bert, chief of the Bureau of Agricultural and Industrial Chemistry. Dr. Hilbert is widely known for his research in the field of carbohydrate chemistry. The award enables the winner to spend from six months to a year at a college or university, or in some other comparable educational activity. Dr. Hilbert plans to take off 12 weeks to attend the course for ex­ecutives given by Harvard's business school.

George W. Howard, chief of the En­gineer Research and Development Labo­ratories, Fort Belvoir, Va., has been given a $15,000 Rockefeller Public Service Award. He began his career 21 years ago as a laborer with Army Engineers, and now he directs the work of 500 engi­neers and technicians in research and the design and development of engineer equip­ment. The award, designed to cover both the equivalent of salary and necessary expenses, will enable Mr. Howard to spend a year visiting government and private research and development agencies in this country and abroad to study methods of direction, planning, and management.

INDUSTRY

E . R. Adair joins sales and service or­ganization of Metro-Atlantic, Inc., Green­ville, S. C.

Norman Amend appointed assistant manager for organic chemicals, Michigan Alkali Division of Wyandotte Chemicals Corp. Succeeds R. K. Rigger, recently named manager of the new synthetic de­tergents department.

S. E. Q. Ashley, chemical supervisor in the GE trans­former and allied products laboratory, P i t t s f i e l d , named manager of the GE major a p p l i a n c e division laboratory, A p p l i a n c e Park, Louisville, Ky. He

will be in charge of directing and ex­panding a new laboratory that will serve the major appliance division and carry on applied materials and process research in chemistry, metallurgy, electricity, and mechanics.

Richard L. Bergen, formerly sales man­ager of Precision Scientific Co., now as­sociated with his father, Fred A. Bergen, in the Forma-Heater Co. Mr. Bergen, Sr., has retired after 42 years in the oil refin-

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Peter Black appointed assistant to the president of Freeport Sulfur Co. Until recently assistant to t h e director of the Office of Defense Mobilization.

John Burkett Lewis transfers from Fort Jefferson laboratories of John Powell & Co. to position of manager of Omaha, Neb., p lan t .

Waldo B. Burnett h a s been appointed technical director of United Carbon Co., Inc., Charleston, W . Va . H e has been director of the University of Wichita Foundat ion for Industrial Research.

C. Cala, and M. Scott join chemical re­search laboratory of Bausch and Lomb

Optical Co. as heads of the laboratory's new glass process development and glass engineering departments, respectively.

William E . Cass has been named manager of the new product development laboratory of the chemical division of General Electric Co., Pittsfield, Mass. He has been manager of the organic chem­istry section of the

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James E . Castle joins Foote Mineral Co. as manager of the lithium mining and milling division, Kings Mountain, N. C.

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Kenneth Α. Clark promoted to super­visor of special apparatus sales in t h e labo­ratory a n d pharmaceutical sales depart­ment of Corning Glass Works .

Bruce T, C l a r k e , formerly sales engi­neer, promoted to sales manager of Glas-c o t e Pro-ducts., Inc., Cleveland.

John Close, former technical director of the color division, named general sales manager of t ha t division for United Wall­paper, Inc, Chicago. Replaces Curt T. Uebel, now a manufacturer 's agent for materials for the paint, pigment, and al-l i ed trades.

John D . Fennebresque, vp and assistant be the president of Celanese Corp. of America, elected t o the boa rd of directors of the company.

Kurt C. Frisch resigns from chemical division, of General Electric Co. to become supervisor of organic research with the E . F, Houghton & Co., Philadelphia.

Richard Glicksman accepts position as a research chemist with the Radio Corp. of America, RCA laboratories division.

Harry W. Grimmell has been elected presidemt of Metro Dyestuff Corp., West Warwick, R. I. H e is a graduate of the University of Goettingen, Germany, and came t o the U . S. in 1926 t o become the manager of t he Grasselli Dyestuff Corp. plant a t Rensselaer, Ν . Y., later General Aniline Works.

Charries R . Hether ington from Ford, Bacon & Davis of New York appointed vice president of Westcoast Transmission Co., Ltd., Calgary, Alta.

George M. Hoerner, Jr., transfers to po­sition o f shift supervisor in the Rochester plant o f the photo p roduc t s department of Du Pont, from the Parl in , N. J., plant.

Clarence A . Hoffman joins staff of Salvo Chemical Co. , Rothschild, Wis.

Wolfgang Huber , d i rector of chemical and biological research a t Electronized Chemicals Corp., resigns as vice president of the corporation to enter practice as a management and research consultant.

Leom Jacolev resigns from t h e Texas Co., t o devote himself to consulting prac­tice at 92 Gordonhurst Ave., Montclair, N . J .

Harry S. Kaplan, formerly chief con­trol chemist at A . R. Maas Chemical Co., now chief chemist a t Southwest Potash Corp., Carlsbad, Ν. Μ .

Thomas C . Keeling, Jr., appointed presi­dent o f Mathieson hydrocarbon chemicals division. Comes from chemical division of Koppers Co .

Wilbur E . Kelley appointed vice presi­dent in charge of engineering of Catalytic Construction. Co. Has been manager of the N e w York Operat ions Office of the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission.

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Royce D . King, manager of the procure­ment department of the Koppers Co., Pit tsburgh, retires after 24 years with. the company. Succeeded by P. D . Shollar.

Er ic C . Kunz of the board of directors of t h e Givaudan Corp. has severed con­nections with the company. Dr. Kunz worked in the synthetic dyestuff industry of Germany and t h e synthetic perfume materials industry in Switzerland. Upon his ar r ival in t h e U . S. h e devoted himself to the critical problem of the manufacture of synthetic dyestuffs during World War I. H e joined Givaudan in 1925 when it was a small b ranch of a Swiss firm.

Raymond J . Kzimian resigns from the National Bureau of Standards to become technical representative in S electron resin products for Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co., Newark, N. J .

D a n Lewis, Jr., field sales representa­tive of Goodyear Tire & R u b b e r Co.'s chemical division, assigned as special rep­resentative at the division's newly estab­lished district office in Dallas, Tex .

Will iarn C. Mclndoe becomes research engineer in t h e process unit, Boeing Air­plane Co. , Seattle, Wash., to do research on t h e chemical processes ut i l ized in the manufacture a n d operation of airplanes.

F . Car l Marnatti joins research and de­velopment staff of the National Aniline Division, Allied Chemical & Dye.

G. K. McDonald appointed manage r of the Kearny, N . J., plant of the chemical division of Koppers Co., Inc., Pittsburgh.

Thomas J. Mc-Naughtan, formerly assistant director of research at the Le­roy, Ν. Υ., laborato­ries of D u r e z Plastics & Chemicals, Inc., has joined t h e chemi­cal division of the Borden Co. as devel­opment manager at

its n e w l y completed laboratory in Phila­delphia.

E d w a r d Segel accepts position, as head of t h e protein research division, Darling & Co., Chicago. Recently resigned from Corn Products Refining Co.

L. I. Shaw, devel­opment engineer for Western Electric Co., Chicago, for 21 years, later director of the U. S. Army Air Force Project at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, and subsequently

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