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Chapter 5

PLANS FOR A NEW BUILDING; THE VIETNAM WAR
1960-1970

Emory was deeply involved in the integration crisis as the 60's began. Georgia's Governor and Legislature were prepared to close public schools throughout the state if the Supreme Court ordered them desegregated. Such closings would be disruptive to the education of the children of Emory professors and would make it very difficult to recruit teachers from other states. Finally, in January, 1961 the Governor and General Assembly did repeal laws requiring total racial segregation of schools, but the decision related strictly to public education.

At that time state law required private institutions to operate on a segregated basis in order to obtain exemption from taxation. In November, 1961 the Board of Trustees passed a resolution stating that Emory would consider applications from candidates for admission "without regard to race, color, or creed” as soon as tax laws made this possible. After the application of a black male to the School of Dentistry, the University filed a "Petition for Declaratory Judgment and Injunction” in the State Superior Court. The petition was turned down by lower courts, but on September 15, 1962 the Georgia Supreme Court ruled in favor of the University. On October 8 the first black student, Robert W. Steele, registered for the chemistry course being given for secondary school teachers and sponsored by the National Science Foundation. By the fall of 1964 eighteen full-time black students were enrolled in four divisions of the University.
Better Students, Special Programs

The number of applicants for admission to Emory College had begun to increase steadily in the late 50's. The trend continued in the 60's until by the fall of 1964 2800 applications were received for the class which had a quota of 600. This was the maximum number of freshmen that could be conveniently handled with the available facilities and staff. A total of 630 freshmen actually enrolled.

At the same time the quality of work in secondary schools had greatly improved, so that the College was able to fill its quota from the highest ranking high school seniors. As a consequence of this improved quality, the College found it possible to abandon or upgrade courses formerly offered in the freshman year. In particular, preparation in English, mathematics, and the natural sciences had greatly improved.

By the middle 60's it was not uncommon for some entering freshmen to have studied calculus, one of the special chemistry programs, Chemical Education Materials Study (CHEMS) or the Chemical Bond Approach (CBA), and possibly PSSC physics. As early as 1959 the Chemistry Department started offering a section of general chemistry for carefully selected students. About 35 freshmen who had excellent credentials were invited to register for this section, called Chemistry 101S. They were told the nature of the course, that they would not be graded against one another (the "curve"), and that most could expect to make A's and B's. A more advanced text, such as the one by Linus Pauling, was used.

Another development that occurred was that students began taking the Advanced Placement exams in various fields. The Chemistry Department started giving students who made a sufficiently high score on the chemistry exam credit for Chemistry 101 and 102 and allowing them to register for organic if they wished.

In 1961 the University received a grant of $740,000 from the Ford Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Of this, $215,000 was directed to a program to train outstanding students for the nation's college faculties. Each year about 35 rising sophomores who showed exceptional promise for advanced study and research, were selected to participate. The Career Scholars Program, as it was called, was headed by Dr. William Jones. As juniors the students followed individually planned honors-type programs leading to the bachelor's degree and the master's degree a year thereafter. Chemistry students took the physical chemistry sequence as juniors, a graduate sequence for three quarters as seniors, did a laboratory research project and took an oral examination.

A very successful and popular program involving undergraduate research was begun in the summer of 1961. The department received a grant from NSF to fund the research of twelve students for two summers. The program continued until the late 60's and was later expanded to include research during the academic year. Faculty members were very pleased with the quality of work done by the undergraduates. Several students started their work in the summer following their freshman year and continued throughout their undergraduate years. Many were co-authors of papers in scientific journals and presented papers at meetings of the Georgia Academy of Sciences and at Southeastern Regional ACS meetings.
The Graduate Program

The enrollment of graduate students in chemistry declined sharply after the group of veterans had completed their doctoral programs. A newsletter in the summer of 1952, written by Drs. Blitch and Quayle, said that 10 new students were starting graduate work in the summer and fall, making, with those already enrolled, a total of 17 or 18. This number grew during the 50's, increasing slowly as more financial aid became available. After Harvey Hobson received his degree in 1953 there were no Ph.D. recipients in the physical chemistry area until 1959 when Earl Whipple graduated. There were 4 in analytical and 16 in organic from 1953 to 1960.

By the 60's various government programs were offering attractive fellowships and traineeships. The number of teaching assistantships made available by the University also increased as undergraduate enrollment grew. There were a few fellowships funded by the University and industrial companies. Research assistantships were usually included in faculty research grants and so there was ample financial aid for graduate students. The competition for the best students was quite fierce.

In August 1966 a newsletter reported that the department expected 18 new graduate students in the fall, up 10 from 1965. Students from the following schools had accepted the department's offer: Rice, St. Louis University, Union College (N.Y.), L.S.U., Auburn, Clemson, Agnes Scott, Duke (3), Emory (2), and Manhattan College. The number of government fellowships and traineeships was: N.A.S.A.(2), N.S.F.(2), N.D.E.A.(3), and N.I.H.(5). In 1967 new students came from Agnes Scott, St. Vincent College, Mississippi State, Duke, Vanderbilt, Presbyterian College, Georgia Tech, North Carolina State, and Emory. Again there were a large number of students supported by government fellowships: NASA(2), NSF(2), N.D.E.A.(8), and N.I.H.(5). In both years the total number of graduate students expected to enroll in the fall was between 40 and 45.

The February, 1967 newsletter reported that there were four post doctoral students doing research in the department. They were: Dr. T. Lewis from Grays in Essex, England, working with Dr. Leon Mandell; Dr. Sherrill Watts, '66Ph.D., working with Dr. J.H. Goldstein; Dr. Betty Pappas, Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, working with her husband, Dr. Peter Pappas; and Dr. Vera Zalkow from Wayne State University, working with Dr. David Goldsmith.

Three new programs were added in the 60's, the six-year B.S.-Ph.D., the biophysical training program, and the combination M.D.-Ph.D. In 1965 the department announced a program which allowed students with exceptional ability to obtain their bachelor's and doctor's degrees in six years. A number of undergraduates took advantage of this program.

The biophysical training program was underwritten by a grant from the National Institutes of Health. It was a training program in which students took graduate courses in both chemistry and biochemistry and did research in either field. The Biochemistry Department cooperated with Chemistry and some of their students were supported by traineeships from the grant.

In the spring of 1965 the Medical School, noting the increasing number of students who wished to enter research and teaching in medical areas, announced a program which allowed students who had completed the first two years of medical school to postpone the last two years while pursuing the Ph.D. in a department in the Graduate School. Four students elected to do research in the Chemistry Department, all in the area of physical chemistry with Dr. Goldstein. Juha Kokko, who was the first to receive his M.D. and Ph.D. in physical chemistry, is now Asa G. Candler Professor and Chairman of the Department of Medicine in the Emory Medical School.
The Faculty and the Curriculum

There were a number of retirements, resignations, and replacements in the faculty of the department in the 60's. Mrs. Augusta Cooper retired in 1962, Mr. Leslie Dixon in 1967, and Dr. Lee Blitch in 1970. Expansion of the faculty occurred with the appointment in 1961 of Dr. Ronald C. Johnson, our first bona fide inorganic chemist. Dr. Arthur M. Wilson, the third analytical chemist, joined the staff in 1962, and Dr. Clarence G. Trowbridge, a biophysical chemist, in 1963. In 1969 a second inorganic chemist, Dr. Louis Centofanti, was added to the faculty. Dr. Earl Royals resigned in 1962 to take a position with Newport Industries, and Dr. Marion Clark left in 1963 to teach at Agnes Scott College. Dr. Royals place was filled by Dr. Robert Willcott, and Dr. Clark's by Dr. David J. Goldsmith. Drs. Boozer and Willcott resigned in 1965 and were replaced by Drs. Peter Pappas and Fred Menger. Dr. Pappas resigned in 1968 and was replaced by Dr. Jon Engstrom. Mr. Wilbur Baker took Mrs. Cooper's place as Director of Undergraduate Laboratories. In the fall of 1968 Dr. Leon Mandell took over as chairman of the department.

The curriculum underwent a number of changes in the 60's as the requirements for ACS accreditation were upgraded. In the analytical area instrumental methods of analysis were replacing many classical methods. As these methods became more sophisticated, a thorough understanding of them required a background in physics and physical chemistry. The physical chemistry sequence, normally taken in the senior year, now needed to be taken in the junior year, and advanced courses, with physical as a prerequisite, were taken in the senior year.

At Emory the first change was to abandon the full treatment of qualitative analysis that had been given in the 113 course. In 1962 the catalogue descriptions of Chemistry 102 and 113 were changed to read as follows:

102. Topics covered include kinetics, equilibrium, electrochemistry, and general properties of the metals. Laboratory exercises include several on the qualitative analysis of cations and anions.

113. Lectures will treat stoichiometry in more detail than in previous courses. Chemical equilibrium, particularly as applied to acid-base, redox, and precipitation reactions, is treated thoroughly. Applications to both qualitative and quantitative analysis are emphasized. Laboratory exercises are drawn mainly from classical volumetric and gravimetric techniques.

Over the next few years the 113 course was gradually changed to include topics such as errors and the treatment of data, potentiometry, and some spectroscopy.

The traditional gravimetric analysis course, Chemistry 212, was also dropped. Chemistry 211 was modified to appeal to students who selected chemistry as a major but did not expect to become professional chemists. The majority of these were premedical and predental students who were usually juniors and had a year of organic chemistry. Some had taken Chemistry 203, the physical course for premeds. The catalogue description of this course was:

211. An introduction to instrumental methods of analysis, including modern separations, electroanalytical methods, spectrophotometry, and chromatography. Chemistry 113 was a prerequisite.

The analytical sequence for ACS majors consisted of two courses, 261 and 262, given in the fall and spring quarters. They were four-hour courses, two lectures and two labs per week. These courses covered instrumental topics at a more advanced level. The prerequisites for 261 were Chemistry 113 and 172, Physics 103, Math 173, and Chemistry 281 was a corequisite.

The ACS also required an advanced course in inorganic chemistry. Dr. Johnson introduced such a course, Chemistry 251, given in the winter quarter. The catalogue description was:

251. An intermediate course in inorganic chemistry covering such topics as ionic bonding, electrostatics, hydride chemistry, and coordination chemistry. Prerequisites were Chemistry 281, Physics 103, and Math 173, with Chemistry 282 as a corequisite. It was also a four-hour course, two lectures and two labs per week.

Undergraduate research was being emphasized and the department introduced the sequence 299a,b,c, Senior Research, credit up to 5 hours. The description read:

299a,b,c. Approximately two hours per week lectures and seminars on research techniques in all areas of chemistry. Students will be allowed to do original research in accordance with their ability. Honors candidates will write theses and take oral examinations. Prerequisites, Chemistry 251, 262 and 283.

The revised teaching program was given a real boost in 1962 by a grant of $25,000 from the National Science Foundation for the purchase of equipment for the undergraduate laboratories. The grant had to be matched by the University and at that time it had no specific funds for that purpose. The department raised the matching funds by soliciting help from alumni and chemical companies. Generous gifts were received from the Emerson-Cuming Company through the help of alumnus Cherry Emerson, and from Air Products and Chemical Company through alumnus Tom Gresham. Sizable grants were also made by the Esso and Phoebe Waterman Foundations. The grant was matched and $50,000 was available for the new equipment.

Single-pan analytical balances were purchased for the 101, 102 and 113 laboratories. Burets with ground-glass stopcocks as well as gas burets and leveling bulbs were also added. This equipment allowed most experiments to be run on a quantitative basis. The introductory organic labs received gas chromatographs and glassware with ground-glass joints. Students no longer had to use cork and rubber stoppers to set up a distillation apparatus. Spectronic 20 spectrophotometers and pH meters were added to the quant labs. New equipment was also purchased for the inorganic and physical laboratories.
Plans for a New Building

By the early 60's the fact that the department needed a new building was readily acknowledged by University officials. In the fall of 1960 a report of campus needs listed 20 buildings, including a new one for chemistry. A "Physical Facilities” report said, "The Chemistry Building, built in 1918 and the top two floors added in 1927, is out of date and will be converted to other uses when a new structure for modern chemistry is built.” This report contained a table rating buildings on general adequacy, size, fireproof quality, present state of repairs, lighting, and attractiveness. The Chemistry Building received "below standard” ratings in every category except lighting and attractiveness. The report concluded that "A new building should be built to replace the present one and made large enough to house all divisions of chemistry in a single structure."

An article in the Wheel in April 1963 quoted the writer as saying that preliminary plans for a new building had already been drawn up, but lack of funds prevented the plans from materializing. "Since most of the foundations are out of the building game, we are waiting for the Federal Government like everyone else.” The writer was also quoted as saying, "The freshman lab, built for 250 students, now has to handle 400-450. Remodeling of the building has been considered but because of the changes required, the construction of a new building would be cheaper."

Some buildings were erected in the late 50's and early 60's. In 1958 Thomas, Hopkins and Smith Halls were occupied, providing housing for 332 women students. Clifton Court Apartments were built in 1959, Cox Hall (food services) in 1960, the Graduate and Professional Housing Center in 1964, and Dobbs and Winship Halls were modernized in 1962. Money could be borrowed for such buildings and paid back with revenue from their operation. Apparently this could not be done for classroom and laboratory buildings.

Another problem facing the Chemistry Department was priority. When the Merit Campaign was announced in October, 1965, the new buildings called for were the Library for Advanced Studies, the Dental School, the Nursing School, and a library for Oxford College. Although the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health had begun making grants for the construction of new science buildings by this time, the money had to be matched dollar for dollar. An individual department was low on the priority list at this time.
Proposal to the Olin Foundation.

In 1961 the department came up with a promising lead on obtaining the money needed for the new building. We had noted that the Olin Foundation, formed by the Olins of the Olin-Matheson Chemical Company, was making grants to colleges for the construction of new chemistry buildings. The unusual thing about this foundation was that it funded the entire cost of the building, and, in fact, would not allow government funds to be involved. We needed some definite architectural plans before a proposal could be submitted. We learned from Mr. Sam Cooper, Mrs. Augusta Cooper's husband, that his company would draw up preliminary sketches for us without charge. When we sought approval of the business manager, Mr. Orie Myers, he put us in contact with Robert and Company and they did the sketches for us.

