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Gale L. Adams, manager of the manufacturing de-p a r t m e η t o f General Petroleum Corp., Los Angeles, has been named a vice president and director. He has been in the laboratories depart-

company since 1925.

J. W. Adams has been transferred from the GR-S rubber plant operated by the U. S. Rubber Co. in Institute, W. Va., to the synthetic rubber division in Nauga-tuck, Conn. He is a senior research chemist and is engaged in fundamental study of carbon black GR-S.

Aaron Addelston, formerly associate director, has been made director of the special chemi­cals division of Wintlirop - Stearns, Inc., New York. He has been with the company since 1944. From 1936 to 1942 he was science editor of Drug Trade News and Drug Topics of the Topics Pub­lishing Co.

Gerald Boyack has received the P h . D . degree in organic chemistry from the Uni­versity of Minnesota, and joined the staff of the Squibb Institute for Medical Re­search at New Brunswick, N. J., as asso­ciate in the division of organic chemistry.

J. Russell Bright, associate professor of chemistry, has been named acting chairman of the chemistry depart­ment at Wayne University, De­troit. He succeeds Neil E. Gordon, professor of chem­istry, who has re­

signed from the chairmanship but will continue as professor, as director of the Friends of the Kresge-Hooker Scientific Library, of the library services, and of the university's chemistry lecture series.

Richard N . Campen has left his position as technical director of the Floyd A. Holes Co. to join the new products division of the research and development department, Mead Corp., Chillicothe, Ohio.

David M . Clark has joined the research

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and development laboratories of the U. S. Stoneware Co., Akron, Ohio, as research chemist. He comes from Firestone Labo­ratories, where he was research chemist in plastic development.

H. Roger Cole­man has joined the staff of Evans Re­search & De\*elop-mont Corp., Now York City. In ad­dition to liaison ac­tivities between the laboratorj'' and clients, he will work * on technical market surveys. H e was formerly an independent consultant in powder metallurgy.

Paul N. Craig has joined the organic chemistry department of Smith, Kline & French Laboratories, Philadelphia. Thomas L. Flannagan, Jr., who comes from Rohm & Haas, has recently joined the analytical department.

Recent additions to the University of "Washington teaching staff, Pullman, in­clude Alden L. Crittenden, instructor in chemistry, who received a Ph .D. from the University of Illinois in 1947; Lloyd C. Fetterly, part-time acting instructor in chemical engineering, from Shell Oil Corp. ; Curtis F. Gerald, assistant profes­sor of chemical engineering, from Universal Oil Products Co. ; Lyle H. Jensen, acting assistant professor of chemistry, formerly a research associate at Ohio State Uni­versity; Garth L. Putnam, research associate in chemical engineering, from Oregon State College, where he was an associate professor of chemical engineer­ing; and W . M. Schubert, instructor in chemistry, who received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1947.

Russell L. Davisson, who recently com­pleted work for the degree of master of science at West Virginia University, has joined the physical properties group of the works laboratory of Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Corp., South Charleston, W. Va.

David H . Dawson, director of sales of the pigments department of the Du Pont Co., Wilmington, Del., has been awarded the honorary degree of doctor of engineering by the Drexel Institute of Technology. H. C. Peinert has been promoted to production manager of the high explosives section of the explosives department. W. D. Gar­wood, production superintendent at the Repauno plant, Gibbstown, N. J., has been named production manager of the special products and black powder section, succeeding Mr. Peinert.

Frank C. X)onofrio, formerly of Ameri­can Cyananiid Co. has joined the research and development department of the chemical process section, Cluett, Peabody Co., I n c . , Troy, Ν . Υ.

Douglas r>ow, previously director of commercial research of the Detroit Edison Co., has been elected president and general manager of a new Detroit researcb. group, the nucleus of which is t h e Detroit Test ing Laboratory.

