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HOW IT, ALL STARTED

As DESCRI BED I N THE FOREWORD, THERE HAVE BEEN FIVE PREYI OUS HI s-

TORIES, EACH COVERED A DIFFEREN~ PERIOD.

I N SEARCH I NG THE 'RECORDS, A RATHER COMPLETE H I STORY COVER I NG THE

YEARS FROM 1915 TO 1930 WAS DISCOVERED. THIS ORIGINAL PIECE OF WORK

WAS DONE BY THE AACC H I STORY COHM ITTEE APPO I NTED BY THEN PRES I DENT

LESLI E OLSON. THE COMMITTEE WAS COMPOSED OF R. WALLACE MITCHE LL,

CHAIRMAN, R. J. CLARK,S. J. LAWELLIN,S. J. LECLERCANDL. R. OLSEN.TH IS COMMI TTEE DID A MASTERFUL JOB OF RETRI EV I NG I NFORMAT I ON AND

COMPI LI NG IT I NTO A PUBLI SHED BOOKLET. PORTIONS OF THE REPORT ARE

INCLUDED FOR THE READERS' BENEFIT.

WHEN ONE EXAMI NES THE PERI OD FROM 1915 TO 1930, AS Rf-.~:C~~DEDBY

THIS HISTORY COMMITTEE, ONE GETS THE FEEL OF A TRUE PIONEERING SPIRfT

THAT EXISTED BACK THEN AND STILL EXISTS TO THIS DAY.

THE uINTRODUCTIONu ON PAGE 1 OF MITCHELL'S COMMITTEE REPORT SOUN~S

THE THEME THAT BECAME PREVELANT DOWN THROUGH THE YEARS --"HrIGNE2R~~Gu.

WE QUOTE FROM MITCHELL'S COMMITTEE REPORT:

INTRODUCTION

"In the years immediately preceding the organization of the AmericanAssociation of Cereal Chemists the conditions that prevailed in the industry werethose of individual mills operating as such in contrast to the conditions that cameto exist in the period after the great war, namely, great combinations and strongcorporations. But even at that time there were some progressive ~;:illcr.:; "ndmill owners who were installing laboratories and chemists to Ciid th~m in t\'.f;;[rwork. A few of the Northwest's spring wheat millers had installed laborato1"if!sas had also some of the leading mills of the Southwest.

liThe actual responsibility for the conception of a chemists' organization cannotbe ascribed to any particular individual or group of individuals. About 1914two groups, one in central Kansas and the other in Kansas City, were discussingthis idea. By 1914 there probably were about twenty mills In the Southwest thatemployed chemists and had laboratories of one sort or another. The chemist5employed were, at that time, young men, most of them taking their first p~sitionin the laboratory directly upon leaving college. It was only natural that thesf';young men, being in the same line of work, should meet and talk with oneanother from time to time. It was in these informal meetings that the ide\1 wasfirst evolv,ed that an association for cereal chemists would be a very good ~bing.A meeting of these men was held in Wichita to form an organization to aid insolving the common problems of the individuals. This is believed to be the firstcalled meeting that was ever held among any industrial cereal chemists in :hesouthwest. At this meeting and by subsequent correspondence, the foundatiuns.were laid for a meeting to be held on May 8, 1915, for the purpose of oryanizingan association of cereal chemists.

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"These plans j:ic~t~Yranzed and on .May 8, 1915, elever. chemists met in KansasCity, Mo. and f(;urided the American A;;sociation of Cereal Chemists.

"Previous!';,\-, in 1910 there had been organized a society known as the 'Ameri-can Society of Milling and Baking Technology.' A large portion of them2mbership ",0f, this Society was rec,ruited from the member"ship of the Associationof 0 f'f!de. I !\~Jricultural Chemists.

