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ACS to Air Professional Attitudes Committee on Professional Relations a n d Status plans symposium on developing professional th inking

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activity will appear at the Atlantic City meeting. On Wednesday morning, Sept. 16, the Council Committee on Professional Relations and Status will present a symposium on "Development of Professional Atti tudes" (C&EX, Aug. 10, page 82 ) . The meeting will be held on the Convention Hall stage, fol­lowed by a hmcheon in the Royal Pavilion of the Dennis Hotel.

Dr. Sidney Cantor, committee member who has been especially ac­tive in study of die subject over sev­eral years (C&EX, Jan. 27, 1958, Part 2, page 7 3 ) , has organized a slate of speakers who are students of profes­sional affairs and attitudes. Now a con­sultant, Dr. Cantor has worked as an industrial research chemist as well as a director of research. Dr. A. L. Elder, ACS President-Elect, will address the luncheon.

Dr. John K. Taylor, chairman of the PR&S Committee, will open the pro­gram with a discussion of the work ot his committee.

Dr. Bernard Ross, who will deal with social choices in professional values, is an associate piwft-ssot' in social work and social research at Bryn Mawr College. Me has been active in professional af­fairs of social workers and sociologists, giving particular attention to effects of changing social values on professionals, the aspirations of professionals, and so­cial responsibility of professionals.

Dr. Anne Roe, whose subject is moti­vation of scientists, is currently a lec­turer in education and a research asso­ciate at Harvard University. A clinical psychologist, she is the author of 49 books and papers. During the past 15 years she has taken a particular interest in psychological studies of scientists and in 1953 published a book, "The Making of a Scientist/ '

Dr. Andrew S. Watson will discuss professional images. He is a psycho­analyst in private practice in Ann Ar­bor, Mich., and is a member of the faculties of both the school of law and school of medicine at University of

Michigan. In each of the latter posi­tions he is concerned wi th the develop­ment of professional images in the stu­dent lawyer and s tudent physician.

Dr. William A. Mosher , head of the depar tment of chemistry at University of Delaware, is past chairman of the PR&S Committee. H e will discuss ex­periences with use of lectures and dis­cussions in developing proper profes­sional attitudes.

• Luncheon Speakers . At the luncheon, ACS President-Elect A. L. Elder, director of chemical research for Corn Products, will talk about what management expects of the young pro­fessional.

Dr. P. A. Roussel will discuss what the young professional expects in his job. R e s e i i . h chemist at Du Pont, Dr. Roussel has previously spoken and writ­ten on professional s ta tus (C&EX. Jan. 5, page S4) . After the members of the morning panel h a v e offered com­ments, Dr. John J. Bohrer will describe the program of the Philadelphia Sec­tion's professional relations and status committee.

ACS Plans Film Previews

College and high school chemistry films, TV teaching aids to be shown in fall

A preview- of two animated films for college chemistry classes, a preview' of Continental Classroom's television course in college chemist ry , and daily showings of excerpts from a filmed high school chemistry course are scheduled for the ACS Atlantic City meeting. The Society is a co-sponsor of all three teaching projects.

The animated color films, each run­ning about 12 minutes , will be shown to members of the Society and the press in Borton Hall of the Hotel Dennis on Tuesday, Sept. 15, at 2 :30 P . M . and

again at 3 v.si. Entitled "Vibration of Molecules"' and "An Introduction to Re­action Kinetics,** the films were pro­duced by Sutherland Educational Films, under the supervision of an ACS committee headed by Dr. Joel H. Hilde-brand of the I'niversity of California. The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation granted SI 10.000 for production of the films, and the Fund for the Advancement of Educat ion granted $35,000 for distrib­uting prints and testing the films as teaching aids.

• Modern Chemistry. Continental Classroom. National Broadcasting Com­pany's network TV program for college credit , will introduce its 1959-60 course in "Modem Chemistry"* on Thursday morning. Sept. 17. One of the taped half-hour lectures will be presented to the press by invitation. Teacher of the course is Dr. John F. Baxter, head of the general chemistry division at University of Florida and secretary of the AC'S Division of Chem­ical Education. He is assisted by an ACS advisory committee led by Dr. William F. Kieffer of the College of Wooster, editor of the Journal of Chem­ical Education. The American Associa­tion of Colleges for Teacher Education is cosponsoring the year-long program, which has the financial support of The Ford Foundation and 10 leading indus­trial concerns.