The proposal we drew up called for a three-story building of 81,388 square feet, designed to meet the anticipated enrollment for the next fifteen years. It would furnish classroom and laboratory facilities for some 900-1000 undergraduates, research space for 45 graduate students, and office and research space for a staff of 18 to 20. The ground level contained a large lecture room seating 250, and a classroom seating 125. It also contained three large undergraduate laboratories, for general chemistry with 600 desks, organic with 240 desks, and for quantitative analysis with 120 desks. The first floor provided research space for organic and inorganic chemistry, as well as a central stockroom. The third floor contained research space for physical and analytical chemistry, the departmental library, and two small classrooms.

Later in the year Mr. Dyar Massey, the Director of Development, presented the proposal to the directors of the Olin Foundation in Chicago. A few weeks later we learned that the proposal had been turned down because of the fact that Emory was controlled by the Methodist Church. We were told that the foundation would not give money to any institution that was under the control of a church. Although Emory's by-laws did not specify any requirements as to church affiliation of students, faculty, or administrators, the preamble does read, "Emory University belongs to the Methodist Church and the corporation shall administer the institution and all its properties of every kind for the benefit of said Church and under the direction of the Southeastern Jurisdictional Conference or other agencies appointed by said Conference for the purpose, in accordance with the provisions of the charter of the University."
Proposals to NSF and HEW.

The Merit Campaign was launched in October, 1965 to raise $25 million over a three year period. A new building for chemistry was not included, but University officials assured the department that a building would be planned, but not completely funded during the three year period. A committee was formed, with Dr. Goldstein as chairman, to develop plans for a chemistry-physics-mathematics-science library complex.

Progress on the science complex moved so slowly that the Chemistry Department finally asked that it be allowed to proceed on its own. In the spring of 1967 the writer was called to the office of Mr. Norman Smith, Vice-president for Development, and told that the department had been granted $25,000 by the Board of Education of the Methodist Church to start schematic drawings of a new building. We were then told by Mr. Orie Myers that the University was willing to consider an architect who specialized in chemistry buildings if we could find one.

We then proceeded to write a letter to the chairmen of all the chemistry departments on the ACS approved list (about 100), asking if they had built a new building in the past ten years. We asked if they had, who their architect was, and if they could recommend him favorably. Some eight or ten had built new buildings, but were lukewarm in their recommendations of the architect. Only one was enthusiastic. The University of Southern Illinois had constructed an addition to their building and the chairman recommended a consulting firm, Earl Walls Associates, of La Jolla, California, to work with a local architect. Mr. Walls had designed many industrial and academic science facilities, including the Salk Vaccine Laboratory, and would be largely responsible for the initial stages of design and planning.

In the fall Mr. Walls visited the campus and consulted with Robert and Company, who had been chosen as the local architect. We were most impressed with him and were delighted when he and Robert agreed to a working relationship. By February 1968 the University had signed a contract with the two to begin work. A newsletter in August 1968, said that Mr. Walls had completed the programming stage and Robert and Company had started on the schematics for the project. The plans called for about 118,290 gross square feet of space to house 20 faculty members, 90 graduate students, and to teach about 1000 undergraduates. The architects estimated the cost of the building at $8 million.

By early 1969 we had submitted proposals to the National Science Foundation and the Department of Health, Education and Welfare asking for approximately half of the required funding. In October a team from NSF made a site visit and recommended that our grant application be approved. However, by this time there were no funds remaining in NSF's building program's budget, and no grant was forthcoming. The news from HEW was the same-no funds were available. In spite of this discouraging news the Board of Trustees authorized the University to have the architect proceed to prepare actual working drawings for the proposed building while funds were being sought elsewhere.

This was the status of the project as the 60's drew to a close.
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The 1960-61 Academic Year

The Kennedy-Nixon race was heating up when the fall quarter opened in 1960. Enrollment in the College increased slightly, up to 2048 from 2029 in 1959. The Graduate School increased from 372 in 1959 to 458, and the total University enrollment was up 171 to 4295.

Mr. David Liversidge joined the staff for one year as an instructor to help in the freshman courses. David had a B.S. in chemical engineering from Georgia Tech in 1940, and had worked in industry before deciding to go into high school teaching. He entered the M.A.T. program at Emory and received his degree in August 1960. During the year he helped Mrs. Cooper in the freshman labs and took charge of the laboratory for the special section of Chemistry 101 and 102.

The regular sections of general chemistry were taught by Drs. Blitch, Clever and Jones, and the special section by Dr. Day. Drs. Clark and Royals taught introductory organic and the first year graduate sequence was taught by Drs. Boozer and Mandell.
Fellowship holders for 1960-61

Master's level: Brawner Floyd, Emory University

Doctoral level: John Gresham, Emory University
Eugene C. Roberts, Howard College
K.P. Singh, Banaras Hindu University
Carolyn J. Smith, Mercer University
Grants and Awards

In October the University was awarded $4800 by the Eastman Kodak Company. Such awards were made to privately supported colleges and universities on the basis of the number of students from each institution who had been with the company for the past five years. The award to Emory was based on Alfred G. Robinson, class of 1949, of the Tennessee Eastman Division.

The Chemistry Department received a grant of $1000 from the Gulf Oil Corporation in October to assist in buying special equipment to improve instruction at the freshman level. In January the DuPont Company gave the department $4000 for advancing the instruction of chemistry.

In February the department received a grant of $19,895 from the National Science Foundation to support a research program for two summers for twelve undergraduates. The director of NSF, Dr. Alan T. Waterman, pointed out that such experience "provides an understanding of what science is and how scientists work. One cannot learn to be a scientist by books and lectures alone."
News of Faculty, Students and Alumni

At the Southeastern meeting of the ACS in Birmingham in November, eighteen technical papers were presented by faculty, graduate students, and alumni of Emory. Dr William S. Wilcox, '52Ph.D., now a research chemist at Southern Research Institute, was general chairman of the meeting and also gave a paper. Alumnus Dr. William Murray, Jr., '32-'33G, was the head of the Southern Research Institute.

Other alumni giving papers were J. Harry Stump, '40-'41G, of Pensacola, Florida; Pelham Wilder, '42-'43G, of Durham, N.C.; Thomas P. Johnston, '40-'41G-'48Ph.D. (Emory's first Ph.D.), of Birmingham; Milton E. McClain, '55, of Buford, Georgia; Richard N. Wilhite, '54G, of Aiken, S.C.; and W.H. Burrows, '33-'35G, of Atlanta.

Faculty on the program were Drs. Charles T. Lester, H.L. Clever, and A.L. Underwood. Graduate students who gave papers were Irving Citron, Clayburne C. Snead, '59, Robert H. Philp, and James C. Randall. Senior chemistry major Suzanne Parker was co-author of a paper.

In October Dr. Charles Boozer gave a seminar at Union Carbide Company's plastic division in Bound Brook, N.J.

Dr. W.H. Jones was the speaker at the Emory birthday party in Kingsport on February 4, 1961. Officers of the Kingsport club were Robert W. Kennedy, '53-'54-'56Ph.D., president; K.C. Brannock, '54Ph.D., vice president; and E.H. (Tony) Clower, secretary-treasurer. In March Dr. Jones gave the Rondthaler lectures at Salem College.

In March chemistry major Brawner Floyd won a graduate NSF fellowship for 1961-62. He planned to do graduate work at Yale.

In April Dr. Boozer gave a seminar for the chemistry department at the University of South Carolina.

Dr. Earl Royals was visiting scientist at Valdosta State College in April and also gave a seminar for the chemistry department at Florida State University. Dr. Royals wrote the section of the 1961 edition of the encyclopedia Britannica on "Total Synthesis of Natural Products."

Dr. Robert M. Powers, '52-'53G-'58Ph.D., was recently promoted to head the newly created instrumental laboratory in the research division of the A.E. Staley Manufacturing Company in Decatur, Illinois. Bob was the first student to obtain the Ph.D. degree in analytical chemistry, and won the University's Sigma Xi and O.R. Quayle research awards.

In January Pi Alpha initiated eight graduate students: Tom Campbell, Jack Holland, Lyman Howe, Jack Leffingwell, Don Leyden, Clyde Opliger, Ralph Pritchard, and Tom Robertson. Five undergraduates were also initiated: Nick Burnett, Charlotte Carson, Hank Gibson, Greta Hulsebos, and Nick Meola.

Students elected as associate members of Sigma XI in May were: James Piper, Brawner Floyd, John Gresham, Juha Kokko, Carolyn Smith, Richard Hobgood, Gade Reddy, Eugene Roberts, Drury Caine, Michael Miller, James Randall, Robert Philp, and Virginia Brinson.
Degrees, 1960-61

Master's: December, Gordon Kilpatrick, Robert H. Philp
June, Michael W. Miller
August, Virginia Brinson Caine, Irving M. Citron, John T. Gresham,
Clayburne C. Snead
Doctor's: December, Gade S. Reddy
March, Kshatra P. Singh
June, George R. McClure
August, Drury S. Caine, Robert L. Flurry
Honorary Sc.D.: June, Thomas Luther Gresham, '28-'29G
Citation for Thomas Luther Gresham

Native of Alabama; Bachelor of Science and Master of Science, Emory University; Doctor of Philosophy, The Johns Hopkins University; one-time member of the faculty of Emory; research scientist in pure and applied chemistry; effective executive in the chemical industry; author of scores of research publications:

Because your leadership and imagination has stimulated and organized the research talents of scores of men; because your own research has made significant contribution to basic knowledge in chemistry and to its transformation into beneficial products for us all; and because your interest in and work for your Alma Mater has helped improve and increase the educational opportunity on this campus:

Upon recommendation of the University Senate, with approval of the Board of Trustees, and with the authority vested in me by that body, acting under the statutes of the State of Georgia; I confer upon you the degree of Doctor of Science, with all the rights and privileges thereunto appertaining.
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The 1961-62 Academic Year

Early in the fall of 1961 the grant from the Ford Foundation which funded the Career Scholars Program was announced. The first 27 students to participate in this three-year master's program were selected during the year and announced in April. Three chemistry majors were in the first group, David Harden, Roy Mason, and Philip Certain.

Enrollment in the College was at the desired level of 600, 370 men and 230 women. The University enrollment was up slightly to 2061.

Joining the staff this fall as assistant professor of inorganic chemistry was Dr. Ronald C. Johnson. Ron received his BS degree from Lawrence College in 1957 and Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 1961. He taught the special sections of Chemistry 101 and 102, Chemistry 202, and later introduced senior and graduate level inorganic courses.

The catalogue listed the requirements for the newly reinstated BS degree: 55 hours of uniform requirements in the social sciences and humanities, 50 to 60 hours in science outside the department of specialization including math through integral calculus, the required courses in the department of specialization, and the rest free electives. The chemistry major could obtain the BS degree with or without ACS certification.
Fellowship holders for 1961-62

Master's level:

Jerry M. Adams, Emory University
Nina L. Marable, Agnes Scott College

Doctoral level:
Virginia Sherill Glenn, Mississippi Southern College
Robert H. Philp, Jr., Wheaton College
Roger J. Piper, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Chemistry faculty at Mrs. Cooper’s Retirement Luncheon, May 1962
Standing, left to right: Drs. Mandell, Johnson, Goldstein, Boozer, Clark, Day, Jones, Royals, Mr. Dixon
Seated, left to right: Dr. Underwood, Mrs. Cooper, Drs. Clever and Blitch
Departmental News

In October Dr. Day gave a paper "Polarography of Diketones and Pyrones” at the meeting of the Electroorganic Division of the Electrochemical Society in Detroit.

In November Dr. Clever received $2201 and Dr. Underwood $4985 for contract renewals from the Atomic Energy Commission.

Dr. Thomas Gresham, '28-'29G-'61Honorary Sc.D., recently became vice president of Air Products and Chemical, Inc. of Allentown, Pennsylvania. Tom had been vice president and technical director of AE Staley for more than five years.

Dr. Ron Johnson visited the chemistry department of the University of North Carolina in January. He spoke to the department seminar on "Some Mechanisms for the Reactions of Coordination Compounds of Platinum (IV)."

In January the College Teachers Institute sponsored by NSF was renewed for the fourth year. The summer institute for high school seniors was also renewed. The department received a grant of $4000 from the Du Pont Company for departmental development.

Drs. Underwood and Day visited Clemson College in March and Dr. Underwood gave a seminar on "Photometric Titrations.” Dr. Harvey Hobson, '53Ph.D., Was acting chairman of the chemistry department.

Dean Charles Lester spoke at two Emory Alumni banquets this spring, one in Orlando and the other in Chattanooga. He also attended a conference in Princeton, New Jersey on the three-year master's program, sponsored by the Ford Foundation.

In May Robert Philp was promoted to full membership in the Emory Chapter of Sigma XI Elected to associate membership were Jack Leffingwell, Don Leyden, Gade Reddy, and Tom Robertson.

Dr. Ralph Adams of the University of Kansas gave a series of lectures sponsored by Pi Alpha in May. The titles were: "Mass Transport and Electrode Systems,” "Organic Electrode Mechanisms Studies,” and “E.P.R. Electrochemical Studies."

In May Dr. Day received a grant of $25,000 from NSF for the purchase of equipment for the undergraduate laboratories. The new equipment would enable the department to upgrade instructional programs and improve the laboratory side of undergraduate work.

The spring meeting of the American Chemical Society in Washington was attended by Drs. Underwood, Royals, and Day. Graduate student Donald Leyden presented a paper with Dr. Underwood entitled "Titrations in the Sulfuric Acid Solvent System."

Drs. Jones, Boozer, Underwood, and Day attended the Southeastern Regional meeting of the ACS in New Orleans. Dr. Boozer gave a paper, "The Action of Phenolic Antioxidants in Inhibiting Initiated Autooxidation."