HTtx~ fttst meeting of the A.S.M. B. T. wa~ heid in Washington, D.C.N9V~mber S: 19F-, .;;nd was in response to a gener;)' invitatkln to 'all persons1n~\_'(fr$tl=d In wh:-~~,t and flour testing.1 It had been rec.ognized for years that.thei'!leti1\.;d~ used by chemists and technologists to test wheat and flour werePDt at ail uniform -and that the results obtained were not comparable as between(,!!1ferent laboratori~s or different operato:-:s. To eliminate this confusion andto bring about greater uniformity of methods and results, the A.S.M.B.T. wasorganiwd from among the members of the A. O. A. C. who were more especiallyinterested in milling and..baking problems.

liThe meetings were,a!ways held in Washin9ton at the time of the annual meet--ings of the A.O.A.C. ~...1{~mbership grew slo'!liv 3r.d included cammedcal lab{,:"a-tories Bnd nation?!, st.ate and Canadian agric'~~~ul'al institutions. Mill owne~"s,mo nuur brokers in the east were attracted tc its inceting$ tcobservemath::":;U:'ir:h;t' d;:,<::.,;s~~;on.

'ITh~' r."1..t;:(,.dor p-xp~.:dmental b"i{ing tests as ~Jsl':d by Saunders prescribedif;jJ '.;jn:;;'.,-;:d'riour. and the Corby m~thc:d of mixing spf-:cified 100 cuts with fle"K'-:b:.; '!:'~;i,'\'...d"'. Saunde'"s fHV:!';; very C:ever,-Iy con:,d.n.l(t.::d glass-top table for hand-lirl9 t'~~5 doughs withGu', ::::<.{OSlecf t~:npei'Dt.jn:. \'!o printed journal Was everIss\.H-:d by the A.S.H,G. T., tH~t mim~~agraphed copies of the proceedings were.nai!~d to each member.

I~ it was indeed fortun2ltt:! that the two societies found it desirable to. llnHe.E~.c'~~~'1af1:)~I-ved to develop ideas and a plan of organization suited to its member-shi;J-s:Hj in so doing it gained the inJerest and support of many individuals.Wb.~!'1 the time came to unite, each society had- enlisted the genuine intel~est of;t.; members ar::(~ that interest was strong enough to hold them in the larger or-c;;;nization wb8n: many more lines of endeavo.r must necessarily be cultivated in.::;.t_:!~j'to provide expression for the more varied interests of the diverse elemBnt""r r::<.:.l,:"i+?r-:;nip.

THE REASON

liOn the 8th day of May, 1915, in Kansas City, Mo., a few chemists th;:-:twere interested in cereal work met to form an organization for the advan~:~:'~'lerltof the science as applied to cereal analysis. They were all operators inlaboratories in which the work was principally the control of flour millinguperations.

"In the course of their experience, each one had been faced with the ques-tf,)t"Ii: IWhy can't you chemists agree on your reports?' It must be acknowledgedt?:';:.;'t there are grounds for such queries, and that, though they are explainable~t; the satisfaction of the chemist, it does not eliminate the fact that it lowersthe value of a chemical analysis in the eyes of the baker, jobber or miller.

IIEach member present was there because he felt the n~ed of associating withatr,e:- chemists interested in the same lines of work, with wl1om he could exchange:d,~~js and discuss the various methods as practiced by others.

:.All realized that, if by means of discussion and investigation the best prac-!~":~~".h: method of procedure for each determination could be established, then(;Jf,,(\dnrd methods could be outlined, and with that done, uniformity of results't\:':/...Ildfollow.

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"This, then, is the object of the association which has taken onto itself thetitle of IThe American Association of Cereal Chemists.' To carefully considermethods of procedure and practice in cereal analysis by means of research andopen discussion, and to draw conclusions which are representative of the con-victions of the operators who are members. It is the desire to adopt methodswhich are as free of any s'cientific objections as possible, but at the same timelend themselves to the Dest advantage under the conditions that exist in the or-dinary 'control' or 'commercial' laboratory. It is realized that there are manyobjections to be met each 'time ~that a standard method is adopted. There willbe special reaSOI)S why certain points in any method should be done slightly dif-ferently by different operators. All points that have a bearing on the resultsgotten by any method must be carefully considered and then the method thatis the most scientfically exact ane! at the same time practicable, selected as thestandard.

IiEvery earnest chemist who is seeking to give his employer value receivedwill see in this movement an opportunity to increase his efficiency by joiningwith the members and giving and receiving in the efforts to achieve more uni-form results. Flour and cereal chemistry has in the past never seen any con-certed efforts put forth for its benefit and now when the start has been madeit would be a great boon to all if the interested ones would come forward andjoin in the united membership in the interest of a worthy cause.

lilt is the earnest desire that millers and mill owners will understand the ob-.ject of this organization. Standards is a word that has recently come into badrepute with many millers. We hope that such persons will not let the word deterthem from reading the purpose and the ends to be accomplished by our body.

