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THE FILTER PRESSNewsletter of theGeorgia Section of the American ChemicalSociety |
| Volume 9, Number 4 | May, 1999 |
The Charles Herty medal is awarded annually by members of the ACS Georgia Section. The purpose of this award is to give public recognition to the work and serice of outstanding chemists who have significantly contributed to their chosen fields. All chemists in academic, government or industrial laboratories who have spent a considerable amount of their career in the Southeast US are eligible.
This year's recipient is Dr. Richard D Adams, Arthur S Williams Professor of Chemistry at the University of South Carolina.
Dr. Adams has been an exceptionally productive and original contributor to the chemistry of polynuclear complexes for more than 20 years. His studies have ranged from elegant cluster synthesis to systematic investigations of multicenter transformations of small molecules at polynuclear metal sites. Recently he has pioneered the characterization of novel forms of homogeneous catalysis based on metal cluster complexes.
Dr. Adams received his BS degree in chemistry from Pennsylvania State University and his PhD degree in Inorganic Chemistry from MIT. He began his chemistry career at the State University of New York, Buffalo, and then moved to Yale University. He joined the faculty of the University of South Carolina in 1984.
Dr. Adams has been the author of more than 370 research publications and is the co-editor and co-author of two books on cluster chemistry. He has served, and currently serves, on the editorial boards of several preeminent journals.
Dr. Adams was recently awarded the ACS Award in Inorganic Chemistry.
Also at this meeting we will recognize our Fifty Year ACS Members and present Georgia Section Service Awards.
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CHAIRMAN:
CHAIR-ELECT:
PAST-CHAIR
SECRETARY:
TREASURER:
MEMBERS-AT-LARGE: Emelita Breyer
Neal Golvin
Joyce Scanlon
COUNCILORS:
Lihong D'Angelo
Lissa Dulany
Don Hicks William McGonigal
ALTERNATE COUNCILORS: Ken Busch
Alan Gabrielli
Theresa Chamblee
Susan Hornbuckle |
THE FILTER PRESS Newsletter of the Georgia Section of the American Chemical Society
The Filter Press is published monthly (except June, July, August,and December) by the Georgia Section of the American Chemical Society. Advertising and Business: Margaret Venable, Georgia PerimeterCollege, Science Dept. 555 N. Indian Creek Drive, Clarkston GA 30021, e-mail: mvenable@gpc.peachnet.edu G raphics Design: Alan Gabrielli, Southern Polytechnic State University,(770) 528-7316. Address Changes: ACS members should send address changes to ACSMembership Services, 1155 Sixteenth Street NW, Washington, DC 20036 or call1-800-227-5558. Advertising: Direct advertising copy and inquiries to MargaretVenable, Georgia Perimeter College, Science Dept. 555 N. Indian Creek Drive,Clarkston GA 30021. Submission of materials for publication: Direct materials forpublication to Alan Gabrielli, Southern Polytechnic State University, 1100South Marietta Parkway, Marietta, GA 30060-2896, fax to (770) 528-7490,or email to agabriel@spsu.edu Chair's MessageThe upcoming meeting on May 18th should be an exciting one. It gives us an opportunity to celebrate both the great science that has been done in the South as well as the service of our members for the South. The Herty Award will be presented to Dr. Richard Adams, the Arthur S. Williams Professor of Chemistry at the University of South Carolina. This is a particularly timely award, as Dr. Adams has recently also received the 1999 ACS award in Inorganic Chemistry and the Senior Scientist Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He has played an important role in the development and discovery of mixed-metal catalysts as well as developed some of the first chiral thioether macrocycles. His work has both academic and industrial significance. As such, his seminar should further foster the interactions between academia and industry seen in our recent meetings. We are truly honored to have such a distinguished scientist be this year's Herty Award winner. In addition, we will honor the section's 50-year members, and we will give ACSGLS awards to recognize the outstanding service of some of our members. Lissa Dulaney will be recognized for her many years of outstanding service to the ACSGLS, particularly for her role in the development of the Women Chemists Committee. Tom Netzel will be cited for his outstanding service to the ACSGLS both as an officer and as