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| Chair Troy Wood UB @ Buffalo 645-6800 x 2176 twood@asu.buffalo.edu |
Chair-Elect Mary McCourt D'Youville College 881-3200 : x 7609 v mail |
| Vice-Chair Luis Colon UB @ Buffalo 645-6963 |
Secretary Nancy Gleason Canisius College 888-2347 gleasonn@canisius.edu |
| Treasurer Andrew Poss Allied-Signal 827-6268 |
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| Double Bond Staff: Editor and Publisher Business Manager Joanna Christopher West Valley Nuclear Services ZoeWolf@Whitesparrow.com |
Assistant Editor Patty Shelley Canisius College 888-2341 FAX 888-3112 shelleyp@canisius.edu |
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| Topic: | “Classic Buffalo – A Heritage of Distinguished Architecture” |
| Speaker: | Dr. Joseph F. Bieron, Canisius College Chemistry Department |
| Date: | Tuesday, December 14, 1999 |
| Place: | Canisius College, Richard E. Winter Student Center West Wing of Dining Room |
| Fellowship: | 6:00 PM Cash Bar |
| Dinner: | 7:00 PM 3 meal choices @ a cost of $22.00 per person (1) Roast Top Sirloin Beef au ju (2)Fresh Grilled Chicken Breast in a Lite Lemon Herb Sauce (3) Fresh Grilled Vegetables with Bow Tie Pasta |
| Talk: | 8:00 PM |
| Reservations: | Patty 888-2340 by Friday, December 10, 1999 |
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It's November, snow is falling, cold winds are blowing, Thanksgiving is almost here. Soon it will be December, the winter solstice, the darkest time of the year. Currently the Hindu Divali festival of lights is in progress, soon it will be Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa. We as human beings are determined to light up this darkness with candles, colored clothing, shiny ribbons, laughter and each other's dear company. More than any other time of year, we gather together with our families, friends, and colleagues to buffer ourselves from winter's chill. What a wonderful reason to make that extra effort to attend our Western New York = Niagara Falls (Hence the name, “Double Bond”) ACS Chapter December meeting!
Let's band together and keep company with our fellow chemists at this “last meeting of the millennium” and into the Y2K! See you there!
Editor
Joanna Christopher
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Joseph F. Bieron is a long-time member of the Western New York Section of the American Chemistry Society. He is a past chairman of the Section, former editor of the Double Bond for many years, and a Schoellkopf Medal recipient. He is currently the Section's Historian and active in the Senior Chemistry Group of the WNY Section.
His other interests include recording Western New York history and publishing books about local history. He is Director of the Canisius College Press.
The December Holiday meeting will feature a presentation on Buffalo Architecture. The talk will center around a new book published by Canisius College Press, under the direction of Dr. Joseph F. Bieron, who will make the presentation.
Buffalo was the eighth largest city in the United States in 1900. It was the nation's largest inland port, and second to Chicago as a railroad and livestock-processing center. Buffalo rivaled Detroit for automobile manufacturing, Pittsburgh for steel making, and equaled Minneapolis as a milling center. At this time Western New York became a national base for chemical industries as well.
This dynamic and vibrant climate of growth, with its accompanying wealth attracted the nation's prominent architects as well. Henry Hobson Richardson, Louis Sullivan, August Esenwein, Duane Lynam, Sanford White, E.B. Green and Frank Lloyd Wright all made contributions to Buffalo architecture.
A slide presentation and large 20” x 24” photographs from the book result in a visual delight.
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Available now to all ACS Local Section Officers is “The Guide to Establishing an Industry Relations Chair/Committee: Getting Local Companies and Businesses Involved in Your Industry Related Activities.”
This pocket-size guide will help you establish a Local Section Industry Relations Chair and/or Committee, communicate with local chemical companies and businesses, and get local industrial participation in your local section's activities.
The guide also describes how the Local Section Industry Relations Program can help you address the needs of your section's industrial members.
To obtain your copy write the Office of Industry Relations, American Chemical Society, Room 0-1024, 1155 Sixteenth Street, NW, Washington, DC, 20036, by e-mail at fdixon@acs.org, or by telephone at (202) 872-4454.
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If you would be interested in serving as a co-chairman of the Senior Chemists please contact
Dr. Joseph F. Bieron @ 888-2357
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In an effort to promote ACS member involvement and to increase the Society's impact on public policy, the ACS has just added a Legislative Action Center to its Government Affairs web site, located at http://www.legislators.com/chemical. The ACS recently sent an e-mail to ACS members, whose e-mails have been identified, encouraging them to use this center. The new center allows ACS members to identify their federal legislators, learn about the legislative process and key issues, and send letters or e-mail messages to Congress.
The Legislative Action Center comes in response to requests from ACS members to increase the Society's impact on Capitol Hill and to decrease the time it takes to communicate with policymakers. The Center also will be the essential tool for members participating in the Society's Legislative Action Network - a webbased grassroots program for updating ACS members on federal issues and facilitating contact with members of Congress. Using this interactive web site, Legislative Action Network participants now will be able to respond to timely legislative action alerts within minutes, alerting members of Congress to the concerns of ACS members before votes on R&D, education, and other key issues.
`The Action Center essentially will be a one-stop shop for all members to learn about ACS priority issues, profile their Representative and two Senators, and, if desired, send a message simultaneously to all three,' said David Schutt, Assistant Director of the Office of Legislative and Government Affairs. We hope those members not already participating in our grassroots networks will sign-up for the Legislative Action Network and take advantage of this first-rate system. Network participants also will receive monthly legislative bulletins via e-mail, to keep current on science education, R&D funding, the environment, and other priority issues.
To participate in the Legislative Action Network, sign up on-line at http://www.acs.org/government/gcy/networks.html or send your name, member #, and home and e-mail address to grassroots@acs.org.
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December 11, 1999 Holiday Breakfast/Workshop
Site: Country Kitchen, 2075 Niagara Falls Blvd,
Amherst, N.Y.
Time: 9:00am-12:00 pm
Breakfast buffet is offered. The price is $8.50 per person.
Presenter: TBA
If you are planning to attend, you must call Karen Arnold @ 884-5894 to reserve your spot.
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Contact Patty at Canisius College
716-888-2340 or via email at shelleyp@canisius.edu
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