"There is no intention of comparing milling methods or telling others the littlethings about our particular mill that puts it ahead of the other fellow. We willleave that to the millers themselves. The fact is that t~ere are in almost allcases several ways to get the analytical data that makes the laboratory valuable.Because of the different methods there is a greater liability of apparent djscre-p(:incjes in the work of different operators working under different conditions.Then again there is a grievous lack of system in the manner of repol-ting thedata. For' instance, three laboratories might get the same loaf volume, and yettheir reports would be utterly dissimilar, due to the fact that one reported inpercentage, the second in cubic inches, al1d the third in cubic centimeters. Uni-formity in this matter will only come through some such agency as ourorganization proposes to be.

II Another thing: We wish to assure the mill owners that there is nothingof the character of a 'union' in this movement. This is a movement for the goodof the profession in that it will increase the efficiency of the individual and inso doing, increase his value to the employer. A wage scale is the last thingthat the ambitious operator would care to have to contend with.

liThe call for the first annual convention of the A.A.C.C. to be held inKansas City on May 8, 1915, was signed by Mr. H. E. Weaver and Mr. C. J.Patterson. In answer to this call eleven milling chemists responded. They were:H. E. Weaver, Larabee Flour Mills Company, Hutchinson, Kansas; E. G. Wahlin,Oklahoma Laboratories, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; A. R. Sasse, SouthwesternMilling Company, 'Kansas City, Kansas; J. M. Hogan, Kansas Flour Mills Company,Kansas City, Kansas; C. J. Patterson, Ismert-Hincke Milling Company, KansasCity, Kansas; C. G. Buck, Ismert-Hincke Milling Company, Kansas City, Kansas;P.M. Patterson, Wm. Kelly Milling Company, Monarch Milling Company dndHutchinson Milling Company, Hutchinson, Kansas; R. A. Lusk, Rea-.PattersonMilling Company, Coffeyville, Kansas; R. ~allace Mitchell, Kansas MillingCompany, Wichita, Kansas, A. A. Jones, EI Reno Mill & Elevator Company,

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Canadian Milling Company, EI Reno, 'Oklahoma; and A. W. Estabrook, Estabrooklaboratorie~, Kansas City, Missouri. ;

II Besides effecting the organization of this society, these charter members.evidenced the soundness of their ideas by writing into the constitution the aims,purposes, and ideals which continued to remain a true .expression of the societythrough the years to follow. II

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THECONST ITUT I ON OF THE AACC WAS WRITTEN AND, AFTER MUCH HEft.TED

DISCUSSION, WAS ADOp'TED ON MAY THE 8TH, 1915, AT THE COATES HOUSE INKANSAS CITY, Mo.

AT THI S POI NT IT I S I NTERESTING TO NOTE THAT 1N THE RECORDS OF

MEET! NGS ON THE FOLLOWI NG FEBRUARY 4 AND 5, A MEET! NG WAS HELD OF THE

KANSAS ROUND TABLE CLUB IN WICHITA, Ks. THAT WAS CHAIRED BY NEWLY-

ELECTED HARRY WEAVER. I NITS BEGI NNI NG YEARS, AACCI INCIDENTALLYI

WAS RESTRICTED TO MALE MEMBERS ONLY.rHE NEWLY ORGANI ZED GROUP OF CHEMI STS I NOW FORMERLY KNOWNAS THE

AMERI CAN Assoc IATI ON OF CEREAL CHEMI STS I CONTI NUED TO GROW, .ALTHOUGH

MANYMEMBERS ENTERED THE ARMED~ERVICES OF WORLDWAR I.

BY 1919 THE WAR WAS' OVER AND SOME CHEMISTS WERE RETURNING TO PICK

UP THEIR WORKWHERE THI;Y HAD LEFT OFF. DURING THE MEETING AT THE BALTI~

MORE HOTEL I N KANSAS CITY, A PROPOSIT I ON WAS PRESENTED BY DR. S. J.