founder of the Governmental Relations Program within our section. Miles Chesley and Rolan Schlobohm will be recognized for outstanding service to the ACSGLS as promoters of public scientific awareness. Their work promoting chemistry has been visible in the toughest audience, the general community. That is where attitudes about chemistry often need to be changed! Our only regret is that we can not honor more of our member's service contributions. If you know of someone you feel should have been nominated this year, please make sure to nominate him or her for next year! If you would like to begin your road of service to the community through the section, please see our web site, http://chemistry.gsu.edu/ACS, where you'll receive updates on our programs and volunteer opportunities. Rigoberto Hernandez |
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May Meeting Herty Medal PresentationDr. Richard D. AdamsDate: Thursday, April 22, 1999 Time: 6:30-7:00 arrive & social 7:00-8:00 dinner 8:00 - 9:00 Speaker Dinner: Choice of London Broil with Roasted Garlic Mashed Potatoes or Grilled Salmon Jardiniere. All dinners include choice of Garden or Caesar Salad or Soup de Jour, warm dinner rolls and butter, dessert and coffee, tea or milk. Prices include tax and gratuity. There will be a cash bar. Please indicate when making your reservation you choice of entree.
Location: Wyndham Garden Hotel
Directions: I 75 north, exit 112. You can see the hotel from the interstate If you are traveling north from Atlanta, take exit 112 - 120 West, go over the interstate, go left at the first light and immediately left again. If you are traveling south, take exit 112, turn right at top of ramp, go left at first light and immediately left again.
Cost: $28 per person, full-time students with ID and highschool teachers, $23. Payment should be made to the ACS Georgia Sectionand will be collected at the door. RSVP: Lucian A. Lucia, 404-894-9712, <lucian.lucia@ipst.gatech.edu>< p> Terry Say, 770-514-6003, <terrysay@aol.com> When making reservations, please state your name, professionalaffiliation, and telephone number. Reservation deadline is 5:00 PM onthe Thursday preceding the meeting. If you make a dinner reservation butfail to attend, you must still make payment for your meal to treasurer AngusWilkinson, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology,Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0400 (404) 894-7452. |
1999 Georgia Section Meetings:
1999 ACS Picnic The 1999 ACS picnic will be held on June 19th, from 5:30 to 9:30 PM at Tolleson Park in Smyrna. Activities will include swimming and vollyball. Sonny's BBQ will cater the event. The cost will be just $10 per adult and $5 per child under 12.
SERMACS-99: The Southeastern Regional Meeting of the ACS
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I attended the spring ACS meeting in Anaheim CA on March 21-24. As a first term councilor, I attended the Council Orientation Meeting on March 21. I also attended the Council Meeting on March 24. Below is the highlight report of the latter.
ACS President-Elect 2000. Four nominees: F. Peter Boer, James A. Bristol, Attila E. Pavlath and Alan Schriesheim, each told us their background and actions theyíd take as the President-Elect. Boer of W.R. Grace, sounded very much like a corporate executive, emphasized on creating ìvalueî for the ACS. Bristol from Parke-Davis focused more on career development and membership drive. Pavlath, who frequently visited our section, talked mostly on what he had done for the ACS. Schriesheim from Argonne National Lab talked more broadly on career, fund raising, chemistry education and image.
Pavlath of USDA and Schriesheim of Argonne National Lab were elected by the councilors to be the candidates for the upcoming election.
Report from the Committee on Budget and Finance.: The committee reported that the ACS ended 1998 financially sound, with its core activities making a net contribution to the society of $400,000. The council voted to raise the dues from 105 to 108 in year 2000.
The committee also presented the information, which was requested by councilors in the fall meeting 98, on the need of increasing meeting registration fees by $10. The committee told the council that ACS lost $41/attendee for the Anaheim meeting and 40% of the attendees received discount. E. Elliel of NC pointed out that ACS should consider give undergraduate and graduate students different discount since the majority of the latter receive financial support from their research advisors.