Dr. Ronald Johnson and his wife Susan participated in a nine-week institute on "Recent Advances in Inorganic Chemistry” at Reed College during the summer.
News of Alumni from the June, 1962 Newsletter

William F. Cooper, '56G, is now working for the Signal Oil and Gas Company.

Dr. Hubert L. Youmans, '49-'50G, is a member of the chemistry faculty of Kansas State College.

Mrs. Joseph B. Tong (Ruth Stratton) is doing substitute teaching in Baton Rouge where her husband was recalled to active duty.

Dr. William C. Bailey, '57Ph.D., is a research chemist with Phillip Morris Research Center in Richmond, Virginia.

Colonel James T. McGiboney, '30-'31G, was recently named commandant of the Medical Field Service School at Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Houston, Texas.

Peggy Ann Turner, '57, is a graduate student at the University of Tennessee.

Daniel J. Rabb, '59, is a representative for the American Cyanamide Company of New York.

Ensign Cyrus W. Strickler, '61, received his commission with honors from the Naval Air Station preflight school in Pensacola.

Dr. Ben K. Harned, '22, Vice President of Mead Johnson Company, has been stationed in England for the past several months.

Dr. Robert E. Lyle, '45-'46G, and his wife Gloria Gilbert Lyle, '46G, are on a five week trip to Europe. Gloria gave a paper before a meeting on Applied Chemistry in Brussels, and Bob will give seminars in Heidelburg and Oxford before returning.

Gene Roberts, '61G, is in Europe with the Armed Services.

Dr. George M. Brown, '42-'43G, is a research chemist at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge. He was recently married to Dr. Sydney Goodwin in Monterey, California.

Dr. John Wethington, '42-'43G, and Katherine Greene Wethington, '41G, are spending the year in Puerto Rico.

Dr. Slaughter W. Lee, '35-'36G, received the annual Crawford W. Long award from the School of Pharmacy, University of Georgia.
Mrs. Cooper Retires

Mrs. Augusta Cooper retired at the end of the spring quarter in 1962. She was a graduate of Agnes Scott College and had received her M.S. degree with highest honors from Emory in 1924. Over the years Dr. Guy had called on her whenever he needed someone to help in supervising the general chemistry laboratory. In 1942 she was called back again and this time remained for twenty years until retirement.

In 1932, before her marriage to architect Sam Cooper, she had co-authored the Quantitative Analysis text with Dr. Guy under her name Augusta Skeen. A perfectionist, Mrs. Cooper was said to have checked every figure in the table of four-place logarithms and antilogarithms to be sure there was no mistake. She was noted for the hours she spent helping freshmen who were having difficulty with chemistry. She was instrumental in raising funds for the Guy Room and personally arranged the furnishings and decorations. A retirement luncheon was held for her in the Guy Room. She was loved and respected by all who knew her, students and faculty. After her retirement she maintained a small office and made it her job to look after the Guy Room.

At Mrs. Cooper’s Retirement Luncheon, 1962

Mrs. Cooper

Marjorie Day, Mrs. Cooper, Edith Royals

R.A. Day and Mrs. Cooper

Faculty wives, left to right:
Mrs. Clever, Blitch, Underwood, Johnson, Lester, Clark, Mrs. Cooper, Boozer, Royals, Day
Degrees, 1961-62

Master's: December, Richard T. Hobgood, Lyman H. Howe, Donald E. Leyden, James U. Piper, James C. Randall, Eugene C. Roberts
March, John C. Leffingwell
June, M. Brawner Floyd
August, Clyde E. Opliger

Doctor's: August, Robert H. Philp, Carolyn J. Smith
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The 1962-63 Academic Year

As the fall quarter opened in 1962 President Walter Martin had resigned to become vice-chancellor of the University System of Georgia. No successor had been chosen and the so-called "troika” was in charge of the University: Chancellor Goodrich White, Vice-president Judson Ward and Chairman of the Board Henry Bowden.

The Ford Career Scholar program was officially started in the fall. The College enrollment was up slightly at 2123 with 1305 men and 818 women. In October the first black student, Robert W. Steele, registered to take Chemistry 300H in the in-service institute for high school teachers. It was reported in the Alumni Magazine that 174 doctorates had been awarded by the University with 47 of them in chemistry.

Dr. Earl Royals had resigned to take a position with Newport Industries. Two years later he returned to teaching and served as professor and chairman of the chemistry department of Pensacola Junior College until his retirement in 1984. Dr. M. Robert Willcott joined the staff as assistant professor of organic chemistry. Dr. Willcott received his A.B. degree from Rice University in 1955, the MS and Ph.D. degrees from Yale in 1959 and 1962. The staff was expanded by the addition of Dr. Arthur M. Wilson as assistant professor of analytical chemistry. Dr. Wilson received his BS degree from Trinity College in 1954 and his Ph.D. from Northwestern in 1958. He was assistant professor at Wayne State University from 1958 to 1962.
Fellowship holders for 1962-63

Doctoral level:
James U. Piper, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Emory
Richard R. Rettew, Clemson College
Thomas M. Robertson, DePauw University
Virginia Sherrill Watts, Mississippi Southern University
News of Faculty, Students and Alumni

Two grants were received from the Du Pont Company in the fall, one for a graduate fellowship and one of $4000 "to help strengthen undergraduate teaching of subjects that contribute most significantly to scientific and engineering education."

The Eastman Kodak fellowship for this year was held by Richard T. Hobgood, '60-'61G, who was doing his doctoral research in NMR spectroscopy with Dr. Goldstein.

Elected to Phi Beta Kappa in the fall were chemistry majors Richard P. Schneider and Barbara Jean Hille.

In December Dr. Jones spoke to the alumni club in Chicago. Decatur Campbell, '42-'47G, was the dinner chairman.

In February Dr. Charles Lester spoke to the alumni club in Kingsport. E. H. (Tony) Clower, '42-'48G, was president of the club, Willan Wilson, '44-'49Ph.D., Secretary-treasurer and Kent Brannock, '53Ph.D., past president.

In February the Esso Foundation made a grant of $10,000 to the department to help purchase equipment for the undergraduate program.

For the fifth year the NSF made a grant of $31,295 to support the institute for high school students in the sciences.

The in-service institute for high school teachers of math and chemistry received $13,320 from the NSF to support that program during the 1963-64 academic year.

In March Dr. Charles Lester was elected to the 14-member board of directors of the Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies.

Art Underwood was elected to the University Senate in April, representing the Natural Sciences and Mathematics in the College.

Leon Mandell was tour speaker for the American Chemical Society in April. He spoke to several South Atlantic area sections of the society on "Synthesis of Some Quinolizidine Alkaloids."

Dr. Jones was visiting scientist for the American Chemical Society in April and spoke to high school audiences in Tennessee, Virginia and New York. In May he was elected honorary member of Omicron Delta Kappa, and was also the dinner speaker at the School of Architecture and Arts at Auburn University

In May Tom Robertson, '62G, moved to Chicago where he joined the staff of the Nalco Chemical Company as a research analytical chemist.

In the spring chemistry major J. William Moncrief of Rabun Gap was named winner of Woodrow Wilson, Danforth and National Science Foundation fellowships. Bill will attend Harvard on the NSF fellowship. He also was one of the winners for the best paper at the meeting of the Georgia Academy of Science in April. Four other undergraduates gave papers at this meeting, Philip Certain, Burgess Cooke, Walter Freeman and Loren Stahl.

Ralph Mayo and Richard Rettew were elected associate members of Sigma XI in May. The award for the most outstanding research at the graduate level went to Juha Kokko and that at the undergraduate level to Bill Moncrief.

In May Drs. Mandell and Goldstein received a grant renewal from the Corn Industries Foundation to continue their studies of problems of hydrogen bonding in carbohydrates.
Degrees, 1962-63:

Bachelor's: June, John William Moncrief (Highest Honors)
Master's: December, Thomas M. Robertson
March, Suzanne Parker Alexander
August, Thomas C. Campbell, Nina Louise Marable

Doctor's: March, John T. Gresham
June, James U. Piper
August, John C. Leffingwell
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The 1963-64 Academic Year

Dr. Sanford Atwood assumed the presidency of the University in the fall of 1963. Enrollment in the University was 4737, the College 2154. New career scholars in chemistry were Judy James, Loren Stahl, James Bolen, Dwight Jarvis, Lovie Schaeffer, Stephen Dale, Steve Stephens, Jane Gristle and Elizabeth Milliken.

Dr. Marion Clark had resigned to take a position of professor of chemistry at Agnes Scott. Marion later served as chairman of the department until his death in 1978. Dr. David Goldsmith joined the staff as assistant professor of organic chemistry. Dave received his BS and MS degrees from the University of Michigan in 1952 and 1953, the Ph.D. from Columbia in 1958. He was a research fellow at Harvard from 1957-59, and assistant professor at Wayne State University from 1959-63. His field of research was the chemistry of natural products. Another staff expansion occurred with the appointment of Dr. Clarence G. Trowbridge as assistant professor of physical chemistry. Gene, whose field of research was in the biophysical area, received his BS degree from Kent State University in 1953, the Ph.D. from Purdue in 1963. Mr. Wilbur Baker joined the staff to supervise the general chemistry laboratories. Wilbur received his AB and MS degrees from Vanderbilt in 1940 and 1955.
Fellowship Holders, 1963-64

Master's level: Martha Welch Jordan, Hollins College

Doctoral level: John M. Brodmann, Lynchburg College, Emory University
Frederick B. Heath, The Citadel, Clemson College
Richard R. Rettew, Clemson College
Virginia Sherrill Watts, Mississippi Southern University
Departmental News

In September the department received a grant of $16,000 from the NSF to purchase a Cary broad range recording spectrophotometer.

Eastman Kodak again announced a grant of $6000 for a graduate fellowship and to support research. The Du Pont Company awarded the department $5000 to strengthen undergraduate teaching.

The summer institute for college teachers was funded again by a grant of $43,000 from the National Science Foundation.

In December the department received a grant of $1000 from the Shell Foundation for research and travel.

Dr. Goldsmith received a grant of $17,700 in December from the U.S. Public Health Service to pursue research concerned with the synthesis and interconversion of sesquiterpene systems.

In October Dr. Day attended the fall meeting of the Electrochemical Society in New York and gave a paper on "Intermediates in the Polarographic Reduction of Some Diketones.” He was elected chairman of the Electro-organic division of the society.

Dr. Mandell received a grant of $15,000 in December from the US Public Health Service for research concerning antibiotics used to treat cancer.

In November Drs. Goldstein, Mandell and Underwood gave papers at the Southeastern Regional meeting of the ACS in Charlotte, NC

In February Drs. Goldstein and Mandell received a grant of $63,920 from the National Institutes of Health to support work on the spectroscopy of organic compounds.

Dr. Underwood received a grant of $15,300 in February from the NSF for research on "Fundamental Studies of Chelating Ion Exchange Resins.” The study was to investigate techniques for separating mixtures of metals.

In April the NSF granted the department $3400 to renovate three laboratories for graduate research, two in physical chemistry and one in analytical.

For the third year the Corn Industries Foundation renewed the grant to Drs. Goldstein and Mandell for research in carbohydrate chemistry.

In April NSF renewed its support of the in-service institute for high school teachers of math and chemistry with a grant of $13,780.

Dr. Goldstein published a chapter in the Treatise on Analytical Chemistry V, Part 1, on "Microwave Spectrophotometry."

At Honors Day Walter Rowe received the Chemical Rubber Award for the most outstanding student in introductory chemistry. The Hamilton Watch Award for proficiency and achievement in science went to Philip Certain.

Elected to associate membership in Sigma XI was Mrs. Lenore Neilson McCullagh.
George Ferrell

George Ferrell was janitor for the Chemistry Building for many years. He was a most likeable man who became looked upon as a member of the family. An article in the May 1964 issue of the Alumni Magazine reported on his talents as a sculptor. "For his carvings he uses ordinary blocks of wood and he describes his methods as 'trying to see if you can do something interesting with an idea.' A wood carver, Ferrell has had no formal training in art. He has developed his style entirely on his own."

In the March-April, 1970, issue of the Alumni Magazine there was another article about George entitled "Emory's Whittling Custodian.” It had a picture of George and said that it was estimated that he had completed about 1000 carvings in the last 15 years. It said that he recently had a one-man showing in the Candler Library and that he had had exhibits at local art shows including the spring outdoor art shows in Atlanta's Piedmont Park.
Degrees, 1963-64

Bachelor's level: June, Philip Certain (Highest honors)

Doctoral level:
December, Richard T. Hobgood, Jr.
March, Donald E. Leyden
June, Juha P. Kokko
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The 1964-65 Academic Year

In the fall of 1964 the presidential race was underway. Barry Goldwater made a campaign swing through Atlanta and the Wheel endorsed him over Lyndon Johnson. At the freshman camp in September there were about 100 cases of food poisoning. Ashley Williamson entered the Career Scholar program; Roy Mason and Phil Certain were now in their first graduate year. Enrollment in the University was at an all-time high of 4984. Six hundred forty-four freshmen were enrolled from 2700 applicants. Over half of them exempted freshman English and 96 exempted the upgraded freshman math course.

In the Chemistry Department Drs. Willcott and Boozer had resigned to take other positions. Dr. Willcott joined the staff at the University of Houston and Dr. Boozer took a position with Copolymer and Rubber Chemical Corporation. Dr. Socrates Peter Pappas joined the faculty as assistant professor of organic chemistry. Peter received his B.A. degree from Dartmouth in 1958 and his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1962. He was a research fellow at Wisconsin from 1962 to 1963 and at Brandeis from 1963 to 1964. He introduced a graduate course, Chemistry 473, called Molecular Biochemistry. Dr. Goldstein introduced a new course, Chemistry 480, called Applications of Theoretical Chemistry to Problems in Biology.
Fellowship Holders, 1964-65

Master's level: Philip Certain, Emory University
John W. Mozzer, Rollins College

Doctoral level: John M. Brodmann, Lynchburg College, Emory University
John M. Read, Emory University
Department News

Dr. Tom Gresham, '28-'29G-'61H, of Wallingford, Pa., represented Emory at the inauguration of William W. Hagerty as president of Drexel Institute of Technology, Philadelphia, on November 12, 1965.