LECLERC FROM THE AMERI CAN SOCI ETY OF MI LLI NG AND BAKI NG TEiCHNOLOGY

(ASMBT) TO MERGEWITH THE AACC. DR. B. R. JACOBS PRESENTEDTHE rv1ATTER

OF MERGING THE TWO SOCIETIES IN SOME DETAIL,. A MOTION WAS MADE TO

MERGEI BUT IT FAI LED TO PASS. HOWEVERI A COMMITTEE WAS APPOr ~TED TOSTUDY 'THE MATTER AND BRI NG FORTH A RESOLUTI ON. THI S RESOLUTI ON STATED

THAT EACH GROUP WOULD STUDY THE MATTER AND CONSIDER A MERGER SOMETIMEIN THE NEAR FUTURE. ~

THE AACC CONTI NUED TO EXPAND AND GROW I N VARIOUS QUALlTY EYALUA-T I ON AREAS. A TECHNI CAL BULLETI N WAS NOWBEI NG PUBLl SHED AND SUSTAIN-

ING MEMBERSHIPS WERE CREATED. DUES WERE RAISED FROM $5 TO $10 IN 1920.

THE YEAR 1922 WAS A BANNERONE IN SOMERESPECTS. A CHANGEI N THE

CONSTITUTION ALLOWED WOMENi'\) BECOME FULL-FLEDGED MEMBERS. FOR THE

RECORD, MI'SS Z. Z; TITUS OF PAGE FLOUR MILLS IN TOPEKA WAS TH,E FIRSTFEMALE ACTIVE MEMBEROF AACC.

STILL ANOTHER NOTABLE EVENT TOOK PLACE. WE QU'OTE FRO,., MITCHELL'SCOMMITTEE RECORDS:

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also addressed by a representative of the Operative Millers and it began toappear that the Association was not only a permanent one, but that it wasreceiving favorable recognition from those ~ther associations engaged in likeor similar work. It was at this convention that the membership voted favorablyon the amalgamation -with the A.S.M.B.T. which had been proposed three yearspreviously by that association. President Lawellin was instructed to considerwith Dr. C. H. Baitey, president of the A.S.M.B.T. the problems involved inconsolidating the two or'~anizations. Theirs was the responsibility of formulatinga plan which should be pfesented to the executive committees of both societies.Should the executive committee vote its approval, then President Lawellin hadthe authority to complete the amalgamation.

liThe plan of holding the annual convention at the same place and time asthat of the Association of Operative Millers proved to be a happy one. A newspirit of good will and harmony developed through the contacts effected at themeeting and the bars of misunderstanding were appreciably reduced.

II The work for the coming year was of two decided trends. One was thefostering of research work and the other pointed to an effort to obtain widerpublicity.

IIImmedii':!tely following the convention, President Lawellin gave his attentionto the problem of concluding a satisfactory agreement with the A.S.M.B.T. Dr.C. H. Bailey of the A.S.M.B.T. indicated a generous spirit of cooperation aridthe discussions terminated in a plan which received the approval of the execu-tive committees of both societies.

liOn March 28, 1923, Dr. C. H. Bailey and Mr. S. J. Lawellin met in Minnea~.polis, Minnesota, and signed the final agreement of amalgamation. The provis-ions of the agreement were to be effective as of January 1, 1923, but each organ-ization was to function independently until the following annualconvention. 11

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THIS UNION WAS DESIGNATED AS THE "AMALGAMATION, EVIDENTAlY A

CARRY-OVER FROM LABORATORY TERMI NOLOGY. THE NAME OF THE GROU~ WAS TO

REMAI N THE AMERI CAN Assoc I ATI ON OF CEREAL CHEtlI STS i. MANY MH\BERS OF

THE ASMBT WERE ALSO MEMBERS OF THE AACC. THE "AMALGAMATIONN ADDED ABOUT

TH I fHY . NEW MEMBERS TO THE AACC ROLLS, \~HI CH NOW NUMBERED SL I GHTLY OVER

80. THE TREASURYHAD GROWNTO $2,572.55.

BY 1925 THE ASSOCIATI ON HAD EXPANDEDTO 244 MEMBERSWITH 190 SUS-

SCRI PTIONS TO CEREAL CHEMI STRY, THE ASSOCIATION'S NEWLY FOR~1EDTECHN1-

CAL BULLETIN.

IN JUNE., 1926, ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT ROWLANDJ. CLARK MADEEIGHTRECOMMENDATI ONS TO THE CONVENTION HELD I N DENVER. THE SECOND RECOMM-

ENDAT I ON WAS THAT LOCAL CEREAL CLUBS BE GRANTED I NOI VI DUAL CHARTERS

AND BE CALLED SECTIONS, PROVIDING THAT AT LEAST 75% OF THE MEMBERSHIP

ALSO WERE ASSOCIATION MEMBERS.

