50-Yr member: Erich Blossey
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Professor Blossey received his primary and secondary education in
the Toledo and Maumee, Ohio schools. His baccalaureate degree was
received at the Ohio State University in 1957, working on
undergraduate research with Professor Michael Cava. Graduate
chemistry studies were pursued with Professor Ernest Wenkert at Iowa
State University (M.S. in chemistry, 1959) and with Professor
Mordeaci Rubin at Carnegie Institute of Technology (nee
Carnegie-Mellon University, 1963). Dr. Blossey received a NIH
Postdoctoral Fellowship for studies with Professor Carl Djerassi at
Stanford University (1962-1963) and continued his work in
pharmaceutical chemistry with a postdoctoral fellowship at Syntex,
S. A. in Mexico City, Mexico (1963-1964),
working with Dr. Pierre Crabbe. Further studies in 1964-1965 were
undertaken as a Great Lakes Colleges Association-Kettering
Foundation Teaching Intern at Wabash College, working with the
mentors: Professors Quentin R. Petersen and Edward Haenisch. In
1965, Dr. Blossey joined the faculty of Rollins College as an
assistant professor. Since that time, he has attained the rank of
Professor (1975) and held the A.G. Bush Professor of Science Chair
(1981-1987) and was awarded the Arthur Vining Davis Fellowship in
1978. Sabbatical studies were conducted at the University of New
Mexico (with Douglas Neckers), Oklahoma State University (with
Warren T. Ford), and Harvard University (with George M. Whitesides).
He currently holds the Donald J. and J. M. Cram Chair of Chemistry.
His research interests are in the area of bioorganic chemistry,
utilizing polymer chemistry to develop a variety of
polymer-supported reagents and reactions for the study of coenzyme
mimics and mechanistic studies of enzyme reactions. Current research
is focused on protein folding aided with polymer-immobilized aryl
thiol reagents. Professor Blossey holds two patents (polymeric
photosensitizers), has published works in six books and twenty-five
publications.
50-yr member: John
L. Meisenheimer Sr.
Dr.
Meisenheimer graduated with a Bachelor's in Chemistry from
Evansville College (now the University of Evansville) and from the
USAF Institute of Technology's Officers Meteorology Program at the
University of Chicago. He was stationed at Patrick AFB for three
years, forecasting there and at Cape Canaveral (before NASA). He was
the launch and flight forecaster for the first U.S. Intercontinental
Missile, a Northrop Snark, and the first U.S. Satellite, Explorer
One.
He returned to graduate school and received a Ph.D. in Chemistry
from Indiana University. Dr. Meisenheimer was a professor at Eastern
Kentucky University for 36 years and in 1994 was honored by
appointment as an EKU Foundation Professor. Now an Emeritus
Professor, he retired to southwest Orlando where his son has a
practice in Dermatology.
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