(After I returned from the meeting, in a conversation with Theresa Chamblee on the above matter, she suggested that our section set up a travel award for undergraduate students majoring in chemistry to go to the national meetings. Weíll bring it up at the next executive committee meeting.)
The council also voted to remove the $10 fee for members to reinstate their membership.
Report from the Committee on Membership Affairs (MAC): The final 98 membership was 158,968 and an increase of 3000 from 97.
MAC reminded local sections that the 1999 new member commission was increased to $15.
MAC awarded grants to several local sections including Colorado, Cleveland, Detroit, etc. to support their proposals for member retention and recognition activities. These grants, with an award of up to $2,000, are available to all local sections.
Others Issues Related to Local Sections: Local sections may now order recognition products, such as plaques, certificates, and past-chair pins from the ACS online store at http://www.ChemCenter.org
A new and free service for local section officers, the ACS Electronic Local Section officers Mailing list became available Oct. 1, 1998. This list provides local section officers with a way to share ideas and information about local sections from other officers.
Charles Holmes Herty was a celebrated, patriotic chemist whose motto was "For Science and Country". He was born in Milledgeville, Georgia on December 4, 1867. Although orphaned at the age of eleven, Herty went to college at the University of Georgia, where he earned a B.A. degree and was the "First Honor Man" of the class of 1886. Herty attended Johns Hopkins University and received his Ph.D. in 1890. He studied with Ira Remsen, the eminent physical chemist. Herty's thesis dealt with complex ions of the Werner type.
Herty returned to the University of Georgia in 1891 as an instructor in chemistry and as the South's first football coach. He married Sophie Schaller in 1895, and they had three children. In 1899, Herty left Georgia to study in Europe; he worked under Witt and Kerner in Berlin, and tinder Werner in Zurich.
Upon returning to the United States, Herty joined the U.S. Forestry Service. His work was directed toward saving the pine forests in the Southeast. The naval stores industry had been systematically killing the forests in their efforts to collect tree resin using a trough which was backed into the tree wood. Herty developed a method to collect the resin in a metal cup, sparing the tree's life; the method was used by the Forestry Service for seventy-five years. Herty's patent of the method enabled him to he financially secure for the rest of his life.
In 1905, Herty joined the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as Chairman of the Chemistry Department and Smith Professor. He was also appointed Director of Athletics. His research interests centered around natural products which had commercial promise, such as turpentine, soaps, leathers, and cottonseed oil.
In 1915-1916, Herty became the first President of the American Chemical Society. In 1917, he resigned from the University of North Carolina to become the first full-time editor for the journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry. Herty used his position as editor to write political editorials furthering the advancement of chemistry in the United States. His two main concerns were the formation of the Chemical Warfare Service and the ability of the United States to manufacture quality chemical products which had previously been purchased from Germany.
From 1921 to 1927, Herty served as President of the Synthetic Chemical Manufacturers Association, an organization that he helped to establish. He also collaborated with Francis P. Garvan on the alignment of chemistry and medicine which resulted in the start of the National Institutes of Health.
Herty became a private consultant to the chemical industry in 1928. His research focused on the conversion of pine pulp to newsprint. He formed the Savannah Paper and Pulp Laboratory in Savannah, Georgia with a $50,000 grant from the Chemical Foundation and a $20,000 per year grant from the State of Georgia. By 1933, the plant had developed a feasible process for pulp conversion. On March 31, 1933, the first newspaper was printed using paper created with the Herty process.
Charles Holmes Herty made numerous contributions to chemistry in the development of new products and the advancement of new ideas. The Georgia Section of the American Chemical Society pays tribute to this ingenious man each year by awarding a chemist from the Southeastern United States with the prestigious Herty Medal.
The Charles H. Herty Medal is a beautiful solid gold medallion awarded annually by members of the Georgia Section of the American Chemical Society. The purpose of the award is to give public recognition to the work and service of outstanding chemists who have significantly contributed to their chosen fields. All chemists in academic, government, or industrial laboratories in the southeastern United States (Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, and South Carolina) are eligible.
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