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Β. W. Allan, di­rector of research of the chemical and pigment division of the Glidden Co., has been promoted to director of research of the entire Glidden chemical and p ig­ment and metals di­vision in Baltimore. B. W. Allan

E. R. Allen, w h o retired from the Du Pont Co. last year, is associated wi th the school of chemistry at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. X . J., as research special­ist.

Raymond O. Anderson, assistant direc­tor of re-search, has been designated by Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Co . as its representative in an atomic energy study program for industry being spon­sored by the Atomic Energy Commission. He will b e located at Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory near Schenectady. Ν. Υ.

David Elhvyn Bennett, Jr.. has been added to the staff of Horizons Incorpo­rated, Princeton. N. J. He has been as­sociated with Eastman Kodak Co. and the Kenyon Ins t rument Co.

Chemists and chemical engineers who recently received advanced degrees and who have joined the research staffs of various depa r tmen t s of the Du Pont Co. include: Louis Bema th , University of Delaware, rayon depar tment , Wilmington, Del.; James L. Bleasdale. University of Minnesota, electrochemicals depar tment , Niagara Falls. \ \ Y.; Stanley S. Brandt , State University of Iowa, rayon depar t ­ment , Richmond. Ya.; Robert A. Buckley, University of Wisconsin, rayon depar t ­ment , Wi lming ton : Dona ld R. Diggs , Nor thwestern University, organic chemi­cals depar tment . Deep water Point. X. J.

Wende l l E . D u n n , Jr., Johns Hopkins University, p igments depar tment , New­por t , Del . ; Wil l iam M. Eareckson , I I I , University of Maryland, rayon depar tment , Wilmington; Victor Fu -Hua Chu , Yale University, photo products depar tment , Parlin, N". J.; George L . Gaines, Jr., Yale University, electrochemicals depar tment ; Alan C. Knight , University of California, poly chemicals depar tment , Wilmington; Pe ter T. M o r a , Princeton University, rayon depar tment , Wilmington; D u r w a r d G. O'Dell, P u r d u e University, rayon depart­ment , Waynesbo ro , Va.

John J . Ondrejcin, University of Illinois, poly chemicals depar tment ; John R. Proffitt, Jr. , Emory University, rayon depar tment , Waynesboro; Joseph M. Qua t t l ebaum, Jr., Ohio Sta te University, Jackson laboratory, Deepwate r Point, N. J.; F r e d T. Reed , University of Maryland, Jackson labora­tory; Ceci l E . Reese , from Kansas State

College of Agriculture and Applied Sci­ence, rtiyon department , Wilmington; Otis L. Shel ly , University of Nor th Carolina, rayon «department, Richmond; Cyrus E. Sroog, University of Buffalo, film depart­ment. Buffalo; Marry A. Straw, Yale, poly-eheinifuls department .

Rober t \V. Berliner has been appointed chief of the laboratory and clinical section on kidney and electrolyte metabolism of the National Heart Institute. Bethesda. Md. H e has been assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University.

R. J. Blaekinton, formerly technical di­rector a n d secretary of the Western States Lacquer Corp., Los Angeles, lias been ap­pointed resin application engineer of the West Coast chemicals division of General Electric- Co., Anaheim, Calif.

William Brookshier has recently joined the staff of the Argonne National Labo­ratory's electronics unit, Chicago, as a junior electrical engineer. lie has been doing ezraduate work at the I niversit> of Illinois.

E. L e e Bullington has accepted a posi­tion w i t h Smith, Kline and F r e n c h Labora­tories a s professional service representative for the Columbia, S. C , territory. He comes from the Orasselli works of the Du Pont C o .

Raymond M. Burgison, who received a Ph.D. this summer from the University of Mary land school of pharmacy, has been appoin ted assistant professor of phar­macology a t the University of Maryland school o f medicine, Baltimore.

Rando lph H. But ton h a s returned to Yale University after spending a year's leave o f absence at Brookhavcn National Laboratory. Upton, X . V., as associate chemical engineer in the nuclear reactor and engineering depa r tmen t . H e is assist­ant professor in t h e depar tment of chemi­cal engineering a t Yale.