Among recent promotions at the I^ouisiana division of Standard Oil Co. ( X . J . ) at Baton Rouge were D. F. Edwards, assistant process superintendent, t o superintendent of refining and oil movement. F. A. L. Holloway, head, chemical technical service department, and C. M . Beamer, assistant head, tech­nical divis ion, replaced each other. R. K. I>ix, group head in the chemical technical service department, was made assistant head o f the «department.

Oscar H. Fager has been appointed general manager of Petroleum Special­ties Co., St . Louis. He comes from the Shell Petroleum Co., where he was in the special prod­ucts division.

Ralph H. Fash , consulting chemist, an­nounces thtvt he has sold his interests in the F o r t Worth Laboratories, South­western. Laboratories, and Houston Labo­ratories, and. lias opened an office as consultant o n chemical problems at 1811

•W. T. Waggoner Bldg., Fort Worth.

John A. ^Fellows has been appointed assistant chief metallurgist at the research center of Ajnerican Brake Shoe Co. in Mahw&h, NT- J. He has been with the company for 10 years.

Cecil R. Fetters has joined the teaching staff o f Denison University, Granville, Ohio, a s assistant professor of chemistry. H e was formerly associated with the Har­vester War D e p o t as chemist and assist­ant sanitary engineer and more recently was engaged in secondary school instruc­tion.

Kenneth J . Frederick, for the past eight years member of the alkali research de­partment of the Solvay Process Division, Allied Chemical and Dye Corp., has joined the research and development de­partment o f the Paraffine Cos., Inc., Emeryville, Calif., where he will serve as group leader in insulations research.

Robert W . Hague, from the develop­ment divis ion of the Sun Oil Co., has re­cently joined the staff of the J. E . Rhoads <& Sons Leather Co., Wilmington, Del., a s chief chemical engineer.

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NEWS-MAKERS

Joseph Β. Koepfli, chemist at California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, has been appointed a member of the U. S. State Department Mission on Science and Technology to England. This type of mission is the first provision made by the Government to provide assistance to science and scientists at the diplomatic level. It will cover all fields of science in rotation, and leading men in various scien­tific fields will be appointed for one year. The initial staff includes biochemistry, organic chemistry, physics, engineering, biology, and agronomy.

A. D. Puckett has joined the petroleum chemi­cals division of the D u Pont Co., Deepwater Point, N . J. He will be in charge of all antiknock activi­ties in connection with the company's

entry into the direct marketing of tetra-ethyllead compounds. He comes from the Bureau of Mines Petroleum Experi­ment Station.

Frederick D. Rossini, chief of the Section on Thermochemistry and Hydro­carbons, National Bureau of Standards, has been elected president of the Wash­ington Academy of Sciences, which this year celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of its founding.

Glenn T. Seaborg, professor in the department of chemistry and director of chemistry of the radiation laboratories of the University of California, Berkeley, has been named b y the United States Junior Chamber of Commerce as one of the 10 outstanding young men in the United States in 1947. He was honored for his work in the discovery of plutonium, americium, and curium. Adrian Sanford Fisher, solicitor of the Department of Commerce and general counsel of the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission, was another one of the 10 outstanding young men selected.

Samuel E . Sheppard, photographic scientist, has retired from Kodak Re­search Labora­tories, Rochester, Ν. Υ., after 35 years of service. Dr. Sheppard's work in photogra­phy ranged from research on gelatin and sensitizing dyes to studies of the size of grains in photographic emulsions. His work on gelatin is of great importance tp present^ day photographic quality.

S. A- Siegeil, chief efaemis* of Lever Bros. Co. Haammond plant since 1930, h a s been transferred to the Cambridge, Mass., plant.

Bernard Silfees has joined t h e Easton, P a . , works of t^he Pennsylvania Salt Mfg. G o . as s. development chemist. He comes from the research laboratories of the Titanium Alloy Mfg. Co . , Niagara Falls, X . Y.

E. Augustus Swart h a s resigned as re­search associate at the Squibb Institute for Medical Rcseaarch, New Brunswick, N. J.,

* t o accept the pos i t ion of assistant research specialist at time New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Stettion, Rutgers University, N e w Brunswick, N . J.

