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| Volume 75 | November 2003 |
Celebrating the Successes of Our WNY Section!
with Buffalo's own
Flying Bison Brewing Company
at Ulrich's Tavern,
one of the oldest continuously operating taverns in WNY, serving hearty German fare.
Ulrich's Tavern, 674 Ellicott Street in Buffalo
Social/Cash Bar 5:30 p.m.
Dinner (cost: $20) 6:45 p.m.
Tim Herzog will share some history, science, and samples of Flying Bison brews during dinner, and Jim Daley, owner of Ulrich's Tavern, will speak easy of the tavern's history. Dinner will be buffet-style and feature a selection of traditional German dishes (including, of course, sausages!) Scroll down for more information, including a bio of Tim Herzog and a map to Ulrich's.
Seating is Limited to 50(!) - Please reserve early by calling Patti Springsteen at 835-1612.
Please contact the Chair of the Award Committee, Dr. Luis Col´o;n, at 645-2800 ext. 2143, or lacolon@buffalo.edu. Any nominations received after the 12/1/03 deadline will be considered for the 2005 Award.
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Chair Patricia DePra Springsteen 835-1612 p.springsteen@verizon.net |
Chair-Elect Larry Springsteen Canisius College Chemistry Dept. 888-2347 springsl@canisius.edu |
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Vice-Chair Maria Pacheco Buffalo State 878-5922 pachecmd@buffalostate.edu |
Secretary Mary O'Sullivan Canisius College Chemistry Dept. 888-2352 osulliv1@canisius.edu |
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Treasurer Andrew Poss Honeywell 827-6268 andrew.poss@honeywell.com |
Councilor Peter Schaber Canisius College Chemistry Dept. 888-2351 schaber@canisius.edu |
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Councilor David Nalewajek Honeywell 827-6303 david.nalewajek@honeywell.com |
Double Bond Staff: Editor and Publisher Business Manager Joanna Christopher West Valley Nuclear Services joanna.christopher@wvnsco.com |
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Assistant Editor Patty Shelley Canisius College Chemistry Dept. 888-2341 FAX 888-3112 shelleyp@canisius.edu |
Schoellkopf Award Luis Colon SUNYAB Chemistry Dept. 645-6800 ext 2143 lacolon@buffalo.edu |
| Education Committee Ron Spohn PraxAir, Inc. (716) 688-2308 ronald_spohn@praxair.com |
Chemistry Olympiad Mariusz Kozik Canisius College 888-2337 kozik@canisius.edu |
| National Chemistry Week David Nalewajek Honeywell 827-6303 david.nalewajek@honeywell.com |
Senior Chemists Joseph Bieron Canisius College 888-2357 bieron@canisius.edu |
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Member @ Large South |
Member @ Large South |
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Member @ Large North Randy Leising Wilson Greatbatch LTD 759-5362 rleising@greatbatch.com |
Member @ Large North Jason Khayat PerfectFit Glove Co., LLC (716) 668-2000 x-272 JKhayat@bacou-dalloz.com |
Our November meeting: CSI: Fact or Fiction with speaker Kenneth Jonmaire, was a resounding success. We challenged the capacity of the Eagle House with 47 attendees, including 17 students! After a masked villian raced through the room, we were quizzed on our eyewitness abilities. An average score of 6.3/10 showed just how difficult this can be, and Sara Barker won a $20 gift certificate for her high score (9). Of course there were door prizes - chocolates from The Chocolate Shop on Hertel Ave. The animated discussions around the room showed the spirit of camaraderie and connections among us like-minded chemistry-types.
Good news and bad news about the December meeting - it will be a fantastic meeting, but seating is limited to 50 - please RSVP early.
A HUGE thank you is in store for everyone who participated in National Chemistry Week events. Some events have stretched beyond NCW, with hands-on chemistry events and demos taking place at the Buffalo Museum of Science on Nov. 8. Dave Nalewajek, as our NCW committee chair, has continued his strong tradition of outreach, visiting at least four schools/day (elementary, middle, and high schools), sponsoring Mole Day activities at Hutch Tech high school, and sponsoring boy/girl scout merit badges in chemistry. We are grateful to our members' employers who support these volunteer activities. Hooray for yet another exciting NCW!
Patricia DePra Springsteen, Chair
p.springsteen@verizon.net
(716) 835-1612
Flying Bison Brewing Company is owned by two majority partners - long time home brewers Phil Internicola and Tim Herzog - and a supporting cast of about twenty five individual investors. Award-winning brewers with over thirty-five years of combined brewing experience, Phil and Tim made a strong commitment from the inception of this project to establish Flying Bison in the City of Buffalo and foster the return of what was once a flourishing industry here.
