• The President-Elect position is currently vacant. A new President-Elect will be appointed by the Board of Managers and will succeed automatically to the position of President in 2009.
• The current President will become Past President. Councilors serve three-year terms, as indicated below. Three Councilors and five Alternate Councilors will be elected according to the number of votes cast for each candidate.
• The term of the Secretary expires at the end of 2008. A Secretary will be elected for a one-year term. The Treasurer's term expires at the end of 2008. A Treasurer will be elected for a two-year term.
• Managers serve two-year terms as indicated below.

1. Presentations at the Symposia/Workshops at the San Diego Meeting
2. CEPA Presentation on Global Outsourcing

1. Establish and maintain a globalization activity in CEPA.
   • Monitor the news and the literature on globalization
   • Inform and solicit input from the ACS membership
2. Serve as a resource on economic and professional matters involving globalization.
   • Work with the ACS Department of Career Services (DCS) to put together a Globalization Issues Notebook, with all the information presented at the ACS meeting at Anaheim in March 2004.
   • Carry out other relevant tasks to be decided by the Task Force.
   • Provide recommendations to CEPA on possible future activities.
3. Interface with CEPA subcommittees on their respective tasks involving globalization, providing coordination and facilitation, if needed.
4. Communicate and cooperate with other ACS groups concerning globalization issues.

New Insurance Plan for ACS Members

The Board of Trustees (BOT), Group Insurance Plans for ACS Members, has added a valuable member benefit to its portfolio of insurance plans -- the Auto & Homeowners Plus Plan. See the ACS Comment in the June 9, 2003 Chemical and Engineering News: http://pubs.acs.org/cen/acsnews/8123/8123comment.html

The Auto & Homeowners Plus Plan, underwritten by Liberty Mutual, is a comprehensive program that features auto, home, renters, and other personal property insurance. BOT negotiated an exclusive group discount for ACS members of up to 10% off already competitive rates. Benefits of this new plan include 12-month rate guarantees; convenient payment plans, including automatic checking account deduction; 24-hour emergency roadside assistance; and round-the-clock claims service. Free coverage evaluation and no-obligation rate quotes can be obtained by calling a dedicated customer service representative at (800) 283-1601, or an online quote is available from Liberty Mutual at http://www.libertymutual.com/lm/chemistry

ACS also offers other insurance plans including Long-Term Care, Disability Income Insurance,Short-Term Medical Coverage, and Supplemental Retirement Plans. Browse the website at http://www.chemistry.org/insurance today for more information about how you can protect your family and save for retirement using your ACS member benefits. The ACS Member Insurance Program is self-supporting. ACS member dues are not used in any way to maintain or promote ACS insurance plans.

Obituaries

• STANLEY NESHEIM
  

  Stanley Nesheim passed away in his sleep February 2, 2008. He was a member of the ACS for more than 52 years and a CSW member for 45 years. He was an active member of the CSW Retired Chemists Group.

  Stanley was first elected to the CSW Board of Managers for 1978 and since then had been active in CSW affairs, usually as a Board member. He was the President of CSW in 1998, and one of the memorable programs that year was the CSW Gala held at the Netherlands Embassy. He was an ACS Councilor for three terms during 1998-2006 and an Alternate Councilor in 2007-2008. He was a member of the ACS Admissions Committee for nine years. During his 30 years of service to CSW, Stanley served on most of the CSW committees at one time or another, including several years on the Executive Committee.

  His professional interests are indicated by his memberships in the Agricultural and Food Chemistry Division, the Agrochemical Division, and the Analytical Chemistry Division of the ACS. He had retired from the FDA after many years of federal service.

  Stan began working for the Food and Drug Administraion in the early nineteen sixties. He was assigned at the time to work on the newly discovered mycotoxins, the aflatoxins. He isolated and purified large quantities for use as reference standards for laboratories around the world before they became commercially available. He showed himself to be an excellent analytical chemist, working primarily in the area of analytical methodology. In fact, Stan developed the first quantitative TLC method for aflatoxins in peanuts, and he was unusually adept at estimating the concentration from the visual inspection of the spots on a TLC plate. He went on to develop methods for many of the other mycotoxins and validate them through collaborative studies; many of these methods became AOAC Official Methods.

  Stan was the AOAC's only 50 year member, and served the AOAC in many capacities, including for many years as the Topic Advisor for Ochratoxin and service on the Tellers' Committee. He was recognized as a Fellow of the AOAC for excellence in method validation.

  Stan was known for his gregarious, friendly approach to life, and was an active member of the ACS, serving as a manager and councilor of the local Chemical Society of Washington Section. He was also an abstractor for Chemical Abstracts for many years due to his fluency in Norwegian. He was a long-time member of the FDA Toastmasters' Club, belonged to a Norwegian Dance Group and a Norwegian Seamen's choir; anyone seeing him dance the Norwegian dances with his wife, and hear the choir sing could not but be impressed. He was also a member of the Beekeeper' Association, and his friends benefited mightily from the honey he produced.

  Stan loved dancing, fishing, crabbing, and boating, as well as travel to his homeland in Scandinavia. Most of all he loved to tell jokes. He enjoyed life to the fullest and brought happiness to everyone he touched. He is survived by his wife, Ellen, of 47 and a half years, two sons and a daughter and their families, including 4 granddaughters. He will be sorely missed.

  A memorial service will be held on February 29^th at 1 PM at the Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church. Contributions to his memory may be made to the American Heart Association.

  
  
  
• Dr. Susan Feil Thornton, December 2007.

  Dr. Susan Thornton served on the Board of Managers of CSW for ten years. During her tenure she participated in a number of committees and activities. In particular, she was chair of the Awards Committee in 1987, Treasurer of the Capital Chemist in 1993, member of the Publications Committee for several years, and helped organize tours for ACS National Meeting when held in Washington, DC. She received the CSW Community Service Award and the Charles L. Gordon Award for Service to the CSW.

  Dr. Thornton taught chemistry at Montgomery College for 30 years. She enjoyed teaching and once had her students make a periodic table quilt. She shared the joy of chemistry with young children through her Funny Putty activity at Rockville Science Day.

  A memorial service will be held for Dr. Thornton on Saturday, March 29th at the Rockville Unitarian Church; the time is not yet determined. For those who wish to make a contribution in her memory, the family suggests the Washington, DC House of Ruth.

  Her obituary was published in the Washington Post on January 23^rd, 2008.

  
  
• Mary Bailey, October 2007. Mrs. Bailey was the widow of Professor Bill Bailey, UMD, and former CSW and ACS President. Mrs. Bailey was a member of CSW (she was a chemical engineer) and an active participant in CSW affairs. In the 1960's, for the first ACS national meeting in Washington, she was a tireless organizer of "spouses" programs. (She eschewed the term "wives".) Indeed, many of the interesting programs and tours she organized were attended by men and women, a practice that continues today.