5:45 p.m.     Mix and Mingle in Moffatt Dining Hall, Founders Room, Watkins Student Center

6:00 p.m.     Dinner

7:00 p.m.     Presentation in Dorn Reeder Auditorium, Daniel Moultrie Science Center

Executive Committee meeting immediately after the talk

Please reply to Howard Thomas at hthomas@erskine.edu by Thursday November 12th. Please include the names and affiliations of each person attending. We always welcome attendance at the presentations even if you are unable to come for the dinner.

Bob began working at Mistubishi Poyester Films, Inc. in Greer, SC after receiving his Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the University of Florida and doing postdoctoral work at the University of Maine. Since retiring in 2006 he has continued research on a consultant basis and has also taught as an adjunct at several of the colleges in our local section.

Remember, you have until November 17th to cast your vote in our section election. Below you will find a link which will take you to a webpage for voting. Once you have voted and click ?Done? you are finished. The program is set to only allow one vote per e-mail address and will not accept a second vote. We will announce next year?s officers at the November meeting of the section.

Thank you for your participation!

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=M1Qhh1rfMrkk6SSBGz7K8g_3d_3d

David J. Butcher is currently Professor of Chemistry and Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Western Carolina University (WCU) in Cullowhee, NC. He is married to Dr. Karen Butcher and has two children, Emily 18 and Neil 16, with whom he enjoys leisure time. He received his bachelor?s degree in 1982 from the University of Vermont. After three years of employment at Pfizer and Bowdoin College, he received his Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut in 1990. His graduate work, conducted under the direction of Robert G. Michel, involved the development of instrumentation for laser excited atomic fluorescence and ionization spectroscopies.

Prof. Butcher joined the faculty at WCU in 1990 as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry, was promoted to Associate Professor in 1997, was promoted to Professor in 2001, and became Department Head in 2002. He became Associate Dean in April, 2004. Prof. Butcher has more than 50 publications in a variety of areas of analytical chemistry, including graphite furnace atomic absorption spectrometry, diode laser atomic absorption spectrometry, and ion trap mass spectrometry. Along with Prof. Joseph Sneddon, he is co-author of the volume "A Practical Guide to Graphite Furnace Atomic Absorption Analysis. His current research interests include environmental analytical chemistry; currently he is involved in a phytoremediation project to remove lead and arsenic from the soil at a housing development in Western North Carolina. He received the 1998 WCU University Scholar Award as the outstanding researcher. He has also been involved in a number of novel teaching innovations in general and analytical chemistry.

Prof. Butcher serves as Associate Editor for Book Reviews of the Microchemical Journal, and Associate Editor for Education for Spectroscopy Letters, and on the Editorial Boards of Microchemical Journal, Spectroscopy Letters and Applied Spectroscopy Reviews. He served as Chair of the American Microchemical Society Undergraduate Award Committee from 1998-2003 and is currently Chair of the A.A. Benedetti-Pichler Award Committee. In 2001, he served as Program Chair for 28th Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies (FACSS) meeting held in Detroit, MI.

In 2009, he became Editor-in-Chief of Analytical Letters. He will be General Chair for the 37th FACSS meeting to be held in Raleigh, NC in October, 2010.

Suggestions and Goals for WCACS

I propose to continue to continue the excellent work done by the section. I have been involved in setting up joint programming for WCACS with the Piedmont Section of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy, and believe these types of collaborative arrangements are mutually beneficial. I also believe it is important for the section to continue to provide support for industrial members.

Julia Brumaghim has been a bioinorganic chemist at Clemson University for six years, where she was recently promoted to Associate Professor. She has been a member of the Western Carolinas local section for the past five years. Since 2006, Dr. Brumaghim has served as treasurer for the Western Carolinas section, as well as serving as the financial chair for the 2007 Southeast Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society in Greenville, SC. She is also a member of the long range planning committee for the section. Because she seems to have a knack for keeping the accounts balanced and paying the bills on time, she is running for a second term as section treasurer.

Dr. Laura Wright - Chair 2009.
Dr. Sid Parrish - Chair-Elect 2009.
Alice Claggett - Secretary 2009
Dr. Julia Brumaghim – Treasurer 2009
Mrs. Lucy Pryde Eubanks - Councilor 2009-11.
Dr. Royce S. Woosley – Councilor 2008-2010
Dr. George Heard - Alternate Councilor 2009-11.
Dr. John Kaup - Alternate Councilor 2008-10.

Western Carolinas Local Section of the ACS honors our members who have attained recognition by the National American Chemical Society as 50 year and 60 year members. Awards were presented to these WCACS members at the September meeting which was held Tuesday, September 15, 2009 at the USC-Upstate Campus in Spartanburg, SC. Below are the names of our members who have achieved this status. Please join in expressing our congratulations to them.

Our Webmaster, Dwayne Grassie, would welcome your "press releases" about activities that you believe would be of interest to our section. As he says so eloquently on our web site, "without active members reporting the activities of the section to me there would be no web site because there would be nothing to report." Dwayne can be reached at: MAG-IT@charter.net