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Chester L. Arnold has been appointed director of research of Staufier Chemical Co. He has been director of research for the western di­vision, and will continue to super­vise western re­s e a r c h activities and for the pres­ent will make his headquarters i η Richmond, Calif. John F. Crowther has been named director of the eastern research division. He was formerly as­sistant director of research, and will transfer his headquarters from New York to the company's process develop­ment laboratory at Chauncey, Ν. Υ.

Col. Oscar B. Beasley, who comes from Fort Benning, Ga., where he was chairman of the field engineer committee at the Infantry School, has assumed command of the Army's Engineer Re­search and Development Laboratories at Fort Be!voir. Va.

Franklin C. Bing, director of the American Institute of Baking, Chicago.

lias resigned this position in order to ilevote full time to research and teach­ing in the field of foods and nutrition.

Arthur A. Boucher has been trans­ferred to the sales department of the Niacet chemicals division, U. S. Van­adium Corp. H e was formerly research chemist in the sales department labora­tory, and succeeds James A. McCusker, resigned.

William R. Boyd, Jr., president of the American Petroleum Institute since 1941, lias notified the board of directors of API of his desire to retire. A commit tee of live directors has been appointed to select, a successor. Serving on the com­mittee are Eugene Holman, Standard Oil Co. (N J. . ) ; George A. Hill, Jr., Houston Oil Co.; R. G. Foll is , Standard Oil Co. of Calif.; L. S. Wescoat, Pure Oil Co.; and Robert H. Colley, Atlantic Refining Co.

L. A. Chichester has retired as assist­ant secretary and general credit manager of Dow Chemical Co., Midland, Mich., after 31 years of service. Robert B. Bennett has been appointed to fill the position.

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Jfci. M. Corley lias beeu made manager of the chemical division of Armour and Co. , Chicago. He has been assistant director o f re­search for the past three years.

Charles L. Czermak has been ap­pointed associate sales manager of George A. Breon & Co., Kansas City. M o . He lias been with the company since 1946.

Norman Davidson has been trans­ferred from the Washington laboratories of the U. S. Geological Survey to chief of the Chemical Investigations Labora­tory in Denver, Colo.

W. E . Dinusson has left South Dakota State College where he was assistant professor of animal husbandry, and i* now associate professor of animal hus­bandry at North Dakota Agricultural College, Fargo, N . D.

T.. B . Dobbins has been appointed supervisor of plant engineering at Air Reduction Sales Co., New York, Ν. Υ H e was previously superintendent of the Johnstown tonnage oxygen plant and will be .succeeded in that position by J. C. White, former superintendent of the Gloucester oxygen plant.

George Estok, graduate of Pennsyl­vania State College, has been appointed :iii instructor in the department of chem­ist ry at Loyola University, New Orleans

J. W. Faucett, formerly administra­tive assistant at Farm Crops Processing Corp.. Om:iha, is now assistant to the president of Trenton Chemical Co.. Trenton, Mich.

Richard M. Forbes has accepted an appointment as associate professor of animal nutrition at the University of Illinois, Urbana. He comes from the department of animal husbandry at the rniversity of Kentucky.

A. L. Fox, who has been with the Bureau of Mines, lias been elected vice president of R. S. Dean Laboratories. Inc., Riverdale, Md. Bernard Triffle-man, from the American Metal Co. of N'ew Jersey, has joined the staff of the L>eau Laboratories.

Henry J. Freudenberg has left Clinton Industries and is now with Griffin Gro­cery Co., Muskogee, Okla.

Daniel Frishman has resigned from Harris Research Laboratories to become director of research for A. Hollander & Son, Inc., Newark, N. J.

Leonard Fromm lias been added to the naval reactor division of Argonne

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National Laboratory, Chicago, as an associate chemical engineer. He cornea from American Cyanamid Co. Kenneth Rohde has been appointed junior chem­ist in the chemical engineering division. Se has been with the North Shore Sani­tary District. Harold H. Strain, who recently joined the chemistry division staff as a senior chemist, comes from the Carnegie Institution in Washington.

M. W. Gaylord, formerly plant engi­neer for the St. Paul plant of the gas and coke division of Koppers Co., Inc., has been appointed production manager at St. Paul.

Paul F. Gunberg ha» recently com­pleted a doctorate at Purdue University and is now research chemist at the U. S. Rubber Co. in Passaic, N. J.

The following have recently joined the staff of the central research labora­tory of General Aniline & Film Corp., Easton, Pa.: M. L. Hoefle, from the University of Minnesota; Clifford E. Larrabee, from the University of Roch­ester; L. W. Miller, recent graduate of Lafayette College; amd Shirley Zink, recent graduate of Simmons College.

Charles J, Kensler of Cornell Uni­versity has been given a fellowship by Smith, Kline & French Laboratories. The purpose is to encourage postdoctoral study and investigation in pharmacology, and Dr. Kensler is receiving $5,000 plus traveling expenses to do research at Ox­ford University in England.