On January 1, 1965 Dr. Ben K. Harned, '22, of Evansville, Indiana retired as vice president of Mead Johnson and Company. Dr. Harned, a pharmacologist, joined Mead Johnson in 1952 as executive director of research to activate the company's pharmacological research and to expand its nutritional research activities. Before joining Mead Johnson he was with the Lederle Laboratories division of the American Cyanamide Company, responsible for the original pharmacology on aureomycin, the first tetracycline antibiotic. Before joining Lederle he was professor and head of the Department of Pharmacology at the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania and at the University of Tennessee Medical Division in Memphis.

In April the Chemistry Department announced that it would initiate a six-year program combining the BS and Ph.D. degrees in chemistry. Students who displayed exceptional ability were selected to participate in the program. A student needed to apply during the freshman year, but no later than the end of the sophomore year. He or she needed to begin advanced work in the junior year. Students would do full time research during the summers following the sophomore, junior and senior years. In the senior year a student took graduate courses, receiving the BS degree at the end of four years. He or she then entered two years of study toward the Ph.D., bypassing the MS and completing the program in six years.

Also in the spring the Medical School announced the combination M.D.-Ph.D. Program which allowed students who had completed the first two years of medical school to postpone the last two years while pursuing the Ph.D. in a department in the Graduate School.

In May Dr. Charles Lester was awarded the 1965 Herty Medal for outstanding contributions to the field of chemistry. The award was presented May 8 at the Georgia State College for Women.

Elected to Pi Alpha in May were Fred Barlow, Pierre Benmouyal, James Chitwood, Roger Crecely, Charlotte Dickinson, Connie Johnson, Stephen Jones, Jean Loemker, Kerford Marchant, David McClemens, Joseph Mozzer, Chong Min Pak, Jane Gristle Printz, Raymond Schmidt, Lana Sheer and Joseph Stephens.

Elected to Phi Beta Kappa were Jean Loemker, Everett Moore and James Chitwood. Dr. Arthur Underwood was elected an honorary member.

The Pi Alpha award for the outstanding student in freshman chemistry went to Lee Altmayer. James Bolen won the Hamilton Watch Award for proficiency and achievement in science.

Elected to full membership in Sigma XI in the spring were John C. Burnett, Eugene C. Roberts, Phillip Certain, H.B. Evans, Betty C. Pappas, Socrates P. Pappas, John M. Read, Raymond Schmidt and Sherrill Watts. Associate members elected were Alice Cunningham and Donald Epple.

New career scholars named in the spring were Robert Scott Butler, Walter Rowe, Joseph Haraszti, Byron Perry and Martin Stewart.
Degrees, 1964-65

Honorary Doctor of Science: June, Harold Sledge Johnston, '41
Bachelor's: June, James Lee Bolen (Highest Honors)
Master's: December, John H. Flynn
June, Paul Van Cleve Troup
August, Phillip R. Certain, Mildred E. Derrick, Walter J. Freeman, Pamela S. Opliger
Master of Arts in Teaching: August, Evelyn N. Gibson
Doctor's: December, Eugene C. Roberts
June, John N. Burnett, Virginia Sherrill Watts
Citation for Harold S. Johnston

Dr. Harold S. Johnston, an Emory alumnus and a native of Woodstock, Ga., is professor of chemistry at the University of California at Berkeley. He received his BA degree from Emory in 1941, and prior to receiving his Ph.D. from California Institute of Technology in 1948 he was a research assistant for the National Defense Research Committee at Cal Tech, and an instructor at Stanford University. He also served as assistant professor and associate professor at Stanford and as associate professor at Cal Tech.

Dr. Johnston's academic interests include fast gas phase reactions, kinetic isotope effects, photochemistry and rates of thermal ionization of plasma. A member of the National Academy of Science, he has been a NATO professor to Rome and is on the editorial boards of several scientific publications.
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The 1965-66 Academic Year

In the fall of 1965 Art Wilson had resigned to take a position with the Texas Instrument Company. Dr. Fred Menger joined the faculty as assistant professor of organic chemistry. Fred received his AB degree from Johns Hopkins in 1958 and his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1963. He held an NIH fellowship at Northwestern from 1964 to 1965. Dr. Charles Tilford, '37, former Director of Research for Warner-Lambert Pharmaceutical Company, also joined the staff as visiting professor. During the year Dr. Tilford did research in medicinal chemistry sponsored by the Richardson-Merrell Company. Dr. David Goldsmith returned in November from Stanford where he spent six months working with Professor Carl Djerassi in the field of mass spectrometry.

The six-year B.S.-Ph.D. and the biophysical training programs were underway. The Merit Campaign was launched with an initial goal to raise $25 million in a three-year period. Enrollments in the College and University were up slightly to 2184 and 5149, respectively.

On the campus controversial topics were much in the news. Time magazine had added Dr. Tom Altizer to the list of "God is Dead” advocates and debates on the subject were taking place.

Articles on the conflict in Vietnam appeared more frequently in the Wheel. In January a group of Emory students formed a statewide movement called "Affirmation Vietnam.” It was endorsed by Senator Richard Russell and Governor Carl Sanders and praised by President Lyndon Johnson. An assembly was held in the Atlanta stadium on February 12 and the headline in the Wheel read "22,000 Brave Rain - Give Clear U.N. Mandate.” Secretary of State Dean Rusk addressed the gathering.

In March the Selective Service eliminated all 2S deferments.
Fellowship Holders, 1965-66

Master's level: Emily Ruth Johnson, Winthrop College
Doctoral level: Susan Bailey, Vassar College, Iowa State University
Alice J. Cunningham, University of Arkansas
W. Roy Mason, III, Emory University
John MacArthur Read, Emory University
N.D.E.A.: Ralph Mayo, Emory University
U.S.P.H. Service: Donald G. Epple, Illinois Wesleyan University
Departmental News

Drs. Jones, Underwood, Johnson and Day attended the fall meeting of the American Chemical Society in Atlantic City. Dr. Johnson gave a paper entitled "Factors Influencing the Rate of Platinum II-Catalyzed Reactions of Platinum IV Complexes."

Drs. Lester, Day and Underwood attended the ACS meeting in Phoenix in January. Dr. Underwood participated in a symposium on "The Electrochemistry of Biological Compounds.” He also gave a paper on "Electrochemical Reduction of Pyridine Nucleotides and Nicotinamide Model Compounds."

Attending the joint Southeast-Southwest Regional meeting of the ACS in Memphis in November were Drs. Johnson, Clever, Jones, Day, Mr. Baker and graduate students Ray Schmidt and Roy Mason. Dr. Clever and Mr. Schmidt gave papers entitled "The Solubility of Argon in Aqueous Alkali Solutions” and "The Surface Tension of Binary Solutions."

Dr. Underwood attended the Midwestern Universities Analytical Conference at Michigan State University in December. He also presented a seminar at Tulane.

Dr. Clever spoke to the chemistry department at Georgia Tech on "Hydration of the Proton."

Dr. Pappas visited Clemson and gave a paper on "Dewar Benzene and Related Compounds."

Dr. Mandell spoke to the chemistry department seminar at East Carolina College and to the Sigma XI Club of the school. His topic was "NMR Spectroscopy and Sesquiterpene Syntheses.” He also spoke to the chemistry groups at Adelphi University and the University of South Florida on the same topic. Dr. Mandell has been named chairman-elect of the Georgia Section of the ACS.

Dr. Goldstein was named winner of the annual Sigma XI Research award in December for his work in nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy.

In March chemistry major Ron Carlisle was named winner of a Woodrow Wilson graduate fellowship.

In January the DuPont Company awarded the department $3000 for a postgraduate teaching assistantship and $5000 for the advancement of teaching.

The Pi Alpha lectures were given this year by Professor Ronald Breslow of Columbia University. Dr. Breslow spoke on "Anti-aromaticity” and "Stable Triplet States."

Drs. Mandell, Goldsmith, Pappas and Trowbridge attended Gordon Conferences in the summer of 1966.

In July Dr. Clever attended an NSF technological conference at Lehigh University. The conference was devoted to important areas of colloid, surface and macromolecular chemistry.

Dr. Pappas gave seminars at Vanderbilt in March and the University of Florida in May on "Dewar Benzene."
News of Students

The following students gave research papers at the annual meeting of the Georgia Academy of Science in Statesboro: Virginia Watts, '65Ph.D., Walter Rowe, Bradford Merry, H.B. Evans, J.M. Read, Lee Altmayer, Roger Crecely, Donald Epple, '66Ph.D., Jean Loemker, '66, Roy Mason, '66Ph.D., Joseph E. Blackwell and Ralph Mayo, '66Ph.D. Mr. Blackwell won the award for the best paper at the undergraduate level and Mr. Mayo at the graduate level.

James Alexander, Jr., currently a graduate student, has received a full fellowship for a year's study at the University of Vienna, Austria. Jim is the son of James Alexander, '40-'42G, of Hockessin, Delaware.

Elected to Phi Beta Kappa this spring were Alan Kirsh, '66, and Walter Rowe, '67.
News of Alumni

Dr. Kent C. Brannock, '54Ph.D., has been appointed a senior research associate in the research laboratories of the Tennessee Eastman Company. This appointment is in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the research programs of the company. Dr. Brannock holds 24 patents and has been with the company since 1943 except for military and educational leaves.

Dr. Joseph LeConte, '28-'29G, taught organic chemistry at Emory this summer.

J. Sam Whitaker, '33-'34G, of New York City has been appointed coordinator of environmental health for the Union Carbide Corporation. He has been assistant general manager of the technology licensing department since 1964 and prior to that was a vice president of Union Carbide Development Company.

Dr. Nat C. Robertson, '39, has been named vice president of corporate research for Air Products and Chemicals, Allentown, Pennsylvania. Before joining Air Products in February Dr. Robertson held senior management positions at Escambia Chemical Corporation, Spencer Chemical Company, and most recently was vice president of the Gulf Research Development Company. He is a trustee of the Midwest Research Institute and a member of the board of Marion Laboratories.

In May Jack D. Hayes, '36-'37G, was elected a vice president and member of the executive committee of Hercules Powder Company, Wilmington, Delaware. He became general manager of the explosive and chemical propulsion department in 1960. He joined Hercules in 1937.

Dr. Arthur Hicks, '40-'41G, received his Ph.D. from Auburn last August. He is teaching at LaGrange College.

Dr. Schuyler Christian, '27-'28G, of RCA Laboratories, Princeton, NJ, has been appointed a visiting research associate in the electrical engineering department of Cornell University.

R. Terrell Wilson, '63G, recently moved from Atlanta to Charlotte, NC, where he is associated with Fiber Industries, Inc.

David T. Harden, '64, is attending Georgia Tech on a $2500 fellowship from the Mellon Foundation.

Dr. John N. Burnett, '61-'63G-'65Ph.D., Is a chemist in the DuPont Jackson Laboratory in Wilmington.

Miss Linda Dawson, '65, is a member of the Peace Corps and has been assigned to work in the Phillipines.

Miss Mildred Derrick, '65G, is a member of the chemistry faculty of Salem College, Winston-Salem, NC

Miss Beth Lindsay, '65, is a research technician in the Department of Internal Medicine at Emory.

Forrest D. Pilgrim, '27-'28G, Superintendent of Acetate Yarn at Tennessee Eastman, was presented the UF Award of Merit for the division.

Ralph Pritchard, '62G, is now with the Analytical Method Development division of Chemagro Corporation, Kansas City.

Dr. Kent C. Brannock, '54Ph.D., Was issued a patent in August entitled "Alkyl Esters of Alicyclic Diene Compounds Having 7 to 18 Ring Carbon Atoms and Having a Pyrrolidino Radical, a Piperidino Radical, a Morpholino Radical or the Radical of Hexamethyleneimine Attached to the Alicyclic Ring.” The novel compounds disclosed in the patent are said to find utility as intermediates in the preparation of perfumes and odorants.

Mrs. Janice Butler Turner, '59G, Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Augusta College, is entering the University of South Carolina in the fall for a year's advanced study.

Dr. E. Willan Wilson, '49Ph.D., Was granted a patent in July covering a novel process for preparing low molecular weight linear polyesters from a dicarboxylic acid, a branched chain glycol and a chain terminating acid or alcohol, employing stannous phthalate catalyst.

Dr. Jack Leffingwell, '62G-'63Ph.D., Has joined the staff of the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company in Winston-Salem.

Dr. Linton G. Ray, '38-'39G, is now president of Joseph Bancroft and Sons, a subsidiary of Indian Head Mills, Inc. He is living in New York City.

Dr. Roy O. Hill, '43, spoke at the Fifth Lecture Series on Plastic Materials in November at the University of Akron. Dr. Hill is with the Tennessee Eastman Company.

Freeman Bentley, '50G, presented a paper at the Eighth European Congress on Molecular Spectroscopy at Copenhagen, Denmark, in August. Freeman is chief of the Analytical Branch, Material Physics Division of Wright-Patterson Air Force Materials Laboratory.

Albert Henderson, '45, with Wilson-Toomis in Jacksonville, Florida, was recently appointed to the Duval County Air Pollution Control Commission.

Phillip R. Certain, '64-'65G, is now working on his doctorate at the University of Wisconsin.

William B. Dickinson, '46-'47G, is now a senior research chemist with Sterling Winthrop Research Institute in Rensselaer, New York.

Ambrose ("Brodie") Pendergrast, '35G, has been appointed assistant professor of chemistry at Georgia State College.

Laurens Horstman, '49. Has been transferred from the Shell Chemical plant in Houston, Texas, to the New York office. He is supervisor of planning and economics, Industrial Chemicals, with Shell Chemical Corporation.

Dr. Harrison Hale, '99 (our oldest alumnus), and Mrs. Hale have moved from Marietta to Houston, Texas.

Herman Abernathy, '38-'39G, spent two years in Tokyo with DuPont Far East on an executive assignment. He has now returned to Wilmington.