New Dow Chemical Co. personnel at Midland, Mich.. include: Richard B. Clarke, from University of Michigan, chemical engineer in plastics technical service: Robert C . Hyndman , Washington University. sales t raining; James C. Mackey-, Oklahoma A&M, chemist; Hugo A. Barfc>ian, from Olin Industr ies , technical service engineer; Ernes t R. Pétr ie, Jr., de­signing engineer; and David C. "Young, University of Florida, chemist.

Albert E. Clement has been appointed assistant superintendent of the Xatrona plant o f the Pennsylvania Salt Mfg. Co., Xatromi. Fa. lie was previously production supervisor.

Franois G . Cobb has left t he Du Pont Co. to accept a position o n t h e staff of Purdue University, West Lafayet te , Ind., as chenmeal storekeeper.

Dean Tracy Collins of Dwight, Kan. , has been awarded a fellowship under the Fulbright Act to study biochemistry at t he University of Lille, in France.

J. E . Cooper , supervisor of special and sanitary plan engineering a t Ford Motor Co., and a specialist in industrial was te t rea tment , has resigned to enter pr ivate business. He will b e associated with F . W . DuBois in a sales engineering organi­zation to be known as DuBois-Cooper As­sociates with offices in Detroit.

L. H. Cragg, associate professor of chemistry at McMaster University, H a m ­ilton, Ont. , has been elected a councillor of the Chemical Institute of Canada.

Harry L . Davis has been appointed sales manager of the Armour Laboratories, Ch i ­cago, and E d w a r d J. Hennessy, sales p ro ­motion manager . Mr. Davis was formerly sales manager of Flint, Eaton & Co., a n d Mr. Hennessy was formerly account execu­t ive of Calkins & Holden.

P. L. Edwards has been appoin ted manager of the central district office of Raybestos-Manhat tan Inc., Manha t t an rubber division, in Pit tsburgh, succeeding R. C. Rice, retiring.

Will iam A. Feirer has resigned as ex­ecut ive vice president a n d director of Sharp & D o h me Inc., Philadelphia.

Richard W. Fink has accepted appoint­ment for research and graduate work wi th radioactive isotopes in t h e depar t ­ment of chemistry at the University of Rochester under an AEC contract. He will also act as consultant to the A E C medical project in Rochester. H e comes from Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory.

Hans Fischer has been named super­intendent of t he Ter re Haute plant of Commercia l Solvents Corp. He has been wi th the benzene hexachloride and pen i ­cillin product ion units of t h e company.

Delber t V. F le tcher has been appointed assistant director of the technical division of the Grasselli chemicals depar tment of K. I. du Pont d e Nemours & Co., Linden, X. J. H e has been process manager in the manufacturing division.

C. W. French, manager of phosphorus compounds at Oldbury Electro-Chemical Co., has joined Pfister Chemical Works Inc., Ridgefield, N. J.

S. E . Frey has left Carbide a n d Carbon Chemicals Corp., Oak Ridge, Term., to study at t h e University of Illinois, Urbana, for a Ph .D . in organic chemistry.

Roger Gaudry of t he depar tment of bio­chemistry, Laval University, Quebec, Out . , has been appointed codirector of profes­sional affairs of the Chemical Inst i tute of Canada .

Wayne Glover, formerly junior chemi­cal engineer in the research and develop­ment depar tment of Tin Processing Corp. , Texas City, Tex., is now junior process engineer at the Philblack plant of Phillips Chemical Co., Borger, Tex.

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Richard H. Hageman has accepted a predoctoral AEC fellowship biological sciences a t the University of California, Berkeley. He was formerly a chemist with the Federal Experiment Station.

James O . Harr i s , Thomas E. Lesslie, and Maurice E . Gatens have recently joined the research staff of Monsanto Chemical Co. at Nitro, W. Va.

George C. Higgins has been elected president of the University of Rochester chapter of Sigma Xi. He is a research physicist a t Kodak Research Laboratories, Rochester, Ν. Υ.

Norman H. Jacobson, industrial press supervisor for Allis-Chalmers Mfg. Co., Milwaukee, has been appointed to the new position of technological information officer for the U. S. Atomic Energy Com­mission's Technical Information Service in Washington, D . C.

