5:30 p.m.      Executive Committee Meeting

6:30 p.m.     Buffet Dinner:

7:30 p.m.     Lecture:

Reservations: Reply to Michelle Richardson, Clemson University. Phone 864-656-5017; E-mail: mrich@clemson.edu. Please give Marcella your full name. If your diet requires a vegetarian entrée, please so indicate when making the reservation. Deadline for reservations is Wednesday, January 12, 2005.

Is that recycling bin the springboard to giving material a new life or is it simply a blue wastebasket? What about surplus materials from industrial processes? Do they find their way out the back door to the landfill? This presentation discusses the four critical steps in recycling-- collection, separation, reprocessing and remanufacture-and how they relate to plastics. The technology, the cost and the efficacy of the processes all matter. And the operative word, plastics, really is plural. Presentation includes a primer in the basic kinds of plastics, how they differ and how they're used in common articles, especially packaging. The presenter brings a few common articles for demonstrations, and promises not to recycle an old quote from Dustin Hoffman?

Dr. Bill Carroll, ACS President for 2005 holds a B.A. in Chemistry and Physics from DePauw University, Greencastle, IN, an M.S. from Tulane University in New Orleans, and a Ph.D. from Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, both in Organic Chemistry. After graduate school in 1978 he worked for one year in polyvinyl chloride (PVC) impact modifier research for Rohm and Haas Company, Bristol, PA. In 1979, Bill came to Firestone Plastics Company in Pottstown, PA as Manager of Research and Development. In 1985, after Firestone's PVC operations were acquired by OxyChem, he became Director of Technology for PVC Resins and Compounds with responsibility for R&D, Technical Service, Pilot Plant, and Technical Licensing. In September, 1989, he was named Director of Commercial Development for Polymers and Plastics, and primarily worked in recycling, and in 1994 began two years on loan to the Chlorine Chemistry Council (CCC) working on dioxin and plastics issues for the chlorine industry. He is currently Vice President, Chlorovinyl Issues for OxyChem and works on public policy issues and communications related to chlorine and PVC. He is Adjunct Professor of Chemistry at Indiana University, and teaches polymer chemistry there. He has been an active member of and chaired various committees for CCC as well as the Society of the Plastics Industry, the National Fire Protection Research Foundation, The Vinyl Institute, the Plastics Recycling Foundation, the American Plastics Council and the National Recycling Coalition Recycling Advisory Council. He has served on the State of Florida Packaging Council, an Oregon Department of Environmental Quality Task Force, and an advisory panel commissioned by the United Nations Environmental Program. He is the recipient of the Vinyl Institute's Roy T. Gottesman Leadership Award for 2000. He is also currently chair of the ACS International Activities Committee, and was a candidate for President of ACS in 2001. He, his wife Mary, and three children live in Dallas. Bill holds two patents, and has numerous publications in the fields of organic electrochemistry, polymer chemistry, combustion chemistry and physics, incineration, plastics recycling, and chlorine issues.

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After four years of negotiating with the ACS Committee on Constitution and Bylaws, our Local Section has finally won their tentative approval for new bylaws. On February 19, 2004, during our regular meeting, the revisions as proposed were approved by the members present. The revised bylaws are available through the links below for your review. The changes, which incorporate both the comments of the WCACS Section's Executive Committee and the comments of the ACS Committee on Constitution and Bylaws, are in red. There also has been reformatting suggested by the Committee.

The original document is the WCACS official bylaws on file with ACS and can be found at http://membership.acs.org/w/wca/Business/Bylaws.html on this site. Current ByLaws are approved as amended effective July 7, 1978; Committee on Constitution and Bylaws final approval on 12/29/1978.

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The highly popular ACS Video Course, Starting with Safety, has been adapted for delivery via the Internet. The Internet version includes all of the materials from the original Video Course including the video scenes and the Teacher's Guide. As an added bonus, the complete ACS Video Course, Seeing the Light, Eye and Face Protection, is also included in this ACS Internet Course.

Now you and your students can access this valuable training program from any computer connected to the Internet at any time, day or night. (We do recommend a relatively high-speed connection, such as a DSL, cable modem or higher. And you will need to install the Flash 6 player to view the videos).

This program is designed to be used as part of a standard high school or introductory college chemistry curriculum that is taught by an experienced chemistry teacher. The program is NOT meant to be a stand-alone training course. Students should only use this program under the supervision of a qualified teacher.

For complete details about this program, visit the American Chemical Society website at http://chemistry.org/elearning and click on the link to Starting with Safety.

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In October, the Technology, Tools and Operations Subcommittee of the Local Section Activities Committee and the Office of Local Section Activities launched a new HTML newsletter for local section leaders! The quarterly newsletter is sent via email to all current local section officers. The goal of the newsletter is to provide officers with timely information, tools and tips for success, and innovative ideas and activities that local sections may find of interest. The newsletter is available online at http://membership.acs.org/l/localsections/leading_together. If you wish to subscribe to future issues of this newsletter please send an email to olsa@acs.org and indicate your subscription request.

Editor's Note:All requests for address changes should be sent directly to National ACS headquarters in Washington, DC and not to the Editors of The Periodic News. Address labels are supplied to the Editors on a monthly basis by the American Chemical Society and are determined by the current active membership. The Editors cannot be held responsible for incorrect mailing labels.