Dr. Charles B. Vail, '47G-'51Ph.D., Has assumed his new duties as project director for the Commission on Colleges with the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. Dr. Vail was formerly academic dean and professor of chemistry at Hampden-Sydney College.

Miss Charlotte Carson, '62, is on special assignment with the Coca Cola Company in Brussels. She will be there about a year.

Dr. Drury S. Caine, '61Ph.D., Was recently promoted to associate professor of chemistry at Georgia Tech.

Dr. Jane Maxwell, '57Ph.D., Is associate professor of chemistry at Mount Holyoke College.

Dr. J. William Moncrief, '63, received his Ph.D. from Harvard in June. He will join the staff of Amherst College in September. In July he gave a paper at the Congress of the International Union of Crystallography in Moscow.

Glenn Miller, '65, is a chemist with the Georgia State Agriculture Department in Atlanta.

Mrs. Clyde Opliger (Pam Sylvester), '65G, is assistant chemist in the Agricultural Chemical Service at Clemson University. Clyde Opliger, '62G, is a graduate student in chemistry at Clemson.

J. Ronald Layton, '64, received his MS degree from M.I.T. in February and is now a student at the University of North Carolina.

Dr. Nina Marable, '63G, has joined the staff of Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, Virginia. She recently completed her doctorate at the University of Massachusetts.

Dr. Nick Burnett, '65Ph.D., Is doing postdoctoral work with Dr. Royce Murray at the University of North Carolina.

Dr. Alice Cunningham, '66Ph.D., will join the staff of Agnes Scott College in September.

Dr. Benjamin H. Smith, '51Ph.D., Has been appointed superintendent of the Intermediates Department at Tennessee Eastman in Kingsport.

E.H. (Tony) Clower, '48G, has been appointed a senior chemist at Tennessee Eastman. He will be responsible for the Hydroquinone Department technical staff.

Martha Jordan Holderness, '65G, has a position in a research laboratory at the Stanford University Hospital where her husband is interning.

R.D. Norton, '26G, is teaching in Lake City Junior College and Forest Ranger School in Lake City, Florida. He retired from government service in February.

Joan Sanders Ward, '63, is teaching in the Alameda Unified School District, Alameda, California. Her husband is in the service, stationed at the Oakland Army base.

Dr. Kent C. Brannock, '54Ph.D., Was named "Local Speaker of the Year” by the Northeast Section of the ACS. The award is given in recognition of scientific achievement and outstanding contributions to the local ACS section. Dr. Brannock recently gave seminars at Emory and the University of Mississippi on aspects of his research in organic chemistry.

Dr. Robert E. Lyle, '46G, is professor of chemistry at the University of New Hampshire. Last year he held a Public Health Service Special Postdoctoral fellowship and spent the fall semester at Harvard, the spring semester at Oxford University.

Charles Stringer, '46G, has been assigned to the Organic Chemicals Development and Control Department of Tennessee Eastman. He was formerly in the Acid and Control Department.

Dr. Harold Johnston, '41-'65H, has been appointed Dean of the College of Chemistry at the Berkeley campus of the University of California. Dr. Johnston, a professor at Berkeley since 1957, is a specialist in the study of very fast reactions in gases. Last year he was elected to membership in the National Academy of Science.

W.H. Burrows, '33-'38G, is the author of a recent book entitled "Graphical Techniques for Engineering Computations.” Professor Burrows is on the faculty at Georgia Tech.

Dr. Donald E. Leyden, '64Ph.D., Is assistant professor of chemistry at the University of Georgia.
Degrees, 1965-66

Honorary Doctor of Science: June, Ulric Bannester Bray, '21
Bachelor's: June, Jean Elizabeth Loemker (Highest Honors)
Master's: December, William Lawrence Dickinson
August, Pierre Benmouyal, Charlotte M. Dickinson, W. Roy Mason
Doctor's: December, Robert C. Joines, BS, Tennessee Wesleyan College
Richard R. Rettew, BS Clemson University
March, Lenore Nielson McCullagh, BA, MS, Emory University
June, Alice Jean Cunningham, BS University of Arkansas
August, Donald G. Epple, BS Illinois Wesleyan University
Arthur Wayne Garrison, BS, MS, Clemson University
W. Roy Mason, BS Emory University
Ralph E. Mayo, BA Emory University
Citation for Dr. Ulric Bray

Dr. Ulric B. Bray, research chemist, inventor and manufacturer, is a native of Crawford, Georgia, and one of four brothers who attended Emory. His BS degree in chemistry was earned in only three years and conferred in 1921 magna cum laude. At the age of 24 he had a Ph.D. degree in chemistry from Yale University.

Dr. Bray worked in petroleum research for 11 years at the Union Oil Company laboratories in Los Angeles, making improvements in lubricating oils, asphalt, motor fuels, anticorrosion oils, insect sprays and many other products made from petroleum. Later he established his own firm, the Bray Chemical Company, of Los Angeles, researchers and manufacturers of chemicals from petroleum, of which he is president. He continued his work with petroleum sulfonates, lubricant additives and corrosion preventives, and today holds more than 100 US patents, many of them credited with prolonging the life of machinery several fold.

He is responsible for numerous publications in scientific and technical journals. In 1964 he received an honor scroll from the western chapter of the American Institute of Chemists citing him for his leadership in professional, technical and civic organizations, his counsel and technical assistance to government agencies and his outstanding accomplishments in industrial chemistry.
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The 1966-67 Academic Year

In the fall of 1966 the Ford Foundation offered the University $6 million on the condition that it raise $24 million within the next three years. Dr. Evangeline Papageorge was given the Thomas Jefferson Award at the opening convocation in September. Lester Maddox was running for governor and was later elected by the State Legislature. In October it was announced that "Wonderful Wednesday” (no classes) would begin in the Winter quarter.

In February the "Affirmation Vietnam”group was named winner of the George Washington Honor Medal. President and Mrs. Atwood accompanied eleven students to Valley Forge to accept the award. In the meantime several articles critical of this group and the war in Vietnam appeared in the Wheel.

There were no changes in the faculty of the Chemistry Department. There were twelve undergraduates participating in the NSF research program during the year and four postdoctoral students were engaged in research. During the year the NSF program was renewed for the summer of 1967 to provide funds for eight students. A $35,000 grant was received from NSF to help purchase the department's first mass spectrometer. The instrument was installed in the Psychology Building and its use was supervised by Dr. Goldsmith.
Fellowship Holders, 1966-67

University: Emily J. East, Winthrop College
Stephen T. Jones, East Carolina College
Raymond L. Schmidt, Florida Presbyterian College
NDEA, Title IV: Carolyn E. Portnoy, Louisiana State University
NASA Traineeships: Benjamin C. Clark, Duke University
Jean Loemker, Emory University
Alfred L. White, Clemson College
NSF Traineeship: Daniel Pantaleo, Manhattan College
Lana Sheer Rattet, Emory University
Departmental News

Dr. Leon Mandell presented several seminars during October and November on "Natural Product Chemistry.” His talks were given at A.H. Robins Pharmaceutical Company, North Carolina State University, North Jersey ACS Section and the Hoffman-LaRoche Pharmaceutical Company. Dr. Mandell was elected President of the Sigma XI Chapter and Chairman of the Georgia Section of the ACS for 1966-67. He is also a member of NIH's Medicinal and Organic Chemistry Fellowship Review Committee for 1966-1970.

Dr. Larry Clever gave a seminar at the University of Georgia in November on "Liquid Water.” In January he spoke on the same topic at East Carolina College and also spoke to the Sigma XI Club there.

Dr. Jones attended the Southeastern Regional ACS meeting in Louisville in November. He also spoke to the Alumni Clubs in Los Angeles and San Francisco in the fall.

Attending the fall meeting of the ACS in New York were Drs. Trowbridge, Underwood, Day and Lester. Dr. Trowbridge gave a paper on "Ligand-Induced Difference Spectra of Trypsin."

Dr. Art Underwood is chairman of the ACS committee that is preparing a standardized test in instrumental analysis.

Dr. Day attended the dedication of the new High-Flux Reactor and Trans-Plutonium Laboratory in Oak Ridge in November.

Dr. Fred Menger spoke at Vanderbilt in December on "An Enzyme Model Involving Bifunctional Reactivity."

Dr. Trowbridge gave a paper on "The Effect of Benzamidine upon Tryptic Catalysis” at the American Society of Biological Chemists in Chicago in April.

The second edition of "Quantitative Analysis” by Day and Underwood was published by Prentice-Hall. The preface stated that the material was presented in a more advanced manner and "It is hoped that the present-day college student, with his better background, will find the material more interesting and challenging.”

The Guy Room was redecorated in the fall and some new shelves added. Mrs. Augusta Cooper oversaw the work which included new draperies, new paint and reupholstering of several chairs.

In April the Wheel reported that a refrigerator in a chemistry lab in the Psychology Building exploded one afternoon about 5:30 P.M. Luckily no one was hurt.

In May senior chemistry major Walter Rowe was named a winner of a Woodrow Wilson graduate fellowship. Walter also won the Hamilton Watch Award at Honors Day for proficiency and achievement in science.

Elected to Pi Alpha this spring were Matthew T. Barnhill, Brian Berenbach, Robert Burnett, Janet Evans, Charles Holmes, Dayton Miller, Karen Montgomery, Del Moore, Richard Myers, Daniel Pantaleo, Caroline Eckels Portnoy, Norman Portnoy, Jerry Smith and Robert Zahr.

Dr. Jacob Goldstein gave a seminar at Florida State University in February on "Spectroscopic Parameters and the Description of the Chemical Bond.” He also spoke at the University of Wisconsin in March and at the University of Tennessee in April on "Some Applications of C-13-H Satellite Spectra to Problems in Molecular Spectroscopy.” He also attended a conference on NMR spectroscopy at Cal Tech in May.

Drs. Goldsmith and Pappas attended a Gordon Conference in August. In April Dr. Pappas spoke at North Georgia College on "The Photochemistry of Methyl-o-benzyloxyphenylglyoxylate."

Attending the spring meeting of the ACS in Miami Beach were Drs. Clever, Johnson, Goldsmith, Day, Pappas and Tilford. Dr. Clever gave a paper on "Thermodynamics of Liquid Surfaces: Adsorption at the Binary Hydrocarbon Liquid-Vapor Interface.” Dr. Goldsmith gave a paper on "Diterpene Synthesis via Epoxyolefin Cyclization.” Dr. Underwood presided at a committee meeting drawing up a new ACS test in instrumental analysis.

In November Dr. Goldsmith spoke at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs and at Arizona State on "Epoxyolefin Cyclization."

Dr. Mandell was a visiting professor at Stanford University during the summer of 1967.

Dr. Marion Clark served as visiting professor at Emory this summer. He is professor of chemistry at Agnes Scott.

The Pi Alpha lectures were given this year by Dr. Charles Tanford of the Duke Medical School.

Elected to Sigma XI were Benjamin C. Clark, Kerford A. Marchant, David J. McClemens, John MacArthur Read and Raymond L. Schmidt.
News of Alumni

At the spring meeting of the ACS in Miami Beach Mr. Harry Taylor, '59MAT, chairman of the science department at North Fulton High School, was recognized as one of six national winners of the James Bryant Conant teaching award. This award for outstanding teaching of chemistry in high school was established in 1965, sponsored by the DuPont Company.

Dr. Arthur Hicks, '40-'41G, is the new chairman of the Division of Science and Mathematics at LaGrange College.

Dr. Larry Prucino, '51Ph.D., Has been made manager of Holliston Mills in Kingsport, Tennessee.

Clyde V. Davis, '49, was made manager of the Technical Services Department of the Oxford Chemical Company in Atlanta.

Henry C. Nipper, '60, finished the requirements for his MS degree at Purdue last summer. He is now working for his Ph.D. in chemistry at the University of Maryland.

David Harden, '64, is now working for a Master of City Planning degree at Georgia Tech.

Mrs. Evelyn N. Gibson, '65MAT, is teaching chemistry at Kennesaw Junior College in Marietta.

Mrs. Willard L. Dickinson, '66G, is also teaching at Kennesaw Junior College. Her husband Larry, '65G, is teaching at DeKalb Junior College.

Dr. Harold Parker, '51-'52G, has been appointed senior research associate in polymer chemistry at the Richmond Laboratory of Chevron Research Company, Richmond, California.

John Brodmann, '59G, is chairman of the division of natural science at Culver-Stockton College in Canton, Missouri.

Brent Blumenstein, '66, is a graduate student in biometry at Emory.

Dr. Alice Cunningham, '66Ph.D., Is teaching chemistry at Agnes Scott this year while Dr. Julia Gary, '58Ph.D., Is on leave of absence. She will do postdoctoral work at the University of Texas next year.

Dr. Julia Gary, '58Ph.D., Associate Professor of Chemistry and Associate Dean at Agnes Scott, has been elected an alumna member of Phi Beta Kappa by society's chapter at her alma mater, Randolph-Macon Woman's College. Dr. Gary served on the faculties of Mount Holyoke and Randolph-Macon before going to Agnes Scott in 1957.

Decatur Campbell, '42-'47G, assumed his new duties on June 1 as manager of Eastman Chemical International A.G. in Zug, Switzerland. He joined Eastman in 1948 and since 1963 has been assistant general manager of the International Division of Tennessee Eastman in Kingsport.

Dr. Leven S. Hazelgrove, '49G, Professor of Chemistry at Samford University in Birmingham, led a six-week Summer Chemistry Institute for College Teachers at the University of Ragishahi in East Pakistan. The institute is a project of the US Agency for International Development.

Dr. K.C. Brannock, '54Ph.D., Was an ACS tour speaker in the southeast in March. His subject was "Enamine Chemistry."

Dr. George B. Malone, '26, retired on January 31 after 37 years with the DuPont Company. He was head of the Patent Division of the Central Research Department.

Dr. W. Roy Mason, III, '63-'66Ph.D., Will become assistant professor of chemistry at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois in September. He has been doing postdoctoral work at Cal Tech during the past year.

Dr. Sherrill Watts, '65Ph.D., Will become assistant professor of chemistry at Agnes Scott in September.