More than 300 colleges and univer­sities are expected to offer credit for the TV chemistry course, to be telecast from 6:30 to 7:00 A.M. over the XBC network starting Sept. 2S and ending May 27. Some 400.000 persons watched Continental Classrooms course in **Atomic Age Physics" last year. It was carried on 149 stations— more than many huge network pro­grams. The physics course will be re­run over the network this year from 6:00 to 6:30 A .M.

Dr. Baxter also teaches the high school chemistry course on motion pic­ture film which was produced by En­cyclopaedia Britannica Films, in co­operation with the ACS and the Fund for the Advancement of Education. Excerpts from the full-year course of 160 half-hour demonstration-lectures will be shown in Room A of the Atlan­tic City Convention Hall each after­noon. Monday through Thursday, Sept. 14-17. from 5 to 7 o'clock.

The Britannica series, constituting the first complete, up-to-date chemistry course on sound motion picture film, will be used in high schools in many parts of the country this year.

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Postal Official to Speak Roy L. Sheridan, chief of the Mail

Classification Branch, Postal Services Division, Bureau of Operations of the U. S. Post Office, Washington, D. C , will speak at the meeting of the Asso­ciation of ACS Local Section Publica­tions during the Atlantic City meeting. Mr. Sheridan will discuss phases of 2nd and 3rd class mail with emphasis on special problems facing low circulation periodicals in the nonprofit field. He will have a question and answer period following his talk. The meeting will follow a dinner in the East Room of the Claridge Hotel on Tuesday, Sept. 15, at 6:30 P . M .

NASW to Hear Kistiakowsky

Dr. George B. Kistiakowsky, Presi­dent Eisenhower's special assistant for science and technology, will speak at the silver jubilee dinner of the National Association of Science Writers in At­lantic City, highlighting the ACS fall meeting. ACS members will be wel­come at the dinner, to be held Wednes­day, Sept. 16, in the Hotel Dennis.

This will be Dr. Kistiakow sk\ s first major address since he assumed his government post in July, succeeding Dr. James R. Killian, Jr. Dr. Kistia­kowsky is on leave from Harvard Uni­versity, where he is Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Chemistry.

NASW was founded at an ACS meet­ing in Cleveland in 1934. It celebrated its 20th anniversary at a dinner in New York during the 126th National Meet­ing of the ACS.

PR Workshop Slated A two-hour workshop on local sec­

tion and division public relations is slated for the ACS meeting in Atlantic City. The ACS News Service will con­duct the session in the East Room of the Claridge Hotel on Wednesday, Sept. 16, beginning at 3 P . M .

A feature of the workshop will be discussion of a public relations manual now being prepared by the News Serv­ice as a guide for PR committeemen and section and division officers. Spe­cific public relations problems also will be tackled. The session replaces the News Service breakfast which had become a tradition at fall national meet­ings. Officers and public relations rep­resentatives of all local sections and divisions are encouraged to participate in the workshop, which will be open to all ACS members .

Southeastern Pennsylvania Dr. Hugh A. Heller of Franklin &

Marshall College is chairman of the ? Southeastern Penn­

sylvania Section for 1959. Other offi­cers: E d g a r S. Long of Hamilton Watch is v i c e chairman, Donald E. Xickol of Bea­con Milling is sec­retary, and John S. Heckles of Arm-H. A. Heller

strong Cork is treasurer. Councilors are Dr. R. P. Cross of Franklin & Mar­shall College and C. J. Fleming of Beacon Milling. Philip H. Lichty of Hamilton Watch and Dr. F. H. Suydam of Franklin & Marshall College are al-terate councilors.

New Section Elects The newly chartered Mississippi

Section has elected its first slate of offi­cers. Dr. L. L. Sulya, chairman of the biochemistry department at Uni­versity -of Missis­sippi Medical Cen­ter at Jackson, is the first chairman of the new section. Other officers for 1959-60 are Dr. C.

E. Lane, Jr., of Mississippi Southern College, chairman-elect; Dr. M. D. Turner of University of Mississippi Medical Center, secretary; R. E. Richter of Valley Mills, treasurer; Dr. A. E. Wood of Mississippi College, councilor; and Dr. L. C. Behr of Mis­sissippi State University, alternate councilor.

Erie Installs Danzig Dr. Morris J. Danzig, senior research

chemist at Lord Mfg., is chairman of r - the Erie Section

for 1959-60. Dr. Danzig served the section as program chairman and as an executive commit­tee member. Dr. Lewis C. Pyle of Allegheny College is vice chairman and program chair­

man. Dr. Joseph Rosenberg of General Electric is secretary, and William T. Reichert of American Viscose is treas­urer.

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