Sam T. Kiguchi has left the technical group of Socony-Vacuum laboratories' en­gineering and economics division to the research and consulting group of C. F. Braun and Co., Alhambra, Calif.

C. Glen King, scientific director of the Nutrition Foundation and professor of chemistry at Columbia University, has been appointed to the Panel on Food of the Research and Development Board of the Department of Defense.

G. H. Kissin has left Physical Science Associates of Berkeley, Calif., and has joined t h e staff of the division of metal­lurgical research of Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corp., Spokane, Wash.

Calvin Lee has joined t h e staff of the Atlantic Refining Co., Philadelphia, as an assistant chemical engineer in the refining division of the research and development department.

Robert G. Linville has joined t h e chemi­cal department, silicone division of the General Electric Co. at Wat erf or d, Ν. Υ. He was formerly with the chemical de­partment, experiment station of the Du Pont Co.

Walter Lipinski has recently joined the staff of t he Argonne National Laboratory's naval reactor division as a junior electri­cal engineer. He received his B.S. degree in June from the University of Illinois.

Harold R. L o h r has joined t h e chemis­try division staff of Argonne National Laboratory, Chicago, as an associate chemist. He received a Ph.D. at the Uni­versity of California this year.

Percy C. Magnus , president of Magnus, Mabee & Reynard Inc., New York, has been appointed chairman of the essential oils and related groups for t h e Greater New York Citizens Committee for the Hoover Report. In this office h e will en­list support to further the educational pro­gram for adoption of the recommenda­tions of the bipartisan Hoover Commission for organization of the executive branch of the Government.

Wayne C . Montgomery has left t he St. Louis offices of Aluminum Co. of America and is now associated with the chemicals division as sales engineer in New Orleans.

Y. R. Naves, officer of the pharmaceuti­cal and chemical reserve corps of the French navy, has been promoted to Cheva­lier of the Legion of Honor by a decree of the Minister of National Defense. This honor is in recognition of the most dis­tinguished military services. He is a re­search chemist for L. Givaudan & Cie., S.A., Geneva.

Thomas R. Noonan has accepted a po­sition as assistant professor of radiation biology at the University of Rochester. He has been with the medical division of the Upjohn Co.

Thomas W. Oliver, Jr., has joined Reeves Brothers, Inc., New York City. He has been merchandise manager of the spun rayon department of Textron Inc.

Harry M . Peek has joined the staff of the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory at Los Alamos, Ν. Μ. He recently received a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Rochester.

Edgar L . Piret, professor of chemical engineering at the University of Minne­sota, has received an appointment as a Fulbright research scholar for a year's work in France . He is also research con­sultant to the engineering depar tment of the Minnesota Mining & Mfg. Co.

F . M. Rivinus, Jr., has been named president of two wholly-owned foreign subsidiaries of Smith, Kline & French Laboratories. They are Smith, Kline & French International Co. and Smith, Kline & French Inter-American Corp.

Henry A . Rome has been made manager of special products sales, William C. Hall , manager of molded goods sales, and Thomas S. Savoury, manager of flooring sales for t h e mechanical goods division of the U. S. Rubber Co., Passaic, N. J.

Ν. Η. Simpson is returning to school at the University of Texas, Austin, to obtain a Ph.D. in chemistry. He is on leave from Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp.

Lemuel F. Smith, emeritus professor of chemistry at Kalamazoo College, has been invited t o be visiting professor of chem­istry at Saint Lawrence University, Can­ton, Ν. Υ., for the current academic year.

Will iam Sprndel, who received a Ph.D. from Columbia University in June , has transferred from a position as instructor at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn to one as assistant professor at the New York State College for Teachers in Albany.

The Hanson-Van Winkle-Munning Co., Matawan, N. J., announces the appoint­ment of Almo D. Squitero to the post of electrochemist in their laboratory. He comes from Michigan State College.

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Ear le J, Townsend, who has been aide-de-camp and public information officer at Army Chemical Center, Md., is now pub­lic information officer for the Army Chemi­cal Corp., Washington, D. C. He suc­ceeds the late Maj . M. J. McLeod.

