Rochester Section Holds 500th Meeting

C. E. K. Mees, vice president and director of research, Eastman Kodak Co., who addressed The meeting on "The Growth of Chemical Ideas", and M . H . Eisenhart, toastmaster, presi­

dent of Bausch & Lomb Optical Co.

Left to right. H . S. Gardner, University of Rochester, Section Chairman; Erie M . Billings, Eastman Kodak Co.; Victor J . Chambers, Universty of Rochester; M . H . Eisenhart; C. E.

K. Mees; T. F. Murray, Jr., Eastman Kodak Co.

The 500th meeting of the Rochester Section of the AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY- was observed in Rochester, N. Y., Oeccrnber 4 with a dinner held at the Rochester Chamber of Commerce, which was attended by approximately five hundred members of the SOCIETY and guests. Victor J. Chambers, pro­fessor emeritus of chemistry of the Uni­versity of Rochester, spoke on the origins of the group, stating that it was founded July 5, 1912, with a charter member­ship of 35.

The present territory of the Section includes the counties of Monroe, Wayne, Ontario, Livingston, Genesee, and Or­leans (JSew York State). The mem­bership asof December 1, 1944, was 499, with officers as follows: Chairman, Howard S. Gardner, of the department of engineering, University of Rochester; Vice Chairman, Leslie J. Roll, of East­man Klodak: Co.; Secretary-Treasurer, E R. Taylor, Eastman Kodak Co. Councilors for 1945 are C. R. Fordyce, Eastman Kodak Co.; Wm. W. Hart-man, Eastman Kodak Co.; Ralph W. Helrrdcamp, University of Rochester; K. C. D. Hickman, Distillation Prod­ucts, Tnc; and H. C. Hodge, Univer­sity of Rochester.

Four National Meetings of the AMER­ICAN CHEMICAL, SOCIETY have been held in Rochester: the 5th, in 1892, the 48th, in 1913, the 61st, in 1921, and the 94th, in 1937.

Professor Chambers was one of the original group, and he paid tribute to Harrison R. Howe, late editor of CHEM-

R. Line, University Rochester

Above. O . I. Chormann and C. J. Porter, both with Pfaudler Co.

Right. H . Y. Norwood, Taylor Instrument Cos. A l l are charter members

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Erie M . Billings *nd! Weikrd R. Line, charter members ?' *He Rochester Section

A group of charter members attending the 500th meeting of the Rochester Section. Front row. C F. Hutchison, Eastman Kodak; V . J. Chambers; M . H . Eisenhart/ C W . Markus, Eastman Kodak/ O . I. Chormann; Hermann Russell. Back row. H . Y . Norwood; L. W. Eberlin, Eastman Kodak; C. E. K. Mees, N . F. Bruce; Frank P. Kolb, and R. Kirchmaier, Bausch & Lomb; T. F. Murray, Jr.; E. M . Billings; J. M . Ward, National Testing Labora­

tories, Inc./ W. R. Line

left to right. H . S. Gardner, M . H. Eisenhart, C. W. Markus, C. F. Hutchison

ICAL AND ENGINEERING N E W S and In­

dustrial and Engineering Chemistry, as one of the four sponsors of the move­ment to found a chemical group in Roch­ester. He introduced all the charter members who were present at the meet­ing. These included: M. H. Eisenhart, O. I. Chormann, C. J. Porter, H. Y. Norwood, Erie M. Billings, Willard R. Line, C. F. Hutchison, V. J. Chambers, C. W. Markus, Hermann Russell, L. W. Eberlin, C. E. K. Mees, N. F. Bruce, Frank P. Kolb, R. Kirchmaier, T. F.

Murray, Jr., and James M. Ward. Herbert Eisenhart, president of the

Bausch & Lomb Optical Co., acted as toastmaster. Howard S. Gardner, pro­fessor of chemical engineering of the University of Rochester, spoke for the Section, of which he is the present chair­man, and the address of the evening was given by C. E . K. Mees, vice president and director of research of the Eastman Kodak Co., whose subject was "The Growth of Chemical Ideas".

Dr. Mees traced briefly the rise of

chemical concepts and predicted that physical chemistry, and especially atomic and nuclear chemistry, would blaze the new paths of the future. "It has always seemed to physical chemists," stated Dr. Mees, "that the synthetic organic chemists neglected the possi­bilities for the application of physical chemistry to the reactions which they were studying, and I still feel that the wedding of these two great fields of chemistry might prove a very fruitful union."

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