Daniel J. Rabb, '59, recently moved from Cleveland, Ohio to Kalamazoo, Michigan where he is with the American Cyanamid Company.

William E. Chase, '62, joined the Tennessee Eastman Company in Kingsport as a technical administrative assistant after completing a tour of Navy duty.

Mrs. H.R. Kuehne (Joan Ward), '65, of Atlanta is working as a medical technologist at Piedmont Hospital.

Dr. Arthur Garrison, '66Ph.D., Is a research chemist at the Southeast Water Laboratory in Athens.

William D. Morrison, '44, was recently elected a group vice president of Hooker Chemical Corporation.
Visitors to the Campus

Brooke Hoey, '54Ph.D., And his family from St. Louis on his way back from a vacation on the Gulf coast. Brooke is with the Mallinckrodt Company in St. Louis.

Frank Wilder, '29-'30G, from Beaumont, Texas where he is with the DuPont Company.

Thomas Strickland, '43, from Kingsport where he is with Tennessee Eastman.

William DeMore, '52-'53G, from Pasadena where Billy is a research scientist with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Jack Kirkland, '48-'49G, from Wilmington where he is a research chemist with DuPont.

Earl Whipple, '59Ph.D., from Tarrytown, N.Y. where he is a research chemist with Union Carbide.
Letters from

Julia Goode, '52G, who is teaching chemistry at Baptist College in Charleston, SC

Dr. Ellington Beavers, '38-'39G, who is with the Rohm and Haas Company in Philadelphia.

Jane Maxwell, '54-'57Ph.D., who is now Associate Professor of Chemistry at Mount Holyoke College.

Ian G. Bell, '42-'43G, who is with Canadian Industries, Ltd., in Lachine, Quebec.

Colonel Woodrow Light, '54G, who is now president of Gordon Military College in Barnesville, Georgia.
Mr. Dixon Retires

Mr. Leslie J. Dixon, who had been with the department since 1950, retired at the end of the 1966-67 academic year. Many alumni will remember Mr. Dixon warmly. He served the department mainly in the area of supplies and equipment procurement, a job that increased in scope over the years. He also taught in the general chemistry laboratory for several years. Mr. Dixon retired to a farm he owned in Dayton, Tennessee where he lived with his wife and daughter Cecile until the ripe old age of 93.
Degrees, 1966-67

Bachelor's: June, Robert Scott Butler (Highest Honors)
Walter F. Rowe, Jr. (Highest Honors)
Master's: March, Lanna Sheer Rattet
Doctor's: August, John McArthur Read, BA Emory, 1962
Raymond L. Schmidt, AB Florida Presbyterian, 1964
Return to Beginning of Chapter 5
The 1967-68 Academic Year

At the opening convocation in the fall of 1967 Dr. William H. Jones received the annual Thomas Jefferson Award. Construction had started on the Library for Advanced Studies and the University enrollment was 4917 with 2353 in the College.

Discussions and activities related to the Vietnam War had greatly increased. A seven-part series on the war began in the Wheel. Campus groups started holding a Peace Vigil every Friday afternoon, with students lining up in front of Cox Hall protesting the war. Some students returned their draft cards and 25 went to Washington to participate in a demonstration. Sergeant Pepper's Peace Parade appeared on the campus in October.

"Wonderful Wednesday” was in full swing with students having an off day from formal classes. This had little effect on the Chemistry Department since it did not apply to graduate courses and courses with laboratory usually skipped Wednesday anyway. The undergraduates participating in the NSF research program utilized Wednesdays for research activities.

In the spring quarter of 1968 the S/U grading option went into effect. Students could choose to take up to 15 hours of course work graded S for satisfactory or U for unsatisfactory. This option could not be used for courses taken to satisfy the uniform requirements. Departments could also restrict the option in courses required for the major.

There were no changes in the faculty of the department. Mr. Harris Deaton joined the staff to take over Mr. Dixon's duties. Mr. Deaton had a BS degree with a major in chemistry from Berry College and had taught chemistry in high schools for several years.

Building plans were moving along slowly with visits from possible consultants and architects. By February Robert and Company had been selected as the architect and Earl Walls Associates as the design consultants. By the end of the year Mr. Walls had completed the programming stage and Robert and Company had started on the schematics.
Fellowship Holders, 1967-68

NDEA, Title IV:
Mildred E. Derrick, East Carolina College
Stephen T. Jones, East Carolina College
Paul G. King, Vanderbilt University
Karen Montgomery, Agnes Scott College
Carolyn E. Portnoy, Louisiana State University
David B. Rousey, Presbyterian College
Jerry Smith, Auburn University
Anderson R. Tarpley, Georgia Institute of Technology

NSF Traineeships:
Mathew T. Barnhill, Emory University
Robert Scott Butler, Emory University
Jean E. Loemker, Emory University
Departmental News

Two dinners with alumni were held during the fall. In September at the ACS meeting in Chicago the dinner was at Berghoff's, a favorite German restaurant. In November at the Southeastern Regional meeting in Atlanta the dinner was at the Knight's Table on Luckie Street. The department also had a room at the Mariott during this meeting for our staff and alumni.

A special attraction at the regional meeting was a session of papers by undergraduates. The department was well represented with five of our undergraduates presenting papers. These were seniors Ashley Williamson, Kenneth Pryse, Mary Anne Eyles and Linda Haynes, and sophomore Kenneth McCracken. Twelve additional papers were presented at this meeting by graduate students and faculty of the department.

Dr. Ronald Johnson gave seminars at Georgia Tech and Vanderbilt on "Substitution Reactions of Octahedral Complexes of Platinum(IV).” He also participated in the honors program for Atlanta high school students at Spelman College in November.

Dr. Jacob Goldstein gave a seminar at Washington University in St. Louis in October on "Applications of C-13 NMR Satellite Spectra."

Dr. W.H. Jones spoke in January to the local chapter of LaGrange College Alumni on "Is Science on Our Side?".

Dr. Leon Mandell spoke at Oglethorpe College in January on "Science versus Humanities - No Contest,” and at Mercer on "An Honor System for Colleges."

Dr. Day spoke to the Analytical Symposium at Tennessee Eastman in October on "The Future of Academic Analytical Chemistry."

Dr. Larry Clever gave a paper at the ACS regional meeting in Atlanta on "The Ion Adduct Constant of Water."

In July Dr. David Goldsmith attended the 5th International Symposium on the Chemistry of Natural Products, sponsored by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry in London. He presented a paper on "The Transformation of Podocarpic Acid to Rosenonolactone Precursor via Epoxide Rearrangement."

Dr. Leon Mandell was the recipient of the 1968 E. Harris Harbison Award for Distinguished Teaching given by the Danforth Foundation. The award gave a grant of $10,000 or a period of freedom of one or two quarters. In the summer he visited a number of laboratories in Europe where research was being carried out in his field of interest. He also attended the 5th International Symposium in London.

In the spring Dr. Ronald Johnson gave seminars at Tulane and Northern Illinois Universities on "Mechanisms of Substitution Reactions of Platinum(IV) Complexes.” In August he attended the Gordon Research Conference in New Hampton, N.H. and the New England Association of Chemistry Teachers in Middleton, Connecticut.

Dr. Fred Menger gave a seminar in March at the Clarkson Memorial College of Technology, Potsdam, NY His topic was "On the Mechanism of Chymotrypsin Action."

Dr. Day visited the Hercules Company in Wilmington in August.

Dr. Charles Tilford, Visiting Professor, attended the Medicinal Chemistry Symposium in Quebec City in June.

Dr. Larry Clever attended the Calorimetry Conference in Midland, Michigan in August.

The department received a $25,000 grant from NSF toward the purchase of a PDP-9 computer for use in the instruction of undergraduates. The computer will be used for all phases of the undergraduate program from the freshman to the senior year.

The department also added a T-60 NMR to its research instrument holdings. Dr. Goldstein has on order a 100-megacycle NMR which is scheduled for delivery in September.
News of Students

Chemistry majors elected to Phi Beta Kappa in October were Nancy Amsden, Edwin Gerson, Dan Sakamoto and William Zeller. Pi Alpha initiates were Mary Anne Eyles, Linda Lea Haynes and Kenneth M. Pryse. In the spring those elected were Dan Cantwell, Carlin DeMore, Richard McCullough, John Starr, Henry Ward, Betty Young, Nantelle Smith, Sam West, Richard Williams and Richard Zorn. Elected to Sigma XI were John Brodmann, Ben Clark, H.B. Evans, David McClemens and Richard Myers.

Stipe Scholars include Grady Campbell, Linda Haynes, George Petrides, Nantelle Smith, Sam West, Richard Williams, Ashley Williamson, Betty Young and Richard Zorn.

Ashley Williamson, '68, won an NSF graduate fellowship and will attend Cal Tech next year.

Everett Moore, '68G, has accepted a position with Tennessee Eastman in Kingsport.

Del More, '68G, has accepted a position with the Geigy Chemical company in Ardsley, NY

Harvey Lewis, '68G, is a graduate student in engineering at Georgia Tech.

Richard Myers, '68Ph.D., Has accepted a position as assistant professor of chemistry at Delta State College, Cleveland, Mississippi.

H.B. Evans, '68Ph.D., Is a research chemist with Uniroyal, Inc. in Wayne, NJ

Raymond Schmidt, '67Ph.D., Has accepted a postdoctoral position at Cal Tech, Department of Chemical Engineering, with Dr. C.J. Pings.
News of Alumni

Richard Hobgood, '60-'61G-'63Ph.D., who is a research chemist at Atlas Chemical Industries in Wilmington, became an actor for a short time in November. He played the role of Lymon in Carson McCullers' "Ballad of the Sad Cafe.” The Springer Theater Company in Columbus, Ga. presented the production and Dick was cast in the role of the dwarf. He won critical and popular raves for his performance, but was last quoted as saying he was still a chemist - the acting was only for fun.

Dr. William (Fay) Durham, '43-'48G-'50Ph.D., Recently moved from Wenatchee, Washington to Perrine, Florida where he is chief of the Pesticide Research Laboratory of the US Public Health Service.

George F. Rodgers, '44G, is production staff supervisor with Tennessee Eastman in Kingsport.

Dr. James B. Griffin, '56, has been appointed assistant professor of biochemistry at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. He received his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina in 1965 and then did postdoctoral work at Brandeis University.

Dr. Harry H. Gibson, '61, received his Ph.D. degree in organic chemistry from Florida State University in August. He is now assistant professor of chemistry at Austin College, Sherman, Texas.

Robert H. Collum, '62, recently received his master's degree in engineering and air pollution at the University of Florida. He is now with the Georgia State Health Department working as an air pollution control specialist.

Dr. Thomas C. Campbell, '63G, received his doctoral degree from Georgia Tech recently and is now working as a research chemist for Monsanto Chemical Company in St. Louis.

Dr. Nina Marable, '63G, received her Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts (through Mount Holyoke) recently and is now assistant professor of chemistry at Sweet Briar College in Virginia.

Martin Stewart, '66, is teaching chemistry at Brandon Hall School in Dunwoody, Ga.

Dr. Robert M. Powers, '52-'53G-'58Ph.D., Has been appointed director of research and development for the UBS Chemical Division of AE Staley Company. Bob has been a group leader in the paper applications laboratory for the past five years.

Ian G. Bell, '42-'43G, is now working for I.C.I. America, in Stamford, Connecticut.

Roy O. Hill, '43, of Eastman Chemical Products, is author of several articles in the 1968 issue of "Modern Plastics Encyclopedia."

Jack Parker, '63, is finishing his doctoral work at Berkeley this year and plans to teach overseas next fall.

Barbara (Hille) Mallon, '63, is a research chemist at the Radiation Laboratory, Livermore, California. She reports that she is sharing an office with Emory alumnus Chester Crawford, '34G.

Dr. E. Willan Wilson, '49Ph.D., Has been named senior chemist in the Acid Division of the Tennessee Eastman Company.

Dr. E.R. Covington, '54Ph.D., Has a paper published in Southern Research Institute's Bulletin entitled "Significance of Surface Tension Phenomena in Improving Plastic Products."

Robert L. Flurry, '58-'59G-'61Ph.D., visited the department on his way to England. He has a six-month sabbatical from L.S.U. In New Orleans and will be at Oxford working with Dr. Coulson. Bob has a book entitled "Molecular Orbital Theories of Bonding in Organic Molecules” published recently by Marcel Dekker.

Dr. Ulric Bray, '21-Honorary D.Sc. '66, was recently awarded the Richard C. Tolman medal by the Southern California Section of the ACS. The award was in recognition of his many contributions to the chemical and petroleum industries.

Dr. Slaughter W. Lee, '35-'36G, has formed his own consulting company on research and new product matters in the pharmaceutical industry. Dr. Lee was formerly vice president of research for the Shering Corporation and corporate director of product acquisition and licensing for the Richardson- Merrell Company.

Dr. Charles B. Vail, '51Ph.D., Was recently named Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at Georgia State College.

T.E. (Ed) Powers, '48, is now plant manager of Hystrom Fibers, Inc., in Spartanburg, SC

Dr. Robert E. Joines, '63G-'65Ph.D., Will begin postdoctoral work at the University of Florida next January.

Dr. Leven S. Hazelgrove, '49G, Professor of Chemistry at Samford University, spent the Christmas holidays in Asia at the request of the US State Department. He helped prepare three chemistry institutes for college teachers at Dacca and Rajshai Universities in East Pakistan.

Sidney Hatcher, '60, is project manager at Phillips' Fibers new technical center in Greenville, SC He works primarily with polyolefin fibers.

Ralph Pritchard, '62G, is a research chemist with Marion Laboratories in Kansas City, Missouri.

Harold J. Crumly, '67, is teaching at South Gwinnett High School in Snellville, Georgia.

Dr. Charles Pesterfield, '59, joined Geigy Chemical Corporation in 1964 and was recently named administrative assistant to the company's director of organic chemistry. He received his Ph.D. from the University of South Carolina in 1964.

Burgess Cooke, '63, is working on his doctorate at the University of Georgia.