THE RECOMMENDATIONSWERE ADOPTED BY THE CONVENTION. WITHIN A FEW

WEEKS, SEVERAL CLUBS APPLl ED FOR CHARTERS. THE MI NNEAPOLIS GROUP WAS

GRANTED CHARTER No.1. THE KANSAS ROUNDTABLE CLUB, WAS AWARDEDCHARTER,No.2 AND WAS NAMEDTHE PIONEER SECTION~

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THESE NEWLY-APPROVED SECTIO~~ IMMEDIATELY BECAME FUNCTIONAL AND,ACT IVE. ON OCTOBER 30, 1926, THE PIONEER, KANSAS CITY AND NEBRASKA

SECTIONS SPONSORED A JOINT MEETING IN KANSAS CITY.

THE PRESENT HISTORICAL COMM ITTEE NOW TURNS TO OTHER NOTED AACC

HISTORIANS FOR INFORMATION FROM 1930 ON.

To MAINTAIN THE SENSE OF PIONEERING DEDICATION TO LEARNING MORE

ABOUT CEREAL CHEMISTRY, ESPEC IALLY AS IT APPLIED TO WHEAT AND FLOUR,

WE WOULD LlKE TO QUOTE D IRECTLY FROM CLAUDE F. DAV IS, CHA IRMAN OF THE

PIONEER SECTION IN 1930 AND 1931. THE AUTHORS RECOGNIZE CERTAIN REDUN-

DANC IES BUT FEEL SOMETH ING MAY BE LOST IN TRANSLA TIONS, SO WE EXERPT

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liTHE PIONEER SECTI ON OF THE AACC WAS A PIONEER AMONG LOCAL SEC-

TIONS OF THE NATIONAL ORGANIZATION. THE EARLIEST BEGI~NINGS WERE MANI-

FESTED IN "'"HEFRIENDSH IPS FORMED THROUGH EARLY WORK IN THE AACC AND

THE COMMON INTERESTS OF THE EARL IEST WORKERS IN THE FLOUR MILL AND

CEREAL LABORATOR IES OF THE SOUTHWEST, ESPEC IALLY IN THE KANSAS WHEAT

BELT.

liTHE F IRSTFORMAL STEP WAS THE FORMATION OF THE CHEMISTS ROUND

TABLE CLUB OF THE KANSAS MILLERSI CLUB IN 1922. I TS PURPOSE WAS TO

BR ING CHEM ISTS OF THE SOUTHWEST INTO CLOSER COOPERA T ION AND..FOR THE

MUTUAL BENEF ITS TO BE GA INED THROUGH FREQUENT MEET INGS FOR DISCUSS IONS

OF CEREAL PROBLEMS. .

liTHE FIRST OFF ICERS WERE A. A. JONES OF LARABEE FLOUR MILLS CO.,

HUTCHINSON, AS CHAIRMAN AND JOHN HESS, CHEMIST, THE WILLIAM KELLY" "

M'ILLING CO., HUTCHINSON, AS SECRETARY. THIS ORGANrZATION WAS UNIQUE

IN THAT IT HAD ONLY TWO OFF ICERS, NO DUES, NO ADM ISS ION REQU IREMENTS

OTHER THAN TO ATTEND THE MEETINGS, DISPLAY INTEREST, AND TO MAKE A RE-

QUEST FOR MEMBERSH IP. A QOUND TABLE DISCUSS ION WAS THE ESSENCE OF THE

ACTIVITIES.

II I N JULY, 1924, THE ROUND TABLE CLUB INAUGURATED A SYSTEM OF MON-

THLY CHECK SAMPLES, WHICH CREATED MORE RESPECT FOR THE CEREAL CH~MISTS

WITHI~ ITS REACH THAN ANY OF THE OTHER ACTI~ITIES OF THE GROUP. THIS

CHECKING OF RESULTS WAS CARRIED OUT ON A FLOUR SAMPLE SEALED IN Mf;TAL

CANS AND MA ILED TO EACH MEi'1BER. THE RESULTS OF TH IS CHECK ING ON THE

SAME SAMPLE PUT THE AB IIITY OF THE VAR IOUS CHEM ISTS TO CONCUR CLOSELY

WITH EACH OTHER ON A FACT BAS IS. COMM I TTEES AND OTHER VOLUNTEER WORK-

ERS THEN SET TO WORK TO FERRET OUT THE REAL REASONS FOR POOR CHECK ING.