Ulrich's Tavern is located at 674 Ellicott St. in Buffalo, NY, just south of Roswell Park Cancer Institute. (From 33 West, take the Goodell St. exit. Pass Michigan Ave., Elm St., and Oak St. Turn Right onto Ellicott. Ulrich's will be on your left.) (insert map here)
Tim Herzog brings over twenty years of brewing experience to Flying Bison Brewing Company. In addition to his extensive home brewing background, Tim has studied at the Siebel Institute of Brewing and at the American Brewers Guild. He has also completed internships at Kelmer's Brewhouse in Santa Rosa, California; the Oregon Trail Brewery in Corvallis, Oregon; and the Niagara Falls Brewery in Niagara Falls, Ontario. Tim's work in beer evaluation has earned him recognition as a Certified Beer Judge. Tim is also the founder of the New York State Craft Brewer Association.
REACT is sponsored by the American Chemical Society for Pk-8 teachers. The workshops present the latest science program for elementary and middle school teachers. Workshops are held at Canisius College in the Horan-O'Donnell Science Building on the Main Street Campus.
Our first meeting is Saturday, November 22 from 9 to 12 in the morning. Refreshments will be served. A one-time fee of ten dollars for the six meetings will be collected. Everyone is welcome. The Buffalo Teacher Center will list REACT for district credit.
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November 22: STANYS SARS workshops December 6: Christmas Breakfast and Raffle January 31: GEMS Artifacts Inquiry February 8: A two part presentation on Project Wild March 27: Park 2, Project Wild and Activity book given |
Contact Mary Jean Sryek @ 894-2128
If you have any questions about this organization.
At the ACS National Meeting in New York, Board Regulation IX was amended. The purpose of the amendment is to help ensure that members and users of ACS programs, products, and services be made aware that ACS is the provider. The Committee on Professional & Member Relations recommended to the board and the board passed a resolution amending its regulations as follows:
d. "All publications, products, services, and programs of the society and their marketing and promotional communications shall clearly be identified as being provided by the American Chemical Society, unless the executive director determines that there is compelling reason for an exemption from these requirements."
If you have any questions regarding this amendment, please contact the ACS Membership Division at (202) 872-6379 or contact pmr@acs.org or c_avery@acs.org.
The American Chemical Society Scholars Program is now accepting applications for the 2004-2005 academic year. This program, targeted at minority groups considered to be under-represented in the sciences, is for students majoring in and planning careers in the chemical sciences. Graduating high school seniors, college freshment, sophomores and juniors are eligible to apply as well as students in two-year chemical technology programs. For more information, contact The American Chemical Society Scholars Program at 1155 16th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Call toll-free 1-800-227-5558, extension 6250, by e-mail at scholars@acs.org, or on our web site http://chemistry.org/scholars. The deadline is February 15, 2004.
The American Chemical Society invites industrial chemical companies to nominate its scientists for the Regional Industrial Innovation Award.
Why should you nominate?
How to place a nomination?
Visit www.chemistry.org/industry/regionalawards or contact 1-800-227-5558, ext. 4373. Nominations are due by January 15, 2004.
Calling all duffers and pros, everyone in-between, men and women! The inaugural WCC benefit golf tournament will be on Wednesday, March 31, 2004 in conjunction with the Anaheim ACS National Meeting. Plan now to sign up and play. Fees are $75 per golfer or $300 for four until February 27. Late entries received between March 1-15 are $95 per player or $380 for a foursome. Groups of four will be arranged for individuals who sign up.
please contact
Dr. Joseph F. Bieron @ 716 888-2357
Please remember to send any information regarding outreach events for National Chemistry Week (or in general) to Patti Springsteen, so she can include them in our Section's Annual Report to National ACS. If you received any publicity for an event (woo hoo!), we would love to include a copy as well. Last year our section won national recognition for the terrific work of our members, and we want to make sure that National knows about the great stuff going on this year, too.
Jason F. Khayat has been appointed to the empty Member-at-Large seat on the Executive Board. Jason F. Khayat is a chemist who joined PerfectFit Glove Co., LLC in 1999 as their Technical Service Coordinator. He complements sales and service efforts by providing advice on glove recommendations, technical information on industrial hand/arm protection products, performing/coordinating performance testing, and assisting R&D efforts on new/improved cut-resistant gloves/sleeves and liquid-resistant gloves. He has a B.A. in Chemistry and ten years of industrial experience in technical and business roles with BFGoodrich in Brecksville, OH. He also has six years of safety experience in technical roles. Thank you, Jason, for accepting this position we look forward to working with you.