Kenneth Grubbs, '67, is doing graduate work at the University of Georgia.

Captain Lloyd Langston, '57, USAF, is a member of the 663rd Combat Support Group based at Pleidu, Vietnam.

Loraine Hardegree, '64, is a chemist with Phillips Fibers Corporation in Greenville, SC

Dr. John N. (Nick) Burnett, '61-'63G-'65Ph.D., Will join the faculty of Davidson College this fall as assistant professor of chemistry. He is currently a research associate at the University of North Carolina.

Elizabeth Milliken, '65-'68G (Biochemistry), has joined the pharmaceutical division of Eli Lilly in Indianapolis. She is a biochemist in the biological research division.

Paul V. Troup, '65G, of the Tennessee Eastman Company, recently took first place in a statewide "Speakup” contest in Gatlinburg, Tennessee.

Dr. Jerry M. Adams, '61, received his Ph.D. degree in biochemistry from Harvard in March.

J. Malvyn McKibben, '55, is with the Savannah River Plant of the DuPont Company.

Visitors to the Department

Walter Freeman, '63-'64G, who is with Houdry Chemical Company in Marcus Hook, Pa.

Gordon Kilpatrick, '59-'60G, from Huntington Beach, California.

Phillip Certain, '64-'65G, who is a graduate student in physical chemistry at the University of Wisconsin.

Dave Jordan, '50G, who is with the Rohm and Haas Co. in Philadelphia.

Jack Kirkland, '48-'49G, who is with the DuPont Co. in Wilmington.

John Brodmann, '59G-'67Ph.D., from Culver Stockton College. John attended the 5th International Symposium on the Chemistry of Natural Products in London.

Jim Keller, '40G, who was in town for an API committee meeting. He is with the Union Oil Company in Fullerton, California.
Baccalaureate Origin of Ph.D.'s in Chemistry

The Office of Education recently published data on the baccalaureate origin of Ph.D.'s in various fields. Emory made a very good showing, particularly in chemistry. The following table compares our record with that of a few neighboring institutions.

Ph.D.s who received
their BS degrees at
the Institution named

Ph.D.s per 1000
Bachelor's degrees
(1960-66)

Institution

1920-1960

1960-66

Men

Women

Emory

112

25

17

9

Vanderbilt

64

22

10

7

Tulane

53

12

6

4

Duke

84

28

10

6

Georgia

55

16

3

2

Georgia Tech

69

25

5

5

Florida

119

31

6

4

Florida State

9

3

1

1

North Carolina

149

41

6

5
Degrees, 1967-68

Master's:
December, Jean Elizabeth Loemker
March, Ellen Jane Coffey
June, Matthew T. Barnhill
August, Cecil Everett Moore, Del E. Moore

Doctor's:
December, John M. Brodmann, BS Lynchburg College, 1955, MS Emory University, 1959
Benjamin C. Clark, BA Duke University, 1963, MS Emory University, 1967
June, Hiram B. Evans, BA East Carolina College, 1963
David J. McClemens, BS Union College, 1964, MS Emory University, 1967
Kerford A. Marchant, BS Washington and Lee University, 1962, MS Emory University, 1967
August, Richard S. Myers, BS Mississippi College, 1964, MS Louisiana State University, 1966
Return to Beginning of Chapter 5
The 1968-69 Academic Year

As the fall quarter opened in September there was marked unrest on university campuses throughout the nation. Several events earlier in the year had further inflamed students already protesting the war in Vietnam. In the spring both Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy were assassinated. In April the strike at Columbia, led by the radical faction of the SDS, had closed down the University for the rest of the year. The violent confrontations at the Democratic convention in Chicago in September further increased the unrest.

At the heart of student unrest were the demands for a greater voice in the administration of college and university affairs, that more black students be admitted to colleges, and that courses in Afro-American studies be added to the curriculum. Protests of the war continued and movements to ban ROTC units from campuses were increasing. Violence finally enveloped Harvard in the spring of 1969 when a radical splinter wing of the SDS occupied the administration building. The action of the president in calling in the police to remove the protesters radicalized many other students and resulted in a massive strike and the burning of buildings.

At Emory talk of the SDS and the New Left was common. An Emory professor who had attended the Democratic Convention as a member of the delegation led by Julian Bond, began a series of articles in the Wheel. In November twenty student members of the SDS demonstrated against the Dow Chemical Company's recruiter who was on the campus interviewing students. The founder of the LSD movement, Dr. Allan Cohen, one time associate of Dr. Timothy Leary, was a speaker on the campus.

In October Steve Abbott, a graduate student in English who had been elected president of the Student Government Association, refused induction in the armed services in Atlanta. A resident of Nebraska, he was tried and convicted in Lincoln, Nebraska and sentenced to three years' imprisonment. An appeal was filed immediately. By spring some students and faculty were beginning to attack the Air Force ROTC Program with regards to academic credit and even its existence on the campus. Black students were picketing Cox Hall, blocking serving lines in the cafeteria. Their demands included the admission of more black students, a Black House, a black administrator, a Black Studies Program, and an Afro-American Reading Room in the library.

At a convocation in Glenn Memorial on May 28 the president presented some guidelines for dealing with the demands and appointed twelve administrators to see that the guidelines were translated into reality.

In the Wheel it was reported that the new Library for Advanced Studies was 53.5% complete. In the Chemistry Department Dr. Leon Mandell took over as chairman. Dr. William A. Moncrief joined the faculty as assistant professor of physical chemistry. Bill had received his BS degree from Emory in 1963 and his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1966. He was assistant professor at Amherst College from 1966 to 1968. Dr. Peter Pappas had resigned to accept a position at North Dakota State University. Two new graduate courses were added: Chemistry 340, "Chemistry of the Solid State,” was taught by Dr. Moncrief, and Chemistry 405, "Biophysical Chemistry,” was given by Dr. Trowbridge.
Fellowships, 1968-69

University:
Chi-Hsin Chow, National Taiwan University
Ida L. Copenhaver, Agnes Scott College
Van W. Daniel, University of North Carolina
R. Daniel Zehr, Rice University

NDEA:
Lee H. Altmayer, Emory University
Karen M. Crecely, Agnes Scott College
Mildred E. Derrick, East Carolina College
Mary E. Key, North Carolina State University
Paul G. King, Vanderbilt University
Helen T. Mann, Agnes Scott College
Carolyn E. Portnoy, Louisiana State University
Jerry H. Smith, Auburn University
Anderson R. Tarpley, Georgia Tech

NSF Traineeships:
Daniel Pantaleo, Manhattan College
Lana S. Rattet, Emory University

NASA Traineeships:
Mathew T. Barnhill, Emory University
Robert Scott Butler, Emory University
Departmental News

In the fall Robert and Company completed the schematics for the new building and by early winter the department submitted proposals to NSF and HEW asking for about half of the estimated $8 million cost. In August, 1969 a master plan for the campus was completed by Robert and Company and showed the new chemistry building as Stage 1 of a new Science Center. (Plans for a Science Center are still being discussed as this is being written some 27 years later.) The May-June issue of the Alumni Magazine made this comment on the proposed chemistry building: "Plans have not progressed as far for this building as they have for the Law Building.” A sizable donation from an alumnus of the Law School had been received. We were waiting to hear from our proposals to NSF and HEW.

Dr. Fred Menger won the annual Sigma XI award for excellence in research for his studies with enzyme models.

In the January-February issue of the Alumni Magazine there was an article by science writer Tom Sellars about the chemistry department entitled "Whatever Happened to Bunsen Burners?". In it he mentioned the department's new IBM 1620 computer and that money had been appropriated for the architect's drawings for the new building.

Dr. Fritz McDuffie, '38-'39G, scientist and administrator at Oak Ridge National Laboratory since 1950 was named representative for the United States Atomic Energy Commission to the commission's newly established office in Bombay, India.

In the spring senior chemistry major Nantelle Smith was named a winner of a National Science Foundation graduate fellowship.

Elected to Sigma XI during the year were Robert Burnett, Roger Crecely, Stephen Jones, Lana Rattet and Charles Sparacino.
Degrees, 1968-69

Bachelor's:
June, Nantelle Elaine Smith (Highest Honors)
Sam Carroll West (Highest Honors)

Doctor's:
December, Stephen T. Jones, BA East Carolina College
March, Susan G. Bailey, BA Vassar, MS Iowa State University
June, Robert W. Burnett, BS Purdue University
Roger W. Crecely, BS University of Rochester
Claude F. Phillips, BA University of North Carolina
Lana Sheer Rattet, BS Emory University
Charles M. Sparacino, BS Emory University
August, Robert W. Gresham, BS Emory University
Return to Beginning of Chapter 5
The 1969-70 Academic Year
A Year of Unrest

Unrest on the nation's campuses continued in late 1969 and through 1970, further aggravated by the US military action in Cambodia and the killing of four students at Kent State University by the Ohio National Guard. Protests hit more than 80 educational institutions and classes were temporarily suspended on some campuses and several schools suspended normal operations from early May until commencement in June.

At Emory the SGA sponsored an educational program on white racism in November. A day of activities to protest the war was held on October 15. On October 10 Larry Altmayer, treasurer of the SGA, was arrested in Atlanta for disrupting a speech by David Rockefeller, Chairman of the Board of Chase Manhattan Bank. Pickets outside Cox Hall asked the Board of Trustees to support their antiwar efforts.

Some faculty members in the University Senate were questioning the fraternity rush system, proposing that rush be delayed at least one quarter. (Some thought this was because fraternity members had not been very supportive of the antiwar activities.) Other faculty members organized a chapter of the University Centers for Rational Alternatives, a national organization of college professors, which opposed change by violence and the introduction of politics into the classroom. A faculty committee was considering revising the curriculum by decreasing the uniform requirements to 45 hours, 15 in each division, but not specifying the particular courses to be taken. The University Senate voted to invite four students, a graduate teaching assistant, and three other faculty members below the rank of associate professor to attend its meetings.

In November about 150 Emory students were among the estimated 300,000 demonstrators in Washington. Dick Gregory was a speaker on the campus, and further arguments for dropping ROTC were in the Wheel. In January students were protesting the decision of the English Department not to grant tenure to an assistant professor. English majors were demanding a voice in the department's tenure decision process.

In October the faculty extended the S/U grading option and voted to allow up to 30 hours to be taken on this option. It also clarified the controversy over the letter grade D, saying that it should be considered an S.

In January the Senate voted against deferring fraternity rush. In February the faculty voted to approve the changes in the uniform requirements proposed by the committee. The Theology School started offering a course on racism. A few departments in the College started allowing students to serve on faculty committees.

By April the attack on ROTC intensified. Students demonstrated, protesting the existence of the unit on campus, and an editorial in the Wheel said that academic credit for ROTC courses should not be allowed. Even a faculty group joined in the protest. Three students signed up to audit an Air Science course, caused some disruption, and then claimed discrimination when they were not allowed to participate in a "laboratory” session. The chairman of the Committee on Academic Policy and Standards (CAPS) scheduled a hearing on this incident, opening the meeting to the public and the press. UCRA asked the president to forbid the open meeting, saying such committee meetings were supposed to be confidential. The meeting took place anyway, but ended quietly when an Air Force instructor revealed that the "laboratory” session was concerned with military courtesy. He did not think the auditors would be interested in such matters as saluting.

In April the faculty voted to implement a program in Black Studies. On May 8 a nationwide"strike” was called and classes at Emory were suspended by the acting president. On May 19 at 11 a.m. a fire was discovered in the attic of the Alumni Memorial Building. It was quickly extinguished and little damage was done. On May 26 the College faculty voted 104-71 to discontinue the Department of Aerospace Studies and thereby remove the academic status of the Air Force ROTC program.

In the meantime the new Library for Advanced Studies opened in October. Also occupied in the fall were the new Dental and Nursing School Buildings.
The Chemistry Department

In October, 1969 a team from the National Science Foundation made a site visit to the campus to make a recommendation on the proposal we had submitted for the new building. Later the team recommended approval of the proposal, but it turned out that there were no longer any funds in the foundation's building program. The news from HEW was the same.

The administration released an announcement saying that due to lack of funds, plans for a new chemistry building would be postponed for at least one year. "As the government funding level for strictly educational purposes has somewhat declined in recent years, the question of if and when Emory will get the necessary financing remains unanswered.” Nevertheless, the announcement said the building will be the first in the proposed "Science Center.” The writer was quoted as saying jokingly, "We have been working on this project for ten years now, so I guess we can wait a few more years.” The location of the building was given and the artists' sketches were released.

In the meantime two new men joined the faculty. Dr. Louis F. Centofanti, an inorganic chemist, had his BS degree from Youngstown University in 1965, his MS and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Michigan in 1967 and 1968. Jon Pusey Engstrom, an organic chemist, had his BS degree from the University of Illinois in 1964, and his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1969.
Departmental News

In January the University received a grant from NSF of $8,480 to support the research of undergraduates in chemistry, physics and mathematics during the summer of 1970. Dr. Day, who would direct the program, said that the Chemistry Department had participated in the undergraduate research program since 1961 and had found it to be most productive.

Dr. David Goldsmith offered a course called "Molecular Structure: The Aesthetics of Organic Chemistry” in the program sponsored by the Emory Community Educational Service.

In April Dean Charles Lester received the first Honor Scroll to be awarded by the Piedmont Chapter of the American Institute of Chemists. Dr. Lester is currently on leave of absence to serve as chief of the Graduate Academics Program of the US Office of Education.

Dr. Leon Mandell was selected to appear in the 1970 edition of "Outstanding Educators of America."

Dr. Fred Menger received a Teachers-Scholar grant of $25,000 from the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation of New Yory City. He was one of fourteen recipients in the country.

The Chemistry Department received a 5-year $225,000 grant from NIH for a medicinal chemistry program and a $150,000 computer grant from the Digital Equipment Corporation.
News of Alumni

Decatur Campbell, '42-'47G, returned last summer from Zog, Switzerland to Kingsport where he assumed his new duties as manager of the International Division of Eastman Chemical Products, Inc.

