ACS NEWS

ACS STAFF IN NEW HOME Like the Phoenix which symbolizes the Society, a new headquarters building has risen impressively on the

site of the old structure. Board Chairman Arthur Cope reports to the ACS Council on this renascence

"It makes me proud to be a chemist and a member of the ACS."

This comment from a recent visitor to the American Chemical Society's headquarters in Washington, D.C., is typical of reaction to the new build­ing. ACS members, nonchemist visi­tors, and staff—which began moving in Feb. 1—all have expressed admira­tion, pride, and satisfaction.

What did the Society get for its money? A good buy, according to a report by Chairman of the Board Arthur C. Cope, presented before the

ACS Council at the 137th National Meeting in Cleveland. And the build­ing was ready nearly three months ahead of schedule.

Consensus is that the new building combines utility and attractiveness without being pretentious. It should facilitate ACS services to the chemical profession, said Dr. Cope, and it should give the public a favorable im­pression of the ACS.

Outstanding Architectural Features. Unusual features distinguish the struc­ture and increase its utility. At­

tractive design and judicious struc­tural use of aluminum prompted the American Institute of Architects to nominate the ACS headquarters build­ing for the 1960 Reynolds Memorial Award (C&EN, Mar. 21, page 88) . Noteworthy characteristics:

• Aluminum louvers shade the win­dows, eliminating a need for Venetian blinds. A clock mechanism and photo-electric cells control the louver setting. Hand control also is possible.

• Double-glazed aluminum frame

QUIET RETREAT. Just off the lobby is an inviting reception racks in the reception room and bound ACS journals are avail-room and, beyond that, the library. This room also is suitable able in the library. These facilities are supplemented by a for small conferences. Current publications are displayed on second library in the editorial department.

windows swing inward to permit win­dow-washing from inside the building.

• Movable floor-to-ceiling metal par­titions make office arrangements flex­ible.

• Exterior walls of precast insulated concrete slabs, 4 inches thick, are 8 inches thinner than standard. This adds 2500 square feet of usable office space.

• Slab-band concrete floors with multiple ducts at 2-foot intervals sup­ply electric power, telephone, and signal lines.

• Nemostats control temperature (heating and air conditioning) for each room individually. Air enters through ducts in the metal-pan acous­tical tile ceiling, which also contains recessed fluorescent lights at 4-foot intervals.

The new building provides depart­mental conference rooms; small em­ployee lounges; underground parking; ample storage; dispensary; assembly hall with Pullman kitchen for prepar­ing light refreshments; vending ma­chines for coffee, sandwiches, cigarets, and the like; and two libraries.

Headquarters for National Officers. In addition to a board room, the fourth floor has a National Officers' Suite which will provide a working office for

VERSATILITY. The assembly room, which doubles as a lounge area, can seat 200 persons. It may be divided by two sets of folding wooden partitions into three meeting rooms. Sliding glass doors on the right lead to the patio. Behind the drapes is a built-in projection screen. Chairs are stored in an adjoining room.

PARKABILITY. Two basement levels offer space for 50 cars and 5000 square feet for storage, including a vault for vita! records. Part of the area is convertible to an air raid shelter.

FLEXIBILITY. The offices have been created by means of movable metal partitions. They may be readily rearranged to meet changing needs. Large rooms provide spaciousness for work areas and accommodate the IBM automatic record sorting

and collating machines. Membership records are processed through machines shown above (left). Private staff offices are for one or two persons. Pictured here is a two-man editorial office.

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BOARD ROOM. For meetings of ACS Directors and certain other groups. The white chalkboard, also suitable as a projection screen, may be concealed behind panels.

visiting ACS officers, directors, and others on official Society business.

In the editorial department is a Photon machine which, it is expected, will speed some publishing operations. It is now being used experimentally to publish the Journal of Chemical and Engineering Data.

Some 200 miles of wire are threaded through the floors of the ACS head­quarters to serve nearly 300 telephones. After business hours, automatic tele­phone answering equipment takes over to record incoming messages. These are delivered at 8:30 A.M. on the next working day. A direct line connects

the ACS editorial offices and the office of the Mack Printing Co. in Easton, Pa., where Society magazines are printed. Teletype machines also pro­vide direct communication with edi­torial branch offices and with any company having Teletype equipment.