The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do.--John Holt
If you think you can, you can. If you think you can't, you're right.--Mary Kay Ash
Listening is the most potent talent of a leader, especially to what may be unsaid. --Cal Turner, Jr.
Begin 2004 with a new online service to enhance your career. Explore Advanced Career Tools (ACT)! These career tools include a free searchable database of more than 500 articles on topics such as resume writing, interviewing, legal issues, stock, salary negotiations, and more.You can also take advantage of personal career coaching that will provide one-on-one assistance in areas such as learning to succeed in performance reviews, developing skills in negotiating salary, and obtaining a detailed analysis of your behavioral style. This component of ACT, while a cost item, is discounted for ACS members at below-market rates. Mark your calendar for January 12! Visit http://chemistry.org/careers to use ACT.
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 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.
If you would like to learn more (with no obligation) about any of these offices, please contact your Chair, Patti Springsteen, at p.springsteen@verizon.net, or (716) 835-1612.
Harold Goldwhite
California State University, Los Angeles
hgoldwh@calstatela.edu
Prepared for SCALACS, the Journal of the Southern California, Orange County, and San Gorgonio Sections of the American Chemical Society.
In my last column I mentioned the importance that historians of chemistry accord textbooks of chemistry as embodying the accepted views, the paradigms, of the science of their eras. I focused some attention on a text published by Macmillan in New York in 1905, "Outlines of Inorganic Chemistry" authored by Frank Austin Gooch, Professor of Chemistry in Yale University, and Claude Frederick Walker, teacher of chemistry in the High School of Commerce of New York City. The discussion of the atom in that century-old textbook illustrated both recent discoveries, like that of the electron by J.J. Thomson, and a suspicion of the actual physical reality of atoms. In this monthıs column I will conclude my examination of this interesting textbook, which reveals clearly the state of chemical knowledge expected of students of 1905.
The mole concept is still well in the future for these students. The discussion of stoichiometry is couched instead in terms of equivalent weights or chemical equivalents as the text names the concept. Some of my readers may nod familiarly at this. In my high-school days thatıs how I learned to explore stoichiometry. I presume that my textbooks were a little out of date! Heat energy changes are expressed in calories and the rule of Dulong and Petit is given in terms of a constant of 6 as the product of the equivalent weight of an element, a small integer or fraction, and the specific heat. Note the omission of the atomic mass in this equation.
The chapter on molecules reflects the ambiguities of the discussion of atoms that I described in my previous column. The authors tiptoe around the question of whether molecules have a real physical existence. They stress that the molecular symbols of compounds, which we would call their molecular formulas, indicate the composition of a molecule of the compound. But while molecular symbols can generally be derived for gaseous compounds, in general no such conclusions can be drawn for pure solids or pure liquids. This leads to a discussion of valence and the introduction of graphic molecular symbolsgraphic molecular formulas we would say. Here, too, the authors adopt a non-committal tone. "The symbol H-O-H is a molecular symbol representing the constitution and molecular weight of water in the gaseous condition. We have no right to assume that the molecule of water in the liquid condition or in the solid condition is represented by the symbol H2O. On the contrary we have evidence in certain physical relations which goes to show that the molecule weight of liquid water at 0oC may correspond to the symbol (H2O)4."
Recalling that this text was written before Werner enunciated his coordination theory it is not surprising that the discussion of coordination compounds is in terms of Jorgensen's chain theory. For example the "double" fluoride of aluminium (yes: the European spelling is preferred in 1905) and sodium, 3NaF.AlF3 is written as (NaF=F-)3Al and the hydrate of aluminium chloride, AlCl3.6 H2O, "from which no water may be expelled without hydrolytic decomposition of the salt", is shown as Al(OH2OH2Cl)3 in which the Cl is separated from the Al by an OO chain.
In no way do I want to suggest, in this look back at an excellent text of 100 years ago, that we are somehow cleverer than its authors. This is an up-to-date book for 1905 with mention of such recently discovered phenomena as radioactivity. "The observation of Becquerel that compounds of uranium emit rays of peculiar properties has led to the discovery, by Mme. Curie, of the element radium, and to the announcement of other unconfirmed elements of similar character, such as polonium by Mme. Curie, actinium by Debierne, and carolinium by Baskerville."
Those of us who write textbooks should hope that readers of 100 years hence will look at our productions and say to themselves "Yes, they were as perceptive in 2003 as Gooch and Walker were in 1905."
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