As A RESULT, THE AB IL ITY OF THE GROUP TO MAKE THE IR RESULTS CHECK WAS

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GREATL Y I MPROVED AND MIL L MANAGERS AND FLOUR BUYERS CAME TO KNOW WHAT

LIMITATIONS TO EXPECT FROM GOOD ANALYTICAL WORK.

"THE BAK I NG TEST COMMI TTEE OF TH I S CLUB WAS VERY ACTI VE I N AN

EFFORT TO STANDARDI ZE AND I MPROVE THE BAKI NG TESTS Arm MAKE THEM MORE

PRACTICAL IN DETERMINING FLOUR QUALITY. THE FIRST COLLABORATIVE WORK

WAS TO BRING TO THE MEETINGS EXPERIMENTAL LOAVES OF BREAD AND TO AT-

TEMPT A UNI FORM METHOD OF SCORI NG. THEY DISCOVERED THAT THERE WERE

VARIOUS SIZE PANS, WEIGHT OF LOAVES, METHODS OF MIXING AND HANDLING

THE DOUGHS AND, CONSEQUENTLY, A WIDE VARIATION IN THE QUALITY OF BREAD

WHICH WAS PRESENTED FOR SCORING.

"AFTER MUCH EFFORT, THE MEMBERS WERE REWARDED BY SEEI NG REAL I M-

PROVEMENT rr~ THE BREAD PRESENTED FOR SCORI NG AT THE REGULAR MEET I NGS.

WHEN CONSIDERATION IS GIVEN TO THE TYPE OF EQUIPMENT AND FACILITIES

WHI CH THESE MEMBERS PROPOSED FOR STANDARDI ZING SUCH A TEST, SOME VALU-

ABLE CONCLUSIONS WERE MADE REGARDI NG THE BAKI NG TEST, SUCH AS: . 1.BAK I NG I S THE MOST IMPORTANT TEST TO BE APPLl ED TO FLOUR. 2. THE OB-

JECT FOR BAKI NG I Sr" (A) TO ESTABLl SH THROUGH RESEARCH THE QUALI TY OF

A FLOUR OR ESTABLISH A STANDARD ON NEW CROPS, (B) TO MAINTAIN THROUGH

CONTROL THE UNI FORMITY OF A FLOUR. 3. A FORMULA AND PAN -SI ZE WERE

RECOMMENDED.

"THE KANSAS CHEMI STS I ROUND TABLE CLUB, I N A MEETI NG AT NEWTON

AUGUST 21, 1926, VOTED TO APPLY FOR. A CHARTER AS A LOCAL SECT I ON OF

THE AACC TO BE CALLED THE PIONEER SECTI ON OF THE AACC. CHARTER CER-

TIFICATE #2 WAS GRANTED SEPTEMBER 21, 1926. CHARiER MEMBERS WERE:

R. J. CLARK, CHAIRMAN; CLARENCEWARD, SECRETARY;S. G. BROWN,H. A.BAEHR, F. A. BLEDGER, H. N. CLARK, C. F. DAVIS, J. C. HOWE, WALTERHALL, O. W. HARPER, R. C. KENT, ROLANDKUFELD, RUTHE. LORIMER, L. E.LEATHEROCK,H. L. LENTZ, M. G. MANN, F. L. MCCREARY, G~. A. NICKELS,H. S. OSBORNE,R. B. POTTS, M. C. Ross, DR. C. O. SWANSON,C. S. SUL-LIVAN, JEFF SCHLESINGER*, A. A. TOWNER,ZORANDATITUS, E. F. TIBBLlNG,

W. V. VANSCOYK,J. W. WHITACRE,ANDG. G. WEINS. "'The only survivor of thegroup in 1989 is Schlesinger.

"As A DIVISION OF THE NATIONAL ORGANIZATION, THE PIONEER SECTION

HAS CARRIED ON ITS ACTIVITIES SOMEWHATIN THE SAME MANNER AS BEFORE

THE CHARTER WAS GRANTED. THE QUARTERLYMEETI NGS WERE HELD ALTERNATELY

AT WICHITA, NEWTONAND HUTCHINSON, EXCEPT THE EARLY SPRING MEETINGS,

WHICH WERE CONDUCTEDAT THE MILLING DEPARTMENTOF KANSAS STATE COLLEGE,MANHATTAN,IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE KAN$AS CITY SECTION.