Elijah Swift, Jr., previously with the Océanographie Institution at Woods Hole, Mass., i s now chief of th.e underwater ex­plosions sections in the explosives division for the Naval Ordnance Laboratory, Indian Head, Mid.

P.. J. Thompson, formerly sales manager, technical, has fc>ccome director of sales for Kinetic Chemicals, Inc., Wilmington, Del.

John H. Wolf enden, professor of chem­istry a t Dartmouth College, has been awarded the Medal o f Freedom with Bronze Palm fcy the U . S. Government for the perfornxance of meritorious service in the field of scientific xesoareh and de­velopment during the war. 3grpm 1941 to 1945, while on leave of absence from Oxford University, he served a s principal scientific officer for the British. Common­wealth Scientific Office i n Washington.

Walter K. Zâahray has accepted a posi­t ion as chemical engineer with the In­stitute of Gas Technology i n Chicago. H e will be primarily concerned with re­search in the high pressure field. He comes from t h e Stamford Research Labo­ratories of the> American Cyanamid Co.

Marriages

Evelyn Lindaa Cosby, from Middlebury College, was xnarried Dec. &0, 1947, to Joseph Jackson of Western Electric. She i s now assistant professor of biochemistry a t College of N^ew Rochelle, Ne*w Bochelle, 3ST. Y.

Victor Danb^rg, chemist ancL partner in t h e Danbcrg Chemical Co., Stratford, Conn., was married to Lillian Rae Block of Bridgeport, Oonn. , on Dec. 2 7 , 1947.

Lorna R. Gregory of !MngrjLolia Petro­leum Co., was married in September to Jack B . Fcltoii, resident salesman for the district of the National Tube Co. Mrs. Felton is now -working a s a chemist with Sliell Oil Co. i n Odessa, Tex.

Raymond H. Ashley Raymond Harman Ashley, 67, retired

head of the chemistry department of St. Lawrence University, Canton, Ν . Υ., died Dec. 1 a t his home in Harwichport, Mass. He had also taught chemistry at the Col­lege of Montana, the University of Maine, and Tufts College, and had previously been connected with the Harrison & Brown Co., Philadelphia, and the General Chemical Co., New York. He had been a member of ACS since 1940.

Joel H. Foy Joel H . Foy, 81, chairman of the board

of the Maltbie Chemical Co., Newark, N . J., died in East Orange, N. J., Jan. 7. He had joined the firm in 1899 as treasurer. H e served two terms as president of the American Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association, and was a former vice presi­dent of the American Drug Manufac­turers Association.

Stewart H. McDowell Stewart H . McDowell, retired color

chemist who pioneered in the development of rotogravure printing inks, died Dec . 19, 1947, in Philadelphia. H e had served for 23 years as chief color chemist for Harri­son Bros-, now a unit of the Du Pont Co. Following that position he worked for 37 years as chief chemist of the Charles Eneu Johnson Co., where he developed many of the colors used in the manufac­ture of printing inks and paints. He pro­duced America's first rotogravure inks while employed by the Philadelphia Inquirer.

W. J. Woodcock W. J. AVbodcock, 50, director of John

Bull Rubber Co., Ltd., Evington Valley Mills, Leicester, England, died Jan. 1. During the first world war he served in the Navy, then joined the Dunlop Rubber Co. in Birmingham, and was transferred to Manchester a s assistant t o the managing director of the mackintosh factory. He joined the John Bull Rubber Co. in 1930 and became a director in 1946. He was a member of the National Joint Industrial Council of the Rubber Industry, and his work there culminated in establishing the 45-hour week.

Frederick P . Huston, 57, engineer and metallurgist for the development and re­search division of International Nickel Co., Phdnfield, N. J., died Dec. 29, 1947.

John H. Vail, 30, head of the chemical department at the Muskegon, Mich., plant of Anaconda Wire & Cable Co., died suddenly Oct. 4, 1947. ACS mem­ber since 1943.

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