Dr. Ellington Beavers, '38-'39G, of Meadowbrook, Pa. was appointed Director of Research for the Rohm and Haas Company of Philadelphia, effective December 1, 1969. He joined the company in 1941 as a research chemist and has been associate director of research since 1965.

Dr. Gordon Kilpatrick, '59-'60G, completed his doctorate in August, 1969 at UCLA with a major in higher education and a minor in junior college administration. He is now Dean of Instruction at Flathead Valley Community College, Kalispell, Montana.
Retirement of Dr. Blitch

Dr. Lee Wesley Blitch retired at the end of the 1969-70 academic year. Dr. Blitch received his BS degree from Emory in 1922 and his Ph.D. from Hopkins in 1925. He joined the faculty in the fall of 1925 as the third full member along with Drs. Guy and Quayle. His area of specialty was physical chemistry and he took over courses in that area and also helped Dr. Guy in the freshman course. In the second year of his tenure he developed tuberculosis and was hospitalized for four and a half years before recovering. When he was released there was no opening for him on the Atlanta campus and he joined the faculty of the newly opened Emory Junior College in Valdosta. When the Valdosta unit was closed in 1942 he joined the faculty in Atlanta. Over the years he taught general and inorganic courses, qualitative analysis and a course for nurses.

Dr. Blitch was a popular teacher, spending much time with students who needed help. He also served as counselor and academic adviser to hundreds of students. The Campus, the student yearbook, was dedicated to him in 1954. He also served as University Marshal for many years after Dr. Guy's retirement in 1952.

The department gave him money for a cabin-cruiser motor boat at his retirement dinner and for many years he enjoyed traveling to nearby lakes and riding in the boat with Mrs. Blitch. Dr. Blitch died in 1988 at the age of 86. Mrs. Blitch died in 1996 at the age of 93.
Degrees, 1969-70

Honorary Doctor of Science:
June, Nat Clifton Robertson

Master's:
March, Van Womack Daniel, III
Emily Johnson East
August, Andrew Ray Tarpley
Jean Ellen Serafin
Martha Clark Smith

Doctor's:
June, Van Womack Daniel, III, BA University of North Carolina, 1965, MS Emory University, 1970
August, Karen M. Crecely, BA Agnes Scott, 1966
Mildred Elizabeth Derrick, BA East Carolina University, 1963, MS Emory University, 1965
Dayton Thomas Miller, BS Washington and Lee University, 1966
Daniel Charles Pantaleo, BS Manhattan College, 1966
Jerry Howard Smith, BS Auburn University, 1966
Citation for Nat Clifton Robertson

Dr. Nat C. Robertson is vice-president for corporate research and development for Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. His career began as an industrial research chemist. He later became a member of the chemical industry's technical management force, holding positions with several large companies including Standard Oil of New Jersey, the Celanese Corporation of America, Escambia Chemical Corporation, and the Spencer Chemical Company. He has served in such positions as research chemist, group leader for research, and vice-president and director of research and development.

Dr. Robertson's recent research has included the areas of hydrocarbon derivatives, polymers, plastics, agricultural chemicals, coal and synthetic rubber. His work in chemical research has led to the issuing of some 37 patents by the United States and three foreign companies, involving such diverse chemical processes as separation of hydrogen peroxide from gas mixtures, and oxidative polymerization of ethylene in the presence of methyl formate. Dr. Robertson has published in several technical chemical journals, and is the contributing author of a book, "The Chemistry of Petroleum Hydrocarbons."

He is a trustee of the Midwest Research Institute, a member of the National Association of Manufacturers Research Committee, and a member of the Board of Directors of Marion Laboratories. He has served on the Governor's Science Advisory Council of Missouri.

Dr. Robertson's professional and academic society memberships include the American Chemical Society, the Faraday Society, the Industrial Research Institute, Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma XI

After receiving the Bachelor of Arts degree from Emory University, Dr. Robertson studied at Princeton, where he was awarded the Doctor of Philosophy degree. Before entering the chemical industry, he did postdoctoral work at Princeton.
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End Notes to Chapter 5
How to Wash a Precipitate

Alumni who took the traditional gravimetric analysis course may recall that after a compound was precipitated, it was usually washed, dried, ignited and weighed. The washing was to remove contaminating ions dragged down by the precipitate, and was usually done with water or water containing an electrolyte to prevent peptization. The electrolyte was one that would volatilize during ignition.

The gravimetric course was dropped during the 60's as the analytical courses were upgraded. Later, a student who had not taken the course was carrying out an inorganic preparation in Ron Johnson's lab. Ron said he walked into the lab when the student was filtering the compound, using a Buchner funnel and suction flask. Ron noticed that the flask was about filled with foam and asked the student about it. "Oh,” he said, "the directions said to wash the precipitate and I decided to use Tide."
Creative Plumbing

As previously mentioned, the University plumber, Mr. Snow, spent a lot of time in the Chemistry Building dealing with floods and leaks. One Friday afternoon Art Underwood and I noticed an overhead pipe leaking in the big quant lab on the second floor. There was a large hole in the pipe that carried drain water from the labs on the third and fourth floors. The pipe ran the length of the lab before turning down toward the basement.

It was getting late when Mr. Snow arrived. He studied the situation for a few moments and then said, "Doc, have you got a big funnel?” I said, "Mr. Snow, I think I can get one for you.” I went to the stockroom and found a large one. Mr. Snow then said, "Doc, have you got some heavy cord?” I found some for him and he climbed up on a lab bench and held the funnel over the hole while he tied it down firmly to the pipe. Then he said, "Doc, have you got a long piece of rubber tubing?” I found a piece of the proper size and he attached one end to the funnel and put the other end in the nearest sink in the lab bench.

He then said, "I'll be back next week to fix the hole.”
How to Study

Dr. Blitch told a story about a student who was having trouble in freshman chemistry. When he came to him for advice Dr. Blitch asked him how he studied. "Well,” the student said, "I read over the assigned chapter and highlight the material I think is important. Then I go back and study the material I have highlighted.” This was at the time when "highlighters” had just become popular.

Dr. Blitch asked, "May I see your book?” When he opened the student's book, he found every line highlighted, page after page after page!
"No Clods These Chemists"

The above was the title of an article in the May, 1961 issue of the Emory Alumnus. The article went on to say, "Everybody on the premises and some who weren't, got into the act when Emory's Chemistry Department staged an unusual art showing in its J. Sam Guy Memorial Reading Room in February.

"The idea for the exhibit came from graduate students in chemistry who found that many of them had hobbies related to the broad field of art. The faculty and staff joined with them in collecting and putting on display their paintings, sketches, carvings, poetry and photographs.

"Among those represented by paintings was the late Dr. J. Sam Guy, longtime chairman of the chemistry department, spare-time artist, and the man for whom the room was named. Wide attention was attracted by the wood carvings of George Ferrell, janitor of the Chemistry Building. The public was invited to the showing.

"'It was done,' said Dr. R.A. Day, departmental chairman, 'just to prove scientists aren't clods.' The scientists proved their point if, indeed, they needed to."
The 824 Account

In the early 40's I had heard Dr. Guy refer to a special account from which he could help pay for faculty travel to scientific meetings. I learned later that Dr. Guy's father-in-law, Judge Candler, had given the University about $7500 with the proviso that the interest from the fund could be spent at the discretion of the chairman of the chemistry department - Dr. Guy, of course. I never heard the full story, but I had the impression that Dr. Cox, the president, did not want to accept the money under those circumstances, but later agreed. Dr. Guy and Dr. Cox did have their differences and Dr. Guy wanted some money without having to ask the administration for it.

When I became chairman in 1957 I found that this account was numbered 824 and that the income each year was around $300 to $400. It had been used mainly for travel in the days when there were no University funds for that purpose. In 1957 the department did have a travel budget of $600 per year.

At that time such items as desks, filing cabinets and other office equipment could be obtained only once a year. The chairman had to put in his request each spring and might or might not get what he requested in the fall. We needed a filing cabinet badly and I decided to see if I could buy one and charge it to this account. The purchasing agent told me that I could not buy office equipment. I told him my understanding of the 824 account and when he checked it out the order was approved.

Another advantage of the account was that since it was an "endowment” account, any funds not spent by the end of the fiscal year would carry over into the next year. Unspent funds in accounts for regular operating expenses, such as chemicals and supplies, were lost at the end of the fiscal year. I heard of one department chairman who put into his operating account some money alumni had contributed for books. When he tried to use it in the fall, he found that it had disappeared.

At this time our alumni contributed generously to the University, specifying their gifts to the department. Alumni who knew Dr. Quayle also gave generously to the fund in his name. I asked the University treasurer if money given to the department could be put in the 824 account rather than in 504, our operating account, and he agreed. We could then allow the funds to accumulate until we had enough to buy a badly needed piece of equipment. It was especially useful for "matching” funds required by agencies such as NSF. At that time the University had no matching funds. When we obtained the $25,000 grant in 1962 for upgrading undergraduate laboratories, we had to raise an equal amount. We approached chemical companies and alumni and were successful in raising the needed amount. All this money was handled through the 824 account.
Art Underwood

A Type B Person

Art Underwood used to say that people fall into two classes, Types A and B. A Type A person jumps out of bed early each morning, sings in the shower, and eats a hearty breakfast. He goes to bed each night before midnight and immediately falls asleep. A Type B person drags out of bed half asleep, eats little if any breakfast, never sings in the shower and can't go to sleep before 2 A.M. Art said he was Type B.

I witnessed this one morning when we roomed together at an ACS meeting. When we got to the hotel he took his shirts out of his suitcase and put them in one of the drawers of a chest. The next morning we had to get up early since our meeting started at 9 A.M. I saw him drag out of bed, stagger around, open his suitcase, and suddenly exclaim, "My God!", Elizabeth forgot to put any shirts in my suitcase!” I watched him stew around for a while and then suggested that he look in the chest of drawers. He opened the drawer, found his shirts, and then accused me of hiding them from him!

Opening Remarks

At another meeting Art was scheduled to preside at a session of papers at 2 P.M. When he looked at the program he found that the first thing on the program was "Opening Remarks,” by AL Underwood. This surprised him and he fumed and fussed over what he was supposed to say.

I noticed that the 9 A.M. session was to be presided over by Professor Charles Reilley of the University of North Carolina. He was also listed as giving opening remarks. I suggested that we attend this session and he could see what Reilley said.

When we got to the room where the meeting was held, Reilley was busy scurrying around the podium, working with extension cords. Nine o'clock came and he was still busy trying to get things set up. Finally, about 9:05, he went to the microphone and said, "The first speaker was unable to get here and sent his slides and a tape of his remarks. Since we are running late, we will dispense with the opening remarks."

Needless to say, Art was disgusted.

The Writer

Art was a good speaker, articulate and well organized. He was also an excellent writer and could come up with expressions I would never think of. One of my favorites is the one he used in our text to explain trying to decide whether to retain or reject an experimental result. One must decide how large the difference should be between the suspected result and the other data before the result is discarded. If the difference is made too small, valid data may be rejected; if too large, erroneous results may be retained. He wrote, "The various recommendations for criteria of rejection steer one course or another between the Scylla and Charybdis of those two types of errors, some closer to one and some closer to the other."

I don't know how many students appreciated this analogy, but one instructor who used the text said in a revision questionnaire, "Please don't remove the statement about the Scylla and Charybdis!"

There was a section in the laboratory manual on safety. Art had told me about a student in a laboratory with him who was badly burned when he spilled a corrosive liquid down the front of his trousers. He was too embarrassed to remove his trousers in front of the students in the lab. To cover such a situation Art wrote: "With acid and alkali burns, the first step, which is to be taken immediately, ignoring common courtesies and forgetting possible embarrassment, is to wash the affected area with copious quantities of cool water."

Trouble with Referees

Art used to compare himself with the character in "Little Abner” who went around with a cloud over his head, especially when it came to dealing with editors and referees. I recall two occurrences which illustrate this feeling.

Art was doing research on the electrochemistry of biologically important compounds when he repeated some work that had been reported in the literature. He found a serious error in the work and did a very careful study to determine the correct results. When he submitted a paper reporting this one referee praised the paper, saying it should be published without change. However, the editor returned it to Art because the second referee said it should not be published because the results did not agree with those in the literature! The paper was eventually published after considerable correspondence.

One day Art received a letter from Professor Phil Elving of the University of Michigan. Elving really blasted Art for his critical remarks in refereeing a paper he had submitted for publication. Actually, Art had not refereed the paper and knew nothing about Elving's work. Elving apparently assumed that he had been the referee since he had made a reference to one of Art's papers in the same area. Art wrote him to that effect, but we were never sure that Elving believed that Art was not the referee!

His Cat

One morning Art came in complaining about his cat. It seemed that when the cat was in the back yard and wanted to go to the front yard, it came to the back door and scratched to be let in. Then it walked through the house to the front door and scratched to be let out. Art did not appreciate that; he thought the cat should simply go around the house.
Non-activist Students

From the disruption and turmoil caused by students on college campuses in the 70's one might conclude that many, if not all, of the students were involved. This was not true, at least on the Emory campus. In my opinion the great majority of students at Emory, while not necessarily supporting the government's actions in Vietnam, were definitely opposed to violence, picketing and disruption of classes.

I talked to many students who expressed this sentiment. I knew one black student who would not participate in picketing. Such students were frustrated at being unable to express their feelings for fear of verbal attack by the protesters.

I recall one girl who told me about a required English course she was taking. When the call for a week's strike came, she said this professor cancelled their class. She and some other members of the class went to see him, and he told them that if they would come to his home, he would hold a class. But he would not meet them on the campus. Some other professors also cancelled classes, and so far as I know, were not reprimanded by the administration.

On the day of the nationwide strike we had a test scheduled in Chemistry 113. It was the last test of the quarter and there would be no time to make it up before final exams. A number of students approached me, worried because this was their last chance to improve their grades. We decided to hold the test in spite of the strike for those who wished to take it. There would be no penalty for those who did not. Word was spread to this effect and only one student out of some 225 failed to show up. He lived off campus and had not heard the news.
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