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"THIS EARLY SPRING MEETING.'WAS, PERHAPS, THE MOST IMPORTANT BE-,CAUSE THE MEMBERS WERE BROUGHT I NTO CLOSE CONTACT WITH THE EXTENS I VE

RESEARCH WORK OF THE COLLEGE'S MI LLI NG DEPARTMENT AND WERE ABLE TO OB-

TAIN FIRST HAND THE NEW IDEAS WHICH CENTER AROUND THE CEREAL CHEMIST'S

PROBLEMS. OCCASI ONALLY, THE MEET I NG PLACE WAS CHANGED TO OTHER POI NTS

IN KANSAS.

"THE CHECK SAMPLE ACT I V IT I ES WERE EXTENSI VE AND THE COOPERATORS

WERE SCATTERED THROUGHOUT KANSAS, OKLAHOMA, TEXAS, AND OTHER STATES,

THE SENT I MENT BE I NG THAT TH I S WAS THE MOST VALUABLE FUNCTI ON OF THE

ORGANI ZAT LON.

"A STATISTICAL ANALYSIS REVEALED CONSIDERABLE IMPROVEMENT WAS MADE.

I T WAS NOTED THAT THE POOREST CHECKI NG WAS DONE I N THE THREE MONTHS

WHEN THE MAJOR PORTI ON OF THE WHEAT CROP WAS MOVED. ONE MEMBER BECAME

RESPONSI BLE FOR KEEPI NG A SET OF CHARTS CARRYI NG AN ANAL YS I S OF THE

CHECK SAMPLE RESULTS. THESE CHARTS WERE PRESENTED AT MEET I NGS AND SUG-

GESTIONS FOR IMPROVEMENtS WERE ALWAYS IN ORDER. To INSURE A WORKING

FUND FOR TH I S AND OTHER ACT I V IT I ES, A CHARGE OF TWO DOL LARS PER YEAR

WAS LEVIED.

"THE MAJORITY OF THE SECT I ON'S MEMBERS WERE MILL LABORATORY WORK-

ERS AND, ACCORDING TO CUSTOM OR NECESSITY, BUILT UP A BURDENSOME SYSTEM

OF ROUTINE MILL CONTROL WORK ALONG WITH ROUTINE ANALYSES.--.

"IN THE TRUE PIONEER SPIRIT, J. L. 'SPAULDINGOF LARABEEFLPURMILLSCO., ~~ELLINGTON, AND E. O. KLOPFSTEIN OF RED STAR MILLING CO., WITH

OTHERS, I NVEST I GATED THE WEI GHI NG OF FLOUR ASH D IRECTL Y UPON THE PAN

OF THE BALANCE. TH I S DEPARTURE FROM THE REGULAR METHOD OF WEI GHI NG

ASH WAS SO RADI CAL THAT THE MEMBERS OF THE SECTI ON WERE DOUBTFUL AND

SLOW TO ACCEPT THE METHOD BUT EVENTUALLY ADOPTED IT.

"ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS READ AT LOCAL MEETI NGS, REPORTS ON QUESTIONAIRES

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AND DATA OF -INTEREST WERE COPI ED AND MAI LED TO MEMBERS.

WORK WAS DONE ON STANDARDIZING THE BAKING TEST.

"I TIS REALI ZED THAT WORK DONE BY THE LOCAL SECT I ON HAS DUPLI CA-

TED RESEARCH DONE BY THE NATIONAL BODY BUT GOOD WORK BEARS REPEAT I NG

BECAUSE, FIRST, NEW CHEMI .~TS ARE CONSTANTL Y ENTER I NG THE FIELD AND,

SECOND, ALL CHEMISTS ARE HUMAN AND THE WORK MAY HAVE BEEN FORGOTTEN.

"THE PIONEER SECTION STOOD READY AT ALL TIMES TO COOPERATE TO THE

FULLEST EXTENT TO PROMOTE ANY PROJECTS FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCI ENCEIN THE CEREAL INDUSTRIES,"

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