Dr. John B. Fenn

Nobel LaureateResearch Professor in Chemistry at VCU

Dr. Robert Gerald BassPast Chairman, 1972

Alfred R. ArmstrongDistinguished Service Award, 1972

Section FirstsDr. Mary Kapp, Chair of the Chemistry Department at Virginia Commonwealth University (previously Richmond Professional Institute) from 1952 until her retirement in 1972, was the first female chair of the Virginia Section in 1952.

Larry White was the first High school chemistry teacher to serve as Chair of the Virginia Section in 1996.

Phyllis James, Wyeth, was the first African-American to serve as Chair in 2001

March 2005 Section MeetingTopic: “Applications of Oxidase Modified Electrodes”

Dr. Fred HawkridgeVirginia Commonwealth University

Dorothy EseonuChair 2006

Dr. Thomas Epps, IIIACS Scholar, 2005

Stephanie MabryChair, 2011

Trey GregorySecretary 2005

Dr. Ann SullivanDistinguished Service Award, 2005

Mr. Ram Bhagat Dorothy EseonuChair 2006

Ms. Mary HolmgrenDistinguished High School Chemistry

Teacher Award 2006Distinguished Middle School Science

Teacher Award 2006

Mr. Ram Bhagat

Distinguished High School Chemistry Teacher Award 2006

Dr. Kevin M. Dunn Hampden-Sydney College

December 2005 Section MeetingTopic: “Caveman Chemistry: Hands-On Projects in

Chemical Technology”

Dr. E. Ann Nalley

Dr. Nelson AyalaCB Fleet Pharmaceuticeutical

April 2015 Section MeetingTopic: “The Health Benefits of Chocolate”

Russell J. Rowlett, Jr.

“Physics is Phun” Science Museum of Virginia 2001

Dr. Rae Carpenter

Murray RosenbergCo-Chair of the Publicity/Publications Committee for

SERMACS, 1991

October 2009 Section MeetingTopic: “The Floyd Landis Sports Doping Case as

Evaluated by a Forensic Analytical Chemist”

Mr. Robert D. Blackledge

Dr. W. H. Jack BreazealeCollege of Charleston/Laboratory Safety Institute

November 2007 Section MeetingTopic: “Lab Inspections: You Might Be Surprised By What

You Find!”

Dr. Foster Agblevor

Bruce Dubee

Dr. M. Samy El-ShallDistinguished Research Award 2009

SERMACS

Dr. Dorothy Eseonu and Dr. Kristine Smetana

November 2009 Section MeetingTopic: “New Methods for Proteomics”

Dr. Catherine C. FenselauUniversity of Maryland

December 2008 Section MeetingTopic: “Undergraduate Research in Organic Synthesis: From

Vinylogous Iminium Salts to Marin Natural Products”

Dr. John GuptonUniversity of Richmond

Dr. Tze-Chi JaoOutstanding Industrial Innovator Award 2010

Leonard KleinDistinguished High School Chemistry Teach Award 2003

Yezdi Pithawalla

February 2007 Section MeetingTopic: “Holding Single Molecules up to the Light:

From in vitro to in vivo Studies”

Dr. Sunney XieHarvard University Dr. Samuel Abrash

University of Richmond

Dr. Allan Powell and Dr. R. Gerald Bass

Ms. Judy FitzpatrickDistinguished Elementary School Science Teacher Award 2010

Molly Harris

Ms. Diane NolanDistinguished Middle School Science Teacher Award 2007

Distinguished Middle School Science Teacher Award 2009

Ms. Denise Yvette Stanton

April 2009 Section MeetingTopic: “Observation of Chemical Reactions on Surfaces STM-Watching

Individual Molecules Do Their Dances”

Dr. John T. Yates, Jr.University of Virginia

Dr. Will H. Lewis, Jr. and Dr. Jeffrey I. Seeman

December 2010 Section MeetingTopic: “What Can We Learn from Sensomics”

Dr. Gerd KobalAltria Client Services

Ms. Liza SchmiderDistinguished High School Chemistry Teacher Award 2007

Community Activities - 2014

National Chemistry Week - 2014

Dr, Ralph AllenDistinguished Service Award 2008

Dr, Jane LewisIndustrial Leadership Award 2008

Dr. William RademakerDistinguished Service Award 2006

The Chemistry Club at John Tyler Community College Receives the Daniel E. Dalton Award

2007

Dr. Kristine SmetanaChemistry Club Advisor

Robin TurnerChemistry Club President

Dr. Will H. Lewis, Jr.Distinguished Service Award 2009

Dr. Lewis displaying the Earth Day Award 2007

Ms. Christine M. Bierwerth

Distinguished High School Chemistry Teacher Award 2002

National Chemistry Week 1992

From left to right:Ronnie Sours, Don Shillady, Dan Lynch

Section Award Winners 2006

Dr. Lewis presenting the Outstanding Innovation Award to Dr. Kai O. Donsbach, September 2007

Dr. Donald Abraham and Dr. KelloggOutstanding Innovation Award 2001

Dr. Patrick BarberDistinguished Service Award 2001

Chemical Breakthrough Awards 2009

Dr. Seeman presenting Breakthrough award to Dr .John D. Roberts.Left to right: Dr. Timothy Swager, Dr. John Roberts, Dr. Jeffrey Seeman,

Dr. Frederick Greene

Thomas Lane (former ACS president) and Dr. Ann Sullivan

Section Recognized for Chemistry Olympiad 2009

Dr. Harry Gray with his Jefferson Cup

Distinguished Service Award Recipients

Distinguished Service Award Recipients

Dr. Donald Shillady and Dr. Sheryl BaldwinDistinguished Service Award 2010

The Periodic Table Bake Sale

Who doesn’t love a good elemental cupcake?

Poster Session at UVA

Flying Squirrels Game

2006 Olympiad Study Camp

Dr. John Thorburg pouring liquid nitrogen

Mr. Michael Farabarugh

Distinguished High School Chemistry Teacher Award 2010

National Chemistry Week

November 2008 Section MeetingTopic: “Elements of Leadership: Chemical Demonstrations

with a Theme”

Dr. Marvin LongUniversity of Wisconsin – Stevens Point

Now just add some here…

Maybe a cup there…

I don’t think that was supposed to happen

But it looks and smells great!!!

Now…Who wants to try some?

Bruce Dubee and Ken Chapman

The Women Chemists Committee 2010

Younger Chemists Committee

W. Allan Powell and two family members with Dr. Kennth PearceFebruary 2010 Section Meeting

SERMACS 2011

Younger Chemist Committee 2014

Fall Social Event“The Chemistry of Beer”

Teacher Awards 2014

Colleges and Universities in the Virginia Section

1993 Section Officers

2001 Section Officers

2002 Section Officers

2003 Section Officers

2004 Section Officers

2006 Section Officers

2007 Section Officers

2008 Section Officers

2009 Section Officers

2010 Section Officers

2011 Section Officers

2014 Section Officers

2015 Section Officers