6:00 p.m.     Dinner - $16.00 for members and $8.00 for students

7:00 p.m.     Lecture

Executive Committee Meeting after speaker

Reservations: Please e-mail Caleb Arrington to make your dinner reservation for this meeting caleb.arrington@wofford.edu
with your name and affiliation. Dinner reservations must be made by Wednesday, January 7th!

Cooking is nothing more than Organic Reaction Chemistry using Reagents that are edible (usually), and can involve pH Adjustment (acidity / alkalinity), Neutralization (elimination), Esterification (structure change), Dehydration (loss of water), Pyrolysis (charring/carmelization), Condensation (new molecules), Distillation (loss of volatiles), ad infinitum! All of these will cause "new" compounds to be synthesized! The composition of "Foods" in general are based on the final products of these Synthetic Reactions, and the "quality" is a function of the yield of the desired End-Product. Proteins, Carbohydrates and Fats are the Raw Materials; but there are MILLIONS of By-Products that determine the MANY Flavors & Aromas! Classic Chefs; like Julia Child, James Beard and even Emeril Lagasse; use their "SENSES" (smell, taste, sight) to gauge to quality of their cooking. For others, there are more Scientific ways to accurately measure the effects of Cooking processes.

These series of Lectures describes the multitude of Analytical Techniques to help develop and control the quality of a Meal! Author denies any claims of induced indigestion.

Dr. Laura Wright - Chair 2009.
Dr. Sid Parrish - Chair-Elect 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.

Dr. Sean O'Connor of Clemson University has resigned his 2008 position as Secretary of the Section. Anyone interested in serving as Secretary of the Western Carolinas Section for 2009 should contact Dr. Laura Wright, Chair or any of the officers of our Section.

Dr. Royce S. Woosley, Councilor- Western Carolinas Section (2008-10)
Professor Emeritus, Western Carolina University
Cullowhee, NC 28723

rwoosley@email.wcu.edu

Dianne Earle is the 2008 winner of the Outstanding Teaching Award for the Southeast Region of the American Chemical Society! This is a great honor both for Dianne and the Western Carolinas Section. The award will be presented at an Awards Luncheon on Thursday, November 13, in Nashville at the 2008 SERMACS meeting. Congratulations to Dianne!

Dianne has been a very enthusiastic high school chemistry teacher for almost thirty years and the recipient of eight teaching awards, including the Western Carolinas Section Teacher of the Year awards in 1985, 1991, and 2007. In 2003 she was honored as Teacher of the Year by the South Carolina Association of Chemistry Teachers. Dianne was nominated for the Presidential Award for Science Teachers for 2007. Dianne teaches Honors Chemistry I and Advanced Placement Chemistry II at Boiling Springs High School.

She is a member of the National Science Teachers Association, Western Carolinas Section of the American Chemical Society, South Carolina Science Council, Palmetto State Teachers Association, Division of Chemical Education of the ACS, Delta Kappa Gamma Society International, South Carolina Association of Chemistry Teachers, South Carolina Academy of Science, and National Mole Day Foundation. She has served as president of Delta Kappa Gamma and is currently the secretary of SCACT. She has been a Master Teacher at the AP Chemistry Summer Institute at Furman University and was on the 2002 Advanced High School ACS Test Committee.

I feel very honored and humbled to be receiving this award. Correct me if I am wrong, but the last time someone from WCACS won this prestigious honor was in the late 1970s or early 1980s. It is wonderful that the WCACS Section had such confidence in my abilities.

Chemistry affords the opportunity to reignite that sense of wonder in the adolescent child. What other discipline integrates the wonders of the universe with reasoning processes and uses mathematics as a tool?
I hope to teach my students more than facts in chemistry. I want them to see relationships. How is the structure of the atom related to bonding? How is bonding related to properties of matter? How are properties of matter related to the world we see?