When in bloom, the landscape plantings will enhance the favorable impression created by the building it­self, according to Dr. Cope's report. The setting includes a bank of snow azaleas, blue Scilla bulbs, English ivy, and one of the largest weeping beech trees in Washington. Espaliers of pur­ple wisteria adorn the front of the

building. Wisteria also shades part of the patio (which is actually the roof of the underground storage area).

Room for Expansion. The Society now uses about 44,500 square feet of office space. For future occupancy are the seventh and eighth floors and parts of the first, third, and sixth. This space is now rented to the American Optical Society and 16 units of the National Academy of Sciences. In addition, the building foundation around the storage space under the patio is designed to permit additions to the building.

The building's meeting rooms al­ready have been used by scientific groups. The board of managers of the ACS Washington Section, the ex­ecutive committee of the ACS Divi­sion of Chemical Literature, the Wash­ington Chapter of Alpha Chi Sigma, and the Joint Board of Science Edu­cation are among those that have met there. Reactions of these groups were favorable.

Dr. Allen L. Alexander, chairman of the Washington Section, reported that his committee was most pleased with the accoutrements of the new building and thought that it had been well planned and constructed.

H. G. Smithy Co., one of the out­standing building maintenance con-

Dollars Pledged to ACS Building Fund (March 31, 1960)

Quota $1,500,000

Quota $1,500,000

Quota $3,000,000

Pledged $2,253,309

Pledged $l,113jm

Pledged $î,139£17

EXECUTIVE OFFICE. Executive Secre­tary Alden Emery and certain key person­nel have telephone "Call Director" units for efficient, private communication. INDUSTRY MEMBERS TOTAL 82 C & E N A P R I L 2 5, 1960

CLEAN-UP TIME. Twenty-five clean­ing and maintenance personne! keep the building in order. Except for a few carpeted areas, floors are tough rubbertile.

NERVE CENTER. Two mail rooms (this one in the editorial department) sort mail twice daily. Two Teletype machines also offer fast communication with all points.

PENTHOUSE. To release basement parking and storage space, service equip­ment was put in a roof-top penthouse. Here, building superintendent checks a fuel nozzle.

cerns in Washington, has been engaged to operate and maintain the entire building. This company collects rents from the tenants and is responsible for building security.

Building Cost Low. Final cost of the building was close to the original estimate of $3 million. Dr. Cope pointed out that after first cost esti­mates were publicized, several addi­tions were made to improve the original plans. These included 5400 square feet of storage area, a patio, and a change in the entire south elevation from solid masonry to windows and louvers. Nevertheless, final cost came

to $3,050,000-an economical $21.50 per square foot, or about $1.75 per cubic foot.

Gifts and pledges to the building fund are still coming in, reported Dr. Cope. Of the $3 million goal, about $2.25 million has been pledged. Fifty-one of the local sections have reached or exceeded their quotas. The building fund committee expects that the full goal will be met. If not, a permanent arrangement to finance about $1 million of the building cost will be necessary.

Still Time to Give. The report con­tained a plea for a final effort to reach

the building fund goal. If the Com­mittee on Corporation Giving can raise an additional $386,200 from chemical industry and if the quota-shy sections complete their drives, the objective will be met.

Every member who has not pledged should be given an opportunity to subscribe, said Dr. Cope. If 7210 of the nonsubscribing members would register their names on the proposed plaque (to be erected in the foyer) by subscribing $5.00 per quarter for 10 quarters ( 2 1 / 2 years), the $360,483 still needed to meet the membership goal would be reached.