Wil l iam H . Trot ter has been appointed to handle the sales promotional activities of t he chemical division of Celanese Corp. of America, New York. He comes from Innis, Speiden & Co.

Robin Van Meter has been loaned from the Bureau of Mines of the Department of t he Interior to t he Los Angeles County Air Pollution Control District for work on some phases of the smog problem.

L . A. Wat t , director of development for Monsanto Chemical Co / s organic chemi­cals division, has been appointed special assistant to the division's general manager, St. Louis. A. T. Loeffler, general manager of the New York branch office, will suc­ceed Mr. Watt .

Richard W. Webster , from Valspar laboratories, has joined John \V. Masury & Son Inc. , Baltimore, a s a consultant.

J. Arndt Weicksel has left the depart­ment of chemistry at Lebanon Valley College to join t he chemistry department of Middlebury College, Middlehury, Yt.

Mart in B . Williamson, associate profes­sor of biochemistry at t h e Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola University, Chicago, has been awarded a grant by the Office of Naval Research to continue the study of the effect of amino acids on the rate of healing of experimental wounds.

A- E. Young has been appointed as­sistant to t he manager of the plastics divi­sion of Dow Chemical Co., Midland. Mich. H e has been head of the company's coatings technical service. His assistant-Norman R. Peterson, has been named head of that service, with Elmer K. Stilbert as assistant.

Saul A. Zelldnd^ formerly a biochemist with the Venereal Disease Research Labo­ratory of t h e U. S. Public Health Service at the Marine Hospital, Staten Island, Ν. Υ., is now biochemist wi th the Veterans Administration Facility a t Bath, Ν. Υ.

NECROLOGY Harold M. Lord

Harold M. Lord, 63, chemist for 30 years at the Bainbridge, \". Y., laboratory of the chemical division of t h e Borden Co., died Sept. 6. He graduated from Norwich University in 1918 and w ·. first employed by t h e General Electric Co. in Schenectady. His duties for t h e Borden Co. included manufacture, production, and control of casein in this country. He was also instrumental in setting up manu­facturing of casein adhesives in Sweden.

Philip Wr ight Philip Wright , 63, chemist in the Bu­

reau ôf Dairy Industry, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D . C , for 37 years, died Sept. 20. He graduated from Middlebury College in 1909 and after doing postgraduate work at Yale University, served two years in the re­search chemical laboratory at the Uni­versity' of Missouri. H e had been a mem­ber of the AMERICAN C H E M I C A L SOCIETY

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M. F . Coolbaugh. To, president emeritus of the Colorado School of Mines and a nationally known consulting engineer, Sept. 9, in Golden. Colo. ACS member since 1909.

George R. Gibbons, 7 1 , one of the pio­neers i o the development of the aluminum industry-, and a. director of Aluminum Co. of America, Sept. 3 in Pittsburgh.

Chairies Gundel, 57, retired chief chem­ist and plant superintendent at Fels & Co., Philadelphia, Sept. 4. ACS member since 1913.

Elmon L . Hall, general superintendent a n d vice president, Portland Gas & Coke Co. , Portland, Ore., Sept. 1. ACS member since 1902.

Johns. Johnston, 69, retired director of re*searc-îî for l \ S. Steel Corp., Sept. 12 in Ba j Harbor, Me. ACS member since 190S

Edward C. Merrill, assistant vice presi­dent of United Drug Co., Boston, Novem­be r 19-49. ACS member since 1925.

£d\vin Leigh Newcomb, 67, executive vioe president, National Wholesale Drug gists Association, S e p t 2, Montclair, N. J

Johm V. Shinn, 59, chemical engineer w~ith t h e General Chemical Corp., Los Aogeles, Calif., Aug. 26. ACS member since 1934.

Spemcer C. Stanford, 42 , technical li­brarian at Brookhaven National Labora­tory, Up ton , L. I., N. Y., Sep t 11. ACS member since 1936.

Carl Zapffe, manager of Iron Ore Prop­erties o f Northern Pacific Railway Co., Brainerd, Minn., Aug. 28. ACS member since I 939.

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