J. Jack Kirkland has been employed at the experiment station of the Her­cules Powder Co., Wilmington, Del., as a chemist. He comes from Emory Uni­versity.

Oscar Klioze, who received a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland in June, is now a research associate in chemistry in the department of chemis­try, Technological Institute, Northwest­ern University, Evanston, 111.

Adam T. Krol has joined the stuff of Dominion Products, Inc., Long Island City, Ν. Υ., as chief chemist and produc­tion manager of the aromatic» chemical division.

Joseph P. LaRocca has been appointed associate professor of pharmacy at the University of Georgia, Athens. He comes from the Naval Research Labo­ratory in Washington.

Lyle B. Lathrop, who recently re­ceived a master's degree from the school of pharmacy of the University of Kan­sas, has joined the pharmaceutical re­search department of Abbott Labora­tories, North Chicago, 111.

W. A. McMillan, who has been in charge of research activities at the

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Beacon, Ν . Υ., plant of the Texas Co.. has been made assistant director of re­search.

S. M. Maida has been transferred from Pi t tman-Dunn Laboratory, Frankford Arsenal, Philadelphia, to the technical division of the Government Printing Office in Washington, D. C.

Joseph M. Maloney has been named to the research depar tment of Hall Laboratories, Inc., Pi t tsburgh. H e will specialize on problems of corrosion.

Robert L. Mann, who recently re­ceived a doctor 's degree in agricultural biochemistry at the Universi ty of Minne­sota, has joined the research staff of Eli Lilly & Co., Indianapolis, Ind . Howard L. Bachrach, recent Ph .D . in agricultural biochemistry from the Uni­versity of Minnesota, has gone t o Den­mark for the Bureau of Animal Industry of the U. S. Depar tment of Agriculture r.o spend a year s tudying with Danish government scientists on virus research related to the problem of foot and mouth disease.

F r a n k C. Morman has been appointed in charge of advertising and sales pro­motional activities for the chemicals

division of the Mara thon Corp., Roths ­child, Wis.

W. Reed Mor r i s has retired as vice president and general manager of the gas and coke division of Koppers Co., Inc., Pi t tsburgh. Myron T. Herre id has been appointed his successor. Mr. Mor­ris has been with the firm 34 years.

Bernard Rabinovi tch, postdoctoral fel­low at Harvard University for the past year, has been appointed instructor in physical chemistry a t Illinois Ins t i tu te of Technology, Chicago.

E . W. Segebracht has been trans­ferred from the Chicago office of Armour and Co. to the New York office as east­ern sales manager .

W. A. Severance has been appointed chief chemist in charge of research and development, product control, and spe­cial customer problems in the field of corrosion-proofing at the Ceilcote Co.. Cleveland, Ohio. He comes from the Parker Appliance Co.

Pau l B. S lawter , Jr . , vice president of the House of J . Hayden Twiss, New York, has been appointed director of public relations for the American Sec­tion of the Society of Chemical Industry

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Robert E . Stutz, recently associated with the University of Wisconsin, has joined the staff of the biology division of Argonne National Laboratory, Chi ­cago, as an associate biochemist.

Leslie J . Todd of the depar tment of chemistry at the University of Indiana , has accepted appointment as associate professor in the depar tment of chemistry at Kent State University, Kent , Ohio.

Homer Adkins Homer Adkins, 57, professor of organu

chemistry a t the University of Wisconsin died Aug. 10 in Madison, Wis. H e (••ceived a B.S. de ­cree from Denison University in 1915. ind an A.M. and Ph.D. from Ohio State . In 1938 he was given an Sc.D by Denison. hi?· alma mater . H e had begun his teaching career as instruc­tor in organic chemistry at Ohio Stat*-University in 1918, then went to Wis­consin as an assistant professor in 1919 H e became a professor in 1928. For his» work in the Office of Scientific Research and Development , he was given the Medal for Meri t after the war.

Dr . Adkins had been a member of ACS since 1918, and had held man> offices, among them chairman of tru Wisconsin Section, Councilor, Cha i rman of the Division of Organic Chemistry (1932), and member of the Council Policy Commit tee of ACS (194S-51) H e was on the board of edi tors for "Organic Syntheses." T h e Commi t t ee on Nominat ions and Elections of the Society had presented his n a m e as one of four candidates for nominat ion as President-Elect in the election t o he held this fall.

Lillian Cohen Lillian Cohen, 71 , associate professoi

emeritus, who served on the staff of t h e chemistry depar tment a t t he Universi ty of Minnesota for 44 years, died J u n e 5 after a long illness. She had been edu­cated a t the Universi ty of Minnesota and later studied in Zurich. She re­ceived a P h . D . a t Minnesota in 1913. She had been a member of ACS since 1904 and was one of the charter members of the Minnesota Section, founded in 1906 and was secretary of the section for a

| number of years.

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