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Here is list of local sections that have met their quotas, with Local Section

Baton Rouge Central Massachusetts Central North Carolina Columbus Corning Dayton Delaware Eastern New York Eastern North Carolina Idaho Illinois-Iowa Indiana Indiana-Kentucky Border Kalamazoo Lake Superior Lehigh Valley Louisiana

% of quota

130.2 101.1 115.7 102.4 138.6 108.9 140.0 110.5 195.4 135.0 114.0 112.4 119.5 100.0 100.0 115.0 100.6

per cents of quota met as of March 31,1960: Local Section % of quota

Michigan State University Mid-Hudson Midland Mohave Desert Northeastern Tennessee Northeastern Ohio Oregon Panhandle Plains Philadelphia Pittsburgh Princeton Purdue Quincy-Keokuk Richland Rochester Sacramento St. Joseph Valley

100.7 124.6 110.9 118.2 102.9 117.0 103.0 107.8 100.5 108.0 111.6 118.0 103.3 122.9 116.2 100.2 100.0

Local Section

St. Louis Savannah River Sioux Valley South Arkansas South Carolina Southeastern Pennsylvanie Southern Indiana Syracuse University of Illinois University of Michigan Upper Peninsula Virginia Washington-Idaho Border Western Michigan Wichita Wooster Wyoming

% of quota

103.1 119.2 100.0 106.8 100.5

i 100.1 188.5 106.7 125.1 133.5 121.4 102.5 106.0 109.2 105.6 107.4 100.5

FOR THOSE OF YOU . . .

Who, for one reason or another, have deferred making a contribution to the ACS Building Fund Campaign but who now wish to join the 34,033 individual contribu­tors . . .

Or who became members of the Society after the Building Fund Campaign was set up in 1957 . . .

Or who have contributed but now wish to increase your pledges . . .

The card below is offered for your convenience.

Please fill in the form and either give it to your local section campaign chairman or mail it directly to the ACS Building Fund, 1155 Sixteenth Street, N.W., Washington 6, D.C.

Either way, the gift will be credited to your local section.

To assist in providing an adequate and permanent headquarters for our American Chemical Society in Washington, D.C, and in con­sideration of the gifts of others for this purpose, l/we hereby sub­scribe and agree to pay to the American Chemical Society

the sum of dollars per quarter for ten quarters,

beginning__ _ 1 9 in checks, bonds, property or

securities.

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Lobby Mural Stylizes Chemical Concepts Noted artist interprets chemical themes in steel and plastic stylizations of molecular structures

The mural in the lobby of the new American Chemical Society Headquar­ters Building in Washington is an ar­tist's stylized concept of molecular structures, electron photomicrographs, and crystal patterns. It is executed in stainless steel and plastic, a medium well adapted to the chemical age in which the American Chemical Society created its new home.

Transferring what the chemist sees or imagines as the molecular or atomic order of nature to the artist's interpre­tation with the feeling of beauty and drama is not always easy. Our mod­ern advertising descriptions often carry model designs which the structurally-minded chemist decides just could not exist. The transfer from the chemist to the artist of material portions of the ACS mural has involved many consul­tations between the artist, the Chair­man of the Society's Building Commit­tee, and different Society members. Many sketches were drawn in the proc­

ess; the artist had a free choice of color, perspective, and concept. Basi­cally, the only limitation in the final product was the technically impossible, as the scientist now believes.

The Theme The left side of the mural presents

for the scrutiny of cellulosic-minded chemists and for the edification of others, α-D-glucose in a molecular model form (carbon-black, hydrogen-gold, and oxygen-red). Interlinked between this theme and that on the right are conically-generated disks of force patterns depicting chain flexure. These patterns have been deftly worked into the elevator door structure to carry the panel through these dis­continuities without interrupting the panel theme.

Between the left and center eleva­tor doors, the panel presents in the lower area an electron photomicro­graph of beryllium titanate &nd in the

upper portion an electron photomicro­graph of zinc oxide. Between -the cen­ter and right elevator doors is a stylized presentation of butadiene. The all-gold hydrogen on top presents the ar­tist's feeling for a color balance, but to the exacting chemist this may well be accepted for labeled or heavy hydro­gen. The right panel presents a crystal growth pattern as colorfully viewed in polarized interference film patterns.

Across the panel are the rays of bonds or striae which imply the influ­ence and radiation reflection of atoms and molecules. They lend a pleasing feeling of unity to the panel.

The scientist in appraising a work of art needs to recognize that the ar­tist introduces personal feeling and im­pression into the portrait, whether it be molecular or personal. Here, the artist has successfully conveyed the theme to both scientists and the lay public that nature in its scientifically ordered pattern can be beautiful and dramatic.

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The Artist The mural was executed by Buell

Mullen, an American artist who has established an international reputation, particularly as a muralist working in a medium of stainless steel and plastic

resins. She has done many important murals and portraits in this medium, the first of which is in the Hispanic Room of the Library of Congress in Washington. Others of her murals are in the General Motors Research Labo-

Buell Mullen burnishes the stainless steel surface that covers the elevator wall in the ACS building lobby. The mural was created on location and includes elevator doors.

ratory, Searle Laboratory, Union Car­bide and Carbon Research Laboratory, Republic Steel Research Laboratory, and Inland Steel, Dun and Bradstreet, Case Institute of Technology, Chase Manhattan Bank, and Western Electric buildings. Her portraits include those of many distinguished Americans such as President Eisenhower, Gen. George Marshall, Eugene Ormandy, Gen. John Pershing, and others. Buell Mullen has been recognized both in this coun­try and abroad with special showings and awards, including a showing in the National Collection of Fine Arts in Washington.

In painting on sheet stainless steel, motor grinders take the place of brushes, steel wool replaces washes, and polishers create high lights. Plas­tic overlays and metal foil are bonded on roughened steel surfaces with plas­tic resins. The stylized models of or­ganic compounds have been brought into slight relief beyond the wall plane by slightly spherical plastic overlay.

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American Chemical Society Building Committee

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Standing Committees Report to Council In addition to taking numerous actions at the 137th ACS National Meeting in Cleveland (C&EN, April 18, page 42) , the Council also heard a number of committee reports on various topics discussed at committee meetings. Here are some of them:

Positions of names on ballots ap­parently have little effect in ACS elec­tions. Positions of names on 1959 ballots were randomized. Of nearly 34,000 votes cast for President-Elect in the 1959 election, 290 more than statistical were cast for the name first on the ballot. For one directorship, the candidate listed second got 27 more than statistical out of about 5500 votes. In the other directorship, the first position on the ballot got 37 votes above statistical out of 6400 votes. The Council Committee on Nomina­tions and Elections will randomize names on 1960 ballots to confirm these findings.

No titles other than "Miss" or "Mrs. ," where appropriate, should ap­pear on badges at national meetings of the ACS, according to a recom­mendation from the Council Commit­tee on Professional Relations and Status. However, the committee notes that some members feel "Dr." should be used when appropriate, if the registrant desires, and the com­mittee plans to study the matter further.

The Council Committee on Publica­tions has urged the Division of Biologi­cal Chemistry to prepare more de­tailed plans for the scope and policy for a new journal in biological chemistry.

About 1150 chemists and chemi­cal engineers belong to unions, ac­cording to preliminary figures from a survey of all ACS local sections. Assuming half these are Society mem­bers, final results may show that about 1% of ACS membership belongs to unions. These preliminary figures are based on returns representing 69.2% of Society members, 60.8% of Society sections. The survey is being con­ducted by the Council Committee on Professional Relations and Status.

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San Antonio Elects Koenig Dr. Louis Koenig, an independent re­search consultant, is the 1960 chair­

man of the San Antonio Section. Past services to t h e s e c t i o n : councilor 1954-59 and a member of the professional r e l a t i o n s and status committee

1954-59. Other officers include George R. Somerville, Jr., of the South­west Research Institute as chairman-elect, Wanda L. Brown of the Brooke Army Medical Center as secretary, Constance J. Jones of San Antonio Col­lege as treasurer, Major General Alden H. Waitt, retired, as councilor, and Dr. William E. Thompson of the Southwest Research Institute as alter­nate councilor.

Baton Rouge Elections Dr. Franklin Conrad, supervisor of chemical research and development at

Ethyl Corp., is 1960 chairman of the Baton Rouge Section. He has served the section as program chair­man in 1954-55, secretary in 1956-57, and as a mem­

ber of the executive committee-at-large in 1958. Other officers include Earl B. Claiborne of Esso Standard Oil as chairman-elect, Dr. Joel Selbin of Louisiana State University as secre­tary, and Dr. Paul E. Koenig of Loui­siana State University as treasurer.

Penn-York Section Theodore W. Blickwedel, group leader at Sylvania Electric Products, is 1960

chairman of the Penn-York Sec­tion. He was pub­lic relations and publicity chair­man from 1950-54. His fellow officers include M a l c o l m R.

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